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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Gasification for Renewable Natural Gas

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Gasification for Renewable Natural Gas

April 30, 2025 |

Learn about sorption-enhanced chemical looping gasification (SE-CLG) for efficient renewable natural gas production from biomass wastes. This intensified process integrates air separation, CO2 capture, and syngas conditioning in a single step. Developed phase transition sorbents (PTSs) enable isothermal operation and produce hydrogen-rich syngas suitable for methanation. Preliminary analysis suggests significant reductions in LCOE compared to […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas Upgrading to Renewable Natural Gas

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas Upgrading to Renewable Natural Gas

April 29, 2025 |

Explore biomethanation as a cost-effective method to upgrade biogas to pipeline quality renewable natural gas (RNG). This process uses naturally occurring organisms and hydrogen to convert CO2 in biogas to methane, potentially increasing production by 60-70%. NREL’s mobile RD&D platform aims to advance this technology for decarbonizing transportation and enabling long-duration energy storage. LCA shows […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Low-Energy Wastewater Treatment

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Low-Energy Wastewater Treatment

April 28, 2025 |

Discover the M-BREWW project’s innovative approach to transform wastewater treatment from an energy consumer to a producer. Their system integrates a cloth filter anaerobic membrane bioreactor (CFAnMBR), ammonia ion exchange, and electrolysis to recover energy and produce hydrogen. This eliminates significant aeration energy and increases net energy yield. A pilot-scale system in Urbana, IL, demonstrates […]

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The Journey: Food vs fuel, grain-based fuels, a trip to Mount Rushmore, and the Law of Persistence

The Journey: Food vs fuel, grain-based fuels, a trip to Mount Rushmore, and the Law of Persistence

April 26, 2025 |

That’s me in my red Mustang, barreling down Iron Mountain Road in South Dakota, traversing the 21 miles from Rapid City to Keystone, before making the three and a half mile ascent to Mount Rushmore. Two motorbikes, a Harley-Davidson FXRS Low Glide and a Honda Gold Wing Aspencade, we’re traveling so much in tandem, myself […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Nexus PMG

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Nexus PMG

April 24, 2025 |

This guide to Nexus Holdings’ PMG unit, presented at ABLC, focuses on addressing the significant technical, operational, and financial distress holding back low-carbon infrastructure growth. The promise is to build a better world by leveraging their integrated expertise in services, asset development, and principal investment to turn around distressed assets. Prospects lie in the substantial […]

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Heard on the Floor at NSCEB: Insights, Analysis & Recommendations on the Just-released National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Heard on the Floor at NSCEB: Insights, Analysis & Recommendations on the Just-released National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

April 24, 2025 |

By Mark Warner, CEO, Liberation Labs Special to the Digest On April 10, 2025 in Washington, the NSCEB released its final report to Congress and hosted a day-long convening of leaders from industry, government, and academia. I was there, and the mood was a mix of excitement and realism: bold ideas—like $15B in proposed funding—were […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to BioForming S2A technology

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to BioForming S2A technology

April 23, 2025 |

This Digest’s March 2025 Multi-Slide Guide showcases Johnson Matthey and the demonstrated and ready BioForming® S2A technology, developed with Virent, which converts biomass sugars into renewable fuels including SAF and bio-gasoline. While the presenter isn’t named, the guide highlights JM’s strong credentials and technology leadership. The promise is to de-risk sustainable fuels and chemicals production, […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Nuseed

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Nuseed

April 22, 2025 |

Nuseed, a global seed and bioenergy business under Nufarm, emphasizes its commitment to the future through agricultural innovation. Presented by Scott Hedderich, Policy & Government Affairs Director, North America, Bioenergy, the guide focuses on developing sustainable crops like Carinata and Energy Cane for bioenergy feedstocks. Nuseed’s promise lies in delivering “Value Beyond Yield” to meet […]

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Bioeconomy Risk Indexes for 4/22/25

Bioeconomy Risk Indexes for 4/22/25

April 22, 2025 |

Here are the bioeconomy Risk Indexes (BRISKIs) for April 22, 2025. A rating of 100 indicates normal risks, above 100 refers to reduced risks, and sub-100 scores indicate elevated risks. For week starting Monday April 21st: ———————————- Oil prices rose 7% this week and bond yields fell, making the bioeconomy risk improve across the board. […]

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Persistence through integration: Assessing the Manus-Inscripta merger, through the GTESI lens

Persistence through integration: Assessing the Manus-Inscripta merger, through the GTESI lens

April 22, 2025 |

This past week, we reported that Manus and Inscripta have announced a strategic merger to establish an end-to-end platform for scalable development, biomanufacturing, and commercialization of bioalternative products. In our report, we noted the public rationale: by combining Inscripta’s whole-genome engineering technologies with Manus’ cell factory engineering platform, biomanufacturing expertise, and commercialization capabilities, the merged […]

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