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St1 Nordic Refinery Uses Honeywell Technology To Produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel
10/15/2024
Honeywell has today announced that the St1 Refinery has started using Honeywell’s Ecofining technology to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The biorefinery in Gothenburg, Sweden will provide SAF to regional airlines, including Braathens Regional Airlines.
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York U Researchers Develop New Technique To Measure Previously Undetected Airborne PFAS
10/9/2024
For decades, scientists knew there was a huge swath of undetected and unaccounted for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the atmosphere, often referred to as PFAS dark matter, but no one knew how much was missing or how to measure them.
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Unveiling A New Technique For Preparing Ionic Liquid-Based Membranes For Mixture Separation
10/9/2024
Separating mixtures into their constituent substances is essential in many fields. For example, mixture separation plays a key role in the petrochemical industry, as well as in chemical purification and synthesis plants.
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Bubble Findings Could Unlock Better Electrode And Electrolyzer Designs
10/8/2024
Industrial electrochemical processes that use electrodes to produce fuels and chemical products are hampered by the formation of bubbles that block parts of the electrode surface, reducing the area available for the active reaction. Such blockage reduces the performance of the electrodes by anywhere from 10 to 25 percent.
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Energy Vector For Decentralized Hydrogen Supply
10/8/2024
Ammonia plays an important role as a transport and storage medium in the hydrogen economy. Promising solutions for its use as an energy vector are currently being developed in the Fraunhofer flagship project AmmonVektor.
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Rushnu Signs Two Agreements To Demonstrate Its Unique Combined Carbon Capture - Green Chemicals Production Technology
10/8/2024
Rushnu, a carbon capture and green chemical production company based at Daybreak Labs in Livermore, CA, has signed two pilot host agreements with Silicon Valley Clean Water (SVCW) and the City of Livermore.
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New Insights Into Ammonia Decomposition
10/8/2024
Using ammonia is regarded as a promising method of transporting hydrogen. However, an efficient process is also needed to convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen.
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Molecule 'Handedness' Determines The Strength Of A Coupling Between Nuclear Spins
10/8/2024
The strength of a coupling between nuclear spins depends on chirality, or handedness, of the molecule, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA, Arizona State University, Penn State, MIT and Technische Universität Dresden.
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UC Irvine-Led Team Engineers New Enzyme To Produce Synthetic Genetic Material
10/8/2024
A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid.
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Imperative Chemical Partners Expands Midstream Services Through Acquisition Of Performance Chemical Company
10/7/2024
Imperative Chemical Partners, Inc. ("Imperative") today announced the acquisition of Performance Chemical Company ("PCC"), a leading provider of specialty chemical solutions primarily serving midstream and production operators in the oil and gas industry.