Researchers launched a ChemCatBio project to Develop new upgrading technologies enabling cost-competitive conversion of C2 oxygenated intermediates to distillate fuels and valuable co-products. One outcome, the team discovered a catalytic pathway for direct ethanol to butene-rich olefin intermediates, providing control over jet blendstock and co-products, with the potential to obtain a distillate fuel MFSP of $3.00/GGE and achieve >70% reduction in GHG emissions. What’s the latest?  Robert Dagle of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  presented these slides at DOE Project Peer Review.