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Maximizing diesel and jet fuel yields: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Multistage Hydrothermal Liquefaction

Maximizing diesel and jet fuel yields: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Multistage Hydrothermal Liquefaction

February 1, 2017 |

If you’ve been following our coverage of Shell and Virent, you’ll know that there’s a broad-based effort to bring forward (at massive, Shellesque scale) Multistage Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) of biomass that would be integrated with Virent’s Catalytic BioForming Process to efficiently produce cost effective “drop-in” fuels. The feedstocks in focus include woody biomass and corn stover — […]

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Notes from the Circular Economy Front Lines: A fast company and its slow-release fertilizer

Notes from the Circular Economy Front Lines: A fast company and its slow-release fertilizer

February 1, 2017 |

There’s a new and fascinating way to improve plant yield and farmer income, and it’s high technology in service of a very ancient idea — in this case, “slow and steady wins the race” — applied in this case to controlled-release fertilizer. The company is called Anuvia Plant Nutrients and it has built a small […]

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Flame On: Green Biologics heats up, acquires GreenFlame and heads for market expansion

Flame On: Green Biologics heats up, acquires GreenFlame and heads for market expansion

January 31, 2017 |

You know, GreenFlame just sounds like a character out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – a cross between the Green Lantern and the Fantastic Four. And it sets up nicely for a catchphrase for the entire advanced bioeconomy: In brightest day… in blackest night, no use of Oil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship […]

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The Top 100 People in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2017

The Top 100 People in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2017

January 30, 2017 |

The “Top 100 People in the Advanced Bioeconomy” for 2017 as nominated and voted by the readers of The Digest and the publication’s editorial board. For comparison purposes, the The Top People for 2016 rankings are here.

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Clean Cooking Madagascar issues RFP for ethanol micro-distillery

Clean Cooking Madagascar issues RFP for ethanol micro-distillery

January 29, 2017 |

In Madagascar, Clean Cooking Madagascar, an NGO based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, is seeking proposals for an ethanol micro distillery  for its national Ethanol Stove Program in Madagascar. CCM plans to create a market for 100,000 ethanol cookstoves over five  years. It will develop local ethanol supply chains in part through the installation of ethanol micro […]

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European Commissions taps DuPont for Biogas Enzyme Production grant

European Commissions taps DuPont for Biogas Enzyme Production grant

January 29, 2017 |

In the Netherlands, the European Commission awarded a grant to DuPont Industrial Biosciences to demonstrate high-efficiency enzyme production to increase biogas yields as part of the DEMETER project, funded from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. Enzyme technology has been proven to improve biogas yields […]

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Soybean prices rise on US harvest, Argentina rain concerns 

Soybean prices rise on US harvest, Argentina rain concerns 

January 29, 2017 |

In Germany, UFOP reports that an “unexpected lowering of the harvest forecast for US soy and continued concerns about rain damage in Argentina has caused the balance between supply and demand to narrow.” According to the most recent 2016/17 USDA report, world soybean production is set to grow further, rising by just under 6 per […]

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Velocys, TRI form strategic partnership

Velocys, TRI form strategic partnership

January 29, 2017 |

In the UK, Velocys and ThermoChem Recovery International signed  a strategic alliance under which TRI will be Velocys’ preferred supplier of gasification systems for its biomass-to-liquids plants. The agreement will see the alliance partners rapidly deploy an integrated biorefinery offering that combines Velocys’ Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology with TRI’s proven gasification technology. The partners have already […]

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Urban Air Initiative Calls on EPA to Withdraw Erroneous Vehicle Emissions Model 

Urban Air Initiative Calls on EPA to Withdraw Erroneous Vehicle Emissions Model 

January 29, 2017 |

In Washington, the states of Kansas and Nebraska joined the Urban Air Initiative (UAI) and the Energy Future Coalition as they petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to correct the agency’s flawed models that limit the use of higher blends of ethanol. According to UAI representatives, for years, the EPA has published inaccurate data claiming […]

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 US ethanol production rises to record 16.08B gallon annual output

 US ethanol production rises to record 16.08B gallon annual output

January 29, 2017 |

In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 1.051 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.14 million gallons daily. That is down slightly by 3,000 b/d from the previous week’s all-time record high and the 13th straight week over 1 million b/d. The four-week average for ethanol production […]

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