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Lallemand Convergence - a new fermentation platform - click to learn more Comstock Lignocellulosic biofuels - click here to learn more Leaf – Your industrial fermentation partner for a sustainable tomorrow - click to learn more Major Stories Reading Pollock: on advancing the bioeconomy, a New York City 400th anniversary column May 14, 2024 | Jim Lane Myself, I first landed on Governors Island in New York Harbor in the spring of 1968 when my parents dumped my sister and myself in the Coast Guard nursery for a couple of days, while the folks made official and personal visits. However, the first European settlers arrived at Governors Island on May 20, 1624, […] Read More The EPA E15 Ruling– No Need to Stop There. May 13, 2024 | Jim Lane By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest Go ahead, blend any amount of ethanol you want. And here’s why. Has the E15 Saga come to an end? At least the beginning of the end? Or the end of the beginning so that we can get to the end? The […] Read More Bright Renewables, Tekniska Verken partner up for Sweden’s First Biogas CCU project May 12, 2024 | Jim Lane From Sweden comes news that Bright Renewables has won the technical tender from Tekniska verken, a major Swedish multi-utility energy company, for the supply of CO2 liquefaction technology. The system will be installed at Tekniska verken’s biogas plant Svensk Biogas in Linköping to purify and liquefy carbon dioxide (CO2) from the biogas production. The facility, […] Read More Carbon to Value Initiative says 4th cohort is open for apps: Cohort I-III companies raised $410M in follow-on funding May 8, 2024 | Jim Lane From Massachusetts, New York and Texas, we received news that the Carbon to Value Initiative, a partnership of the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (UFL), Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA has opened the door for applications from startups developing carbontech solutions for the fourth cohort of the accelerator — now through […] Read More The Case for E-fuels Use in Aviation May 5, 2024 | Jim Lane By Pete Rocha, LEC Partners Special to The Digest The aviation industry produces 2-3% of all CO2 emissions globally. This percentage will likely grow over time as the developing world becomes richer and the demand for air transportation increases. In the graphic below, we see that in passenger travel demand is expected to increase by […] Read More 8-Slide Guides The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Marine BioEnergy May 13, 2024 | Jim Lane Giant Kelp is one of the fastest growing producers of biomass. Giant kelp does not grow naturally in the open ocean because kelp needs key nutrients that are available in deep ocean water or near shore but not at the surface in the open ocean. Kelp also needs an attachment at about 10-20 meters of […] Read More The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to meeting SAF demand with ethanol-to-jet technology May 10, 2024 | Jim Lane To achieve net zero by 2050, SAF production needs to increase quickly and substantially, says Omar Hamid, Group Manager, Low Carbon Fuels at Worley Consulting in presenting these slides at ABLC 2024 on technology transition. He notes that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has set a decarbonization plan, and that announced SAF projects estimate […] Read More The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo May 9, 2024 | Jim Lane Gevo addresses the market need of reducing greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable alternatives, and is commercializing the next generation of advanced, bio-based renewable fuels with sustainable aviation fuel, renewable premium gasoline, and renewable natural gas that have the potential to achieve zero carbon emissions over the lifecycle of the fuel. To make its energy-dense liquid […] Read More The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to NEXT Renewables May 8, 2024 | Jim Lane Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2021 sales of $31 billion (€26 billion). The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications such as hydrogen for clean fuels. Linde also […] Read More The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Futuria Fuels May 7, 2024 | Jim Lane Futuria Fuels was founded by SHV Energy to lead the global advocacy of sustainable molecules, aiming to deliver viable sustainable fuel to off-grid customers. Through collaboration, we are building partnership and investment opportunities which will directly result in the defossilization of liquid gas for customers and suppliers. As a business unit of SHV Energy, Futuria […] Read More The Latest World News HIF Global lands $164M in latest investment round May 13, 2024 | Meghan Sapp In Texas, HIF Global announced a combined investment from existing shareholders and the Japanese energy company Idemitsu Kosan, securing $164 million to fund its eFuels projects. Idemitsu joins a premier group of existing HIF investors, including AME, EIG, Porsche, Baker Hughes, and Gemstone Investments The investment by Idemitsu completes the first step in the four-part […] Read More Nayara Energy to invest $71.8 in two new ethanol plants May 13, 2024 | Meghan Sapp In India, the Economic Times newspaper reports Nayara Energy plans to invest $71.85 million in two new ethanol plants, based in Andrha Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh respectively. The facilities, expected to come online in 2026 with each be able to produce 200,000 liters of ethanol daily from corn and broken rice. Three more ethanol plants […] Read More Argentina lowers biodiesel prices slightly while boosting ethanol prices May 13, 2024 | Meghan Sapp In Argentina, Reuters reports the country has lowered the price for biodiesel slightly from May onwards to about $1.062 per metric ton while it raised prices for sugarcane-based ethanol nearly 10% to about 70 cents per liter. Although the increase was lower, the price for corn-based ethanol was increased to about 65 cents per liter. […] Read More NREL’s DMR process key to SAFFiRE Renewables’ pilot project May 13, 2024 | Meghan Sapp In Colorado, on its path to opening a facility designed to turn agriculture residue into a scalable biofuel business, SAFFiRE Renewables, LLC plans to break ground on its pilot plant near Liberal, Kansas, in late 2024. In 2023, the company negotiated a license agreement for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) deacetylation and mechanical refining […] Read More Infinium teams with SMA Mineral for its Norwegian eFuels project May 13, 2024 | Meghan Sapp In Norway, Infinium has reached an agreement with SMA Mineral (SMA) that will advance the development of Infinium’s eFuels project at the Mo Industripark in Mo i Rana, Norway. The Infinium facility will utilize the carbon dioxide (CO2) that SMA will produce at its Zero Emission Quick Lime (ZEQL) manufacturing facility in the industrial park […] Read More R&D News Fraunhofer researchers develop biobased flocculant to treat complex wastewaters May 13, 2024 | Meghan Sapp In Germany, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB have developed a biobased and functionalized...