Product, processes and partnerships are what it’s all about in India right now with the country’s latest bioenergy policies and growing activity in the bioeconomy. Pramod Chaudhari, Executive Chairman at Praj Industries gave this illuminating presentation at ABLC 2019 in Washington, D.C. on how exactly India is moving forward in the bioeconomy, the country’s perspective […]
There’s nothing like a former fed to give a unique perspective on federal programs and policy. Paul Argyropoulos, President of Policy Nexus Advisors, gave this illuminating overview of what he thinks the future holds, influencing factors and drivers that can change the whole planes, trains and automobiles biofuels scene in so many ways, some thoughts […]
Cielo isn’t just the topic of our top story today, it’s a potentially huge transformer in the waste to renewable fuels space. Check out The Digest’s slides to Cielo to see how they are aiming to take some of the billions of tons of waste globally each year and transform it into renewable diesel. Cielo’s […]
Retired Vice Admiral Philip Cullom is as impressive on paper as he is in person and offers a unique perspective- a retired Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy, a native of Illinois, having served around the world in nine named operations, a physics degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, an MBA from Harvard, 20 impressive […]
It’s all about the life cycle, right? That’s what the USDA set out to find out about corn ethanol – just exactly what are the GHG emissions associated with the production of corn-based ethanol in the U.S.? Back in 2010, the RIA LCA concluded that – on an energy equivalent basis – substituting corn ethanol […]
Whitefox uses membranes to carry out industrial water separation steps, including membranes for biofuels. Their first industrial installation was in Europe in 2002 for pharmaceutical grade ethanol, but installations now have expanded to industrial and potable alcohol, perfume reactors, and even Vitamin C facilities. Check out this presentation by Gillian Harrison, CEO at Whitefox given […]
Called the “Trait Factory,” Yield10 develops high value seed yield traits for the agriculture and food industries. They developed traits for corn, soy, canola, wheat, rice and camelina, optimizing photosynthesis, carbon efficiency and genome editing to increase grain yield. Yield10 developed something many are on board with – ‘GRAIN’ also known as Gene Ranking Artificial […]
Vertimass’s catalytic conversion is so cool it can convert ethanol into fungible blend stocks in one step without added hydrogen. Their technology produces hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals from biomass – taking biomass through existing biofuels facilities and adding the Vertimass bolt-on catalytic conversion, it comes out as benzene, toluene, xylene, jet fuel, diesel and gasoline […]
Sustainability is such a vague term that some throw around to make them sound good in a consumer environment that is asking for greener and more socially conscious products. The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials is tackling sustainability head on with its cutting edge sustainability tools for the biofuels and biomaterials industries. Rolf Hogan, Executive Director […]
Money is often a challenge in any project, but especially for biofuels the financing for a project is key to its survival. ICF offers some perspectives on how carbon intensity based fuel standards present new opportunities and challenges for biofuel developers in the near term, how efficient producers are rewarded, how lenders see the California […]
