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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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Biofuels at sea: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Good Fuels Marine

Biofuels at sea: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Good Fuels Marine

February 11, 2018 |

Netherlands-based GoodFuels Marine is on the move. We reported last month that VARO Energy subsidiary REINPLUS FIWADO Bunker and GoodFuels Marine will work together to make European inland shipping more sustainable. As a result, the sustainable advanced biofuels from GoodFuels Marine are now also available at the port of Rotterdam, and will be available along […]

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Biodiesel Tax Credit back in US budget deal 

Biodiesel Tax Credit back in US budget deal 

February 9, 2018 |

In Washington, the US Congress passed its budget deal, and among the items in the deal was a retroactive restoration of the $1 per gallon biodiesel tax credit for 2017. The bill did not include a provision for 2018 and future years. The budget compromise had run into headwinds in the Senate, in the form […]

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Biodiesel tax credit renewal makes US budget deal, but voting delayed

Biodiesel tax credit renewal makes US budget deal, but voting delayed

February 8, 2018 |

OK, good news and bad news on the US budget deal. First, the bad news. The budget compromise appears to be running into headwinds in the Senate, in the form of a voting delay imposed by Rand Paul of Kentucky, while opposition in the House from a group of Democrats and hardline conservatives is putting […]

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Biorefineries: Our Synthetic Biology Future

Biorefineries: Our Synthetic Biology Future

February 8, 2018 |

By Bob Kodrzycki, PhD, Encompass Biotech LLC, Member, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest This is the eighth in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be speaking at the ABLC 2018 conference in Washington DC, February 28 to March 2. Definitions are tricky. They tend […]

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Hydrocarbon Cost Curve: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies

Voyage to the Bottom of the Hydrocarbon Cost Curve: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies

February 8, 2018 |

Global Bioenergies is a pioneer in the development of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons, the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry. Since inception, the company focused its efforts on the production of isobutene, one of the most important petrochemical building blocks that can […]

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Biodiesel stands its ground, won’t back down: new B20 vehicles, emissions cuts, highlight NBC 2018

Biodiesel stands its ground, won’t back down: new B20 vehicles, emissions cuts, highlight NBC 2018

February 7, 2018 |

The makers of the world’s favorite advanced biofuel — a/k/a the biodiesel industry — descended upon Texas to mingle, make and renew ties at the 2018 National Biodiesel Conference. And, to champion new ideas and find new supply chain and distribution partners. Bummer that there wasn’t a biodiesel tax credit extension on offer. Bummer that […]

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