Conference
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AkzoNobel, Solazyme in algal partnership
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Good morning from Taipei, home of this year’s Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference (#APIC13). My apologies for the sparse blog post as I prepare for my presentation later this afternoon about bio-based chemicals feedstock. If my boss will let me, I…
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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…
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Roquette’s Green Chemistry Symposium
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The green blog has just signed in as a media partner for Roquette University’s Green Chemistry and Fermentation Symposium, which will be held on May 22-23 at Roquette America’s Innovation Center in Geneva, Illinois. Here is the preliminary line-up for…
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Nordic wood biorefineries developments
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I saw this on one of my LinkedIn groups posted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and I wanted to share this great information about the developments of wood-based biorefining in the Nordic region. This was a 432-page proceedings…
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Russia in Bio Movement
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The blog is wondering what’s the potential market for bio-based products and chemicals in Russia given that DSM and Purac just separately announced bio-based activities within the region. Dutch biobased chemicals firm Purac briefly stated that it has signed a…
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Synthetic bio success in anti-malaria drug
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The blog does not usually cover the pharmaceuticals market being that I am unfamiliar with the players and the products in this industry. However, this news coming from University of California Berkeley warrants a post as professor of chemical engineering…
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Booming University green chems research
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The blog has been seeing a lot of R&D news from various universities on how to improve green chemistry processing and these are definitely worthwhile checking out. Here’s one from the University of Florida (UF) about their research in turning…