{"id":27182,"date":"2015-07-23T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBiotechNow%2F%7E3%2FApku3gdHUUo%2Fbiology-catalysts-electrocatalysis-oh-my"},"modified":"2015-07-22T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:01:14","slug":"biology-catalysts-electrocatalysis-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biology-catalysts-electrocatalysis-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology, Catalysts, Electrocatalysis, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Monday, July 20, 2015, BIO held a breakout session titled <i>Biology, Catalysts, Electrocatalysis, Oh My: Status Check on \u201cThe Many Ways to Make Bioproducts\u201d<\/i> as part of the Renewable Chemicals Track. This session was moderated by Jim Lane, Editor &amp; Publisher, <i>Biofuels Digest. <\/i>Panelists included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jay Kouba, Trelys<\/li>\n<li>Dave Law, <a href=\"http:\/\/llchemical.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Liquid Light<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mark Herrema, <a href=\"http:\/\/newlight.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Newlight Technologies\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Timothy Cesarek, <a href=\"http:\/\/enerkem.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Enerkem, Inc\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biotech-now.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bio-world-congress-renewable-chemicals-panel.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biotech-now.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bio-world-congress-renewable-chemicals-panel.jpg\" alt=\"BIO World Congress Panel, Renewable Chemicals Track\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The industrial biotechnology company Trelys is focused on gas as a feedstock for biological conversions. Jay Kouba argued that we are\u00a0over-utilizing\u00a0agriculture and\u00a0underutilizing natural gas resources.\u00a0Trelys\u2019 technology converts\u00a0hydrogen and carbon dioxide into a set of valuable products, especially feed products. He argued that the market demand for industrial hydrogen is quickly growing. Trelys\u2019 technology complements corn with amino acids which costs less than the alternative soy meal and can still be nutritionally\u00a0equivalent and better for the environment. The emerging application is great for such industries as aquaculture. According to Kouba, fish food is made out of fish product, which essentially means we are stripping a valuable resource (fish) from our oceans for feed. We are focusing on\u00a0underutilized and growing industrial hydrogen feedstock; Strong IP; methanogen conversations with broad product reach.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid Light makes everyday\u00a0products with CO<sub>2<\/sub>: the\u00a0lowest-cost carbon feedstock. Dave Law opened by commenting on his company\u2019s technology. Liquid Light captures carbon dioxide from industrial sources and then converts it into chemicals for the use in everyday products. He argued that it is a huge market, with strong intellectual property, and it\u2019s a process that costs less and reduces the carbon footprint. Liquid Light is entering the market of ethylene\u00a0glycol (large market) and speciality chemicals. Carbon Dioxide electrochemistry is Liquid Lights\u2019s Core Technology, according to Law. Electrocatalytic breakthroughs offer\u00a0disruptive technology to\u00a0harness carbon dioxide economically for multiple chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Law concluded his remarks by announcing that as of today his company signed a technology development agreement with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coca-colacompany.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The Coca-Cola Company<\/a>. The objective of the agreement is to accelerate the development of Liquid Light\u2019s technology which can make mono-ethylene glycol(MEG) from carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>). Liquid Light\u2019s approach enables more efficient use of plant material to make MEG. For example, a bio-ethanol production facility could make bio-MEG from the CO<sub>2\u00a0<\/sub>byproduct that results from converting plant material into ethanol. The technology has the potential to reduce both the environmental footprint and the cost of producing MEG. MEG is one of the components used to make The Coca-Cola Company\u2019s plant-based PET plastic bottle. Their release can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/llchemical.com\/news\/liquid-light-signs-agreement-further-advance-its-cosub2sub-chemicals-technology\" rel=\"noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Founder and CEO of Newlight, Mark Herrema, spoke about how his company was inspired by carbon-capturing processes in nature to turn carbon dioxide into plastic. Newlight has developed, patented, and commercialized a carbon capture technology that combines\u00a0air with\u00a0methane emissions to produce a plastic material called AirCarbon\u2122. By weight, in its most basic form, AirCarbon\u2122 \u00a0is approximately 40% oxygen from air and 60% carbon and hydrogen from captured carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=An25KW3VeZs\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Watch this video on Newlight\u2019s technology behind AirCarbon\u2122.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AirCarbon\u2122 is able to meet the performance requirements of a wide range of applications, including applications currently using fossil fuel-based polypropylene, polyethylene, ABS, polystyrene, and TPU. AirCarbon\u2122 can be used in extrusion, blown film, cast film, thermoforming, fiber spinning, and injection molding application<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNewlight\u2019s mission is to reduce cost for resin manufacturers, brands, converters, and consumers; replace oil with greenhouse gas; and transform the role of plastics.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0Herrema<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herrema concluded by commenting on where his company is today \u2013 Commercial scale production in California; Using 9X yield in economics; and The company is launching product lines with such Fortune 500s and market segment leaders as KI, Virgin, Dell, and The Body Shop.<\/p>\n<p>Enerkem, Inc. is in the business of turning MSW (garbage) into ethanol and\u00a0methanol. The company started in 2000 and now has 200\u00a0employees based in Montreal. It\u2019s first commercial plant is in Edmonton, Alberta. Senior Vice President of Business\u00a0Development, Timothy Cesarek provided on overview of his company\u2019s technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biotech-now.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/biowc-track6-session3-slide.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biotech-now.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/biowc-track6-session3-slide.jpg\" alt=\"Bio World Congress Slide\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0argued that what is critical in\u00a0the waste industry is the ability to handle\u00a0multiple\u00a0types of feedstocks. There is\u00a01.3 billion metric tons of garbage in the world and\u00a0420 million tons of MSW.\u00a0Cesarean noted that this amount\u00a0would\u00a0be suitable as a feedstock which measures out to\u00a042 billion gallons of ethanol<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, July 20, 2015, BIO held a breakout session titled Biology, Catalysts, Electrocatalysis, O&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2194,1245,2301,6682,3929,10324],"class_list":["post-27182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-biotechnology-innovation-organization-bio","supplier-coca-cola-co","supplier-enerkem-inc","supplier-liquid-light","supplier-newlight-technologies-llc","supplier-trelys-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27182"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=27182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}