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...

Ready for take-off: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Honeywell’s UOP and aviation biofuels

Honeywell’s UOP has developed a renewable jet fuel processing technology, a renewable diesel process, as well as a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, that will...

Malonic acid from biobased sources: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Lygos’ technical approach

Lygos develops high-efficiency, novel processes to produce renewable chemicals by using its expertise in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Lygos is a spin-off from...

The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Camelina’s biofuels potential

Can camelina oil be a viable substitute as a biodiesel feedstocks, given that palm oil has received so much negative attention in Europe at...

From algae blooms to algae oil: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Manta Biofuel

The promise is this: Manta could one day skim algae right off of the Chesapeake Bay and convert it into oil, simultaneously cleaning up...

Waste Makes Haste: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Enerkem

Enerkem’s technology converts non-recyclable municipal solid waste (i.e. garbage) into clean fuels and renewable chemicals. Enerkem Alberta Biofuels is the world’s first commercial biorefinery to use municipal solid waste to...

Crossing the 3K threshold: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Sapphire Energy’s algae biofuels productivity

Back in 2014, Sapphire Energy and the US Department of Energy embarked on a project to advance Sapphire's (then) biomass production technologies across three...

Carbon negative, compression ignition: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

Oberon Fuels is facilitating the growth of the DME transportation industry by converting biogas and other hydrocarbon rich waste streams to higher valued commodities...

Integrated, hedged, fast-growing: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

Founded in 2004, Green Plains Inc. is North America's third largest producer of ethanol. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Green Plains has grown rapidly, primarily...

Fuels from thin air: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Soletair technology

The Soletair process, developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology, is using carbon dioxide and solar power to...

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