A team of researchers have designed a project to support development of woody feedstocks forUniversity of Maine’s Thermal Deoxygenation pathway to produce renewable aviation fuel and chemicals. The goal of the project is to prepare woody biomass for conversion in TDO by engineering particle attributes to improve flow reliability and separating detrimental components within the […]
Low-cost carbon resources (agricultural residues, forest residue, and non recyclable municipal and industrial wastes) exhibit consistent challenges. Inherent physical and chemical variability in feedstocks result in excessive process downtime, and uncontrolled costs with documented failures in the industry as a whole. Common industry milling operations do not address core problems such as: fines, contaminants, and […]
A team of researchers have designed a project to utilize post-harvest physiology and chemistry tools during long-term storage and queuing to positively impact downstream processes through reduced chemical and energy input. They aim to enhance anatomical fractionation, co-products; improve feedstock quality, find use for discarded fractions not meeting specification; and, improve feedstock quality, improved conversion. […]
Twelve is developing and scaling a platform for a reactor that electrochemically transforms biogenic CO2. The company’s core innovation is a membrane electrode assembly that enables CO2 electrolysis. In this project, the company aims towards mass production of PEM CO2 electrolyzer stacks. Dr. Sadia Kabir of Twelve led the team that created this presentation on […]
Researchers have initiated a project to develop electrolyzers that can convert CO2 from biorefineries to produce useful products, and save the cost of air capture. Yet, research still has not been done on testing with CO2 from fermenter to understand how dilute/recycled CO2 will affect performance. Rich Masel of Dioxide Materials gave this presentation on […]
CO2 electrolysis can utilize waste CO2 from bioreactors to produce market competitive formic acid at commercial scales. Conventional design has energy and cost intensive downstream separations. A solid electrolyte design has tunable formic acid concentration with elimination of downstream separations. Dr. Feng Jiao of the University of Delaware gave this presentation on the project at […]
Today, lignin from pulp and paper is converted to polymer products through sulfonation. An industry goal, and the goal of this Ingevity / USC / Sandia project, is commercial products from lignin that provide 20% reduction in feedstock cost, because lignin coproducts must contribute $2-3/GGE to MFSP to meet DOE target of $3/GGE. Mike Kent […]
CO2 capture is increasingly viewed as an important technology towards meeting climate goals. Electrocatalytic systems excel at converting CO2 into C1 and C2 compounds, but are challenged in forming additional carbon bonds. Biological systems can build complex carbon compounds from simple carbon compounds, but are less efficient at upcycling CO2 due to gas diffusion limitations […]
Researchers have targeted the use of catalytic methods to reduce CO2 to single carbon intermediates, then to follow with biological up-conversion to multi-carbon compounds. In this project, Montana State researchers developed electrochemical reactor components with laterally graded pore structure to aid in reaction distribution when the reactor is scaled-up. Project partners integrated these components into […]
CO2 Electrolysis + Gas Fermentation: a CO2 to Chemicals Platform, that’s the goal of this Argonne National Lab, LanzaTech and Dioxide Materials, project. It aims for room Temperature CO2 electrolysis (Anion Exchange Membrane based technology), and gas fermentation yield improvement through process development, metabolic engineering and arginine supplementation. Researchers have found that gas fermentation can […]
