News tagged with petrochemical feedstock
Chemical engineers boost petrochemical output from biomass by 40 percent
Chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, using a catalytic fast pyrolysis process that transforms renewable non-food biomass into petrochemicals, have developed a new catalyst that boosts the yield for ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Sensible use of biomass: A chemical industry based on renew
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our industrialized world is largely dependent on fossil resources, whether for the generation of energy, as a fuel, or as a feedstock for the chemical industry. The environmental problems ...
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?
The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years ...
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Jul 26, 2009 |
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Depleted uranium: could this reduce our dependency on crude oil?
(Phys.org) -- A simple three-step chemical reaction which could herald the introduction of new sustainable feedstocks for the chemical industry has been developed by scientists at The University of Nottingham.
Jun 01, 2012 |
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Chemistry professor developing sustainable bioplastics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Colorado State University chemistry professor has developed several patent-pending chemical processes that would create sustainable bioplastics from renewable resources for use on everything ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Researchers develop CAD-Type tools for engineering RNA control systems
The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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E. coli bacteria engineered to eat switchgrass and make transportation fuels
A milestone has been reached on the road to developing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels with a domestically-produced clean, green, renewable alternative.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Carbon dioxide recycling? 'Diagonal' approach for reductive functionalization of carbon dioxide
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon dioxide is a by-product of energy production, but must it always be viewed as a waste product? This gas could be a useful renewable resource and an environmentally friendly chemical ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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E. coli metabolism reversed for speedy production of fuels, chemicals
In a biotechnological tour de force, Rice University engineering researchers this week unveiled a new method for rapidly converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes. In a paper published ...
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Search for high quality fuels from inexpensive biomass gets breakthrough
Chemical engineering experts at The University of Nottingham have helped a team of international researchers find a way of producing inexpensive renewable liquid fuel out of low grade oils made from renewable ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Scientists use gold to discover breakthrough for creating biorenewable chemicals
University of Virginia chemical engineers Robert J. Davis and Matthew Neurock have uncovered the key features that control the high reactivity of gold nanoparticles in a process that oxidizes alcohols in water. The research ...
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Extreme makeover chemistry style
In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have ...
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Scientists discover new platinum catalysts for the dehydrogenation of propane
(PhysOrg.com) -- The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2009 |
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