Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Launching a new effort to work with most of all the associations, organizations, groups and industries affiliated in any way with food, fiber, feed, fertilizers, feedstocks for biochemicals, and fuels from farms and forests Tell us about your role and what you are […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, fell 1.56 percent to 63.24 as large caps swooned. For the day, Eni (E) dropped 5.23 percent to $33.50, while Shell (RDS) shed 1.85 percent to $55.99. Among other equities, BP lost 3.34 percent to $39.91. Overall, declines led advances by a 7 to […]
Drop-in Hydrocarbon fuels made directly by plants? Here. we look at the science and risks of turning an “ability” into an “industrial reality”. It’s common knowledge that terrestrial plants (and many aquatic species) use carbon dioxide, water and sunlight to make the molecules they need — using a complex series of metabolic pathways established and […]
By Mark Warner, P.E, Founder, Warner Advisors Special to The Digest In part one of the three-part series of Top Ten Lessons Learned, we reviewed process development topics. In this second segment, we will explore process design and deployment. PART 2 – PROCESS DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT Facility Design – Understanding fit for purpose Without a doubt, […]
Are there reasons that mandates and subsidies have a hard time stabilizing, or driving volumes of advanced biofuels or green chemicals — reasons that are grounded in the Prisoner’s Dilemma and game theory? Is there another, better way to advance the advanced bioeconomy? Classical economics is grounded in the analysis of choices between “guns or […]
By Mark Warner, P.E, Founder, Warner Advisors Special to The Digest Spending half a billion dollars placing steel in the ground to commercialize advanced biotechnologies for fuels, chemicals and food applications, is the easy part. Doing it successfully is the hard part – but I have been fortunate to lead many successful projects over the last […]
In Brussels, International Renewable Energy Agency released three reports today for Fiji, the Marshall Islands and Vanuatu, concluding that a combination of solar, wind, geothermal, marine, biomass and biofuel could meet domestic energy needs while decreasing electricity costs, increasing energy access, and boosting energy independence. Renewables Readiness Assessments offer a holistic evaluation of conditions for […]
In Nebraska, Green Plains Partners announced the closing of its initial public offering of 11,500,000 common units representing limited partner interests at $15.00 per common unit. The number of common units issued at closing included 1,500,000 common units that were issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units. […]
In Brazil, Solazyme Bunge Renewable Oils has successfully completed two key power and steam redundancy improvement projects including the construction and activation of an electrical grid tie-in, and the tie-in and activation of a second steam boiler. These projects were completed within the previously provided timeline and are now operational. Jeffrey Osborne of Cowen & […]
In Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that its high-performance synthetic base stock, Elevance Aria WTP 40, is now certified as HX-1 food-grade. Elevance Aria WTP 40 is a high-viscosity base stock co-polymer that has GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status from the FDA; it combines the composition and properties of esters and PAO into a […]
