Category: Multi-Slide Guides

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Understanding and Mitigating the Impacts of Feedstock Variability in Bioconversion Processes

January 31, 2023 | Jim Lane

The Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium is led by DOE as a collaborative effort among researchers from 9 National Labs. It’s Key Ideas? That biomass feedstock properties are variable and different from other commodities; and, that empirical approaches to address these issues have been unsuccessful. The FCIC uses first-principles- based science to de-risk biorefinery scale-up and deployment […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals and Materials

January 30, 2023 | Jim Lane

It’s been 18 years since the Werpy and Petersen paper, Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass —a screening for Potential Candidates from Sugars and Synthesis Gas that sent a lot of people in search of succinic acid, and about 12 years since industry CEOs started asking, why should I make a $3 fuel when I […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to NovoNutrients

January 26, 2023 | Jim Lane

NovoNutrients‘ mission is to solve two problems simultaneously: creating sustainable protein to feed a growing population, and combating climate change through innovation. The proprietary microbes grow quickly in a carbonated water solution, using minimal water and no arable land. In some places, they’ll be paid to take CO2. The bioreactor designs optimal protein production for […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Sofinnova Industrial Biotech portfolio

January 26, 2023 | Jim Lane

The Sofinnova venture capital mission is to tap the tools and feedstocks of the natural world to drive positive change for the planet while yielding outsized returns to investors. The company’s portfolio includes investments in Biotalys, Afyren, DMC, Metgen, Prometheus, EnginZyme, GL Biochemicals, Protera and mamy other companies. In this report, they look at the […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Hot Trends in Energy and Chemicals

January 25, 2023 | Jim Lane

New sustainability standards no longer focus solely on bio-based carbon content. The focus has shifted to reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) and overall carbon footprint –in which biomaterials have a role to play. The transition towards climate neutrality and circular economy will have a profound impact on existing assets and radically change the economic drivers for […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Decarbonizing at Mega Scale with Blue Hydrogen

January 24, 2023 | Jim Lane

Decarbonization continues to be a major goal Transferring those targets from paper to reality that’s what we’re going to look at critically today, and specifically at the opportunities in blue hydrogen. Here in these slides, we’ll learn what it is, why and how it goes to mega scale and what the impact in decarbonization is. […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Biogas and RNG

January 23, 2023 | Jim Lane

RNG and it’s companion product biogas have taken the project and sustainable power sectors by storm — there’s project action, fast-developing technology, M&A activity, and policy advances of the first magnitude, in the United States and all around the developed world, What’s up, who’s in the lead, and how and where and why? Digest editor […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste and SAF

January 19, 2023 | Jim Lane

Aviation has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Aviation accounts for 2-3 % of global carbon emissions – growing to >20% by 2050 if action not taken. Non-CO2 effects have an approximately 3 times higher climate impact than CO2 emissions alone. Accordingly, SAF has been identified as one of the key elements in reducing […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Decarbonization policy goals in global biofuels markets

January 19, 2023 | Jim Lane

This week on ABLC Connect we looked at the policies, projects, players, raw materials and end–use demand for SAF — from field to wing, we have the current projects under construction, the Value Stack, a supply forecast, and the latest on the SAF Grand Challenge, among other topics in this 35 slide State of the […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable SAF from Corn

January 18, 2023 | Jim Lane

The SAF Grand Challenge is vast. It sets out to achieve a minimum 50% reduction in lifecycle GHG emissions compared to conventional aviation fuel, increase SAF output to 3 billion gallons per year by 2030, achieve SAF output of 35 billion gallons per year by 2050, to meet complementary ESG commitments from major passenger and […]

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