In Singapore, food giant Ajinomoto has introduced mooncakes and ice cream sandwiches featuring proteins produced using fermentation and carbon dioxide as feedstock. Dubbed Solein, the proteins are manufactured by Solar Foods and replace dairy in the Traditional Flowering Mooncakes and Ice Cream Sandwiches. Ajinomoto plans to sell the two products for a limited time under […]
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, […]
How robust are the biocatalysts in industrially relevant setups and at scale? How feasible are the bioprocesses at scale? How can we improve the performance of the biocatalysts while developing bioprocesses? To answer these questions, researchers launched a Process and Integration Scale Up Task to conduct bioreactor cultivations for ABF Target-Host pairs across scales, integrate […]
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 […]
In Norway, Iverson eFuels reports the Port of Risavika Norway is set to become a hub for green ammonia, potentially replacing over 102 million liters of diesel annually in maritime operations. By 2029, Iverson eFuels plans to produce 200,000 tons of green ammonia annually, which could render nearly 2,000 port calls at Risavika emission-free. This […]
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 […]
In my travels, I made a friend in Matthew Lesko, and you won;t know the name, but if you had a sleepless night or two in the heydey of infomercials, you might remember a guy in a question mark suit, talking about all the free money you could get just by taking advantage of government […]
