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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to sustainability indicators for waste-to-energy supply chains

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to sustainability indicators for waste-to-energy supply chains

October 21, 2024 |

A team of researchers have designed a project to develop a triple-bottom line sustainability (social, environment, economic) assessment tool for local government to evaluate trade-offs of different organic waste streams and energy conversion strategies that help achieve local/regional policy objectives over the current and long-term. While there is intrinsic opportunity in carbon recovery/minimizing carbon intensity […]

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Ecostrat, New Energy Risk to develop Feedstock Risk Insurance

Ecostrat, New Energy Risk to develop Feedstock Risk Insurance

October 21, 2024 |

In California, as ABLC convened, New Energy Risk and Ecostrat inked a partnership to develop Feedstock Supply Insurance — an insurance offering that aims to mitigate risk in biomass feedstock supply chains. It will do this by effectively capping feedstock costs and securing long-term project debt repayment obligations. Through the partnership between Ecostrat and NER, […]

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Sustainea’s $400M MEG Monster heads for Indiana and Primient

Sustainea’s $400M MEG Monster heads for Indiana and Primient

October 21, 2024 |

In Indiana, Sustainea will build a $400 Bio-MEG (ethylene glycol) plant and will co-locate the project at the Primient facility in Lafayette, Indiana. The two companiues also announced a supply agreement for corn dextrose from the Primient plant,  Groundbreaking is set to begin after conclusion of engineering and final investment decision, with production expected to […]

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Liquid-Liquid Extraction: A Game-Changer in Biomass Processing

Liquid-Liquid Extraction: A Game-Changer in Biomass Processing

October 18, 2024 |

By Kyle Parkinson, Donald Glatz, and Brendan Cross, Koch Modular Special to The Digest The biochemical market is projected to experience significant growth in the coming years. According to the 2024 Biochemical Global Market Report, it is projected to reach $117 billion in 2028, with a compound annual growth rate of 8.6%. A growing global […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Optimal Preprocessing and Deconstruction of Corn Stover

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Optimal Preprocessing and Deconstruction of Corn Stover

October 17, 2024 |

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Boom! US DOE Loan Program Office drops $2.9B in conditional loan guarantee commits to Gevo, Montana Renewables

Boom! US DOE Loan Program Office drops $2.9B in conditional loan guarantee commits to Gevo, Montana Renewables

October 17, 2024 |

In Washington, the US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office revealed two conditional loan guarantee commitments, up to $1.44 billion to Montana Renewables for its Montana Renewables project, and $1.48 billion to Gevo for its Net-Zero 1 project in South Dakota.  The Gevo project The NZ1 facility is being built in Lake Preston, South Dakota. […]

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Propel Fuels wins $604M judgment against Phillips 66 in jury trial over trade secret theft allegations

Propel Fuels wins $604M judgment against Phillips 66 in jury trial over trade secret theft allegations

October 16, 2024 |

In California, Bloomberg reports that a jury found Phillips 66 liable for a judgment of $604.9 million in a trial over allegations that Philips 66 stole confidential data, proprietary strategies and business intelligence developed by Propel over 13 years at a cost to Propel of more than $200 million. According to court filings, Propel and […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Fractionation of Forest Biomass Wastes

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Fractionation of Forest Biomass Wastes

October 16, 2024 |

A team of researchers have designed a project to support development of woody feedstocks forUniversity of Maine’s Thermal Deoxygenation pathway to produce renewable aviation fuel and chemicals. The goal of the project is to prepare woody biomass for conversion in TDO by engineering particle attributes to improve flow reliability and separating detrimental components within the […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass Size Reduction, Drying and Densification

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass Size Reduction, Drying and Densification

October 15, 2024 |

Low-cost carbon resources (agricultural residues, forest residue, and non recyclable municipal and industrial wastes) exhibit consistent challenges. Inherent physical and chemical variability in feedstocks result in excessive process downtime, and uncontrolled costs with documented failures in the industry as a whole. Common industry milling operations do not address core problems such as: fines, contaminants, and […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to process intensification in the supply chain

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to process intensification in the supply chain

October 14, 2024 |

A team of researchers have designed a project to utilize post-harvest physiology and chemistry tools during long-term storage and queuing to positively impact downstream processes through reduced chemical and energy input. They aim to enhance anatomical fractionation, co-products; improve feedstock quality, find use for discarded fractions not meeting specification; and, improve feedstock quality, improved conversion. […]

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