PBIO 2013 Day 2
Compilation of tweets and stories from the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on May 6-7, 2013.
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Good morning and welcome to #PBIO2013 Day 2!. The first session we will hear from Cargill, Verdezyne…and me..yikes!
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Well I can’t tweet about my presentation so hopefully some other will #PBIO2013
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@dgreenblogger you will be great!
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First speaker is Willie Loh from Cargill event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag…. #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/HnjxHHLgQq -
Loh: Why would you want farmers want to grow something new when traditional crop value are at high values? #PBIO2013
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Loh: You have to consider crop prices fluctuations when you want to go into using plant oils for feedstock #PBIO2013
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Loh: Our biobased industrial oils and lubes production are mostly focus in North America but we have customer services worldwide #PBIO2013
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Loh: Petrochems represent $375bn. Follow the money, don’t follow the volume. Look to make stuff not burn stuff #PBIO2013
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Next speaker is Tom Beardslee of Verdezyne event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag…. #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/JP7IIShfE2 -
Verdezyne: Target existing markets include adipic acid ($6bn/yr), DDDA ($250m but selling for $3.15/lb), sebacic acid ($600m) #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: We need a large supply of feedstock, stable supply and cheap carbon source #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: We envision co-locating assets with the feedstock supply #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: Waste oils, soapstock, fatty acid distillate – available as 3-5% of the production of oils. Plenty of them around #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: We need cheap feedstock and mixed fatty acids are cheaper. We can use it with gen2 strains to produce adipic acid #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: canola soapstock is one of our favorite feedstock but we can use palm, coconut #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: By December 2012, we have pilot batches and process devt of DDDA outsourced. #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: We need to confirm cost models, reduce scale-up risks #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: We are looking at going commercial first with DDDA in 2013, followed with adipic acid next year followed w/ sebacic #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: We are looking at partnering upstream and downstream to complete the value chain #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: For chemical markets, we are looking at off-take agreements #PBIO2013
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Verdezyne: We anticipate DDDA sample in the next 2-3 months #PBIO2013
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Doris de Guzman @DGreenblogger speaking at #pbio2013 in Saskatoon #saskbio pic.twitter.com/PQ1CcSb0vP -
Growing demand for plant-based surfactants in Ag, oil sectors: Doris de Guzman #pbio2013
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Growing glycerin use..acrylic acid, propylene glycol (antifreeze), isoprene (in rubber) biomethanol (in gasoline) applications #pbio2013
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Plant oils, algae, sugars, glycerin, fatty acids…produce nylons, plastics, surfactants, more #pbio2013
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I finished my presentation! Yay! Need a break and will come back for more tweeting #PBIO2013
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I’ve been enjoying @DGreenblogger live tweeting of the #PBIO2013 conference, its a shame she couldn’t tweet her own presentation
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@DGreenblogger: Speaking now is Martin Reaney of Prairie Tide Chemicals on flax event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag… #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/Z9MHNpPuAS -
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#pbio2013 treating hypertension with flax a possibility…huge opportunities: Reaney
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Sweet flax oil by @PrairieTideChem topic of Martin Reaney’s talk at #pbio2013 taking the bitterness out makes a great, healthy product
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#pbio2013 orbitides from flax…many applications possible. @PrairieTideChem researching
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Orbitides, what are they? Here is a brochure taken from Prairie Tide bit.ly/Zhf1gI #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 flax benefits: lower cholesterol, strong immunosuppressant possibility…
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Reaney: We need partners. RIght now we have lab doing analysis of orbitides #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 orbitides in flax…anti-inflammatory properties: Reaney
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1.6 kg of orbitides from 1t of flax…Reaney #pbio2013
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Up next at #PBIO2013 speaker Joe Holash on his talk: The road to commercialization: Confessions of a start-up
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Speaking now is Joe Holash of Milligan Biofuels event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag… #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/wXpuvxcMS2 -
Holash: We have 20m liters/year capacity. Growth of 40 fold in 12-18 months from mandates (not as much in Canada) #PBIO2013
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Holash: 2012 is interesting for biodiesel. Mandates coming in Canada is upside. Downside, oil refineries are jaded & we need them #PBIO2013
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Canola price fluctuations affect Milligan…company expanding; R&D continues: Holash at #pbio2013
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Milligan Biofuels uses only heated, damaged canola, not food grade #pbio2013
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Milligan Biofuels uses distressed/heated/damaged canola, not regular canola. Heated canola is discounted although not much now #PBIO2013
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Fluctuating canola prices is also effecting cost-effective biodiesel production from waste canola. – Joe Holash #PBIO2013
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Now speaking is Sudhir Seth of Arvens Technology on pennycress event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag… #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/MYC0wilHuy -
Seth: We are establishing pennycress as an industrial crop. Here’s Arven’s info about pennycress bit.ly/WXUGiB #PBIO2013
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Sudhir Seth – today’s farmer is educated, uses technology and is business savy. YES! #PBIO2013 #agchat #nomorestereotypes
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#pbio2013 Pennycress in mustard family, high oil content, low production cost, no pesticides needed, low demand on soils, water: Seth
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#pbio2013 Pennycress seeds grown from plane into corn crops…goes dormant until snowmelt, starts to grow. Harvested May, June: Seth
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#pbio2013 Pennycress: no special equipment needed… Bean header used (with adjustment): Seth
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Seth: Pennycress has potential $100bn biobased industry in North America and create 400,000 jobs #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 Pennycress business challenges: Not a bed of roses but worthwhile; potential to create jobs, $100B industry in N. America: Seth
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Seth: Pennycress has strong potential for adoption as a cover and energy crop. Has serious backing of science and USDA resources #PBIO2013
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Pennycress History: scientist discovered high oil content plant, research started…technology, business partnership:Seth at #pbio2013
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Seth: Market potential for pennycress oil for biofuel in the US – $2.25bn in 2013, $8.75bn in 2018 #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 Don’t classify Pennycress as a weed…many crops not valuable until beneficial properties discovered: Seth
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#pbio2013 Convincing farmers a challenge…scientists on board. Removed risk for farmers in order to demonstrate value: Seth
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Study: beans planted after Pennycress have increased yield- Seth at #pbio2013 in Saskatoon
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MT @agwestbio: Study: soybeans planted after Pennycress have increased yield. Farmers can get additional $40-$50 -Seth #pbio2013
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Potential uses for Pennycress: biodiesel, aviation fuel, personal care products, animal feeds Seth at #pbio2013
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Seth: REG and ADM evaluated pennycress oil and have showed strong interest. GE aviation supporting pennycress for aviation fuel #PBIO2013
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Pennycress Energy: Partnership with farmers is crucial…Seth at #pbio2013
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Seth: We will produce about 360,000 gal of pennycress oil in 2013-14 in 10,000 acres, projected 1.21m gal in 2014-15 in 25K acres #PBIO2013
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Seth: We already have 50,000 gal of oil being supplied today #PBIO2013
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Speaking now is Craig Wood of CSIRO on high oleic safflower oil event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag… #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/DPQn3MhMWt -
Wood: Safflower is not easy to genetically manipulate but it is a well understood agronomy in Australia, low use as food crop. #PBIO2013
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Wood: Grown in small pockets in Australia. We managed safflower to be genetically transformable – e.g. high oleic, no linolenic #PBIO2013
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Wood: Arcadia Biosciences, SemBioSys already working on safflower oil #PBIO2013
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Wood: Super high oleic with more than 95% oleic acid – long sought after industrial oil #PBIO2013
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Wood: Our high oleic safflower has about 94% oleic content compared to HO soy (77%), HO canola (80%), HO sunflower (82%) #PBIO2013
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Wood: Our HO safflower oil is more geared towards industrial use such as lubricants #PBIO2013
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Wood: We are moving into demonstrating the traits – field trial process in Australia. #PBIO2013
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Wood: We want to develop a second trait based on high oleic safflower e.g. ricinoleic acid (a fatty acid mainly found in castor) #PBIO2013
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Wood talking about leaf assays for industrial oil devt. Transfering genes into leaf — could lead to biomass oil production #PBIO2013
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Speaking is Heather Shearer from Canadian Food Inspection Agency event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag…. #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/Qnd1LEhMkI -
Final session for #pbio Panel discussion: Danny Cohen, Jack Grushcow, Kristi Snell, Patrick Crampton event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/wel…
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Speaking now, Danny Cohen, founder of Maccabee Seeds taking about monounsaturates event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag… #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/d2erLp0oIv -
Cohen talking about surfactants used in enhanced oil recovery. #PBIO2013
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Cohen: “We have more plant gene resources than I have thought possible. I was surprised to find more fatty acid chains out there” #PBIO2013
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Speaking now, Patrick Crampton of Agrisoma Biosciences agrisoma.com #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/QoMYAv6Z2S -
#pbio2013 Resonance oil: carinata a C22 erucic acid crop
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What is carinata oilseed? bit.ly/WYNp25 #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 Oilseed crops: competing w oils produced on a massive scale.
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Agrisoma focusing its carinata oilseed on biofuels specifically in aviation, biojet fuel #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 Strategy: lead the way, show how to do it…Crampton of Agrisoma Biosciences
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Crampton: Rolled out 6,700 acres of targeted commercial production in S.Sask and S. Alberta (for carinata oilseed) #PBIO2013
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RT @agwestbio: #pbio2013 Carinata grows in hotter, drier areas wher canola won’t grow: Crampton
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#pbio2013 @agwestbio: #pbio2013 Brassica napa wilts in conditions where Brassica carinata is happy : Crampton
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#pbio2013 Carinata also responds well when it gets good moisture (doesn’t have to be dry)
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Crampton: 60% of our growers will definitely grow carinata in 2013. Education is key for growers #PBIO2013
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Crampton: 43.2% oil content with our recent oil production, 41% protein in the meals for our carinata oilseed #PBIO2013
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Crampton: Working with Honeywell’s UOP for biojet fuel test #PBIO2013
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Crampton: Focus will be matching demand with supply. Value chain has already been established at commercial scale #PBIO2013
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Agrisoma has over 50 trials across North America. Claims to have the largest B. carinata collection in the world #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 World’s first 100% renewable fuel flight used Agrisoma’s (carinata-based) resonance feedstock for fuel newslook.com/videos/519251-…
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Crampton: Tricky part is matching production forecasts with demand from biojet and other biofuel manufacturers #PBIO2013
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Crampton: We are seeking to establish biojet mfg in Sask that would need 1m acres plus production #PBIO2013
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Speaking now is Kristi Snell of Metabolix event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag…. #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/r8QlD8UMTn -
Snell of @MetabolixInc talking about PHB (polyhydroxybutyrate) being genetically developed in non-food crops such as oilseeds #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 what is PHB? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydro…
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Snell: We can leverage our PHB in oilseeds, we are working in camelina. Also looking at biomass such as switchgrass #PBIO2013
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Snell: Why oilseeds? Co-production of bioplastics alongside vegetable oil and meal #PBIO2013
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Snell: Under our Metabolix Oilseeds business, we have scaled up our development in PHB-producing oilseeds in Saskatoon #PBIO2013
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Snell: PHB camelina an exciting opportunity in feed ingredient. Crush meal could be used directly as value-added feed supplement #PBIO2013
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Snell: Also looking to produce chemicals directly from PHB crops. Crotonic acid platform can be produced #PBIO2013
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Crotonic acid a short chain unsaturated carboxylic acid. Small market but big potential as chem platform bit.ly/13IgVKZ #PBIO2013
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Snell: From crotonic acid, you can get n-butanol, maleic anhydride #PBIO2013
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Snell: Metabolix involved with Arpa-E programs involving camelina #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 crop yield work on Camelina…not incremental but game changing.
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Snell: Working on plastid transformation, Inserting genes directly into the plastid. #PBIO2013 What is plastid? bit.ly/13Ihswd
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Snell: PHB can access plastics, chemicals and feed. A unique biological material #PBIO2013
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Snell: Biggest challenge is keeping funding for these research. You need financial support and govt agencies are big help #PBIO2013
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Snell: In switchgrass, we have long-term funding from DOE and USDA #PBIO2013
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: #pbio2013 PHB unique chemical…rare for chem to have use in plastics, chemicals and feeds: Snell
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Last speaker is Jack Grushcow of Linnaeus event-wizard.com/PBIO2013/0/pag… #PBIO2013 pic.twitter.com/rkUoJV2AUT -
Grushcow: One of our target is ricinoleic acid. Last year we were able to produce ricinoleic from camelina #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 Linnaeus Plant Sciences working on Camelina for use as Bioproducts; ricinoleic acid one target product
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Grushcow: We have been working with Arkema (ricinoleic in camelina) and DuPont (high oleic camelina) #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 base oils for lubricants from Camelina one goal for Linnaeus: Grushcow
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Grushcow: If a company can use less isocyanate in their foams, they will have big advantage in the market #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 new genes engineered means better tools for industry, safer products: Grushcow
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Grushcow: Linnaeus wouldn’t be here today without various gov’t funding #PBIO2013
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#pbio2013 Cross-pollination- not silo research- is key to progress…Grushcow
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Grushcow: We know now that Arkema can make nylon 11 out of our ricinoleic acid that we produced from camelina #PBIO2013
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Grushcow: We have access to one of the world’s largest collections of camelina germplasm. #PBIO2013
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Grushcow: We have largest camelina field trials in Canada, increased oils from 38% to 42%. #PBIO2013
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Linnaeus developed Smart Earth Ecolube and already commercializing it bit.ly/13IjXPe #PBIO2013
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Conference is finished. Thanks for following our #PBIO2013 tweets! bit.ly/13IkuAB
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Thanks to all presenters, volunteers and attendees for making #PBIO2013 a great success! Presentations will be available soon. Stay tuned!
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I just had to laugh at the look on my face as I talked about oleochemicals during my presentation at #PBIO2013 bit.ly/WEWaxR
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