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Major Stories Today’s Transportation Industry Offering More Gender-Diverse Career Opportunities June 2, 2021 | Jim Lane By Jackie Jacobs, Senior Fleet Transaction Analyst and Project Manager for Fleet Advantage Special to The Digest When the Covid-19 pandemic first hit the U.S., millions of jobs were wiped out, particularly among women who found themselves back home and coordinating everything from elderly parent medical issues along with additional home-school activities for kids who […] Read More Home-grown algae, biodegradable algae fishing nets, lab-grown lamb, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of June 3rd June 2, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy We’ve all seen the horrific photos of ocean trash, much of it consisting of plastic fishing nets, but now biodegradable fishing nets made from algae and other biobased materials are on the uptake. Speaking of algae, in Italy, home-grown algae is being encouraged so folks can both purify their air and provide food right from […] Read More Therm vs Ferm – Which has Bigger Returns? June 1, 2021 | Jim Lane In the battle between THERM vs FERM, today we look at a case study and what technology provides the best yields and returns given the economic conditions and prices of now. Gasify everything? Slice and dice the fractions? Targeted fermentation for high-value markets or “mass with gas” thermochemical approach to maximize carbon credits? In today’s […] Read More Biodiesel’s Impact on Public Health May 31, 2021 | Jim Lane By Floyd Vergara, Director of State Governmental Affairs, National Biodiesel Board Special to The Digest Since 2020, Americans have been hyper focused on their health and the air they breathe as a paralyzing pandemic swept across our country and many others. While the pandemic put us in a state of shut down, pushing us apart, […] Read More Getting hydrogen in airports – Who are the 11 H2 HUB Airport initiative winners making it happen? May 30, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy If you haven’t heard of the H2 HUB Airport initiative, there are some big names in the sustainable aviation industry who got together to launch this program and explore the opportunities offered by hydrogen and to boost air transport decarburization. We’re talkin’ Airbus, Air France-KLM, Groupe ADP, the Île-de-France Region and Choose Paris Region coming […] Read More 8-Slide Guides Biodiesel from stillage fiber: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Xylome June 2, 2021 | Jim Lane At the recent BETO peer review, Xylome shared this illuminating slide guide on making biodiesel precursors from dissolved organics and corn fiber present in grain ethanol stillage by engineering hyper-lipogenic strains of L. starkeyi to express and secrete cellulases and xylanases. See how they demonstrate fermentation with their top strain on stillage in a commercial […] Read More Microalgal Biofuel Intermediates Production: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Algal Biomass June 1, 2021 | Jim Lane MicroBio Engineering, heliae, Sandia National Labs and Cal Poly shared how they developed the capability for over 3,700 gal/ac-yrof biofuel intermediates through microalgal strain improvement, mixotrophic approaches and novel conversion technology, demonstrated annual productivity of improved strains, and more. Read More SAF Feedstock Availability: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Brazil May 31, 2021 | Jim Lane Addressing the challenges of sustainable aviation fuel feedstock availability in Brazil, RSB, in collaboration with Agroicone and the University of Campinas, published the outcomes of research into non-crop feedstock availability and potential in Brazil for the production of SAF. The development of this factsheet is supported by Boeing’s Global Engagement Portfolio, as part of the […] Read More Economical Cell-free Isobutanol Production: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Invizyne Technologies May 30, 2021 | Jim Lane Biomass derived sugars can be used by engineered microbes to make fuels and chemicals – but Invizyne is looking at alternative methods to improve cellulosic utilization and conversion. Check out their BETO presentation highlighting their tech that uses only enzymes (cell-free) instead of the whole microbes and how it can improve conversion – 20x higher […] Read More Biofuel Blendstocks: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Naphthenic Biofuel-Diesel May 27, 2021 | Jim Lane Biofuel blendstocks is what it’s all about for Dimitris Assanis from SUNY and Ofei Mante from RTI International. Check out their BETO presentation on bioblendstock oils rich in naphthenes produced using catalytic fast pyrolysis and hydrotreating pathway and evaluated for the first time as a blendstock fuel for engines currently running on No.2 diesel. Read More The Latest World News UrbanX Renewables executes front-end engineering contract for Bakerfield project June 2, 2021 | Meghan Sapp In California, UrbanX Renewables Group of Long Beach, CA, executed its front-end engineering design contract, an essential step for building the state’s first facility producing ultra-low carbon renewable diesel. The company will produce renewable diesel from vegetable oil, fats and waste cooking oils through a proprietary process. Its fuel performs better than traditional diesel and […] Read More Nordsol and DBG Bio Energy to collaborate on new Dutch bio-LNG installation June 2, 2021 | Meghan Sapp In the Netherlands, Nordsol and DBG Bio Energy B.V. have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a new bio-LNG installation in the Netherlands. The envisioned installation will be established and owned by DBG Bio Energy B.V. Nordsol will supply the bio-LNG installation and provide their expertise on bio-LNG permitting processes, the bio-LNG […] Read More California fleets achieved carbon negativity in 2020 thanks to bio-CNG June 2, 2021 | Meghan Sapp In California, Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) announced that California fleets fueled with bio-CNG achieved carbon-negativity for calendar year 2020. Ninety-two percent of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in California last year was renewable natural gas (RNG). According to data from the California […] Read More Malaysia postpones B20 in Sabah and the peninsula indefinitely June 2, 2021 | Meghan Sapp In Malaysia, The Edge Markets reports that the government has decided to delay yet again implementation of the B20 blending mandate in both Sabah and on the peninsula, this time without a new target date. The impacts of COVID-19 and the increase in cases was reported as the reason for the decision for further delays […] Read More Argentine bishops slam proposal to slash biofuel blending June 2, 2021 | Meghan Sapp In Argentina, the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA), an organism of the Catholic Church, indicated that the official biofuels proposal “implies a clear setback in Argentine environmental policy” because it reduces the use of biodiesel and bioethanol established in the current promotion regime. Through a...