Assessing Biotechnology Feasibility. As new and exciting biotechnologies continue to arrive in the marketplace, funding sources (investors, lenders, venture capitalists, etc.) continue to be faced with some difficult decisions. Those seeking funding seem to always…
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Biofuels from Waste
Producing biofuels from waste is now becoming more of a possibility. We note that in many of the earlier methods, it was simply not was not economically feasible to convert organic waste to fuel as…
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Biomass Technology Experts
Biomass Technology Experts. While there are many types of biomass conversion technologies, they are primarily divided into four major groups. The first group are thermal conversion technologies – those that use heat to convert biomass…
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Scale-Up of Emerging Biofuel Technologies
ScaleUp of Emerging Biofuels Technologies? INTRODUCTION: The continued interest in advanced biofuels has produced numerous exciting technical advances on the laboratory, pilot and demonstration scales. However, attempts to translate these small scale successes into commercial…
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Pyrolysis Oil – Commercial Markets are a Reality
Pyrolysis Oil – Commercial Markets are a Reality. Did you know that new commercial-scale pyrolysis oil plants have recently come into play? Did you know that customers are buying pyrolysis oil in Sweden, Finland, Netherlands…
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A Short History of Biofuels
Introduction History of biofuels? In the modern world, fuels are often equated with fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. However, fossil fuels only came into their own during the 20th century. From the time…
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Cellulosic Hydrolysis Reactors
Cellulosic Hydrolysis Reactors? Cellulosic materials, such as corn stover, cane, switchgrass, timber waste, municipal solid waste, etc., can be processed into fuels and renewable chemicals. Broadly speaking, there are two main methods: pyrolysis and hydrolysis….
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Expert Witnesses in Bioeconomy Litigation PPT
This is a good PowerPoint by Lee Enterprises Consulting CEO, Wayne Lee, about hiring an expert witness in biofuels, biochemicals, biomaterials, biotechnologies, feedstocks, and other specialty areas within the bioeconomy. This type of litigation might…
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PSM and RMP Compliance in Renewables
Renewable energy and biochemical consulting firms like Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc., have experts in Risk Management Compliance and Process Safety Management as well as other experts in biofuels/renewable fuels, biomaterials, biomass and biomass power, feedstocks, biotechnologies,…
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Biochar – The Science PPT
Good Powerpoint by Lee Enterprises Consulting expert, Hugh McLaughlin, Ph. D., PE,about the science, economic, uses and future of biochar.