Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SAF Production Routes and Market Outlook

January 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

The presentation from NEXANT ECA’s Steve Slome examines four main pathways for producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ), Gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (G-FT), and Power-to-Liquid (PTL). Each method’s advantages, disadvantages, and potential for scaling are discussed, highlighting feedstock availability and carbon intensity as crucial factors. The report analyzes the relative supply […]

Biofuels M&A: 2024 Review & Outlook: Boosted by Exports, Ethanol M&A Stars in Tangled Biofuels Market

January 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

By The Ocean Park Advisors team Special to The Digest In a biofuels sector grappling with policy uncertainty and a new federal administration, there were promising capital investments and above average ethanol M&A volume, driven by export growth and profitable carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). The home run: Gevo’s landmark $210M purchase of Red Trail […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Oleo

January 23, 2025 | Jim Lane

This is a presentation for Oleo, a company that provides sustainable palm oil solutions. The company aims to solve the problem of conventional oilseed production, which relies on arable land and competes with our food system. Oleo utilizes untapped biomass waste through a four-step process involving recycled biomass, biomass deconstruction, fermentation, and finally, high-value oil […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Cyclotron Road

January 22, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck details the Cyclotron Road program, a fellowship program designed to bridge the gap between scientific research and real-world applications. Founded by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Cyclotron Road aims to empower scientists to translate their research into viable products and companies, tackling global challenges like climate change. The program offers fellows […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Global Transition to SAF

January 21, 2025 | Jim Lane

This source is a presentation about Topsoe’s role in the global transition to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). The presentation highlights Topsoe’s commitment to developing and providing technologies for producing SAF, emphasizing their 80-year history of innovation and leadership in the chemical industry. The key themes are Topsoe’s commitment to a net-zero future, their SAF pathways […]

I’ll be there for you: The Farm to Fly Act returns courtesy of the six bioeconomy Friends

January 21, 2025 | Jim Lane

Back in the 1990s, it was Central Perk, and Ross, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe, Rachel and Monica. Today it’s probably something like a hot dish potluck in a cosy living room with Chuck, Pete, Jerry, Joni, Amy and Tammy — someone always remembers the bacon-wrapped corn dogs, and it’s all Midwestern nice, even though we’re somewhere […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Synpet

January 20, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck is a presentation for SynPet, a company that has developed a unique thermal conversion process (TCP) to recycle mixed plastic waste, including PVC, into valuable products like circular naphtha, renewable natural gas, electricity, steam, biochar, and liquid fertilizer. The presentation highlights the shortcomings of existing waste management solutions, such as incineration, landfill, […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Futuria Fuels

January 16, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck by Futuria Fuels discusses the company’s efforts to develop renewable propane, a clean alternative fuel. The presentation deck highlights the importance of biopropane as a by-product of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and emphasizes the shared ambition of these two industries to decarbonize. It then introduces SHV Energy, a major player in […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Jupeng Bio

January 15, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck is an overview of Jupeng Bio, a company specializing in biomass gasification and syngas fermentation to produce sustainable biofuels and other valuable products. The text traces the company’s history from its roots in 1984 to its current third-generation syngas fermentation process demonstrated in 2023. Jupeng Bio utilizes a proprietary technology to convert […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to RavenSR

January 14, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck is a technical overview of Raven SR, a company focused on using patented technology to convert waste into low-cost, low-carbon fuels. The presentation deck highlights Raven SR’s mission, technology, and commercial readiness. The first section emphasizes the company’s commitment to sustainability, using a process with negative carbon intensity to produce fuels cleaner […]

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