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• BASF to strengthen competitiveness of its Performance Products segment

  BASF is taking a number of steps to strengthen the competitiveness of its Performance Products segment. The segment bundles BASF’s businesses with chemicals that improve the properties of many different end-user products. The portfolio includes ingredients for personal care, cosmetics, pharmaceutica more

• Low-carbon hybrid energy systems -- China's future energy solutions
  

  A low-carbon solution to high-carbon energy resources such as coal is proposed by their high efficient integration with either nuclear or renewable energy, which may figure out the strategic solution to China's future energy development. Coal dominated energy resource and consumption structure in Ch more

• New freeform standards to support scanning coordinate measurement machines

  The National Physical Laboratory, the UK's National Measurement Institute, has developed a new range of three dimensional standards for verifying freeform coordinate measurement machines (CMMs). The standard allows the verification of portable and fixed non-contact coordinate measuring systems such more

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• Compressor Oils for the Chemical Industry

  The chemical industry relies on very special processing to manufacture many of its products and often times include the use of compressors to achieve the special process conditions required. The selection of a lubricant is not always as easy as relying on the equipment manufacturer's recommendations. This issue of the Molykote Smart Lubrication Series highlights some of the potential scenarios that can occur and why selecting the best lubricant is so important for compressors used in the Chemical Industry. The Molykote product line has in it, specialty oils designed for many of these exact applications more

• Do you see the complete picture?
  

  Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) or also named size exclusion chromatography (SEC) is the most often used method for determining the molecular weight of natural and synthetic macromolecules. One specific strength of this method lies in the fact that by the separation process the whole molecular weight distribution is obtained. The molecular weight distribution contains much larger information for the characterization of polymer samples compared to a single value. more

• Accurate Mass and TIPTM: Two Dimensions for Elemental Composition Determination: microTOFTM Featuring Unique TIPTM
  

  The ESI-TOF mass spectrometers micrOTOF and micrOTOF focus do not only provide accurate mass measurements but additionally describe the True Isotopic Pattern TIPTM. For molecular formula generation this unique combination significantly reduces the number of possible formula candidates and the elemental composition of compounds with molecular weights far higher than 500 Da can unequivocally be determined more

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• Complex organic molecules are released during thermal reduction of graphite oxides

  Thermal exfoliation and deoxygenation of graphite oxide is one of the major routes for the preparation of large quantities of graphene-based materials. It is commonly believed that thermal exfoliation leads to the release of H2O, CO and CO2 gases. Here we show for the first time that in addition to more

• Reduction of carbon monoxide by a tetrakis(aryloxide)diniobium complex having four bridging hydrides

  The use of a sterically demanding aryloxide ligand allows us to isolate a tetrakis(aryloxide)diniobium complex bridged by four hydride ligands. This hydride aryloxide undergoes reduction of CO via hydrogenation and deoxygenation, resulting in formation of a methylidene species. Further carbonylation more

• Tandem cathode for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

  The efficiency of proton exchange membrane fuel cells is limited mainly by the oxygen reduction reaction at the cathode. The large cathodic overpotential is caused by correlations between binding energies of reaction intermediates in the reduction of oxygen to water. This work introduces a novel tan more

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• US Deficit Reduction Plans Affecting Profitability of the Petrochemical Industry

  Introduction A recent energy speech by US president Barack Obama outlining government intentions to increase fossil fuel tax – citing the fiscal deficit and political unrest in the Middle East as reasons and rejecting the solution of increased domestic crude oil production – has evoked a strong re more

• Monomer World - May 2011

  Introduction The global monomer industry experienced a significant reduction in demand for downstream derivatives in May 2011. In most regions, this reduced demand caused the prices of monomers to significantly decrease. Shell’s Pulau Bukom (Singapore) ethylene and propylene unit are operational on more

• Global and China 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) Industry Report, 2010-2011

  1, 4-butanediol (BDO) is an important raw material for basic organic chemicals and fine chemicals. Subject to the financial crisis, the global BDO capacity has showed sluggish growth, up merely 3.7% year on year in 2010. Due to high technology thresholds and limited raw material sources, the BDO pro more

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