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27 July 202123 July 2021

Analysis Shows Enzyme-Based Plastics Recycling Is More Energy Efficient, Better for Environment

BOTTLE Consortium Effort Develops Model That Finds Sizeable Energy and Carbon-Saving Benefits for Recycling PET, a Common Plastic Used in Bottles, Clothing, Carpet

28 June 202122 June 2021

Is It Starch or Cellulose? NREL Offers Answers That Could Unlock Incentives for Making Cellulosic Ethanol

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) offers a simple procedure for a complex analytical problem, an achievement that could help biorefineries expand production of low-carbon cellulosic ethanol

4 March 20212 March 2021

Groundbreaking Research into White-Rot Fungi Proves Its Value in Carbon Sequestration from Lignin

The researchers also highlight that this work is just the beginning of a broad area towards discovering new enzymes and pathways and better understanding carbon flux in these organisms

19 November 202017 November 2020

NREL recycles biorefinery waste streams to create high-value chemical products

Thermochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass is a promising route to produce renewable biofuels and oxygenated biochemicals while enabling the reuse, recovery, and recycling of materials containing carbon

29 October 202026 October 2020

Electrochaea gründet US-Tochtergesellschaft

Der Power-to-Methan-Spezialist und europäische Energie-Innovator Electrochaea gründet eine kalifornische Tochtergesellschaft zur Einführung seiner marktreifen Power-to-gas Technologie in Nordamerika. Ziel: Dekarbonisierung des US-Gasnetzes, Umstellung auf erneuerbare Kraftstoffe und Nutzung der bestehenden Gasnetz Struktur zu Transport und Speicherung von grünem Methangas für eine nachhaltige Energiewirtschaft.

European Energy Innovator Electrochaea Establishes California Subsidiary to Launch Its Clean Renewable Methane Technology in North America

The business development activities of the U.S. subsidiary will focus on development and execution of commercial opportunities and partnerships

9 October 20207 October 2020

Scientists Offer Companies a Novel Chemistry for Greener Polyurethane

Groundbreaking Formulation Enables Renewable, Nontoxic Polyurethane — a Potential Drop-In Solution for Companies’ Products

6 October 20206 October 2020

Multifunctional microbe simplifies processing of plant-derived fuels, chemicals

ORNL researchers got an organism to co-utilize multiple compounds in a single bioreactor, gaining a better understanding of how these different pathways interact

26 August 202021 August 2020

Why invest in Concentrating Solar Power?

As the market for utility scale storage accelerates in response to the increasing penetration of intermittent renewables (such as PV and wind), CSP will be increasingly recognised for its most important attribute: low cost thermal storage

19 August 202015 August 2020

Danimer Scientific Receives U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Support Bioplastic Production

Nearly $5.7 million in support to conduct research and development projects within the biomanufacturing industry

6 August 20203 August 2020

Agile BioFoundry Selects New Projects to Accelerate Biomanufacturing

Each of the ABF Directed Funding Opportunity awardees will be invited to collaborate with National Lab research facilities to conduct their proposed research

26 May 202025 May 2020

NREL Tool Quickly Provides Answers for Chemical Reactions

A new machine-learning tool developed at NREL has significantly speeded up calculating the thermodynamics of chemical reactions

28 April 202022 April 2020

BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment

Newly founded BOTTLE Consortium to develop new processes and polymeric materials that are recyclable-by-design

23 April 202020 April 2020

Research Team Engineers a Better Plastic-Degrading Enzyme

NREL-, University of Portsmouth-scientists discover enzyme which breaks down PET plastics in hours

16 April 20209 April 2020

Lignin Research Yields Additional Answers into Bacteria’s Role

Newly published research builds upon previous observations at NREL on the ability of 14 strains of bacteria to break down lignin oligomers and take advantage of those components

Die Lignin-Forschung liefert zusätzliche Antworten auf die Rolle der Bakterien

Neu veröffentlichte Forschung nimmt frühere Beobachtungen am NREL auf und berichtet über die Fähigkeit von 14 Bakterienstämmen, Lignin-Oligomere abzubauen und diese Komponenten zu nutzen

25 March 20202 November 2020

Department of Energy Announces $25 Million for Plastics Recycling R&D, Launches Upcycling Consortium

Department ’s Plastics Innovation Challenge is offering a comprehensive program to accelerate innovations in plastics recycling technologies

DOE offers $25 million for plastics recycling R&D

BETO issued a joint funding opportunity announcement on March titled “BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment.”

20 February 202017 February 2020

New Nanoparticle Can Turn Carbon Emissions Into Fuel, Sustainably

Californian researchers team has discovered a metal carbide nanoparticle that can convert CO₂ into fuel, and it can be produced sustainably at low temperature

5 December 20192 December 2019

DISCOVRing Algal Strains for Sustainable Biofuels

Consortium finds strain that has potential to contribute to productivity targets for open ponds

27 November 201922 November 2019

Power-to-Gas-Technologie: Weltweit größte biologische Power-to-Gas-Anlage speist Biomethan in dänisches Erdgasnetz ein

Gasqualität übersteigt die Anforderungen für Netzeinspeisung in Deutschland und Kalifornien

11 October 20198 October 2019

The Deployment of Carbon Capture and Utilisation Technologies Takes a Key Step Forward

International Effort Establishes Global Standards to Meet Tech’s Growth and Opportunity Across Sectors

28 August 201927 August 2019

SoCalGas and Electrochaea Announce Commissioning of New Biomethanation Reactor System Pilot Project

Innovative project with U.S. Department of Energy's NREL converts renewable electricity into renewable methane for storage in existing natural gas pipelines

23 August 201910 February 2020

Erstes US-Projekt für Electrochaea

Neue Power-To-Gas wird Anlage die erste in den USA sein, die grünes Methan aus Wasser, erneuerbarem Strom und CO₂ produziert

23 July 201921 July 2019

Yum, yum, CO2 in my tum – NovoNutrients moves forward with CO2 to fish feed plans

NovoNutrients is moving forward towards their goal of transforming industrial waste CO₂ into feed, initially for the fast-growing aquaculture sector

NovoNutrients gets $300K from DOE program for CO2 to feed technology

NovoNutrients will partner with the NREL to improve CFD models in order to identify efficient and productive bioreactor designs

3 July 20191 July 2019

Italian-U.S. partnership in the bioeconomy: RE-CORD and NREL signed a MoU

The agreement will constitute a framework for cooperation and coordination that will allow scientists and engineers from both parties to pursue common opportunities

10 May 201910 May 2019

Harnessing sunlight to pull hydrogen from wastewater

New Princeton University hydrogen production process attractive for refineries and chemical industry

12 March 20196 March 2019

NREL Pioneers Cleaner Route to Upcycle Plastics into Superior Products

Researchers chemically combined reclaimed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic with bio-based compounds to produce higher-value fiber-reinforced plastics

6 December 20183 December 2018

Algae Testbed Experiment Yields Data Useful for Future Projects

Researchers established identical raceway-style ponds in five outdoor locations to cultivate and harvest three strains of algae during the four seasons

23 November 201821 November 2018

NREL: Nitrilation Process Produces Acrylonitrile, Attention, and Awards

Interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers across chemical engineering, biology, and computational modeling led to award-winning research about the nitrilation process

23 October 201822 October 2018

The 40 Hottest Technologies of 2018 – as voting gets underway, the nominees in depth

All through this month, Digest subscribers have been voting on the 40 Hottest Transformative Technologies in the Advanced Bioeconomy

31 July 201815 October 2018

Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF) – The Rising Star Amongst Today’s Bioplastics

Next-gen polymer is renewable, non-toxic and a recyclable alternate with similar properties

Researchers Discover New Enzyme Paradigm for Critical Reaction in Converting Lignin to Useful Products

New finding will help convert lignin to useful products

4 May 20182 May 2018

Solution to plastic pollution on the horizon

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottle

18 April 201817 April 2018

Engineering a unique plastic-degrading enzyme

Solution to plastic pollution on the horizon: Newly evolved enzyme could be the key to tackling the worldwide problem of plastic waste

17 April 201817 April 2018

Engineering eines kunststofffressenden Enzyms

Entdeckung könnte zu einer Recycling-Lösung für Millionen Tonnen von Plastikflaschen führen

8 March 20188 September 2018

Auf der Suche nach dem biobasierten heiligen Gral – ist das Ergebnis in Europa das gleiche wie in den USA?

Die US-Regierung und die EU versuchen vorherzusagen, welches die vielversprechendste biobasierte Chemikalie ist

26 February 201820 February 2018

NREL Scientists Model Methane-Eating Bacteria

Nature is full of surprises – not to mention solutions

23 January 201817 January 2018

Bio-Based Compound Offers a Greener Carbon Fiber Alternative

Stampede1 helps researchers elucidate the chemistry of renewable acrylonitrile production

9 January 201826 February 2018

Batteries can’t solve the world’s biggest energy-storage problem. One startup has a solution

Electrochaea’s process could be an answer to one of the biggest problems of the 21st century

21 December 201719 December 2017

NREL Develops Novel Method to Produce Renewable Acrylonitrile

Research paves the way for cost-competitive, sustainable acrylonitrile and carbon fibers from renewable biomass

28 September 201718 September 2017

Depolymerizing that dang lignin: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to biochemical lignin deconstruction

Lignin valorization is key for meeting the DOE’s hydrocarbon fuel cost and sustainability targets in integrated biorefineries

21 September 201712 September 2017

Targeted Microbial Development: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to biological upgrading of biomass sugars

A NREL-led research team is investigating the engineering of Zymomonasfor 2,3 butanediol production

6 July 201729 June 2017

Capturing CO2: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Algae-based CO2 sequestration

A selection of key slides on Carbon Capture and Sequestion with relation to algae-based technologies

29 June 201727 June 2017

This Startup Wants To Turn America’s Yard Waste Into A Petroleum Substitute

Alliance Bio-Products plans to open a new plant that will turn yard waste into a replacement for petroleum

13 January 201711 January 2017

Researchers Learn How a Bacterium Reduces CO2 in Biofuel Production

Findings identified a new metabolic route previously unknown to the scientific community

18 November 201618 November 2016

Who’s got hot lignin? The Digest’s 2016 Guide to lignin production and prospects

Compendium of suppliers to produce and sell cellulosic sugar and/or lignin for use by the research community

9 November 20168 November 2016

NREL Researchers Discover How a Bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum, Utilizes both CO2 and Cellulose to Make Biofuels

Clostridium thermocellum is among the most efficient bacteria in directly converting cellulosic materials into hydrogen and hydrocarbons biofuels

3 November 201631 October 2016

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