As a nuclear chemist, he has identified various species of mercury in radioactive waste. As an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, he serves on the board of directors for the Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity at Johns Hopkins University, represents the professional society Out to Innovate on the ACS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect Experts Panel, and is the management sponsor for the Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Employees and Allies Association at the SRNL.
by Kieran Tarazona Carrillo, special to C&EN | January 29, 2023
In November, the start-up Nano One Materials finalized the purchase of the old Phostech LFP plant in Montreal, promising to introduce a manufacturing process that will require less energy and produce less waste than existing methods. Geoffroy, now Nano One’s chief commercialization officer, has returned to the factory to pilot the new process and scale it up.
by Matt Blois | January 29, 2023
The Commission also awarded the German energy firm RWE $118 million to help build FUREC, a $650 million project in the Netherlands to convert waste into green hydrogen. /business/finance/US-green-subsidies-draw-European/101/i4 20230126 US Inflation Reduction Act will take cleantech investment away from Europe, EU says Concentrates 101 4 /magazine/101/10104.html US green subsidies draw European angst finance, climate change, subsidies, cleantech, incentives con bus Alex Scott business finance environment climate-change US incentives “might make a difference” when it comes to capacity expansions, says Wacker, which operates a polysilicon plant at its site complex in Charleston, Tennessee.
by Alex Scott | January 26, 2023
Farmers raised concerns at the hearing that requirements related to soil moisture would waste water resources that are in short supply and make the fumigant less effective. 1,3-D is widely used in California to kill nematodes and other pests in soil before strawberries and other crops are planted. The pesticide is prohibited in many countries, including those in the European Union.
by Britt E. Erickson | January 26, 2023
And they need to know that urea is the main by-product in urine before you claim that it is going to waste. Even then, one- liners might not fly. “Some classes, they just roll over on the floor laughing with humor. And others, they just sit there roll their eyes and scratch their heads,” he says. Hopefully, though, humor will help get students’ attention, he says.
by Andrea Widener | January 21, 2023
—Borealis gets majority of recycling firm “” Borealis has acquired a controlling interest in the Belgium-based recycler Renasci, which operates a pyrolysis plant in Oostende, Belgium, that breaks down waste plastics into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Borealis acquired a 10% interest in the company in 2021 and has upped its stake to just over 50%.
by Alexander H. Tullo | January 21, 2023
Last, we must reduce food waste using innovative and safe food packaging and preservation technologies while converting unavoidable food waste to valuable products. A key theme in the summit discussions was that innovation to address these complex challenges requires chemists and chemical engineers from every discipline to consider how their expertise can be applied to agriculture and be willing to engage across academia-industry-government boundaries.
by Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal and Jitesh Soares, ACS staff | January 21, 2023
This is an encouraging way to solve the plastic waste problem. These bottles are to be returned to retailers or redemption centers. However, the experience in California has been poor because retailers are not required to redeem these bottles, and most redemption centers have been closed. In my hometown of 80,000 people, there is no redemption center, and only one store has a machine that will redeem a bottle, but it pays only to your PayPal account.
January 20, 2023
M2X’s modular reactor makes methanol (CH3OH) from flare gas, a methane (CH4) waste stream from petroleum production and some industrial processes. Flare gas is normally burned or vented, releasing the equivalent of over 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and wasting more methane than the total imported by Germany, France, and the Netherlands each year, according to the International Energy Agency.
by Craig Bettenhausen | January 20, 2023
The firms intend to use ethanol and soybean oil as raw materials at first and hope to eventually move to using agricultural and other waste. The US deal follows a similar move made by Henkel in Europe in March, when it agreed to purchase 440,000 t of renewable surfactants from BASF plants in the European Union over 4 years.
by Craig Bettenhausen | January 20, 2023