The emerging synthetic biology ecosystem: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to Gingko BioWorks
Recently, Ginkgo BioWorks announced the launch of their next generation foundry, Bioworks2. With 125,000 square feet and an 6X expected increase in capacity compatred to BioWorks...
Yes, bacteria do it: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to ethylene, protein from sun,...
Hurricane Harvey has turned the world's most widely-produced chemical, ethylene, into something of a rarer commodity because of refinery slowdowns. The US Department of...
Jet fuel from (any) bio-alcohol: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Byogy Renewables
Byogy has developed a catalytic platform that converts any source of ethanol, butanol, mixed alcohols, or related olefins, into full replacement, and cost competitive...
Takin’ out the oxygen with electro-deoxygenation: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to upgrading bio-oil
The US Department of Energy is supporting a project to demonstrate the techno‐economic feasibility of upgrading biomass derived pyrolysis oil using electro-deoxygenation process. A ceramic...
Advancing the bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA and feedstock R&D
Former Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack put it best: "The bioeconomy is a catalyst for economic development in rural America, creating new jobs and providing new...
Second chance carbon: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech
LanzaTech has developed a fully sustainable integrative gas to fuels and chemicals platform that has no impact on food, water security or high biodiversity...
Advancing advanced: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis
Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel facilities in the US and India, and is upgrading the plants...
The Leftover Makeover Once-Over: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Corn Stover
A group of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have completed a survey of the economic activities and rural jobs that a corn stover bioeconomy can...
The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech/PNNL Syngas-to-ATJ Fuels
The US Department of Energy initiated a project to advance a hybrid conversion technology for catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived syngas to produce Alcohol-to-Jet fuel...
Cellulosic on the rise: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Cellerate technology
To date, QCCP has produced more than 5 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol via the Cellerate process, which represents 90 percent of total U.S. cellulosic...