Category: Multi-Slide Guides

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE Feedstock Technologies Program

September 13, 2023 | Jim Lane

The DOE’s Feedstock Technologies program focuses on challenges and barriers crucial to reaching program goals, including: Feedstock Availability and Cost Production; Feedstock Genetics and Variety Improvement; Sustainable Harvesting; Feedstock Quality; Biomass Storage Systems; Biomass Physical State Alteration; Material Handling and Transportation; Feedstock Supply System; Integration & Infrastructure; and Operational Reliability. BETO technology managers Liz Burrows […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium and Task X

September 12, 2023 | Jim Lane

The Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium is led by DOE as a collaborative effort among researchers from 9 National Labs. The key ideas? 1. Biomass feedstock properties are variable and different from other Commodities. 2. Empirical approaches to address these issues have been unsuccessful. The FCIC is developing first principles-based knowledge and tools to understand and mitigate the […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Logan County, CO wheat straw BDO Zone

September 11, 2023 | Jim Lane

Digest CONNECT returned to the airwaves again this past week and first presenter was ABLC veteran and Ecostrat CEO Jordan Solomon, as well as Trae Miller, executive director, Logan County Economic Development. Together, they explored the exciting news that Logan County has earned an A feedstock rating for wheat straw via the Bioeconomy Opportunity Development […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon Dioxide Utilization

September 7, 2023 | Jim Lane

The DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office seeks to decarbonize the U.S. economy by developing efficient and economical biological and chemical technologies to convert renewable carbon resources into bioenergy and renewable chemicals and materials. Good news? CO2 represents an abundant resource with potential for very low carbon footprint. The Bad news? There’s no energy, to work with […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Biochemical Conversion and Lignin Utilization

September 7, 2023 | Jim Lane

The DOE’s goals are >54% upgradable products from Lignin by 2030, including an emphasis on Deconstruction and depolymerization, conversion of lignin oils to liquid fuels, opportunities for lignin to SAF, and valorization of lignin-derived monomers to high value products Biological Lignin Valorization. BETO technology managers Beau Hoffman and Lisa Guay presented these slides at DOE’s […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Catalytic Upgrading

September 6, 2023 | Jim Lane

High-value chemicals and materials have the clearest near-term path to market; accordingly, the program is encouraged to increase its focus on ancillary technologies for producing high-value chemicals alongside core technologies that focus on producing high-volume fuels. Yet, catalyst stability remains problematic across the entire portfolio, and challenges presented by deactivation are likely to increase as […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Agile BioFoundry projects

September 5, 2023 | Jim Lane

The Agile BioFoundry is a consortium of seven U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories that operate as a distributed biofoundry in collaboration with industry and academia. They partner with the biomanufacturing industry to accelerate bioproduct development. Advancing biomanufacturing across the public and private sectors. Here, BETO Conversion Technology Manager Gayle Bentley gave this overview […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DMC Bio

September 4, 2023 | Jim Lane

The REenergize webcast series returned to the airwaves again this past week and first presenter was ABLC veteran and DMC Bio’s CEO and co-founder, Matt Lipscomb, with this cogent and comprehensive update on efficiently developing and deploying fermentation process. Here we learned about sustainably produced bio-based chemicals that are Made to Scale, as the DMC […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the BETO program for Systems development and integration

September 4, 2023 | Jim Lane

Technology is great — but energy is made by systems that integrate technology at scale. So, a critical part of the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office is its Systems development and integration programs. Who’s on the team, what’s the strategy, what are the program goals, what’s the strategy, the challenges, the results to date? BETO program […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DOE’s overview of Renewable Carbon Resources

August 31, 2023 | Jim Lane

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). If we seek to make the carbon we need from the carbon we have, what do we have? […]

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