Researchers at Leeds University (Leeds: U.K.) have discovered a carbon neutral method to generate hydrogen gas from waste vegetable oil created by restaurants and pubs. Hydrogen gas is usually generated by burning fossil fuels which creates carbon...
Scientists from Oregon State University (OSU; Corvallis, OR) have discovered a significant advance in the development of a system for generating electricity from biowaste. They discovered that a coating of iron or gold nanoparticles on anodes enables a...
The MIT spin-off says its process could save the industry tens of billions of dollars per year in raw material and operations costs....
The U.K.’s Technology Strategy Board, a U.K. government agency, has awarded £718,000 ($920,000) to a consortium led by catalyst firm Reaxa (Manchester, U.K.) to commercialize CP-STAR, a clean, low cost catalyst for processing pharmaceuticals...
Süd-Chemie says it will build Germany´s largest plant for the production of biofuels from straw and that it will build it with subsidies from the Bavarian State Government, and Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The...
BASF has introduced Aegis, a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst designed for maximizing fuel yields from FCC units that use heavy resid feedstocks. The catalyst is supported by BASF’s technology platforms, enabling refiners to adjust the...
Rockwood Holdings says its subsidiary Chemetall Foote has begun expansion of its lithium production operation at Silver Peak, NV. The project is part of a previously announced $56.8 million expansion of Rockwood’s lithium capabilities in the U.S. ...
Biotech start-up Deinove (Paris) and VVT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Espoo, Finland), one of the largest applied research organisations in northern Europe, say they have agreed to collaborate on the commercialization of a biotech process for...
A study by Helmut Kaiser (Zürich, Switzlerland), a consulting firm, predicts that there will be a phenomenal hike in demand for ionic liquids during the next 10 years, with sales increasing to $3.4 billion in 2020, up from about $300 million today...
