Category: Multi-Slide Guides

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Triple bottom line sustainability indicators for waste-to-energy supply chains

March 21, 2024 | Jim Lane

Development of a triple-bottom line sustainability (social, environment, economic) assessment tool for local government to evaluate trade-offs of different organic waste streams and energy conversion strategies can help achieve local/regional policy objectives over the current and long-term. A team of researchers funded by DOE have undertaken a project looking at the opportunity in carbon recovery/minimizing […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Supply Scenario Analysis

March 20, 2024 | Jim Lane

Building on previous biomass supply analysis to provide robust feedstock supply information, the US Department of Energy has a project to update the Billion Ton Study and add a Best Use of Biomass Report. Billion Ton is End-use agnostic; the Best USe of Biomass is end-use explicit. Using economic and logistics simulation models and data […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Global impacts of enhancing domestic ecosystem carbon sinks

March 19, 2024 | Jim Lane

30-50% of the CO2 removals needed for a net zero U.S. economy could come via domestic terrestrial carbon sink enhancements. What’s needed? A project supported by DOE aims to specifyU.S. cropland carbon sink strategies and quantify potential impacts on global agriculture production,land use, and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Patrick Lamers of NREL presented these […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of the Advanced Bioeconomy

March 18, 2024 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, we explored the state of the industry — including the renewable diesel, DME, SAF, hydrogen, renewable chemicals, materials, advanced biorefinery, efuels and carbon capture sectors. We looked at processes, feedstocks, products, finance, p[rices and risk. The Digest’s Jim Lane presented these slides at ABLC 2024.

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Preprocessing

March 17, 2024 | Jim Lane

A team of researchers is working to develop science-based design and operation principles informed by TEA/LCA that result in predictable, reliable, and scalable performance of preprocessing unit operations. The comminution and fractionation manuals that industry needs will contain design principles for various working envelopes of CMAs and critical process parameters (CPPs) for corn stover, forest […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Variability

March 14, 2024 | Jim Lane

Industry needs to understand key sources of biomass variability (e.g., growth conditions, harvest conditions, storage degradation) to identify and quantify CMA distributions that propagate across unit operations to inform cost-effective management of variability. A team of researchers is working to identify and quantify the initial distribution of feedstock critical material attributes (CMAs) and inform strategies […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Material Handling

March 13, 2024 | Jim Lane

A primary challenge in the design of a biorefinery is the storage, transport, and reactor feeding of the biomass feedstocks. Material handling/feeding is prone to process upsets such as jamming and clogging, resulting in increased downtime and ultimately higher costs. Commercial-scale conversion of biomass in biorefineries remains limited. A team of researchers aim to develop […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Trois-Rivieres BDO Zone

March 12, 2024 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, we explored the new BDO Zone at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec— the feedstocks, the infrastructure, the workforce, how risks are mitigated. David Berthelot of Trois-Rivieres presented these slides on The BDO Zone, a program on Digest TV

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Sarnia Lambton BDO Zone

March 11, 2024 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, we explored the new BDO Zone at Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario — the feedstocks, the infrastructure, the workforce, how risks are mitigated. Sarnia-Lambton’s Shauna Carr presented these slides on The BDO Zone, a program on Digest TV

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to an Efficient, Cost-Effective Anaerobic Digester

March 9, 2024 | Jim Lane

A high production cost of renewable natural gas results from slow disintegration and hydrolysis of recalcitrant feedstocks in conventional AD leads to low productivity; low methane content of biogas produced from AD requires downstream purification; and waste rich in protein that results in high ammonia concentration that inhibits the process. A team of researchers led […]

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