The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the Week of July 18th
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …In today’s Digest, wool without the sheep, fuels from water and C)2, bacteria-powered solar cells, spectral imagery in the sky, artificial intelligence in the crop...
View ArticleSET-Plan Steering Group Approved Implementation Plan of SET-Plan Action 8:...
(European Technology and Innovation Platform-Bioenergy) On 13 June 2018 the SET-Plan Steering Group approved the Implementation Plan of SET-Plan Action 8: Bioenergy and Renewable Fuels for Sustainable...
View ArticleThe Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the Week of July 27th
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of significant product and...
View ArticleHow Is CAAFI Engaging with Emerging Companies, and What Early-Stage Pathways...
(Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Initiative) … Feedstocks: The companies are pursuing various feedstock categories, including algae, cellulosics, lipids, sugars, oilseeds, tall oil residue, and...
View ArticlePennsylvania’s Next Biorefinery: Discussion Held at the Penn State Energy...
by Anahita Bharadwaj (Pennsylvania State University for Advanced Biofuels USA) Energy Days, 2018 at The Pennsylvania State University- University Park, brought together leading researchers, government...
View ArticleGenomatica and the New Road to Bioeconomy Innovation
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … That’s real progress in sustainability, because carbon that is properly diverted to plastics (and away from single-use applications that have rightly fallen out of...
View ArticleBirth of an Industrial Sugars Giant? Sugars in Focus in Leaf Resources,...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) We hear from Australia and Malaysia that PETRONAS Chemicals Group and Leaf Resources inked a Memorandum of Understanding for Leaf’s proposed biorefinery project in...
View ArticleShree Renuka Sugars Plans To Expand Ethanol Capacity By 25%
by Sai Ishwarbharath (Bloomberg Quint) Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd. plans to capitalise on the Union Cabinet’s approval to hike the procurement price of ethanol. “We currently manufacture 12 crore litres...
View ArticleThe Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Clariant Biotechnology
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Clariant’s Group Biotechnology — responsible for the Technology Platform Biotechnology — develops tailor-made biotechnological processes for the economic and sustainable...
View ArticleBacteria That Turn Sugar into Hydrogen Being Engineered by Researchers
by Joanna Sampson (Gasworld) Macquarie University researchers have teamed up with BOC Australia and Bioplatforms Australia to genetically engineer bacteria that turn sugar into hydrogen (H2). The...
View ArticleCircular Biobased Economy: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In a biobased economy renewable raw materials take over the role of fossil raw materials, such as oil. This is extremely important in order to reduce the carbon footprint...
View ArticleNew Algae/Fungi Biofuels System, Breakthru on Sugar Yields, Biodegradable...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. In today’s Digest, a new algae/fungi biofuels system, breakthru on sugar yields, biodegradable...
View ArticleDevelopment, Deployment of Integrated Biorefineries: The Digest’s Multi-Slide...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) IEA Bioenergy Task 42’s goal is to contribute to the development and deployment of integrated biorefineries as part of highly efficient sustainable value chains...
View ArticleThe 40 Hottest Technologies in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2018
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In California, Impossible Foods took the #1 spot in the 2018 “40 Hottest Technologies in the Advanced Bioeconomy” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s...
View ArticleThe Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Biobased Chemicals
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) IEA Bioenergy Task 42’s goal is to contribute to the development and deployment of integrated biorefineries as part of highly efficient sustainable value chains...
View ArticleIt Might Be Giant: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Nanocellulose,...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) A few years back, Research & Markets startled the bio world when they projected that the “Nanocellulose Market by Type (Cellulose nanocrystals, Cellulose nanofibrils,...
View ArticleOne Molecule at a Time: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) For many people, a key question in the advanced bioeconomy continues to be: “what is Amyris becoming, and when, and where and how?” Becoming a global leader in the health...
View ArticleRenmatix, Gevo Ink Deal to Develop Cellulosic Hydrocarbons for Jet Fuel,...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) We have word bubbling up simultaneously from Pennsylvania and Colorado that Gevo and Renmatix inked a joint development agreement to evaluate the commercial feasibility...
View ArticleFast Pyrolysis Technology: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Biomass Technology Group develops fast pyrolysis technology and FPBO applications as well as the commercialization of such technology and production of fast pyrolysis...
View ArticleBiofuels Production and Consumption in the European Union (EU): Status,...
by Laura Lonza and Adrian O’Connell (EAI Bioenergy Task 39) 1. Status of the biofuels industry in the EU The EU is the third largest producer of biofuels in the world. In 2017, North America, South...
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