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9 Fly with Gevo’s Jet Fuel from O’Hare on “Fly Green Day” 

9 Fly with Gevo’s Jet Fuel from O’Hare on “Fly Green Day” 

November 8, 2017 |

In Illinois, today is Fly Green Day, sponsored by the O’Hare Fuel Committee, at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. 7 commercial airlines, plus Atlas Air and FedEx are flying out of O’Hare today on Gevo-based sustainable aviation fuel. Among them: Lufthansa, United Airlines, Etihad, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Atlas Air — and the […]

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What’s Next in cellulosic biofuels and biogas?: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Iogen

What’s Next in cellulosic biofuels and biogas?: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Iogen

November 8, 2017 |

Iogen says it has “one of the world’s largest and most experienced teams in developing, designing, de-bugging, scaling-up and deploying cellulosic biofuel technology. We’re using innovative thinking and disciplined engineering to transform cellulosic biofuels into real, reliable and cost-effective fuels for today’s cars and trucks.” Also, the company has become a leader in the aggregation […]

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Renewable drop-in fuels at scale: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Ensyn

Renewable drop-in fuels at scale: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Ensyn

November 8, 2017 |

Ensyn uses its patented and proprietary RTP fast thermal technology to convert wood residues and other non-food, cellulosic biomass to liquid biofuels. Ensyn has had continuous commercial operations for more than 25 years.  Its technology has produced over 37 million gallons of renewable fuels and chemicals in over 160,000 hours of successful plant operation. For […]

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Tire trash-to-cash in the Aussie Outback

Tire trash-to-cash in the Aussie Outback

November 7, 2017 |

Along the road westward out of Sydney and into the Never Never— and that’s the region north and west of Woop Woop, which you’ll find beyond the Black Stump, and that’s back of Bourke, and where you’re there you’re outback, mate — there’s a town called Nevertire, not far from Gin Gin. Scrap tires never […]

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Single cell protein for aquafeeds: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to KnipBio

Single cell protein for aquafeeds: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to KnipBio

November 7, 2017 |

KnipBio is a leading North American clean biotechnology firm working to harness the potential of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to make safer, more sustainable aquaculture possible. KnipBio is developing a game-changing fish feed that combines the attributes of protein-packed fishmeal, carotenoids, and other health-inducing additives into a premium, affordable alternative to fishmeal called KnipBio Meal (KBM). […]

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Chicago! Fulcrum BioEnergy picks the Midwest hub for its next MSW-to-jet fuel project

Chicago! Fulcrum BioEnergy picks the Midwest hub for its next MSW-to-jet fuel project

November 6, 2017 |

From California we received the news that Chicagoland has been selected as the site of Fulcrum BioEnergy’s second commercial-scale waste-to-fuels biorefinery. We reported last month that the long-awaited financing was completed for Fulcrum Bioenergy’s highly-anticipated first commercial project near Reno, Nevada. “Our bonds priced on the the 12th, and closed on the 27th and we […]

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Winning the race for new technology via public-private partnership: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to NREL PPP programs and projects

Winning the race for new technology via public-private partnership: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to NREL PPP programs and projects

November 6, 2017 |

This year at ABLC Next, NREL’s Rich Bolin, gave us an overview of partnership perspective, opportunities and past performance.  Signature companies are engaged, in the space — advanced manufacturing, fuels, power, chemicals, and much more. Public-private partnership has been on a lot of minds of late — on the blackboard, an ideal way to combine […]

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Synthetic Biology-enabled Manufacturing: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Visolis

Synthetic Biology-enabled Manufacturing: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Visolis

November 4, 2017 |

The Visolis process will enable production of bio-based elastomers, unsaturated polyester resins, super adsorbent polymers, and other products using a variety of feedstocks like agri-residues, dextrose, glycerol and syn-gas. As we come down the cost curve, the same technology can be adapted to produce high energy density jet fuels. CEO Deepak Dugar gave this illuminating […]

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US ethanol production hits 8-week high

US ethanol production hits 8-week high

November 3, 2017 |

In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 1.056 million barrels per day, or 44.35 million gallons daily. That is up 18,000 b/d from the week before and represents an eight-week high. The four-week average for ethanol production increased to 1.020 million b/d for an annualized rate […]

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Feeding everyone and fueling many, too: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA

Feeding everyone and fueling many, too: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA

November 2, 2017 |

“The bioeconomy is a catalyst for economic development in rural America, creating new jobs and providing new markets for farmers and ranchers. Investing in the businesses and technologies that support the production of biofuels and biobased products is not only good for farm incomes. The whole economy benefits from a more balanced, diversified and consumer-friendly […]

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