By Tim Obitts, CEO & Dr. Derek Vardon, CTO, Alder Renewables Special to The Digest Tl;dr: Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced from miscanthus Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 110% compared to conventional fossil jet fuel.* A purpose-grown energy crop, miscanthus can store roughly half of the carbon it removes from […]
By Matt Sherick, Pilot Plant Engineer & Dr. Derek Vardon, Chief Technology Officer Special to The Digest This week, Alder reached a key milestone in the scale-up of Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) production by commissioning a pilot skid at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Alder’s proprietary technology fractionates fast pyrolysis oil into energy-dense, low-carbon to carbon-negative ARC that can […]
By Derek Vardon,Chief Technology Officer & Bruno Miller, Chief Project Officer, Alder Fuels Special to The Digest Today, we are providing a high-level technical analysis of what we are calling Alder SAF100, a new and 100% sustainable replacement for petroleum-based jet fuel. To demonstrate the viability of reaching that crucial 100% non-fossil production objective, Alder SAF100 […]
The Digest received the following statement from Alder Fuels on the company’s current status and direction for the near future, which we have decided to share in its entirety and without editing or comment at this time. Building on our recent announcements regarding the appointment of Tim Obitts as Acting CEO of Alder Fuels and […]
In Washington, the Board of Alder Fuels has appointed Tim Obitts as Acting CEO of Alder Fuels. Bryan Sherbacow’s final day as CEO and President of Alder Fuels was December 27th, 2022. With the help of the senior team at Alder, Tim will help steer the company through this next chapter. Xavier Adserà, Non-Executive Chairman, […]
In this connected presentation set, Alder Fuels CEO Bryan Sherbacow, and in a later and related presentation, VP Nancy Young, took the ABLC Next 2022 stage in San Francisco to outline the company’s milestones, technology, financial estimates, policy asks, its portfolio of SAF/RD projects, and the company’s expanding technology sets as it announced a partnership […]
In the UK, as part of its goal to unleash production of 1 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel, Alder Fuels has selected BTG Bioliquids to be part of the first Alder Greencrude (AGC) processing facility in the United States Southeast. The initial step in the fuel production process is the conversion of sustainable biomass […]
In the UK, Rolls-Royce has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Alder Fuels, a clean tech developer and greencrude producer to further test Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as it makes the critical next step on its journey to commercial scalability. The SAF, which has been produced based on Alder Fuels’ proprietary greencrude technology, is […]
The race is on. It was a race to lower carbon aviation. Now it is a race for Net Zero. Ultimately, as we have tipped, it will become a race for carbon negative aviation because only when a jet becomes a Hoover in the skies, reducing carbon with every flight, will airlines and travelers be […]
We’ll keep warning the industries of the bioeconomy until we get the message through so clearly that no one is left in any doubt: The grand journey, the quest for sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials, will utterly fail if the industry does not work harder to address its Achilles Heel, which is biomass itself. Not the […]
