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Solvay collaborates with Ginkgo Bioworks
This is a piece of interesting news from Solvay on the recent announcement of its collaboration with synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks on the development of sustainable biopolymers as well as other specialty chemicals and materials that can be used from home and personal care to agriculture and food. As part of this partnership, Solvay … Continue reading
Will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine trigger more renewables investments?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has accelerated the surging fossil feedstock price that has continuously climbed throughout 2021. Tecnon OrbiChem consultants have reported their analysis of the impact of these surging prices in several key chemical intermediates. As Russia plays an outsized role in global energy markets given that it is the world’s third-largest oil producer … Continue reading
PNNL offers Special Exploratory License Agreement
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 in 2010. PNNL also has a chemocatalytic technology to convert ethanol to butadiene in a … Continue reading
VIDEO: Green Chlor-Alkali Plant
I am not that familiar with the chlor-alkali industry aside from the information that it uses electrochemical processing which is getting to be popular as well in its potential to produce renewable carbon-based chemicals (example is Avantium’s Volta technology). Electrochemical processing can use renewable energy sources like solar, thermal or wind power but the problem … Continue reading
VIDEO: Toyota Fueled by Bullsh*t
I don’t usually gush about media releases (sorry PR folks!) but I do love this one from Toyota, which was released today, I guess in honor of Earth Day. Toyota has tapped award-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to show how calling hydrogen fuel cell vehicles “bullsh*t” isn’t far from the truth. This 3-minute video features … Continue reading
Suez Environnement invests in Solvert
Suez Environnement, through its recycling and resource management subsidiary SITA UK, is funding the research and development program of North East UK technology company, Solvert Ltd. Solvert aims to develop a technology that converts the organic stream from either municipal solid waste (MSW) and commercial and industrial (C&I) waste into biobased chemicals such as n-butanol, acetone and … Continue reading