Chementator: Plastics: A New Use for an Ethanol Coproduct
Corn residue left in fermenters after ethanol production could find a future use as a…
Chementator: More H2 from H2O
QuantumSphere, Inc. (Santa Ana, Calif.; www.qsinano.com) has commercialized electrodes coated with the firm’s Nano NiFe…
Chementator: Monitoring Fermentation
Time consuming and prone to error, microscopy — the manual counting of yeast cells with…
Chementator: A New Valve Seat
Flowserve Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.flowserve.com) has introduced the Valtek Valdisk high-cycle seat, claimed to be…
Chementator: Tiny Buckyball Crystals
Researchers at the University of Surrey (U.K., www.surrey.ac.uk) have discovered a method to make ultra-small,…
Chementator: Carbon-Capture Market
The global market for carbon-capture technologies was worth $88.7 billion in 2007, and is expected…
Chementator: EPA Delays GHG Action
On July 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.) released an Advanced Notice…
Chementator: PEEK Bioreactor Parts
The high salt concentrations, extreme pH values and high temperatures required in biotechnological research on…
Chementator: Dow and NREL Join Forces in a Biomass Gasification Project
A thermochemical process for converting biomass to ethanol, other biofuels and chemical intermediates will be…
Chementator: Bio-Based Polyols
Last month, Cargill (Minneapolis, Min.; www.cargill.com) broke ground in Chicago on a $22-million manufacturing plant…
Chementator: Making Molten Glass ‘on-the-fly’ Can Cut Energy Consumption in Half
A process that makes glass by "zapping" the raw materials with a plasma as they…
Chementator: Concentrating Light to Boost Solar-Energy Efficiency
Engineers at MIT (Cambridge, Mass.; www.mit.edu) are developing solar concentrators that have the potential to…
Chementator: A Well-known Phenomenon Finds a Commercial Application in a Gas Sensor
Optoacoustic gas detection determines gas content via the measurement of acoustic pressure waves that are…
Chementator: An Improved Solar Process for Extracting H2 from Water
The production of hydrogen by water splitting promises to become less expensive through a solar-energy…
Chementator: Honors for Green Chemistry
Among this year’s award winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA; Washington, D.C.) Presidential…
Chementator: Taking Advantage of Landfill Gas
Dow Chemical (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) has started using a renewable energy source — methane from…
Chementator: A New Process for Making Solar-Cell-Grade Silicon Slated for Commercialization
Chisso Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.chisso.co.jp) has established a new joint-venture (JV) company to produce solar…