Airlines Fly the Skies on a Sugar High
by Amy Yee (The New York Times) The red-and-white Boeing 737 looked like any other plane on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport. But on a clear day last July, the plane became the first...
View ArticleBrighter Brights and More Sustainable Whites
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Broadening the sources and uses for cellulosic ethanol. As we reported yesterday (October 6, 2014) in the Digest, DuPont and Procter & Gamble, announced a...
View ArticleZeaChem, Leaf Resources Sign Collaboration Agreement for Leaf Glycell
by Isabel Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Colorado, ZeaChem has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Leaf Resources. The agreement covers ZeaChem’s evaluation of the Leaf Glycell process for the production...
View ArticleIndustrial Biotechnology’s 2014 in Pictures: The Year of Steel
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) When we think of the past 12 months and the remainder of 2014, we’re going to look back on it as the Year of Steel for the advanced bioeconomy. Click here for pictures....
View ArticleBlueFire Plays the China Card? Ex-Im Bank of China Issues $270M LOI for...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In California, BlueFire Renewables has received a Letter of Intent from The Export Import Bank of China (China EXIM) to provide up to $270 million in debt financing for...
View ArticleThe 8 Habits of Highly Successful Biorefinery Developers: Looking at...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) As Alberta looks at what might works for them in industrial biotech — Jacobs comes up with a useful take on Renmatix, GTI, LanzaTech, Enerkem, REG and OPX Bio — and 8...
View ArticleVirent and the PlantPET Technology Collaborative (PTC) Sign Expression of...
(Virent) Virent’s Bio-based Paraxylene, BioFormPX®, Will Allow PTC Members to Offer Customers 100% Renewable and Recyclable PET Resin and Polyester October 30, 2014 – Virent and the PlantPET...
View ArticleTransforming Toxic Waste into Green Energy
by Christian Durand (Concordia University) Emerging graduate research at Concordia seeks to turn pulp mills into dynamic biorefineries How can a struggling industry like pulp and paper in Canada be...
View Article4 minutes with… Lars Welin, CEO, Taurus Energy
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … Taurus Energy is a company working to develop the best possible yeast for fermentation of c5 sugars … We work with customers and their hydrolysate and try to provide a...
View ArticleThe Inside Story of Renewable Energy Group, as CEO Dan Oh Visits with The Digest
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … In many ways, REG is the entire industrial biotech business in a nutshell. They’re fermentation (through REG Life Sciences), and thermocatalytic (through REG Geismar...
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Hottest Slides from ABLCNext 2014 – the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Sapphire Energy’s new multi-market product approach Joule’s breakthrough photosynthetic efficiency Cellana – multi-products for algae, just like petroleum READ MORE
View ArticleAnimal Fat in Airplanes: Could Biofuels Help Airlines’ Bottom Lines?
by Benét J. Wilson (BusinessJournalism.org) Right now, oil prices are down, but nobody expects them to stay there. That is why Airlines for America, the trade organization for the largest U.S....
View ArticleRighteous Heat: 10 Hot Slides from ABLCNext Do the Show-and-Tell on Who’s Got...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) 10 hot companies, The Young Fresh Faces, the Later-Stagers, the Out-of-the-Box Thinkers – who is challenging the status quo and how and why? Here are new slides from the...
View Article14 for ’15: The Bioeconomy Agenda, 2015
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) 14 perspectives on policy, technologies and geographies of compelling interest in the new year — At ABLC Next this year in San Francisco — naturally, the focus is on...
View Article4 minutes with…Basil Karampelas, President, American Process
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) We’ve developed 2 proprietary biorefinery technologies producing low-cost cellulosic sugars from non-food based biomass. Our Green Power+ technology produces low-cost...
View ArticleSweet Smell of Success: JBEI Researchers Boost Methyl Ketone Production in E....
by Lynn Yarris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Two years ago, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) engineered Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria to...
View ArticleAll I Need is the Air That I Breathed: Microbial Dairies Using CO2, Sunlight...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Take CO2, add water and an energy source: voila, Fuels & Chemicals from Microbial Dairies. We revisit 3 top practitioners of the art and one outlier, and their...
View ArticleFeedstocks, Techniques, and Enzymes: The Critical Trio in Any Cellulosic...
(Global BioBusiness) It may be surprising to know that, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as “cellulosic ethanol”. Instead, there is cellulosic “sugars”. That because it is often forgotten...
View ArticleLarge Scale Microbial Production of Advanced Biofuels: How Big Can We Go?
by Gregory T. Benz (Benz Technology International, Inc./Biofuels Digest) Conventional biofuels, whether from starch, sugar or lignocellulosic materials, tend to be low energy density products such as...
View Article4 Minutes with…Rob Yenne, President, Peloton Technologies
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … Peloton Technologies, LLC specializes in technologies for the production of bio-based fermentable sugars, advanced transportation fuels and biopolymer monomers used in...
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