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MAY 20, 2023

The Bridgestone Turanza EV tire is the first replacement market tire in North America to feature ENLITEN technology ( earlier post ), which is engineered to help optimize all-season performance, provide longer wear life, and allow for the incorporation of renewable and recycled materials in its tire products.

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APRIL 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the use of an alkaline surfactant polymer (ASP) flooding technique has successfully improved oil recovery at a 106-year old Illinois field by more than 300%. enhanced by additional surfactants, have the capability of mobilizing additional oil. Such surfactants, when.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has agreed to acquire 100% of Mahoney Environmental (Mahoney), a collector and recycler of used cooking oil in the United States, and its affiliated entities. Neste has announced a $1.54-billion

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels.

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MAY 12, 2011

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., which is commercializing olefin metathesis technology for renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), and Royal DSM N.V. Elevance will provide natural monomers produced from plant oils along with its proprietary metathesis technology to enable the production of various polymers.

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JUNE 26, 2021

These new grades will claim 100% renewable attributed carbon derived from crude tall oil (CTO) bio-feedstock, according to a mass-balance approach. CO 2 /kg, according to the ISO14040 standard) while reducing dependence on upstream crude oil consumption. Arkema has been a leader in advanced bio-circular polymers for many years.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Isobutanol for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber and other polymers. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

New Zealand-based LanzaTech has successfully produced 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD), a key building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels, using the company’s gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech has shown 2,3-BD production from waste gas resources in an industrial setting. Jennifer Holmgren.

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MARCH 21, 2011

a distributor of industrial and automotive aftermarket products and lubricants, plan to form a joint venture for the production, marketing and distribution of finished renewable lubricants for the North American market. The joint venture would market and sell lubricants employing Amyris’s synthetic renewable base oils derived from Biofene.

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JULY 8, 2010

Australia’s CSIRO is convening a meeting next week at which some 200 plant oil researchers will share their research into how renewable plant-based oils can be engineered to replace industrial oils that have traditionally been manufactured from petroleum. CSIRO Plant Industry Deputy Chief Dr. Allan Green.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award ( DE-FOA-0000996 ) up to $12 million in funding to advance the development of a cost-competitive pathway to produce high-performance carbon fiber for vehicle lightweighting from renewable non-food biomass. Prior attempts to produce renewable carbon fiber have focused on converting lignin.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. Solid arrows: Pyrolysis oil is directly passed over the zeolite catalyst.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There will also be a shift in the polymer product portfolio to include higher levels of post-consumer recycled content. INEOS O&P UK operates the Olefins and Polymers petrochemical plants at Grangemouth. The Petroineos JV operates the Grangemouth Refinery.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

a renewable oil and bioproducts company, and Mitsui & Co., entered into a $20-million multi-year agreement jointly to develop a suite of triglyceride oils for use primarily in the oleochemical industry. Solazyme, Inc.,

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AUGUST 19, 2011

has signed a multi-year supply agreement for several hundred tons of Amyris renewable squalane with Nikko Chemicals Co., Squalane is a high-end moisturizing ingredient used in a wide range of cosmetics today, currently sourced from shark liver oil or refined olive oil. Amyris, Inc. for distribution in the Japanese market.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Gevo, a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, recently announced that it had presented positive test results from fit-for-purpose testing of its renewable kerosene produced from isobutanol to ASTM’s alcohol to jet (ATJ) task force (D02J006 Alcohol to Jet TF). Gevo’s renewable jet. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 3, 2023

Rio Tinto has successfully completed the full transition of its heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable diesel at its Boron, California operation, making it the first open pit mine in the world to achieve this milestone. Rio Tinto US Borax used Neste MY Renewable Diesel during the trial. billion gallons (5.5

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Neste and Rolls-Royce have agreed to build a strategic partnership on accelerating the use of renewable diesel as a lower-emission solution for diesel engines. Both parties share a common vision of renewable fuels playing a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in off-highway applications, such as construction and power generation.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Global Bioenergies has purified its bio‐isobutene to 99.77%, a polymer‐grade level. Several applications in the polymers business (rubbers, plastics.) require high‐purity isobutene, and 99.77% corresponds to the polymer‐grade standard. —Thomas Buhl, Head of business development at Global Bioenergies.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

billion to add additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore. The decision is based on a growing global market demand for low-carbon solutions in transport and cities, aviation, polymers and chemicals. The investment will extend Neste’s renewable product overall capacity in Singapore by up to 1.3

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AUGUST 11, 2010

ADM is the first company in North America to offer renewable isosorbide on a commercial scale. ADM currently offers isosorbide in both a technical grade (97% pure) and a polymer grade (99% pure). ADM has more than 100 years of experience producing industrial chemicals.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

International oil and gas major Total and renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris, Inc. signed agreements to expand their current R&D partnership ( earlier post ) and to form a joint venture to develop, produce and commercialize a range of renewable fuels and products. Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Phase 1: Renewable energy. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta.

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JUNE 9, 2011

million) to advance its YXY technology, which converts carbohydrates into furanic building blocks for making renewable materials and fuels. PEF is a new polymer that can be made out of plant material instead of oil; Avantium is targeting the replacement of petroleum-based polyesters as PET with PEF.

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JULY 2, 2010

The Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, held this week in Washington DC, highlighted a range of developing pathways for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels for transportation. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have demonstrated the successful conversion of 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP), to glacial acrylic acid and super-absorbent polymers, marking another milestone in their joint development of technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Borealis, a leading provider of innovative polyolefin solutions; and Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, are entering into strategic co-operation for the production of renewable polypropylene (PP).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

UOP’s Ecofining process produces drop-in hydrocarbon fuel replacements from natural oils. CNPC will evaluate the installation of a demonstration-scale UOP/Eni Ecofining process unit ( earlier post ) for the production of renewable diesel fuel, as well as a larger-scale unit at an existing or new CNPC refinery site. Source: UOP.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Ford is increasing the use of renewable and recyclable materials such as the soy and bio-based seat cushions and seatbacks on the 2010 Ford Taurus. The 2 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles on the road today with bio-foam seats equates to a reduction in petroleum oil usage of approximately 1.5 Click to enlarge. million pounds.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The machine uses thermal cracking, which breaks down the long chains of polymers into shorter chains through the use of heat in the absence of oxygen. Neste has extensive experience of handling low-quality waste and residue raw materials, such as renewable waste and residue oils and fats, and processing them into high-quality products.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The polyesters and other polymers we use everyday are mostly derived from fossil oils made through the refinery or chemical process. The idea of producing polymers from renewable biomass has attracted much attention due to the increasing concerns of environmental problems and the limited nature of fossil resources.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

SDTC support will help Linnaeus advance production of camelina and safflower-based oils as renewable feedstock that can substitute for petroleum in a variety of high-value, non-fuel applications including polymers, lubricants, surfactants and other valuable industrial materials.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Flint Hills Resources Renewables, LLC, a leading US ethanol producer, will become a customer of Edeniq, Inc., Edeniq’s OilPlus corn oil extraction process is also being deployed at one Flint Hills plant and plans call for two others. OilPlus combines mechanical and chemical treatments to improve corn oil recovery.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

The basic New Oil process. Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., New Oil Resources licensed the technology (US Patent 6,180,845 ) in 2009 from Louisiana State University (LSU); the original developers of the process are Drs. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

Dumesic and co-workers have shown that APP can convert dissolved biomass derived compounds (including sugars, sugar alcohols, bio-oils, cellulose or even lignin) into hydrogen, light alkanes, liquid alkanes, and oxygenates. ” Resources. Ning Li, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Taiying Zhang, Jian Shi, Charles E. Wyman and George W.

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MARCH 27, 2009

This marks the first use of DuPont renewably sourced plastic in mechanical components exposed to the hot, chemically aggressive underhood environment. The plant-derived DuPont Zytel 610 nylon resin is making its debut under the hood on DENSO Corporation’s new automotive radiator end-tank. The DENSO radiator end tank with Zytel 610.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

A sustainable material is defined as a bio-based/renewable, recycled material or one that may be produced using or contributing to other sustainable practices for resource conservation and/or emissions reductions including mass-balance materials. Today, eight product lines, and some racing tires, include soybean oil.

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