Headwaters Technology Innovation receives Presidential Green Chemistry Award
The technology, called NxCat(TM), is a palladium-platinum catalyst that eliminates all the hazardous reaction conditions and chemicals of the existing process, along with its undesirable byproducts. It produces H2O2 more efficiently, cutting both energy use and costs. It uses innocuous, renewable feedstocks and generates no toxic waste. NxCat(TM) catalysts work because of their precisely controlled surface morphology. Except for its historically higher price, H2O2 is an excellent substitute for the more frequently used - and far more deleterious - chlorinated oxidants. The NxCat(TM) technology has the benefit of producing a cost effective, environmentally preferable oxidant (H2O2), and is expected to be the oxidant of choice for synthesis of major industrial chemicals.
In partnership with Degussa AG, HTI has demonstrated its technology and is preparing to begin commercial production in 2009.
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