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by Marc S. Reisch | January 21, 2013
—China’s key feedstock: all of the above “With demand still strong, China remains a crucial market for companies producing basic chemicals from methanol, coal, and oil” When the price of oil started to plummet in 2014, many industry watchers assumed China would stop investing in chemical plants that use coal as a feedstock.
by Jean-François Tremblay | March 20, 2017
Neste used its NEXBTL technology to turn the oils into hydrocarbon feedstock. Lyondell mixed the feedstock with conventional hydrocarbons and converted the blend into olefins and then thousands of metric tons of polymer at its Wesseling, Germany, site. The polymers have over 30% renewable content, the firms say.
by Michael McCoy | June 21, 2019
—Isotope Ratio Analysis Traces Feedstock Fingerprints In Drug Syntheses “” Analyzing elements’ isotope ratios can authenticate wines and cheeses, as well as expose clandestine labs where illicit drugs such as cocaine are made. Now, chemists report that this strategy also has the potential to detect the provenance of complex designer-drug mixtures known as bath salts, which provide users with a high but remain legal in many U.S. states.
by Carmen Drahl | September 05, 2011
Depending on its original design, a typical ethylene cracker can take in a range of feedstocks but usually requires capital investment to extend its feed capabilities. Owing to the price incentive, North American petrochemical makers are lightening the feedstock slates as much as their equipment will allow.
by Alexander H. Tullo | March 15, 2010
And that's why he's skeptical about using corn as a feedstock for chemical production or as a fuel source. A century ago, the chemical industry depended on transforming coal and biomass into chemical products. But there is a simple reason why the industry shifted to oil- and natural gas-derived feedstocks, Banholzer says.
by Marc S. Reisch | October 22, 2007
—Environmentally Friendly, Not Just Hot Air “” Using carbon dioxide as a feedstock is an interesting concept. In “More Than Hot Air,” Alex Scott explains how German firms will use CO2 as a feedstock for useful chemicals. Chemical processes using CO2 at more than several 10,000 tons per year had not been revealed for many years after urea manufacturing (C&EN, Nov. 4, 2013, page 20). I would like to introduce an environmentally friendly process using more than 100,000 tons per year of CO2 as a feedstock. The world’s first process, developed by Asahi Kasei (Japan), has already been successfully commercialized. An aromatic polycarbonate (PC) having demand of 3.2 million tons per year for engineering plastics is widely used in our daily lives—for CDs, DVDs, headlamps, mobile phones, cameras, and more. All PC had been produced from CO as a feedstock until 2002; more than 90% had been made by the so-called phosgene process. The phosgene process must use not only highly toxic and corrosive phosgene made from CO and Cl2 but also large quantities of solvents, CH2Cl2—likely to be carcinogenic—and water.
February 10, 2014
—BASF Sets Taiwanese Metal Injection Unit “” BASF will set up a 5,000-metric-ton-per-year plant in Kuanyin, Taiwan, to produce feedstock for metal injection molding. The company expects to open the facility in 2013. Bearing the brand name Catamold, the feedstock enables manufacturers to mold complex metal and ceramic parts as easily as if they were plastic, BASF claims.
by Jean-François Tremblay | December 10, 2012