R&D
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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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Proterro, Bunge in sugar pilot study
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Biofeedstock company Proterro and Bunge Global Innovation, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of global agribusiness and food company Bunge Limited (Bunge), will conduct a pilot study of Proterro’s sucrose-production technology in Brazil. Under a joint development agreement, a pilot plant is being commissioned at Bunge’s Moema Fazenda sugarcane mill, where two of Proterro’s photobioreactors have…
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Tire manufacturers in natural rubber R&D milestones
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Bridgestone Americas announced the grand opening of its Biorubber Process Research Center in Mesa, Arizona. The 10-acre research and innovation campus is the center of Bridgestone’s efforts to extract natural rubber from guayule, a shrub native to the southwestern U.S. Bridgestone said it expects to have preliminary guayule rubber samples produced at the Biorubber Process Research…
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Bio-acrylic acid development milestones
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Hello blog readers. I just came back from China and will fly tomorrow to St. Charles, Illinois, to give a presentation at Roquette’s Green Chemistry & Fermentation symposium. I will be tweeting via @DGreenblogger on Sept. 16-17 under the hashtag #Roquette. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I am over my jetlag by then.…