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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…
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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…
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1st ICIS Pan American Oleochemicals Conference
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Everybody who has been following me since my 12-year stint in ICIS knows that I always have this love/frustrated relationship with the oleochemicals market. Frustrated because it is a very difficult market to understand with so many feedstock, products, co-products,…
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Roquette Green Chemistry & Fermentation Symposium 2014
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[View the story “Roquette Green Chemistry & Fermentation Symposium 2014” on Storify]
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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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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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NatureWorks Interviewed by SpecialChem4Bio
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This article was published on June 18, 2014 on SpecialChem4Bio. Introduction: About NatureWorks Since some years now, everyone keeps talking about plant-based chemistry and industry. To see things more clearly, Mr. Steve Davies, Director of Public Affairs at NatureWorks, agreed…