By Scott Warfield, CERES Project Services, Member, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest This is the seventh in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be speaking at the ABLC 2018 conference in Washington DC, February 28 to March 2. With respect to Susan E. Hinton […]
By Daniel Lane and Joel Stone, Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest This is the fourth in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be speaking at the ABLC 2018 conference in Washington DC, February 28 to March 2. Previous installments in the State of […]
By Terry J. Mazanec, PhD; T-MAZ LLC, Member, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest This is the third in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be speaking at the ABLC 2018 conference in Washington DC, February 28 to March 2. Previous installments in the State […]
By John D. Forcier, P.E.; Forcier Consulting Engineers, Member Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to the Digest This is the second in the 8-part series, State of the Advanced Bioeconomy 2018, prepared by experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be speaking at the ABLC 2018 conference in Washington DC, February 28 to March 2. […]
By Brian Goodall, PhD; First Garden City Consulting, Member Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest This is the first in a 8-part series of articles — the State of the Advanced Bioeconomy 2018 — more on the complete series here. Extracting vegetable oils is both an art and a science, with some being practiced […]
By Dr. Bernard Cooker, Chemical Processing Solutions, Consultant with Lee Enterprises Consulting Inc. Special to The Digest This is a review of the biomass-fed chemical process projects producing renewable chemical products which were published in Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP) and Chemical and Engineering News (CEN) from 1/1/17 to 12/18/17. It includes activity in biochemicals, biopolymers […]
By Alec A.K. Nielsen Originally published at asimov.io, republished with permission If you’re reading this, you’re probably biological. As you sit quietly, trillions of cells in your body are performing a frenetic dance of biochemical computation that makes your existence possible. Consider this: You were once a single cell – a fertilized egg. This single cell […]
By Ron Cascone, Principal, Nexant, Inc. Special to The Digest Emissions of carbon dioxide by industrial and chemical processes have come under increasing pressure in recent years with regulatory and consumer scrutiny. A number of industrial and commercial consortia and individual companies are committing to major reductions in their carbon footprints. Although technical solutions for […]
by Dave VanderGriend, Urban Air Initiative — Special to The Digest While it might be a bit overly dramatic to call it a gathering storm, there are already clear signs that the low gasoline prices we have been enjoying for the last several years are about to come to end. A lot of people might forget that […]
By Mark Warner, PE, Founder, Warner Advisors LLC Special to The Digest Food is a rapidly changing landscape with many emerging technologies; meat without the cow, eggs without the chicken and sushi without the fish to name a few. These products come from advanced biotechnology, deeply rooted in technology used for pharmaceutical production. Key compounds are […]
