In Oklahoma, the team behind the ENVIA Energy gas-to-liquids plant confirmed that the first Fischer-Tropsch product has been successfully produced at the company’s first commercial-scale plant in Oklahoma City. What makes it special is that the source is landfill gas and waste biomass. It’s been used for some times for the CNG vehicle market — […]
AkzoNobel is launching Imagine Chemistry, an exciting opportunity to partner with start-up firms, students, research groups and career scientists from across the world to jointly exploit the knowledge of chemistry and solve several real-life chemistry-related challenges. “Imagine Chemistry is just the latest example of the commitment of AkzoNobel to fostering innovation, and also to doing […]
By John Diecker, Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest World rice production for the 2016/2017 crop year is estimated by the United States Department of Agriculture to total 481.5 million tons. The vast majority of this will come from Asia where, in addition to being a major food crop, its cultivation has strong […]
In Switzerland, Avalon Industries has launched a research project to replace formaldehyde in phenol-formaldehyde resins with a bio-based, non-toxic platform chemical 5-HMF, The R&D partner is the Institute for Materials and Wood Technology at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. The research project, ‘Development of a formaldehyde-free phenol type adhesive system for the manufacturing of […]
In Germany, a research team led by Professor Almut Arneth at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology concluded that “CO2 emissions caused by changes of land use may possibly be higher than assumed so far.” The work presented in Nature Geoscience for the first time considers processes, such as slash-and–burn agriculture or different ways of managing […]
In Europe, the European Forest Institute will lead a newly established project to develop a sustainability assessment method which allows comparison and benchmarking between different renewable, mineral and non-renewable materials used in house construction. The EFI noted that “renewable wood-based materials can help to reduce GHG emissions in the construction sector and thus support the […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that “the latest import figures for oilseeds and byproducts do not confirm the estimates for the running marketing year.” Although the EU-28 2016 oilseed harvest and, consequently, supplies were down approximately 1 million tonnes, imports are developing contrary to what market experts predicted, according to the German trade group. Forecasts were for […]
In Germany, Clariant, Mercedes-Benz and Haltermann Carless found that “sunliquid 20 exhibited very good combustion properties with a high degree of efficiency and identical consumption compared to today’s standard E10 fuel,” according to the consortium. Due to the slightly lower energy density of E20 compared to E10, slightly higher fuel consumption was expected under the […]
In Sweden, an expert panel convened by Taurus Energy has concluded that “the process utilizing the modified strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae XyloFerm strain Taurus13 produces DG grains with nutrient profiles comparable to DG described in the peer-reviewed literature,” the company said. The Panel further concluded that, in those instances where the DG generated using the […]
In Minnesota, Syngenta has made a donation of $340,000 to the Prime the Pump Fund to help make higher ethanol blends more widely available and help grow demand for American ethanol. Prime the Pump is an ethanol industry initiative created to help the early retail adopters of high-level ethanol blends by awarding grants to reduce […]
