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Bioprocessing Separations Consortium Featured at ABLC 2022
Work by the Bioprocessing Separations Consortium will be featured at the annual Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference (ABLC) ABLC will take place from March 16–18, 2022, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Find registration details, the full list of speakers, … Read More
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DOE Announces Funding for Separations Research to Reduce Transportation Emissions
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $64 million in funding for 22 projects focused on developing technologies and processes that produce low-cost and low-carbon biofuels. This includes more than $8.8 million for 3 projects that focus on separations to enable biomass conversion … Read More
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FY21 Funding Opportunity Announcement
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0002396) to support high-impact technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) to accelerate the bioeconomy. BETO is focusing on applied RDD&D to improve the performance and reduce cost of … Read More
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Bioprocessing Separations Consortium Participates in 2021 BETO Peer Review
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) hosted the virtual 2021 Project Peer Review from March 8-12; March 15‒16; and March 22‒26, 2021. Projects in BETO’s research and development portfolio were presented to the public and reviewed by external subject-matter experts from … Read More
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Separations Consortium Publishes Three-Year Overview of Technical Advances, Process Economics Influence, and State of the Science
Separations Consortium researchers publish a report detailing the Consortium’s advancement of science and technology related to bioprocessing separations from 2016-2019. The Consortium’s research and development leveraged three core capabilities: i) materials development and evaluation, ii) process development, and iii) analysis and computation to address four … Read More
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Separations Consortium Researchers Demonstrate Method to Promote Water-Splitting in Electrochemical Separations
Electrochemical separations offer competitive advantages for the recovery of bio-based fuel and chemical precursors via selective extraction. Electrodeionization (EDI) is a hybrid technology that combines electrodialysis and ion-exchange technologies into a single unit operation using ion-exchange phenomena and an applied electric field to drive … Read More
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Separations Consortium Researchers Publish Manuscript Reporting Innovative Resin Wafer Materials for Selective Separations
Electrodeionization (EDI) is a selective separations technology that incorporates ion exchange (IEX) resins and membranes into an electrochemical process. Ionic separation is electrically driven and occurs through IEX membranes with ions being drawn to their respective electrode. The IEX resin beads provide 2 key functions: … Read More
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EZ Select Attracts Undesirables to Benefit Biomanufacturing
A frothy stout, a hearty loaf of bread, a pungent cheese; each the stuff of life, each created by naturally occurring microorganisms. Defined universally as brewing, baking and caseiculture (OK, cheese making), they are examples of what, today, we call biomanufacturing. While you may not … Read More
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Separations Consortium Researchers Demonstrate that Ester Bioproducts May Represent “Greener” Metabolic Targets Than Their Commonly Produced Carboxylic Acid Counterparts
Separations often account for the majority of operational costs and energy consumption in the production of bioproducts. Accordingly, judicious development of new separations technology can direct the development of an entire bioprocess. In this publication researchers from the separations consortium demonstrate that ester bioproducts may … Read More
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Hu Receives Best Paper/Presentation Award
Michael Hu of Oak Ridge National Laboratory received a best paper/presentation award for his work titled, “Surface functionalized nanomaterials for separation processing of crude and aqueous fractions of biooils” at the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans in March 2018. This project is part … Read More