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It’s a New Day with Dawn Technology: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium’s Renewable Chemicals and Polymers

It’s a New Day with Dawn Technology: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium’s Renewable Chemicals and Polymers

August 15, 2019 |

Dawn Technology has nothing to do with the dish soap and everything to do with the biorefinery process for industrial sugars and lignin from non-food biomass by Avantium. Mekong Technology is all about Avantium’s Catalytic, single-step process for producing plant-based (MEG) from industrial sugars. And why is it a new day with these breakthrough technologies […]

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No Carbon Left Behind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

No Carbon Left Behind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

August 14, 2019 |

LanzaTech has produced 5.5 million gallons of ethanol since start up and has compelling project economics to back it up. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech gave this ‘Carbon Smart’ overview of how LanzaTech is recycling carbon from industrial off gas biomass and MSW syngas and turning it into valuable product, how their genome-scale model guided […]

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Weathering the Storms: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ADM

Weathering the Storms: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ADM

August 14, 2019 |

Like many other companies in the agriculture and food ingredient markets, ADM is affected by the weather. But bad weather isn’t stopping this company as indicated in their Q2 presentation especially with health and wellness and animal nutrition up on year over year numbers. Check out their highlights from the second quarter as well as […]

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Soil Sampling for VOCs: Best Practices: An overview of methods and equipment options

Soil Sampling for VOCs: Best Practices: An overview of methods and equipment options

August 14, 2019 |

By David Kaminski, Senior Vice President, Vice President of Technology, QED Environmental Systems, Inc. Special to The Digest In all types of environmental testing, using proper sample collection methods is vitally important, as the data analyzed in the laboratory is only as good as the quality of samples collected in the field. Soil testing and […]

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Robocar’s biobased seat cushions, miscanthus bedding, churro waste fat based diesel, edible spoons, cellulose-based fabric, sausage without the sausage, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 15th

Robocar’s biobased seat cushions, miscanthus bedding, churro waste fat based diesel, edible spoons, cellulose-based fabric, sausage without the sausage, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 15th

August 14, 2019 |

As the end of summer approaches, county fairs are popping up around the U.S. and with it, churros and other waste. But innovators are turning churro waste fats into renewable diesel, using edible flavored spoons to avoid fair waste, rain ponchos made from sugarcane-based bioplastic, packaging from cornstarch and spruce wood, and more. Here are […]

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FAME is fleeting: FAEE as a more sustainable option for biodiesel in the US

FAME is fleeting: FAEE as a more sustainable option for biodiesel in the US

August 13, 2019 |

By Ron Cascone and Steven Slome, Nexant Special to The Digest Filling the tank on the road to the future The term “fatty acid methyl ester” or FAME has been synonymous with biodiesel for the better part of the last two decades that have seen its widespread promotion and use. This has been due to […]

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Innovate AND Implement: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ICM’s Ethanol and Biorefining

Innovate AND Implement: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ICM’s Ethanol and Biorefining

August 13, 2019 |

Innovation is great but without implementation, the story ends there. Not so for ICM, a Kanasas-based company that took its small business roots in a farming community and an idea and turned it into 1/3 of the world’s ethanol produced every year by ICM technologies. With over 21 patents they don’t just have the innovations […]

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Vegan Renewable Diesel, Futurol Tech: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Axens’ Fuel Feedstocks

Vegan Renewable Diesel, Futurol Tech: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Axens’ Fuel Feedstocks

August 13, 2019 |

Axens Solutions is covering the entire project development cycle and working on things like BioTfuel and Vegan which are renewable diesel and jet fuels, Futurol, a celluloscic ethanol using biomass enzymatic fermentation, Atol made from ethylene using ethanol dehydration, and other feedstocks for fuel. David Schwalje, Business Development Manager at Axens, offered this illuminating overview […]

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The Safrinha subpoena, or, do they that soy the wind ripen the whirlwind?

The Safrinha subpoena, or, do they that soy the wind ripen the whirlwind?

August 12, 2019 |

“They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.” — Jeremiah 12:13 If you want to see climate change, you can go north until you see it, or you can go south until you smell it. As in, welcome to the tropics, dude, we stink! Today we’re going to relate […]

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Down But Looking Up: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Pacific Ethanol’s Q2

Down But Looking Up: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Pacific Ethanol’s Q2

August 12, 2019 |

Pacific Ethanol, a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels and high-quality alcohol products, reported a total of 130 million gallons sold and net sales of $346 million, down from $411 million during the second quarter a year ago. While industry ethanol margins decreased at the end of Q2, there are now over 1,700 […]

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