Bayer has acquired a controlling interest in CoverCress, a company that makes a genetically engineered oilseed cover crop that could be used to produce biodiesel or jet fuel. Cover crops can prevent soil erosion and suppress weeds but usually aren’t harvested and sold. Plug Power has been picked by the energy developer New Fortress to provide equipment for a 120 MW green hydrogen plant on the US Gulf Coast.
August 14, 2022
It will now dispose of the functional solutions and performance intermediates businesses, which make C4 chemicals, isononanol for plasticizers, the biodiesel catalyst sodium methylate, and other products. Evonik will emphasize businesses like nylon 12, used in 3D printing. /business/Evonik-sell-performance-materials-businesses/100/i17 20220514 Concentrates 100 17 /magazine/100/10017.html Evonik to sell performance materials businesses Business, Mergers & acquisitions con bus Alexander H.
by Alexander H. Tullo | May 14, 2022
—Chevron will spend $3.15 billion to buy biobased fuel maker Renewable Energy Group “Biodiesel production will supplement big oil company’s petroleum assets” Chevron has agreed to pay $3.15 billion to acquire Renewable Energy Group (REG), a producer of biobased diesel. The buy will aid the oil and gas firm’s ambition to make 5.8 billion L of renewable fuels per year by 2030 and reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
by Craig Bettenhausen | March 02, 2022
He has directly contributed to the quality of biodiesel and the growth of the biodiesel market to in excess of 3 billion gallons. He has advanced the adoption and standards for ethanol in gasoline. He has also shown that oxygenates including biomass-derived oxygenates can be drop-in fuels for existing vehicle systems.”
by Nina Notman, special to C&EN | January 23, 2022
Orlen’s raw material is glycerin generated during biodiesel production. Propylene glycol is used in consumer products and to deice aircraft. /business/biobased-chemicals/Orlen-opens-biopropylene-glycol-plant/99/i42 20211121 Concentrates 99 42 /magazine/99/09942.html Orlen opens biopropylene glycol plant in Poland propylene glycol, Poland, glycerine con bus Alex Scott business biobased-chemicals environment green-chemistry Orlen will start with glycerin, rather than the more common propylene oxide, to make propylene glycol.
by Alex Scott | November 21, 2021
BASF and Eni will jointly research a catalytic hydrogenation process to make propyl alcohol from glycerin, a by-product of biodiesel production. Propyl alcohol can replace some of or all the gasoline in most engines without modification. Johnson Matthey has bought the assets and intellectual property of the defunct Oxis Energy.
August 07, 2021
Catalyst from the plant will be used in refineries to produce fuels as well as in facilities that make biodiesel and renewable jet fuel. AstraZeneca will acquire exclusive rights to develop and commercialize inhibitors of STING (stimulator of interferon genes) from F-star Therapeutics as cancer therapies.
July 18, 2021
—OMV plans glycerin-to-propanol pilot plant “” OMV will build a pilot facility at its refinery in Schwechat, Austria, that turns glycerin, a by-product of making biodiesel, into propanol. OMV plans to open the $36 million facility in 2023. The move to commercialize the technology, which features a novel catalyst, follows over 5 years of research.
by Alex Scott | March 12, 2021
It is a different fuel than biodiesel, which is made by reacting vegetable oil with methanol to produce methyl esters. Commercial diesel fuels cannot contain more than 20% biodiesel. Under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, fuel companies are required to purchase enough certified low carbon fuel to reduce the carbon intensity of the state’s pool of transportation fuel 20% from 2011 to 2030.
by Melody M. Bomgardner | August 19, 2020