Green Chemicals Blog
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Bio-based Polyurethanes on the rise
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Sorry for the silence today as I’ve been reprimanded to study more and blog less. But I guess I’m really addicted to blogging so let me sneak in this short post about my second to the last article that I…
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OPXBio acrylic acid update
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Here’s a slide presentation from OPX Biotechnologies presented at a biobased chemicals conference in San Francisco last week. The company said (in its blog) that it is now ready to scale up its 3,000 liter fermentation capacity to in the…
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European Bioeconomy: Where is it now?
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Ok, so I’m bummed out by my test score last night that I’m just going to sulk for awhile and watch videos. Actually here is a cool video (even though I don’t understand Dutch) that I retweeted from @biobasedchem about…
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Growing green auto partnerships
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The blog will be quiet on Tuesday and Wednesday as I study for my first school exam. Now I remember why I haven’t been actively looking for a job! Keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be graduating by December. In…
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EPA sets 1.28bn gal biodiesel for 2013
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Glycerine consumers will probably like hearing this news as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets its biodiesel requirement in 2013 at 1.28bn gallons under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) which established the second phase of…
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Weekly News Roundup
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So many news, so little time. I’m still working on an oleochemical post and in the meantime, something is brewing in the cleaning products market that needs to be investigated. Stay tune! In the meantime, here are this week’s news…
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Biobased ECH growing rapidly
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My first school exam is coming up so I have to eased down my social media activities a bit (and here I thought being unemployed will give me more time to nap…). According to this report from energy publisher SBI…