Clean technology
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Microvi bags $1.5m grant
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Microvi Biotechnologies has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to demonstrate at scale a novel technology for the treatment of 1,4 dioxane in water. Microvi’s MB-DX™ technology uses 1,4-Dioxane degrading microbes….
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JBI, Crayola launches “COLORCYCLE” program
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This is a pretty cool (and colorful) idea! Waste plastic-to-fuel developer JBI has partnered with Crayola to convert used markers as feedstock for diesel and other liquid fuels using JBI’s Plastic2Oil (P2O) Process. The “COLORCYCLE” program will be conducted throughout…
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Sapphire Energy, Linde expand partnership
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Algae oil developer Sapphire Energy, Inc. and industrial gas producer the Linde Group have expanded their partnership to commercialize a new industrial scale conversion technology needed to upgrade algae biomass into crude oil. The companies will refine the hydrothermal treatment…
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Omya, NewPage to build a PCC plant
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NewPage Corporation (NewPage) and Omya have entered into a long-term supply agreement to build a Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC) plant, located at the NewPage Escanaba paper mill site in Michigan. PCC is an essential raw material used in the papermaking process…
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BASF explores CO2-based syngas production
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For several years now, BASF has been working on using carbon dioxide as feedstock for chemical manufacture. The company announced last week that alongside its partners Linde Group (a major industrial gas producer) and engineering firm ThyssenKrupp, the companies are…
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BASF expands enzymes portfolio
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The blog has not focused as much on enzymes – proteins that consist of long chains of amino acids held together by peptide bonds, and are important biological catalysts in accelerating the rate and specificity of metabolic reactions. The enzymes…
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Solvay, Bayer MaterialScience in solar flight
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I just saw this really cool video on a local news tonight about a solar power plane called “Solar Impulse” currently flying across America. The airplane prototype HIB-SIA, is the first designed to fly solely on solar power without any…