butadiene
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Synthos to build a commercial bio-butadiene plant
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It has been a long time coming for the commercialization of bio-based butadiene (at least for this one where you can count the percentage renewable content unlike some of the mass balance approaches). I have been monitoring this space for…
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PNNL offers Special Exploratory License Agreement
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From time to time, I covered several R&D news coming from the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). One of these was the partnership between LanzaTech and PNNL on their ethanol-to-fuel technology R&D, which I believed, started…
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Global Bioenergies produces isobutene in pilot scale
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Global Bioenergies announces having successfully carried out the first isobutene production trial in its industrial pilot of Pomacle-Bazancourt. Delivered on the Pomacle-Bazancourt site in July, the industrial pilot installation has since been taken through a series of mechanical and functional validations. A production run…
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Braskem opens renewable chems R&D
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Braskem has opened last week a new R&D center in Campinas, São Paulo, that will focus on research and development of biotechnology and related chemical processes from renewable feedstock projects, reinforcing the company’s commitment to sustainable technological alternatives. The R$30 million…
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INVISTA and LanzaTech expand collaboration
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I had several interviews last month and a few of them I will post in the blog as all the interviews I did was already published on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter. During the recent BIO World Congress in Philadelphia, INVISTA and…
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LanzaTech bags $60m funding
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My apologies for the sparse blog posts as it is difficult nowadays to blog when you’re attending conferences and having meetings after meetings. I just got back from the AFPM’s (American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers) International Petrochemicals Conference in San…
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More bio-butadiene partnerships
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Two exciting news just came out this week regarding bio-butadiene. Braskem and Genomatica announced this morning their joint development agreement on a commercial process technology to make bio-based butadiene from renewable feedstock. The companies did not say what kind of…