ICIS World Surfactants Day 2
Compilation of live tweets from ICIS World Surfactants Conference held on May 16-17 in New Jersey, USA
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Another beautiful morning here in NJ at the 3rd #ICIS #Surfactants conference icisconference.com/worldsurfactan… pic.twitter.com/A93JR0HUIC -
J&J: #Surfactants can cause tightening, dryness, roughness, scaling, redness and itching on skin upon prolong, repeated contact #ICIS
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J&J talking about micelle size driving irritation potential of #surfactants base. A little technical for me to explain unfortunately #ICIS
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J&J talking about hydrophobically-modified polymer to reduce irritation caused by #surfactants #ICIS
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J&J: We chose acrylates, which tend to be efficient, can be tailored easily in polymerization process #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux Research Analyst @agsoare speaking on biobased chems at 3rd #ICIS #Surfactants Conference pic.twitter.com/ttlpVBrFSA @DGreenblogger -
Lux: The reality for biobased chems is that it needs to meet stringent requirements and costs #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux: Firms struggling to compete w/ fossil-based routes incl. Braskem, Dow, Cathay Industrial Biotech, Metabolix, Coke, Pepsico #Surfactants
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Lux: Elevance’s business model is capital light retrofit approach to reduce capital costs and investor risks #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux: LubriGreen biosynthetic oils looking to develop surfactants and emollients via partnership w/ BP #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux: Start-ups need a lot of help – tech support, feedstock supply, financial, EPC/Scale-up, application devt #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux: Very big corporations are excited and eager to put risk and capital to start-ups to get into these new techs #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux: Biochem feedstock driven by biofuel industry. Evolution in feedstock moving past food and into waste #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux: About 16% of sugarcrops globally went to biofuel and chems production. Expected to grow to 32.2% focusing on Asia #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lux: Opportunity to take underutilized biodiesel assets and use them for chem production facilities e.g. #surfactants #ICIS
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Method: “We don’t do things in a traditional approach” #ICIS #Surfactants
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Method: Cradle-to-cradle concept could be biological (going back to soil) or technical (recycling) or combination of the two #Surfactants
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Method rolled out dish detergents w/o phosphates using mixed ingredients e.g citrates, itaconix, gluconates…#ICIS #Surfactants
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Method: Partnership w/ Segetis on levulinic ketals offer great solvent material from nature and w/o VOC #ICIS #Surfactants
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Method: Ecover now part of Method, and they are working on sophorolipids – fermentation-based #surfactants #ICIS
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Method says it uses 100% recycled PET, Ecover using plant-based HDPE for packaging #ICIS #Surfactants
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Wifi connection difficulty…will come back soon…aaargh!
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Method tried a capsuled high-dosed detergent but it failed to perform in cold water. “It is ok to fail” #ICIS #Surfactants
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Solazyme’s 100KTPY Brazil plant via Bunge JV is expected to be online in 4Q13 #ICIS #Surfactants
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Solazyme: 20KTPY facility in Clinton Iowa expected to be online in 1Q14 #ICIS #Surfactants
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Solazyme: Our algal oil has about 1/3 of carbon emissions compared to palm kernel oil #ICIS #Surfactants
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Solazyme offering green solvent with better cleaning efficiency than limonene, stable price and supply chain #ICIS #Surfactants
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Next speaker is Lisa Dyson, CEO of Kiverdi on biobased #surfactants from waste carbon #ICIS pic.twitter.com/ZrI9yuUpHg -
Dyson: Kiverdi using gas fermentation process using agriculture residues, wood waste, landfills, manufacturing residue #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi also can use natural gas flares for feedstock. All of these waste can be converted into syngas #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi: Challenges for using F-T reactors – high cost, need catalysts, lots of clean-up #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi working on developing tech to upgrade syngas into chems that are cost competitive #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi: Whole cell biocatalysts – microbes that are making mid-chain to long chain molecules. #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi: Proprietary microbes can convert waste gas into lipids. Can work against ambient operating conditions #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi’s microbes can make high oil and fatty acids. Focusing on C10-C18 fatty acids and fatty alcohols #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi process is modular and deployed locally near source of waste/biomass #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi now demonstrating input flexibility using corn stover in Iowa, waste flue gas (California) #ICIS #Surfactants
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Kiverdi: We can use natural gas flares to customized molecules #ICIS #Surfactants
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Lots of questions for Kiverdi! Kiverdi says starting pilot scale this year. Would want to partner #ICIS #Surfactants
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Virent talking about bio-based benzene and how it could be used to produce #surfactants like linear alkylbenzene (LAB) #ICIS
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Virent: “We’ve made biobased benzene. We are working with some companies in this space” #ICIS #Surfactants
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Virent: Lighter feedstock from shale gas is removing a lot of aromatics, making supply for BTX tighter #ICIS #Surfactants
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Virent: New PTA capacity not matched by PX. Nobody is going to build refinery just to get PX (except Reliance) #ICIS #Surfactants
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Virent: Supply constraint on benzene because lighter feedstock in crackers produces less benzene #ICIS #Surfactants
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Virent says you can have partially biobased LAB using their biomass-based benzene #ICIS #Surfactants
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LS9: We can make C8-C18 but putting them together we can also make up to C33s. #ICIS #Surfactants
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LS9 have been testing use of second generation feedstock from Renmatix, Edeniq, Catchlight Energy, Virdia, Blue Sugars, Lignol #Surfactants
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LS9’s organisms can run better on crude glycerin as well #ICIS #Surfactants
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LS9 can put fermenters in a biodiesel plant, cane processing plants, wood processing sites. Flexibility in geographic reach #Surfactants
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LS9 to commercialize fatty alcohols, esters products next year #ICIS #Surfactants
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LS9 tech can produce a large number of drop-in and novel chemicals w/ minimal switching costs #ICIS #Surfactants
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LS9: We’ve demonstrated alcohols and esters at 135K liter-scale in Florida. Esters being tested for fuel, detergent, PC apps #Surfactants
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LS9: Projected commercial plant near sugarcane mill by 2015 in the US, Europe or Brazil at 50,000 tpy range #ICIS #Surfactants
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Conference ended. Great information here at #ICIS #Surfactants. Hopefully I can attend again next year 🙂
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@DGreenblogger Of course you can ! And in Brussels, Sept 12-13. And in Singapore. You are always welcome!
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Hi @DGreenblogger thx for the great conference coverage: Conference ended. Great information here at #ICIS #Surfactants.
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