Category: Multi-Slide Guides

Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Top 10 Bioblendstocks

June 19, 2019 | Jim Lane

The U.S. Department of Energy and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a tiered screening process that efficiently evaluates blendstocks and includes a comprehensive blendstock evaluation process. Dan Gaspar from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory offered this illuminating presentation on the Top 10 bioblendstocks to optimize spark ignition engines, broken down into different categories like highest […]

Convergence, the Enabler: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Hot Tech in Bioenergy

June 18, 2019 | Jim Lane

Spruce Capital Partners understands that when technologies converge, magic can happen. Combining robotics and AI with biology is creating huge strides in the bioeconomy that were never thought possible. Converging genomics with crops and food production could solve many issues worldwide. Even better, it’s already happening. Roger Wyse, Managing Director of Spruce Capital Partners takes […]

Amazing Algaculture: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to MicroBio Engineering

June 17, 2019 | Jim Lane

MicroBio Engineering works on facility designs, algae equipment, R&D, engineering consulting, techno-economic analyses, LCAs and wastewater treatment. Their focus on algaculture, specifically microalgae cultivation, is what the focus of this presentation is on. John Benemann, CEO and Tryg Lundquist, CTO, both of MicroBio Engineering, gave this illuminating overview of today’s microalgae production systems and the […]

4 Key Bioenergy Technologies: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to SoCalGas

June 16, 2019 | Jim Lane

The Southern California Gas Company is the primary provider of natural gas to the region of Southern California and has a vision to become the cleanest natural gas utility in North America. As California works to achieve its climate change goals, SoCalGas is working on low carbon energy resources and energy conversion technologies to help […]

Potential to decarbonize long distance transport: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Drop-in Biofuels

June 13, 2019 | Jim Lane

IEA Bioenergy Task 39, with the help of the National Renewable Energy Lab and University of British Columbia, has been working facilitating the commercialization of conventional and advanced liquid biofuels from biomass drop-in biofuels for quite some time. They are looking at various technologies for drop-in biofuel production and how they can decarbonize long distance […]

Biomanufacturing 2.0 Cell-Free: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Invizyne Technologies

June 12, 2019 | Jim Lane

Invizyne Technologies is making chemicals the cell-free way using synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. By inputting sugar and using engineered microbes, they can result in useful compounds and commodity chemicals, biofuels, fuel additives, fragrances, and pharmaceuticals. James Bowie from UCLA/Invizyne Technologies offered this illuminating presentation on the steps involved using synthetic biochemistry to create commodity […]

Commercializing Low Carbon Biofuels: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

June 11, 2019 | Jim Lane

The Digest’s “Stocks Worth Tracking” Multi-Slide Guide Series highlights hot companies that are making strides in the bioeconomy. Today’s “Stock Worth Tracking” is Aemetis. Aemetis is implementing the first biomass-to-biofuels plant using the LanzaTech process. They also have a 12 mgy cellulosic ethanol plant project being developed in Riverbank, California that is of interest. Eric […]

Promising start to 2019: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Stora Enso

June 10, 2019 | Jim Lane

The Digest’s “Stocks Worth Tracking” Multi-Slide Guide Series highlights hot companies that are making strides in the bioeconomy. Today’s “Stock Worth Tracking” is Stora Enso. Stora Enso celebrated some positive Q1 2019 financials including sales that went up, operational EBIT that went down, and overall profit protection program that helped them out so far this […]

Diesel engines CAN be friends with ethanol!: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ClearFlame Engines

June 9, 2019 | Jim Lane

ClearFlame Engines spoke at a recent Biofuels Digest webinar about diesel fueled engines and how they can be running on ethanol via ClearFlame engines that can be easily integrated into existing designs. They’ve already demonstrated a 10% savings in fuel by retrofitting their work truck to use ethanol, and their technology can allow ethanol to […]

Healthier Food: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt

June 6, 2019 | Jim Lane

The Digest’s new “Stocks Worth Tracking” Multi-Slide Guide Series highlights hot companies that are making strides in the bioeconomy. Today’s “Stock Worth Tracking” is Calyxt. Calyxt is developing healthier specialty food ingredients by leveraging cutting edge science to develop food crops through gene editing technologies. Calyxt’s illuminating presentation shares how they are building a path […]

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