Partnership
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AkzoNobel, Enerkem in waste-based chems partnership
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Hello blog readers, the holidays are coming and the green blogger is becoming stressed out from deadlines so bear with me on the sparse postings. I will try to post recent news as much as possible but unfortunately most will be straight from press releases. Dutch specialty chemicals company, AkzoNobel, has partnered with Canada’s waste-to-biofuels/chemicals…
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Biofuel, Biorefinery, Company initiatives, Energy, Feedstock, Government, Investments, News Roundup, PartnershipExpanding cellulosic ethanol production worldwide
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It felt like everybody was in a group hug when I attended a biofuel panel discussion at the recently-held World Bio Markets USA with POET-DSM, GranBio and Abengoa Bioenergy in attendance. Abengoa had its grand opening celebration last month with its new 25 mgpy cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kansas. The facility is expected to…
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ExxonMobil establishes biofuels research program
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I think it’s a biofuels news kind of day. ExxonMobil Corporation announced last month that it has established an advanced biofuels research program at Iowa State University. The ExxonMobil Biofuels Program will initially focus on two research projects with Iowa State. The studies are related to the fast pyrolysis of biomass – rapidly heating biomass…
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HSBC, Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech in partnership
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The UK’s largest bank, HSBC, is joining the collaboration between LanzaTech, Virgin Atlantic, GE and Boeing to convert waste gases captured from industrial steel production to jet fuel via fermentation and chemical conversions. In addition, Virgin Atlantic announced that the team intends to do a demonstration flight within the next year. LanzaTech and Virgin Atlantic have been working…
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Collaboration news: MBI, Canada, Europe
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MBI (Michigan Biotechnology Institute) has partnered with Sarnia, Ont.-based Bioindustrial Innovation Canada for a collaboration-driven binational agreement designed to expedite development and commercialization of bio-based chemicals and materials. MBI, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Michigan State University (MSU) Foundation, focuses on the development and commercialization of bio-based technologies, many of which have been precipitated…
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AkzoNobel in cyanobacteria-based chems
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AkzoNobel has partnered with cleantech company Photanol to develop a process via Photanol’s modified cyanobacteria technology that uses light to directly convert CO2 into chemicals. The aim is to produce “green” chemical building blocks that will eventually replace raw materials AkzoNobel currently obtains from fossil-based production. AkzoNobel’s chemicals are used extensively by the chemicals, detergent,…
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P&G to use DuPont’s cellulosic ethanol in Tide
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I don’t know much about liquid detergent formulation other than detergent is largely composed of surfactants so I am surprised that it also uses ethanol (or also called ethyl alcohol) as a solvent. Procter & Gamble said ethanol has long been a key ingredient in the Tide® formulation, allowing for stability of the detergent formula and…