Biofuel made from coconut oil

Coconut-blend fuel vs. jet fuel: Engines can’t distinguish, the environment can

27-Aug-2026 - With airlines and consumers increasingly concerned about carbon, nitrogen, and hydrocarbon emissions, biofuels have emerged as a green alternative. Among these, those made from coconut oils are particularly attractive as they have fatty acid chain lengths similar to the hydrocarbon chain lengths ...

Advancements in Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) Technology Pave the Way for Novel Applications From Ethylene, to Polymers, Syngas and Even Diamonds

Tough competition of outstanding innovations unveiled at the CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2024

09-Apr-2024 - This year's nominees for the innovation award “Best CO2-Utilisation 2024” prove that CO2 innovations can be used to produce syngas, polymers, organic fatty acids, ethylene, renewable isopropyl alcohol (IPA), but also aviation fuels and diamonds. The award is one of the highlights of the CO2-based ...

Paper or plastic?

Rigid waterproof coating for paper aims to reduce our dependence on plastic

17-May-2022 - For our sake and the environment, there is a considerable amount of research into the reduction of plastic for many and various applications. For the first time, researchers have found a way to imbue relatively sustainable paper materials with some of the useful properties of plastic. This can be ...

Novel hybrid nanocages for faster catalysis

Hybrid bio-nanocages could effectively catalyze reactions to yield industrially important products

26-Jan-2022 - A novel hybrid ferritin nanocage with histidine residues shows 1.5 times higher metal ion uptake and improved catalytic efficiency for alcohol production, find researchers from Tokyo Tech in a new study. Their findings suggest that hybrid bio-nanocages could effectively catalyze reactions to ...

Nouryon to build state-of-the-art hydroperoxide facility in Ningbo, China

Annual capacity for 35,000 tons of TBHP/TBA

13-Jul-2020 - Nouryon will start development of a world-class manufacturing facility at its current site in Ningbo, China to produce two key intermediates for its organic peroxides business: tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) and tert-Butyl alcohol (TBA). Organic peroxides are essential ingredients in the ...

Chemists find way to create "the building blocks of life"

Turning alcohol into key ingredients for new medicines

30-Jun-2020 - Chemists have found a way to turn alcohol into amino acids, the building blocks of life. In a study published in the journal Nature Chemistry, researchers explained the transformation, which involves selectively identifying and replacing molecular bonds with unprecedented precision. The finding ...

Evonik expands capacity for high-purity C13 alcohol isotridecanol

12-Sep-2019 - Evonik has expanded its production capacity for the high-purity C13 alcohol isotridecanol (ITDA) at the Marl Chemical Park. This will enable the specialty chemicals group to continue to build on its position as one of the world's most important manufacturers of this product, and to grow with its ...

LANXESS significantly expands benzyl alcohol capacity

19-Mar-2019 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is expanding its production capacity for the industrial chemical benzyl alcohol for the global market by around 30 percent. The two-stage expansion of the plant at the German site in Krefeld-Uerdingen is scheduled for completion by the end of 2019. A low ...

Technology clears way for ethanol-derived jet fuel

13-Jun-2018 - ASTM International recently revised ASTM D7566 Annex A5 -- the Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons -- to add ethanol as an approved feedstock for producing alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK). The revision of ASTM D7566 Annex A5 ...

Water mapping around solutes

23-May-2017 - Chemists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a new method that allows them to map changes in the dynamics and structure of water molecules in the vicinity of solutes. With this technique, called terahertz calorimetry, they investigated the properties of the hydration shell of dissolved ...