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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Biorenewable Deployment Consortium

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Biorenewable Deployment Consortium

February 13, 2018 |

Biorenewable Deployment Consortium, Middleton, Wisconsin The Situation Connecting Emerging Technology with Forest Industry Partners to Accelerate Deployment and Optimize Value BDC is a Catalyst to the Future Top past Milestones BDC has 1-Connected Emerging Technology with Forest Industry Partners to 2-Accelerated Deployment and 3-Optimized Value “BDC worked closely with us (Licella), as a growing Australian […]

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4 Minutes with….Charlotte Mace, Executive Director of Biobased Maine

4 Minutes with….Charlotte Mace, Executive Director of Biobased Maine

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Biobased Maine is active in Maine’s efforts to diversify its forest-based economy through biobased manufacturing. We know that Maine’s abundance of second-generation feedstock is an attractive asset to many investors. Our strong history of pulp and paper manufacturing continues, with permitted mills available […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to EnerSysNet Canada

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to EnerSysNet Canada

February 13, 2018 |

EnerSysNet Canada Inc., Ontario, Canada The Situation EnerSysNet Canada Inc.’s mission is to develop modular systems that enable the forest residuals to hydrocarbon economy. Oxygen-free, liquid hydrocarbons would be produced from sustainably managed timber reserves by a distributed network of small, self-contained biorefineries that literally take the factory to the forest. Top past Milestones ESN […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Belgium)

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Belgium)

February 13, 2018 |

Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Ghent, Belgium The Situation Open innovation pilot facility for bio-process development, scale-up and custom manufacturing with a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment for fermentation, purification, ATEX green chemistry, biomass pretreatment and biocatalysis, up to 10 ton scale. 70 employees, 8 years operational experience, 24/7, customers worldwide. We served >200 companies […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lee Enterprises

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lee Enterprises

February 13, 2018 |

Lee Enterprises Consulting Inc’s headquarters is near Little Rock, Arkansas. Our consultants are located around the world. Our team has frequent interactions and participate in team and individual calls on an on-going basis. The Situation LEC is a network of bioeconomy experts with experience from lab and plant floor to boardroom that puts together interdisciplinary […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lignin Enterprises

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lignin Enterprises

February 13, 2018 |

Lignin Enterprises, LLC, Charleston, SC USA The Situation We have three business elements: 1) providing engineering support to pulp and paper companies wanting to use our SLRP lignin recovery technology; 2) marketing and selling lignin regardless of how it’s made, currently focusing on West Fraser’s Lignin A made in Hinton AB Canada, and 3) developing […]

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Better, faster, cheaper bio-oil: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to fractionation and catalytic upgrading of bio-oil

Better, faster, cheaper bio-oil: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to fractionation and catalytic upgrading of bio-oil

February 13, 2018 |

In the world of bio-oil production, current technologies have low carbon retention in fuel range and high hydrogen consumption. The DOE is supporting a project led by Daniel Resasco at the University of Oklahoma to develop a more effective fractionation, combined with catalytic upgrading for carbon-carbon bond formation. The ultimate objective? Maximizing carbon efficiency at […]

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Novozymes ignites Yeast Wars with breakthrough new strain, yield gain, time cut

Novozymes ignites Yeast Wars with breakthrough new strain, yield gain, time cut

February 12, 2018 |

Novozymes moved into yeast this week with a new organism, Innova Drive. It’s saccharomyces cerevisae — the workhouse yeast that has been powering wine fermentation since the days of Noah and the Ark. But here’s a new strain engineered to cut fermentation times up to two hours, and yield boosts of up to two percent. A […]

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Energy Programs Should Be Fully Funded and Enhanced in the 2018 Farm Bill

Energy Programs Should Be Fully Funded and Enhanced in the 2018 Farm Bill

February 12, 2018 |

By Jeremy Gilpin, Jordan Blanchard, and Cindy Thyfault, National Rural Lenders Association Special to The Digest There has been a keen focus the last few weeks for President Trump and the USDA with the release of the Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Report, President Trump’s recent speech to the Farm Bureau, and the […]

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Lignin Unchained, 3D printable: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Engineered Lignin Bioplastics

Lignin Unchained, 3D printable: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Engineered Lignin Bioplastics

February 12, 2018 |

The project goal? To produce and commercialize lignin-derived, industrial-grade composites with properties including 3D printability, rivaling current petroleum-derived alternatives. That’s the project undertaken by a team led by Amit K. Naskar, of the Carbon & Composites Group Materials Science & Technology Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The hoped-for project outcome? A novel family […]

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