by Jim Lane (biofuelsdigest.com) | February 24, 2015.

Corn Field

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.

The company has supported the development and/or reevaluation of subjects for many or today’s CO2 plants from biofuels; with work supporting one of the first cellulosic ethanol ventures as well. The work covers subjects from technical, through market and industry intelligence; to applications, and expert witness work. Thus, I am all about CO2.

Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months.

My goals are to follow the most viable technologies, feedstock types, and projects which have the greatest chance for commercialization; as well as ongoing work covering a full menu of tasks and services from technical through market, and applications related work.

The CO2 industry is continuing to add and improve upon raw sources of the commodity from all areas of biofuels, from traditional corn based, through advanced biofuels.

CO2 is ever more important and in the limelight due to real or perceived daunting greenhouse gas (GHG) effects and regulations planned or in place to tame GHG. Beyond the environmental side of this equation, it is essential for the biofuels or allied chemical, energy, and environmental projects to recover CO2 and make as much money from the commodity as possible. The keys to this further challenge, of course is a function of market evaluations and applications development for carbon dioxide. Further, raw gas contracts should be reevaluated over time…