Deconstruction is a major effort in the BOTTLE consortium; work spans exploratory catalysis (”fail fast”) to advancing promising approaches towards scale-up. In this BOTTLE project, the team looked at Chemical catalysis for C–C bond cleavage in mixed plastics waste for open-loop recycling and Chemical catalysis for PET and nylon deconstruction and closed loop recycling, while […]
The most recent Digest webinar looked into the promise and progress with renewable methanol as a chemical intermediate and as a renewable fuel. Muhammed Islam of S&B Engineers and Constructors took us through this presentation, which looked at conversion routes, feedstock sources, the role of syngas, applications, levelized costs and available tax credits.
In Florida, The Digest announced the official opening of nominations for the 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy for 2024-25. Voting Rules Voting will be open to all registered voters, and you can register here. As a courtesy, ABLC delegates are automatically registered as voters. Nominations Hot 50 nominations will begin Tuesday, September 24th 2024 and […]
News arrives from Fiji today, so a hearty Bula to everyone. I first visited the islands in 1974 as a young boy, and have wandered the low hills and the sugarcane fields from time to time, since. This hard-working people are challenged by changijng times, yet good news is in the offing. Fiji Airways, Fiji […]
Paper sludge typically taken to landfills (50%), incinerated (20%) or spread on land as soil enhancement (10%). In total, there’s 8 million wet tonnes (4MT dry) of paper sludge that costs $240 million each year to truck and landfill. In this project , researchers propose to develop a technology for converting the carbohydrates in paper […]
The pace of commercialization in the world of renewable chemicals is not often compared to the Jump to Light Speed. Nor does a hot and harried scamper across the Valley of Death come to mind. Actually, it feels like more like the push of the Indian subcontinental plate against the Asian continental mass, slow, disrupted […]
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is typically produced from biogas using gas separation technology – keeping the CH4 – venting the CO2. Upgrading CO2 present in biogas using naturally-occurring organisms can increase production 60 – 70%. In this project, researchers aimed to develop, innovate, reduce costs and de-risk the biomethanation process to upgrade biogas sources to […]
As Bonanza episodes go, this is one storyline we need to frame around Big Hoss, not Little Joe. So, get ready for it Comstock Fuels has landed $325M in capital and announced that it is underway on three biorefinery projects with 300 million gallons of fuel. In all, more than one million tonnes of feedstock […]
Most current wastewater plants recover <33% of incoming energy & have a negative energy balance. So, there’s an opportunity to increase net energy yield from municipal wastewater treatment. Yet, Anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) facilitate mainstream anaerobic digestion but previous AnMBRs suffer from high costs and energy inputs. A research team proposed a project to resolve […]
Energy production from sewage sludge especially at small-scale using Anaerobic Digestion (AD) typically does not produce significant value with the current available AD technology due to low Carbon Conversion Efficiency (CCE) (generally less than 50%). A research team proposed a novel concept, which will overcome this problem and produce significant more energy in the form […]
