Author Archive: Jim Kendrick

The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Emerging Markets Online

January 16, 2024 | Jim Kendrick

Houston based Emerging Markets Online provides customized market intelligence and business development consulting services for a global clientele in sustainable biofuels, feedstocks, alternative energy, renewable energy, utilities, advanced nutrition, algae and aquaculture. Focused on market trends and futures in biodiesel, renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuels, low carbon fuels, integrated biorefining, and feedstock business development industries, […]

The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Koch Modular Process Systems

January 16, 2024 | Jim Kendrick

Koch Modular Process Systems is a joint venture with Koch-Glitsch, and heavily active in supporting the development and commercialization of sustainable technology. Koch Modular Process Systems delivers projects across multiple industry sectors and partners with clients such as PureCycle Technologies and ORIGIN Materials to provide process development & engineering support, separations technology, pilot testing, and […]

The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Phoenix Carbon

January 15, 2024 | Jim Kendrick

Phoenix Carbon’s TCOM® System is a containerized portable, modular, and scalable solid waste reduction and conversion technology which converts nearly all solid organic waste and hydrocarbons into Solid Carbons, Renewable Natural Gases, and Renewable Liquid Fuels. TCOM (Thermal Conversion of Organic Matter) is a closed loop system and only requires limited energy for initial startup. […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SixRing

January 2, 2024 | Jim Kendrick

SixRing, a chemical technology company, uses patented modified acids to produce high purity cellulose, biogenic acetic acid, and low viscosity biocrude from lignocellulosic biomass at ambient pressure and temperature. Not a typical start-up, SixRing’s product development plan is to “shine lights down these high value pathways so that our licensees can generate the most value […]

SAFFiRE picks Conestoga’s Arkalon Energy for cellulosic SAF pilot project

November 20, 2023 | Jim Kendrick

In Kansas, PRNewswire reported Conestoga Energy and SAFFiRE Renewables agreement for Conestoga to host SAFFiRE’s cellulosic ethanol pilot plant at Conestoga’s Arkalon Energy ethanol facility in Liberal, Kansas. The SAFFiRE pilot project aims to validate and demonstrate the commercialization of SAFFiRE’s corn-stover-to-ethanol technology in a fully integrated pilot facility that processes 10 tons of corn […]

Not My Dad’s Ethanol

June 25, 2023 | Jim Kendrick

By Jim Kendrick Special to The Digest As I attended the 39th annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo in Omaha, Nebraska held June 12-14, memories of dinner table lessons received as the son of an Ag Economics professor come back to mind. I was taught to doubt ‘70s Gasohol, now known as E10. Although […]