Category: Multi-Slide Guides

What’s the latest in bioenergy R&D, DOE? The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to DOE’s Sustainable Transportation programs

March 21, 2018 | Jim Lane

The United States Department of Energy’s Sustainable Transportation sector, part of EERE, includes the Vehicle, Fuel Cell, and Bioenergy Technologies offices. This portfolio focuses on research and development to increase access to domestic, clean transportation fuels and improve the energy efficiency, convenience, and affordability of transporting people and goods to support U.S. energy security, economic […]

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Honeywell’s UOP and renewable jet and diesel technology

March 19, 2018 | Jim Lane

Honeywell’s UOP has developed a renewable jet fuel processing technology, a renewable diesel process, as well as a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, that will market technologies and equipment for generating power, transportation fuel and heating oil from biomass using pyrolysis. UOP also owns a Renewable Energy & Chemicals business that produced green diesel using its Ecofining […]

Cow Power: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy

March 18, 2018 | Jim Lane

Ag-Grid Energy has a vision to convert agricultural and organic waste into renewable energy, compost and support local area practices that lead us towards a sustainable environment. The company intends to finance, build, own (jointly), operate the waste to energy conversion facilities in US, and has four projects underway in New England. Ag -Grid Energy […]

Algility: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to algae as a new crop and technology platform

March 15, 2018 | Jim Lane

Algae has been reinvented in recent years as a Sustainable New Crop for Food, Feed, Fuel and other products. Part of an international effort to expand Agricultural Production and productive land, and keeping key nutrients on the farm while restoring soil, algae is seen as a technology platform leading to job creation, benefits for the rural economy […]

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Bioeconomy for Arid Regions (SBAR)

March 14, 2018 | Jim Lane

Sustainable Bioeconomy for Arid Regions (SBAR) is a multi-level research project that will cultivate two desert-dwelling crops, guayule and guar, for a sustainable bioeconomy. Combined, guayule (perennial) and guar (annual) feedstocks can provide biomass year round for biofuel production. Both crops are drought and heat tolerant, grow on marginal lands, and provide economic returns. Scale […]

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the 2018 Bioeconomy Business Outlook

March 13, 2018 | Jim Lane

In Florida, The Digest reports that 72 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic about their organization’s prospects for growth and 68 percent about industry growth, than 12 months ago. The findings were among the highlights of the 2018 Bioenergy Business Outlook Survey conducted by the publication. Below are the highlights from the results.

Leveraging the Power of Algae: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Algenol

March 12, 2018 | Jim Lane

Algenol is a global, industrial biotechnology company that is commercializing its patented algae technology platform for production of ethanol and other biofuels, chemicals and biobased materials. Formed in 2006, and headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida with an R&D facility in Berlin, the company operates in multiple sectors: AgTech, natural food colorants, biofertilizer biostimulants, human and animal food […]

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA and its programs

March 10, 2018 | Jim Lane

“The bioeconomy is a catalyst for economic development in rural America, creating new jobs and providing new markets for farmers and ranchers. Investing in the businesses and technologies that support the production of biofuels and biobased products is not only good for farm incomes. The whole economy benefits from a more balanced, diversified and consumer-friendly […]

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the Status of Advanced Biofuels

March 8, 2018 | Jim Lane

There are over 2,000 biomass to fuel facilities representing 1,461 companies in 90 countries. According to subject matter expert and long-time Digesterati Lorenz Bauer, “first-generation biofuels will continue to dominate the market but will lose market share. At the same time, advanced biofuel capacity is expected to double by 2020 to 9.6 billion gallons per […]

Diesel with 89% lower GHGs: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Synpet Technologies