31 January 202330 January 2023Scientists Unveil Least Costly Carbon Capture System to DatePNNL 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 2022Jim 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 2022Biobased monopropylene glycol: The bumpy road to a decarbonised worldIn 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 2022New artificial enzyme breaks down tough ligninResearchers 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 2022Lignin-based jet fuel packs more power for less pollutionIn 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 2021SAS, 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 2021First of a Kind Bagasse to Ethanol Project in IndiaLanzaTech teams with Indian engineers to develop bagasse-based ethanol
20 October 202119 October 2021US Secretary of Energy Granholm and US Senator Ossoff Visit LanzaTech Innovation Hub in Georgia and Site of the World’s First LanzaJet Sustainable Fuels PlantVisit highlights the potential of rural America to create domestic supplies of sustainable fuels and chemicals
10 September 20219 September 2021Making Methane from CO2: Carbon Capture Grows More AffordableMethane made from CO2 and renewable hydrogen offers a new path toward cheaper carbon capture
29 June 202124 June 2021LanzaTech Part of South Wales Industrial Decarbonisation ProjectProposed 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 2021Groundbreaking Research into White-Rot Fungi Proves Its Value in Carbon Sequestration from LigninThe 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 2021Not Your Average RefineryReview led by PNNL researchers offers a vision of sustainable energy production through electrochemical reduction
18 September 202016 September 2020A new method for making a key component of plasticsBacteria create ethylene in a tech-friendly way
19 August 202015 August 2020Danimer Scientific Receives U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Support Bioplastic ProductionNearly $5.7 million in support to conduct research and development projects within the biomanufacturing industry
6 August 20203 August 2020Agile BioFoundry Selects New Projects to Accelerate BiomanufacturingEach 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 2020TechnipFMC’s Hummingbird® Ethylene Technology Selected by LanzaTech for LanzaJet Sustainable Aviation Fuel BiorefineryNew, 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 2020Tiny Little Shrimp Could Spark Huge Energy Storage BreakthroughShrimp (May) Be The Key to Energy Storage That Flows
16 June 202012 June 2020LanzaJet 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 scaleNew 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 2020Lignin Research Yields Additional Answers into Bacteria’s RoleNewly 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 BakterienNeu 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 2021An 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 2019DISCOVRing Algal Strains for Sustainable BiofuelsConsortium finds strain that has potential to contribute to productivity targets for open ponds
3 December 20199 September 2021SoCalGas and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Announce U.S. Department of Energy Funding of Carbon Capture ProjectCompanies collaboration aims to advance the development of a process called Integrated CO2 Capture and Conversion to Methanol (ICCCM)
27 November 20199 September 2021LanzaTech Moves Forward on Sustainable Aviation Scale Up in the USA and JapanLanzaTech’s process can use any source of sustainable ethanol for jet fuel production, including ethanol made from recycled pollution
12 November 20197 November 2019Naturally! Of course. How nature never stops surprising usNature 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 2019PNNL/INL team assesses costs and GHG LCA for converting biomass to drop-in fuels via fast pyrolysis and upgradingThey 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 2021LanzaTech aims to fuel jets and make consumer goods from recycled carbon pollutionConsumers soon could be taking flights powered by recycled carbon pollution and wearing sneakers synthesized from planet-warming waste gas
8 January 201920 December 2018UC San Diego Awarded $2 Million to Advance Algae-based Renewable PolymersDepartment of Energy funds ‘bio-economy’ project for novel manufacturing of algae-based biopolymers
17 October 201816 October 2018Redesigning poplar trees to take the drought … and the salt and the heatImproving poplar biomass production under stress conditions
11 October 201810 October 2018PNNL and LanzaTech team to make new jet fuelVirgin Atlantic to fly first commercial flight on recycled waste gas
12 July 201810 July 2018UK Government Grant to Develop World First Waste Carbon to Jet Fuel ProjectSuccessful bid in Future Fuels for Flight and Freight competition
5 July 20183 July 2018EERE Success Story — From Breakfast to Biocrude: Study Identifies Production Potential across NationTo shed light on this uncertainty, a team of researchers performed a detailed analysis of these wastes’ potential for biofuel production
23 January 201820 January 2018EERE Success Story: Archer Daniels Midland Partners with PNNL to Become a Leading Producer of Biobased Propylene GlycolManufacturing 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 2017Top 10 wood waste projects – Not letting waste go to wasteAll around the world scientist's projects are taking the leftovers and turning them into something valuable
28 September 20179 September 2021Scientists show how to control catalyst that turns a greenhouse gas into a fuel or feedstockThe Pivotal Step in Turning Carbon Dioxide
27 September 20179 September 2021It’s Definitely Possible to Turn Greenhouse Gases into Fuel FeedstockPNNL researchers figured out a way to make sure that converting CO2 would only produce the desired chemical
6 July 201729 June 2017Capturing CO2: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Algae-based CO2 sequestrationA selection of key slides on Carbon Capture and Sequestion with relation to algae-based technologies
5 July 20173 July 2017TU Munich: Bio-fuel from wasteZeolite catalysts pave the road to decentral chemical processes
TU München: Biosprit aus AbfällenZeolith-Katalysatoren ebnen den Weg für dezentrale chemische Prozesse
16 June 201713 June 2017Fungal Enzymes Team Up to More Efficiently Break Down CelluloseCollaborative science initiative enables resolution of fungal protein complexes
21 April 201718 April 2017From moo to goo: Cooperating microbes convert methane to alternative fuel sourceScientists 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 2017New way to characterize cellulose, advance bioproductsWSU researchers revealed discovery that provides further insight into the surface and bulk chemistry of cellulosic fibers
19 January 201716 January 2017LanzaTech Awarded $4M from DOE for Low Carbon Jet & Diesel Demonstration FacilityLanzaTech is currently building its first commercial ethanol facilities using waste gases
20 September 20169 September 2021Low Carbon Fuel Project Achieves Breakthrough as LanzaTech Produces Jet Fuel from Waste Gases for Virgin AtlanticWorld’s first jet fuel derived from waste industrial gases from steel mills via a fermentation process
14 September 201612 September 2016New 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 2016Have 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 2016Fast-growth cyanobacteria have allure for biofuel, chemical productionWhen the going gets tough, the tough get growing
19 July 201618 July 2016Future Bioeconomy Supported by More Than One Billion Tons of Biomass PotentialUnited States could produce enough biomass to support a bioeconomy, including renewable aquatic and terrestrial biomass resources
17 June 201615 June 2016Chemists settle longstanding debate on how methane is made biologicallyUnderstanding how microbes generate methane might help scientists find ways to control pollution or make fuels