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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass Feedstock National User Facility Capabilities for MSW to SAF

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass Feedstock National User Facility Capabilities for MSW to SAF

February 21, 2024 |

The Biomass Feedstock National User Facility (BFNUF) offers technology and expertise to help the U.S. bioenergy industry overcome biomass challenges during scale up and integration of biomass preprocessing facilities. The BFNUF is a congressionally designated, national asset designed to help de-risk the scale up of bioeconomy. A reconfigurable preprocessing testbed that is utilized by both […]

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Greenhill Energy launches plan for $285M MSW and biomass-based biorefinery

Greenhill Energy launches plan for $285M MSW and biomass-based biorefinery

December 18, 2023 |

In Australia, Greenhill Energy has launched their A$425 million plans to build Australia’s first full integrated processing facility to convert landfill waste and sustainable biomass into high value products such as fertilizers and synthetic fuels, and into low-cost clean hydrogen for use in emission free power and transport. Following recent positive trials and ongoing research […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to converting MSW into SAF without wasting a drop of water

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to converting MSW into SAF without wasting a drop of water

November 26, 2023 |

Wastewater/water island costs are up to 2-8% of the overall CapEx of bioeconomy projects. Plus, Long design studies are necessary to optimize the total cost of both investment and operations. New strategies from Aquatech are addressing these challenges. Aquatech is a global leader in water purification technology for industrial and infrastructure markets with a focus […]

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Variodin teams with Belize to invest $50M in sargassum-MSW biofuel project

Variodin teams with Belize to invest $50M in sargassum-MSW biofuel project

October 12, 2023 |

In Belize, Reuters reports the country will together with German company Variodin will invest $50 million to produce biofuels from sargassum seaweed that is clogging up Caribbean beaches together with municipal solid waste. With more financing, the project could be scaled up further to export electricity to the national grid through a Power Purchase Agreement. […]

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Four-year Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking project kicks off to valorize OFMSW

Four-year Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking project kicks off to valorize OFMSW

August 17, 2023 |

In Belgium, the first phase of the four-year Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) Project LUCRA kicked-off in Ghent, Belgium in July. LUCRA aims to demonstrate a unique process to convert underutilized organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and wood waste into bio-based succinic acid. The project is set to provide the bio-based […]

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Astra Energy California teams with Phambili to produce SAF from MSW

Astra Energy California teams with Phambili to produce SAF from MSW

June 15, 2023 |

In California, Astra Energy California Inc. has finalized an agreement with Phambili, USA who solidifies municipal solid waste and organic waste processing to a non-waste material and refinement to valuable market commodities, such as sustainable aviation fuel. The strategic partnership is intended to combine total waste processing utilizing Regreen Technologies Inc.’s energy pellets with the […]

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Fulcrum Saves Christmas: MSW-to-fuels production begins at Sierra Biofuels

Fulcrum Saves Christmas: MSW-to-fuels production begins at Sierra Biofuels

December 20, 2022 |

From Nevada comes the long-awaited news that Fulcrum BioEnergy has successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its commercial-scale Sierra BioFuels Plant. Sierra is the first and at present the largest landfill waste-to-fuels plant.  Whew. They made it by Christmas. In fact, they saved Christmas, for so many […]

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Averda, WasteFuel to up to develop Middle East’s first MSW-to-methanol plant

Averda, WasteFuel to up to develop Middle East’s first MSW-to-methanol plant

November 7, 2022 |

In the UAE, Averda and WasteFuel announced during the COP27 Climate Conference their partnership to develop the first commercial scale municipal waste to renewable methanol plant in the Middle East. The location for the first plant is being researched, and it is expected to be in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. The plant will produce […]

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UAE signs MOUs with four cement producers to use MSW-based fuels

UAE signs MOUs with four cement producers to use MSW-based fuels

October 12, 2022 |

In the UAE, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) and Emirates RDF signed four memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with Fujairah Cement Industries, JSW Cement, Lafarge Emirates, and Star Cement to partially use alternative fuel generated from municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment by the Emirates RDF plant in the emirate of Umm Al Quwain in […]

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Lehigh University researchers score $3.5M DOE grant to support MSW-to-energy technology

Lehigh University researchers score $3.5M DOE grant to support MSW-to-energy technology

May 30, 2022 |

In Pennsylvania, Lehigh University’s Energy Research Center has been awarded a new $3.5 million project by the Department of Energy for the development of advanced technology for rapid detection and analysis of MSW streams. This project is part of a $34 million effort to support high-impact research and development to improve and produce biofuels, biopower, […]

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