Green Chemicals Blog
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Bio-acrylic acid development milestones
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Hello blog readers. I just came back from China and will fly tomorrow to St. Charles, Illinois, to give a presentation at Roquette’s Green Chemistry & Fermentation symposium. I will be tweeting via @DGreenblogger on Sept. 16-17 under the hashtag…
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POET-DSM starts cellulosic ethanol plant
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The biofuels world has been been abuzzed recently with the grand opening of POET-DSM’s cellulosic ethanol plant, dubbed Project Liberty, which is considered the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US to use corn waste as a feedstock. The…
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Renewable Chemical Sustainability Survey
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Hello from China! I am attending the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference (CPCIC) this week in Tianjin and will give a short presentation about bio-based chemicals commercialization as well as moderate a panel of speakers on September 12. Unfortunately,…
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Liquid by-products slow biofuels process – PNNL
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Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE-PNNL) discovered that water in the biofuel conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions. The study examines the conversion of bio-oil, produced from biomass…
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Siluria bags $30m funding from Saudi Aramco
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Siluria Technologies closed a $30 million Series D financing round led by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), the venture investment subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. With this initial Series D financing, Siluria has raised just under $100 million since its inception. Siluria is…
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CO2 to Malic Acid by Industrial Microbes
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I received this press release in May but unfortunately I was not able to post it until now. San Francisco, California-based Industrial Microbes announced that the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) of Alberta, Canada has selected the company…
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New catalyst converts CO2 to fuel
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Scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago have synthesized a catalyst that improves their system for converting waste carbon dioxide into syngas, a precursor of gasoline and other energy-rich products, bringing the process closer to commercial viability. Amin Salehi-Khojin,…