This techno-economic report offers a review of chemistry, properties, feedstock choices, business development considerations, technology, and development trends of oleochemicals, including fatty acid, glycerine, and methyl ester. The report provides process economics for fatty acid and methyl ester (and glycerine as byproduct) for several different global locations (United States, Western Europe, Malaysia and China) under a consistent first quarter 2024 price scenario. Multiple feedstocks that are common to these locations are evaluated, such as soybean oil, rapeseed oil, crude palm oil and tallow. The report also provides a carbon intensity analysis, and a historical cost analysis.

DME (dimethyl ether) is a clean, colorless gas that has remarkable potential for use as automotive fuel, for power generation, and in industrial and domestic applications for heating and cooking.  Bolstered by government support and industry commitments to reach carbon neutrality, this movement has ignited a fresh wave of investments aimed at advancing the scale-up and deployment of sustainable, low carbon fuels – a category that includes Renewable DME.  Renewable DME can assume a crucial role in driving the global energy transition movement leveraging on existing infrastructure to deliver a low carbon fuel solution.This webinar will highligh the applications of renewable DME and its role in supporting the global net zero pathway.  The content of this webinar is sourced from the report Biorenewable Insights: Renewable DME.To listen to the presentation, please contact your Account Manager for the password. 

An investigation the technology and economics for carbon dioxide electrolysis, focusing on near-commercial technologies for power-to-X manufacturing. Covers room-temperature and high-temperature technology for CO production and co-production of CO and hydrogen. Includes cost of production and manufacturing carbon intensity for major near-commercial routes and comparison to conventional methane reforming and dry reforming technology.

The technoeconomics and carbon intensities related to biomass energy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) and biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) for different types of biomass is presented in this report. To achieve commitments by circa 2050, industries of different economic sectors require renewable energy and renewable feedstocks, as well as heat and power. Utilizing biomass, BECCS or BiCRS reduces the carbon emissions to net neutral or even net negative emissions. However, there are uncertainties of the impacts of using vast amounts of biomass for decarbonization. The amount of mitigated carbon captured (removed and/or sequestered) when using biomass is subjected due to various factors, such as indirect and direct land use change (ILUC/LUC), fertilizer usage, the resulting soil conditions. In addition, the impact varies for different types of biomass, crops or agricultural or plantation wastes. Taking these factors into account, the report assesses case studies and correlates the cost of production with the carbon intensities, with estimates of alternative biomass prices for both BECCS and BiCRS.