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31 January 202330 January 2023

Scientists Unveil Least Costly Carbon Capture System to Date

PNNL scientists carve a path to profit from carbon capture through carbon upcycling, unlock crucial step in decarbonization and advancing toward net zero emissions

22 July 202218 July 2022

Jim Hurt commentary: Can Gov. Scott and VT Climate Council go around the court’s crazy EPA ruling?

The missing ingredient that Gov. Scott and Vermont utilities can bring to the table is a profitable plan for CO2 removal which can be reused to make synthetic fuels and other products

22 June 202215 June 2022

Biobased monopropylene glycol: The bumpy road to a decarbonised world

In the mid 2000s a PNNL researchers team discovered a metal catalyst with a soluble base co-catalyst, which converted plant-based, seed-oil-derived glycerol and plant sugar alcohols into MPG

7 June 20224 June 2022

New artificial enzyme breaks down tough lignin

Researchers from WSU and PNNL showed that their artificial enzyme succeeded in digesting lignin, which has stubbornly resisted previous attempts to develop it into an economically useful energy source

6 May 20224 May 2022

Lignin-based jet fuel packs more power for less pollution

In a study published in the journal Fuel, researchers analyzed a Washington State University-developed jet fuel based on lignin, an organic polymer that makes plants tough and woody

16 November 202112 November 2021

SAS, Vattenfall, Shell and LanzaTech to explore synthetic sustainable aviation fuel production

"This initiative shows the potential of cross industry partnerships to drive the decarbonization of a hard-to-abate sector" says Anna Borg

10 November 20217 November 2021

First of a Kind Bagasse to Ethanol Project in India

LanzaTech teams with Indian engineers to develop bagasse-based ethanol

20 October 202119 October 2021

US Secretary of Energy Granholm and US Senator Ossoff Visit LanzaTech Innovation Hub in Georgia and Site of the World’s First LanzaJet Sustainable Fuels Plant

Visit highlights the potential of rural America to create domestic supplies of sustainable fuels and chemicals

10 September 20219 September 2021

Making Methane from CO2: Carbon Capture Grows More Affordable

Methane made from CO2 and renewable hydrogen offers a new path toward cheaper carbon capture

29 June 202124 June 2021

LanzaTech Part of South Wales Industrial Decarbonisation Project

Proposed facility will yield around 100 million litres per annum of ATJ Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (ATJ-SPK) to build out the entire supply chain from feedstock to wing

4 March 20219 September 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

6 October 20209 September 2021

Not Your Average Refinery

Review led by PNNL researchers offers a vision of sustainable energy production through electrochemical reduction

18 September 202016 September 2020

A new method for making a key component of plastics

Bacteria create ethylene in a tech-friendly way

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

5 August 20201 August 2020

TechnipFMC’s Hummingbird® Ethylene Technology Selected by LanzaTech for LanzaJet Sustainable Aviation Fuel Biorefinery

New, sustainable technologies will be deployed in a LanzaJet first commercial demonstration scale integrated biorefinery to produce 10 million gallons per year of SAF and renewable diesel from sustainable ethanol sources

27 July 202023 July 2020

Tiny Little Shrimp Could Spark Huge Energy Storage Breakthrough

Shrimp (May) Be The Key to Energy Storage That Flows

16 June 202012 June 2020

LanzaJet Takes Off!

Innovative Sustainable Fuel Technology and Investment Structure to Accelerate Commercialization, Regional Job Growth, and Carbon reduction

DEM-COM: LanzaJet takes off on non-stop flight to scale

New LanzaTech spin-off launched with investments from Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co. about $15 million and $10 million, respectively, to establish the new venture

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

11 December 20199 September 2021

An exclusive interview with Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech: “We need to take more risks and move more quickly”

In this exclusive interview, Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, talks to Il Bioeconomista about the climate crisis and the ‘carbonsmart’ revolution

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

3 December 20199 September 2021

SoCalGas and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Announce U.S. Department of Energy Funding of Carbon Capture Project

Companies collaboration aims to advance the development of a process called Integrated CO₂ Capture and Conversion to Methanol (ICCCM)

27 November 20199 September 2021

LanzaTech Moves Forward on Sustainable Aviation Scale Up in the USA and Japan

LanzaTech’s process can use any source of sustainable ethanol for jet fuel production, including ethanol made from recycled pollution

12 November 20197 November 2019

Naturally! Of course. How nature never stops surprising us

Nature is not a passive object. It can resist our manipulations. New findings launched by Alle Bruggink and Diederik van der Hoeven

1 October 201926 September 2019

PNNL/INL team assesses costs and GHG LCA for converting biomass to drop-in fuels via fast pyrolysis and upgrading

They found that for all eleven feedstocks, the largest cost contribution to minimum fuel selling price is capital-related costs, which is approximately 30%–40% of the MFSP

28 May 20199 September 2021

LanzaTech aims to fuel jets and make consumer goods from recycled carbon pollution

Consumers soon could be taking flights powered by recycled carbon pollution and wearing sneakers synthesized from planet-warming waste gas

8 January 201920 December 2018

UC San Diego Awarded $2 Million to Advance Algae-based Renewable Polymers

Department of Energy funds ‘bio-economy’ project for novel manufacturing of algae-based biopolymers

17 October 201816 October 2018

Redesigning poplar trees to take the drought … and the salt and the heat

Improving poplar biomass production under stress conditions

11 October 201810 October 2018

PNNL and LanzaTech team to make new jet fuel

Virgin Atlantic to fly first commercial flight on recycled waste gas

12 July 201810 July 2018

UK Government Grant to Develop World First Waste Carbon to Jet Fuel Project

Successful bid in Future Fuels for Flight and Freight competition

5 July 20183 July 2018

EERE Success Story — From Breakfast to Biocrude: Study Identifies Production Potential across Nation

To shed light on this uncertainty, a team of researchers performed a detailed analysis of these wastes’ potential for biofuel production

23 January 201820 January 2018

EERE Success Story: Archer Daniels Midland Partners with PNNL to Become a Leading Producer of Biobased Propylene Glycol

Manufacturing plant in Decatur, Illinois, employs 140 people and can produce 100,000 metric tons of PG from renewable sources per year

11 October 201711 October 2017

Top 10 wood waste projects – Not letting waste go to waste

All around the world scientist's projects are taking the leftovers and turning them into something valuable

28 September 20179 September 2021

Scientists show how to control catalyst that turns a greenhouse gas into a fuel or feedstock

The Pivotal Step in Turning Carbon Dioxide

27 September 20179 September 2021

It’s Definitely Possible to Turn Greenhouse Gases into Fuel Feedstock

PNNL researchers figured out a way to make sure that converting CO₂ would only produce the desired chemical

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

5 July 20173 July 2017

TU Munich: Bio-fuel from waste

Zeolite catalysts pave the road to decentral chemical processes

TU München: Biosprit aus Abfällen

Zeolith-Katalysatoren ebnen den Weg für dezentrale chemische Prozesse

16 June 201713 June 2017

Fungal Enzymes Team Up to More Efficiently Break Down Cellulose

Collaborative science initiative enables resolution of fungal protein complexes

21 April 201718 April 2017

From moo to goo: Cooperating microbes convert methane to alternative fuel source

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new system to convert methane into a deep green, energy-rich, gelatin-like substance

28 March 201726 March 2017

New way to characterize cellulose, advance bioproducts

WSU researchers revealed discovery that provides further insight into the surface and bulk chemistry of cellulosic fibers

19 January 201716 January 2017

LanzaTech Awarded $4M from DOE for Low Carbon Jet & Diesel Demonstration Facility

LanzaTech is currently building its first commercial ethanol facilities using waste gases

20 September 20169 September 2021

Low Carbon Fuel Project Achieves Breakthrough as LanzaTech Produces Jet Fuel from Waste Gases for Virgin Atlantic

World’s first jet fuel derived from waste industrial gases from steel mills via a fermentation process

14 September 201612 September 2016

New genus of bacteria found living inside hydraulic fracturing wells

“Frackibacter” one of dozens of microbes forming sustainable ecosystems there, study finds

12 September 20169 September 2016

Have biomaterials reached a tipping point?

Bioplastics make less than 1 percent of the 181 million metric tons of synthetic plastics produced worldwide each year, according to Duke University

9 August 20168 August 2016

Fast-growth cyanobacteria have allure for biofuel, chemical production

When the going gets tough, the tough get growing

19 July 201618 July 2016

Future Bioeconomy Supported by More Than One Billion Tons of Biomass Potential

United States could produce enough biomass to support a bioeconomy, including renewable aquatic and terrestrial biomass resources

17 June 201615 June 2016

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