Category: Thought Leadership

How to Reduce Your CI Fuel Score with Renewable Energy

How to Reduce Your CI Fuel Score with Renewable Energy

January 11, 2022 |

By Charlie Fredrickson, Vice President of Energy Asset Management, EnTech Solutions Special to The Digest Facilities that produce low-carbon fuels to sell credits within the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program face ever-increasing benchmarks to reduce their carbon intensity (CI) scores to maximize revenue. In the production of these low carbon fuels such as renewable […]

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Pharma-grade ethanol: Thinking beyond fuel-grade ethanol

Pharma-grade ethanol: Thinking beyond fuel-grade ethanol

January 10, 2022 |

By Mr. Ghanshyam Deshpande, President, Center of Innovation and Applied Technologies, Praj Industries Special to The Digest A sudden need for pharma-grade Ethanol With the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization has issued guidelines on sanitization practices stating frequent use of sanitizers, disinfectants to prevent virus infection. Governments & various health agencies […]

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Time for One More Salute To Bob Dole – As an early ethanol pioneer he laid the foundation for modern biofuels

Time for One More Salute To Bob Dole – As an early ethanol pioneer he laid the foundation for modern biofuels

January 6, 2022 |

By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest The late December passing of Senator Robert Dole triggered an outpouring of tributes and accolades bringing back memories of a different era in American politics.  His involvement in landmark legislation on Civil Rights, Voting Rights, and countless other bills during his long […]

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EPA Gets it Right for American Advanced Biofuels

EPA Gets it Right for American Advanced Biofuels

January 5, 2022 |

By Douglas L. Faulkner, President, Leatherstocking LLC and “The Cleantech Conservative” And, Michael McAdams, President, Advanced BioFuels Association Special to The Digest Buried in the recent release of the three-year biofuels production volumes by the Environmental Protection Agency was an announcement of a proposed major change to future regulation of advanced biofuels.  The new rule’s […]

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IFUS Cattle Turning Bagasse Trash Into a Cash Cow

IFUS Cattle Turning Bagasse Trash Into a Cash Cow

December 29, 2021 |

By Michael Sheikh, Head Research Analyst, Falcon Strategic Research Special to The Digest Impact Fusion International Inc (OTCMKTS: IFUS) markets products in the “Health and Wellness” sector using its proprietary Nutri-Mastic ingredient. Their product aids in the digestive health of both humans and animals by increasing the absorption of nutrients. They repurposed their Nutri-Mastic with […]

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The key to a successful cellulosic ethanol project

The key to a successful cellulosic ethanol project

December 27, 2021 |

By Mallikarjun Navalgund, President, Advanced Biofuels and Chemicals, Praj Industries Special to The Digest The need From the World Energy Outlook Report, 2021 it is clear that the pledges made so far in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are grossly inadequate to stay under the 2 °C, let alone the 1.5 °C target. Humankind, more […]

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Why It Is Time to Bet Big on Biocontrol Solutions

Why It Is Time to Bet Big on Biocontrol Solutions

December 21, 2021 |

By Luc Maertens, Chief Operations Officer, Biotalys Special to The Digest Growers need safe, easy-to-use crop protection solutions that will reduce environmental impact while maintaining yields. As the call grows to reduce the dependency on chemical pesticides, minimize post-harvest residues and stop the surge in pathogen resistance–especially for fruit and vegetable growers–ag innovators are banking […]

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Yesterday is Always Tomorrow for the Global Bioeconomy

Yesterday is Always Tomorrow for the Global Bioeconomy

December 13, 2021 |

By Douglas L. Faulkner, President, Leatherstocking LLC and the “Cleantech Conservative” Special to The Digest No, I’m not repeating here the usual biting critique from anti-biofuels advocates about an industry always promising a better mañana, but never delivering today.  Instead, this title summarizes my historical perspective as a veteran of decades of the bio-wars, taking […]

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What Biofuels Can Learn From Turkeys…and 8 ways to return biofuels to integrated end-to-end control

What Biofuels Can Learn From Turkeys…and 8 ways to return biofuels to integrated end-to-end control

December 6, 2021 |

By Bob Kozak, President, Atlantic Biomass, LLC, Co-founder and Treasurer of Advanced Biofuels USA Special to The Digest As we enjoy this contemplative, introspective, thanks giving time of year, it’s time to think what can be done to revive a stagnant US biofuel industry. The Thanksgiving Turkey is a good place to start. I hope […]

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Separation solutions designed to IMPRESS – Sulzer’s tech is central to plant-based platform chemical manufacturing

Separation solutions designed to IMPRESS – Sulzer’s tech is central to plant-based platform chemical manufacturing

December 1, 2021 |

By Sulzer Chemtech Special to The Digest A broad range of Sulzer’s leading separation technologies are playing a key role in the EU funded project IMPRESS (Integration of efficient downstreaM PRocessEs for Sugars and Sugar alcohols). This aims to deliver a novel biorefinery concept, which enables the production of important base chemicals from plant-based resources. […]

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