In Florida, The Digest has released its February 2016 edition of the Advanced Bioeconomy Deployment Report, including industry projects under development through 2019, and statistics and surveys on the industry growth outlook, below. Need a convenient one-click download? Need a one-click download of the complete report for offline study and analysis of the project data and statistics? […]
Whoops! Those inefficient processes and engines are blowing off more energy than we can spare. For many people, shower time is thinking time, and tomorrow morning a good topic is the idea of exergy. Exergy is the useful portion of energy. All energy conversion — such as a water heater for the shower — has some […]
At 12:05 pm Eastern time on February 25, The Digest passed the milestone of 2 million unique readers, according to Google Analytics. “Thank you, readers around the world, for your inexhaustible enthusiasm, critical comments and detailed debate,” said Digest editor Jim Lane. “ I hope that every reader who works directly or indirectly in the […]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development released its first look at biofuels since 2007, and its first since the rise of 2G technologies. In Switzerland, UNCTAD has released its first report on the state of biofuel technologies since 2007 and unveiled 5 five recommendations “for the responsible development of the second-generation biofuels industry”. […]
The following slides and comments are excerpted and expanded from remarks by Digest editor & publisher Jim Lane at the Energy Security Breakfast at ABLC 2016, held last week in Washington. The premise I’d like to explore today is a simple one to describe, and oft-heard around Washington these days. We live in a world […]
Where is the bioeconomy headed? In the annual State of the Industry briefing at the 2016 Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference, the Digest presented a survey on that topic. Here are the trends we spotted in the data. 1. Chemicals on the rise. 55 percent of those developing a bioeconomy project that will be complete before […]
In Washington, the Biomass Research and Development Board has recommended “targeting a potential 30% penetration of biomass carbon into the U.S. transportation market by 2030 in a sustainable and cost-effective manner to create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas impacts, and enhance national security,” according to the 2016 Federal Activities Report on the Bioeconomy, which debuted at the Advanced […]
By Pavel Molchanov, Senior Vice President, Raymond James This week, we attended the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference, a major annual gathering of firms in the bioindustrial space. As we noted in our conference recap from March 2015, the industry’s focus had been pivoting away from transportation fuels well before the oil meltdown began in mid-2014. […]
In Washington, Comet Biorefining announced at ABLC 2016 the location of its commercial-scale biomass-derived sugar facility in the TransAlta Energy Park in Sarnia, Ontario. The 60 million pounds per year plant will come online in 2018 producing dextrose sugar from locally-sourced corn stover and wheat straw. Corn stover consists of residues left in the field […]
In Washington, GFBiochemicals announced at ABLC 2016 that it has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Segetis, a US-based, venture-backed levulinic acid derivatives producer Segetis has more than 50 patents and over 200 pending patent applications worldwide. The acquisition matches up GF Biochemical’s commercial-scale technology for producing levulinic acid, with Segetis’ technology for converting levulinic […]
