From Colorado comes news that Gevo inked a purchase agreement for its low-carbon intensity fuel blendstock with Shell Global Solutions Deutschland for use in motorsports. Yep., Gevo’s insanely low-carbon fleul blendstock now heads for the racing circuit and the grueling world of motorspots. Sustaninable? Check. Affordable? Check. Fast? Check, check, check. Or should we put […]
Development of Bacillus as an industrial host for the microbial production of biopolymers is of industrial interest from lignocellulosic hydrolysates. In this project, researchers worked to apply ZymoChem’s Carbon Conservation (C2) technology in non-model organisms to maximize carbon efficiencies to biopolymers via minimizing loss of CO2 from lignocellulosic hydrolysates. The team applied – ABF’s state […]
Researchers launched a ChemCatBio project to Develop new upgrading technologies enabling cost-competitive conversion of C2 oxygenated intermediates to distillate fuels and valuable co-products. One outcome, the team discovered a catalytic pathway for direct ethanol to butene-rich olefin intermediates, providing control over jet blendstock and co-products, with the potential to obtain a distillate fuel MFSP of […]
Deconstruction is a major effort in BOTTLE (Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment) . Work spans exploratory catalysis (”fail fast”) to advancing promising approaches towards scale-up. There are a couple of routes: Chemical catalysis for C–C bond cleavage in mixed plastics waste for open-loop recycling; and, Chemical catalysis for PET […]
It occured to me that, at the end of a hard and bitter summer, with interest rates high, policy unstable, loan guarantees in the first circle of hell known as limbo, projects moving like glaciers instead of rockets, lip service everywhere you look, that it might be worth having a look forward at the world […]
The urgency of climate change mitigation and the need to meet the global obligation for a net-zero world have made it imperative to explore every way possible to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One of the ways is to change how we produce energy, with a focus on decarbonization across heavy industries, the transport sector, […]
The ChemCatBio Consortium has a project focused on upgrading C2s. Specifically, to develop novel catalytic upgrading technologies that enable cost-competitive conversion of cellulosic ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). We aim to develop a commercially viable process within the concept of an integrated biorefinery that lowers fuel production costs and carbon intensity to aid in […]
The new Bioeconomy Risk Indexes are out from the Daily Digest, they are free and here. https://bit.ly/4dqr58U. This week we are reporting notable shifts in risk relating to hydrogen, SAF, ammonia, RNG, FOG, food waste and MSW. The risk picture. President Lula in Brazil sanctioned legal frameworks and the Special Incentive Regime for Low Carbon […]
BOTTLE (Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment) created a centralized business development (BD) platform and focused BD effort, and created a dedicated BD/research role (Chief Technology Officer) to streamline engagement and lead CRADA projects, aiming to solve real-world problems in plastics upcycling via targeted, company-funded projects, and act as a […]
The Agile BioFoundry carries out techno-economic and life cycle assessments (TEA/LCA) to quantify the economic and environmental performance of selected fermentative routes, to quantify the economic and environmental performance of selected fermentative routes, and to Develop process models for relevant production pathways within the consortium What’s the latest? Bruno Klein and Pahola Thathiana Benavides presented […]
