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Financing: A Guide for the Biofuel Entrepreneurs & Early-Stage Investor
By Dr. Gerald Kutney When you first talk with an early-stage technology biofuel entrepreneur or project promoter, the first thing that you hear about their...
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Extraction of Valuable Oils from Algae and Other Plants: Challenges, Oppportunities & Commercial Landscape
By Brian Goodall, PhD This is the first in a 8-part series of articles — the State of the Advanced Bioeconomy 2018 Extracting vegetable oils...
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Case Study: 1 MW to 3 MW Anaerobic Digester Upgrade in Only 6 Months!
By John D. Forcier, P.E. This is the second in the 8-part series, State of the Advanced Bioeconomy 2018, prepared by experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting...
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Advanced Biofuels. Now? Later? Never?
By Terry J. Mazanec, PhD Advanced Biofuels. Now? Later? Never? Biofuels are not new, of course. Our earliest ancestors mastered fire in prehistoric times, and...
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Innovators Dilemma Revisited in Renewable Chemicals and Materials
By Daniel Lane and Joel Stone. Daniel had an interesting discussion recently with his 8-year old son, in which he inadvertently recalled the history of...
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10 Years After: Advanced Biofuels’ Status, Opportunities and Challenges
By Lorenz Bauer, Ph.D. This is the sixth in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be...
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Natural Rubber: Viable Industrial Bioeconomy Crop, It’s Going to Be Big
By Katrina Cornish & Corinne Young This is the sixth in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will...
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That Was Then. This is Now. The New Economics of Biogas Projects.
By Scott Warfield This is the seventh in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be speaking...
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Hydrothermal Upgrading
What is hydrothermal upgrading? Water above 100 °C changes from a liquid phase to a gas phase. One can change the temperature boundary by changing...
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Biorefineries: Our Synthetic Biology Future
By Bob Kodrzycki, PhD This is the eighth in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be...
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More Rubber Extraction Refineries Coming?
Are more rubber extraction refineries in our future? In 2004, the History Channel broadcast a Modern Marvels Special on Natural Rubber. My favorite quote from...
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Equipment Requirements to Study Mixing of Fibrous Materials
by Gregory T. Benz Introduction There are many sources of organic fibers that can be used as feedstock for biofuels and renewable chemicals. The author...
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Circular Economy and Waste Conversion
The circular economy model aims to reduce waste and promote the reuse and recycling of resources. In 2023, there will be a growing interest in...
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Perspectives on Waste-to-Energy Technologies
Waste to Energy Technologies By Zoltan Kish, Ph.D. Introduction Reducing the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is one of the greatest environmental...
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Renewable Jet Fuel: Why Everything Is So Up In The Air, A View from the Cockpit
Renewable Jet Fuel? Having flown the “heavy iron” for more than thirty (30) years, I can state with full confidence that there are only three...
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Hot Prospects for Chemicals from Biomass
Chemicals from Biomass? A major theme of 21st Century industrial development will be replacement of fossil resources by renewable resources in the production of fuels...