Cyclopentane makes important contribution to energy efficiency

30-Jul-2021

With the completion of the new hydrogenation plant at the German site in Speyer, Haltermann Carless will become the largest Cyclopentane producer worldwide. New capacity volumes will be available to the market from Q1 2022. Haltermann Carless, a company of HCS Group and a leading supplier of ...

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Elastocaloric materials enable more efficient, 'green' cooling

26-Mar-2015

Move over, vapor compression cooling technology. Emerging "elastocaloric" refrigeration is potentially much more efficient and, unlike vapor compression, relies on environmentally-friendly refrigerants. In elastocaloric materials a change in mechanical stress can create a change in temperature.In ...

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Now experts warn against nanosilver

03-Mar-2014

Endocrine disrupters are not the only worrying chemicals that ordinary consumers are exposed to in everyday life. Also nanoparticles of silver, found in e.g. dietary supplements, cosmetics and food packaging, now worry scientists. A new study from the University of Southern Denmark shows that ...

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28-Aug-2013

A new study published in the journal Nature Materials has found a way to suppress the thermal conductivity in sodium cobaltate so that it can be used to harvest waste energy. Led by scientists at Royal Holloway University, the team conducted a series of experiments on crystals of sodium cobaltate ...

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Sales of approximately €8.5 billion in 2012 from new products

08-May-2013

BASF had sales of approximately €8.5 billion in 2012 from new products that have been on the market for less than five years. “Our research Verbund has increased its innovative strength to a new level of performance in 2012,” said Dr. Andreas Kreimeyer, member of the Board of Executive Directors ...

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11-Jun-2010

Researchers at Oregon State University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a new way to apply nanostructure coatings to make heat transfer far more efficient, with important potential applications to high tech devices as well as the conventional heating and cooling ...

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BASF researchers cooperate with Delta Electronics, Inc.

27-Aug-2009

BASF and Delta Electronics, Inc. want to use environmentally friendly magnetocaloric technology to develop new cooling systems and explore the opportunities of magnetocaloric power generation. The cooperation partners are working on materials and prototypes for cooling systems and power ...

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14-Jan-2008

Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of ...

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01-Oct-2007

The technology company SCHOTT AG, based in Germany, officially opened its first manufacturing site in Russia together with its Belgian joint venture partner AGC Flat Glass Europe. SCHOTT Flat Glass Russia processes flat glass for international and local manufacturers of ovens and refrigerators in ...

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Global MDI production capacity exceeds one million tons

03-Aug-2006

Bayer MaterialScience AG has a global annual capacity of more than one million tons for the production of the polyurethane raw material diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI). The company has now increased its capacity in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, by a further 36,000 t/y by introducing a number of ...

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