Researchers have targeted the use of catalytic methods to reduce CO2 to single carbon intermediates, then to follow with biological up-conversion to multi-carbon compounds. In this project, Montana State researchers developed electrochemical reactor components with laterally graded pore structure to aid in reaction distribution when the reactor is scaled-up. Project partners integrated these components into ..read more

In California, Aemetis Biogas has completed initial construction of a multi-dairy anaerobic digester to process waste from approximately 14,000 dairy cows in Merced County, California. The multi-dairy digester is expected to begin operations by year-end 2024 and produce more than 200,000 MMBtu per year of renewable natural gas (RNG). The digester is designed to collect ..read more

In Australia, GreenHy2 Limited has signed a Federal Government Grant to provide our Hy2MEDI generation and storage system to Telstra. The system valued at A$1.5M will be funded by the Australian Government, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communication and the Arts from the Telecommunications Disaster Resilience Innovation (TDRI) Program, Power Resilience Round. GreenHy2 submitted ..read more

In Norway, Solstad have recently bunkered about 500 m³ of certified renewable biodiesel (HVO) on the AHTS Normand Prosper in Mandal, Southern Norway. After bunkering, Normand Prosper installed the mooring spread for a semisubmersible drilling unit in the Norwegian Sea. Eco-1 Bioenergi AS is the company sourcing the renewable biodiesel and who facilitated the bunkering ..read more

In the Netherlands, Argent Energy officially launched Europe’s largest facility dedicated to producing bio-based, technical-grade glycerine at its Port of Amsterdam site. The state-of-the-art refinery will upgrade crude glycerine, a by-product of Argent’s waste-based biodiesel process, into 99.7% pure technical-grade glycerine.  This development, set to produce 50,000 tons of bio-based glycerine, provides chemical producers, for ..read more

In Spain, Ence Biogas expects to reach a biomethane production of 1TWh in 2030 working with agricultural biomass, livestock and agri-food industry. For its part, the company expects to close this year 2024 reached 14 projects in environmental processing mainly in Castilla y León, Aragon, Catalonia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. This was announced by the ..read more

In North Carolina, BASF has launched xarvio BIOENERGY, an innovative low carbon intensity crops program that lowers, tracks and documents CI levels in corn grown for ethanol biofuel production in the U.S. xarvio BIOENERGY offers the biofuel production supply chain – growers, retail agronomists and biorefineries – a quality assured and complete, end-to-end solution. It ..read more

In Brazil, a multi-country, government-led initiative dedicated to advancing the global transition to a sustainable, bio-based economy, unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world. The launch of the International Feedstocks data portal was announced by the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Platform Initiative at an ..read more

In the UK, new research has found methane emissions from slurry stores on dairy farms may be up to five times greater than official statistics suggest – and highlights the huge potential for turning them into a renewable energy source. The study shows that if captured and turned into biogas, emitted methane could be worth more ..read more

CO2 Electrolysis + Gas Fermentation: a CO2 to Chemicals Platform, that’s the goal of this Argonne National Lab, LanzaTech and Dioxide Materials, project. It aims for room Temperature CO2 electrolysis (Anion Exchange Membrane based technology), and gas fermentation yield improvement through process development, metabolic engineering and arginine supplementation. Researchers have found that gas fermentation can ..read more