The battle lines are drawn and the ethanol industry’s equivalent of the Met Gala is about to begin. When June rolls around, the titans of the enzyme and yeast industries roll out their latest offerings. The strain engineers unleash their latest offerings on the runways, and we all sit back and marvel at the audacity, […]
This presentation features Dr. Jayant Khambekar from Jenike & Johanson. It highlights challenges feeding waste feedstocks into high-pressure reactors for thermochemical conversion, citing issues like arching and pressure blow-back with existing technology. The presentation introduces Jen-Zero, a patent-pending system for reliable, continuous feeding without requiring extensive pre-treatment, overcoming common flow problems.
By Jim Spaeth Special to The Digest Renewable chemicals and biomaterials are no longer niche—they are the future of carbon. Europe stands at the threshold of massive opportunity, from decarbonized manufacturing to circular materials innovation. But crossing that threshold? That’s another story. The technology exists. The markets are interested. The policies are warming. And yet, […]
This presentation features Mike Kass from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It addresses decarbonizing marine shipping to meet IMO GHG reduction targets. Highlights include research by a 4-lab partnership assessing bio-intermediate potential via TEA and LCA, showing promise. Low carbon fuel testing with biofuels (neat and blends), including HTL bio-crude and fast pyrolysis bio-oil, is underway […]
This presentation features Lauren Junker from BASF. The presentation details BASF’s journey to net zero by 2050 and shaping a circular economy. Key highlights include the focus on biobased carbon sources like starch, sucrose, oil crops, and various residues. It explores transformation pathways from biomass to chemicals, acknowledging the energy challenges compared to fossil sources […]
Keep on keeping on. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Uncertainty is another way of spelling opportunity. These are so easy to say and write, so hard to do. At a time of great economic and policy uncertainty — the world may not be going to blazes, as some of our friends […]
This presentation features Gregory Jaffe of Jaffe Policy Consulting. Highlights include details on the USDA Climate Smart Agriculture Interim Rule, covering biofuel feedstock crops, carbon intensity, and supply chain standards. It outlines covered crops like field corn, soybean, and sorghum, and practices like no-till and cover crops. Possible future additions and the Partnership for Climate […]
When the news scroll fills with flashy deals and billion-dollar headlines, it’s easy to overlook the most powerful stories—the ones that deliver sturdy companies and technologies for the long-haul. The Uptime technologies, the -we-found-a-way companies, the sustainable and affordable feedstocks. Entropy? Chaos in the market. They fold entropy into structure, convert symbolic weight into trust. […]
Understand the potential of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) to produce significant volumes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from wet wastes. HTL offers a continuous process with high carbon yields. Research focuses on addressing key challenges like nitrogen content through hydrodenitrogenation to meet stringent fuel specifications. This pathway offers a solution for both low-GHG fuels and sludge […]
Some times, the rain comes down so hard, it’s hard to see the road. I’ve been driving American highways for years, I’ve seen the fall rain in Pennsylvania forcing trucks off the road, spring fog in Oregon so think you can’t see the headlights from the oncoming cars, the summer winds in the Carolinas sweep […]
