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Evonik Breaks Ground On Major Silica Expansion At Charleston Site
10/1/2024
Evonik, a global leader in silica production, is pleased to announce the groundbreaking of a significant expansion at its Charleston site in South Carolina’s Berkeley County. This new development will boost the production capacity of precipitated silica by 50%, catering to the increasing demand from the tire industry, particularly for green tires in the U.S.
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Next Wave And Lummus Produce World's First Renewable Alkylate
10/1/2024
Lummus Technology and Next Wave Energy Partners, LP (Next Wave) announced the production of the world’s first renewable alkylate. This renewable alkylate, derived from ethanol and produced through a series of Lummus’ technologies, is a bio-based, low carbon intensity fuel blending component.
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New Insights In CO2 Conversion With Electricity
9/27/2024
Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering, led by Georgios Katsoukis, have discovered how the chemical environment around copper electrodes can dramatically influence the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into formate.
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Charles Ross & Son Company Announces The Passing Of Richard Ross
9/26/2024
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Richard Ross, former president of Charles Ross & Son Company, on September 14, 2024. Rich was a visionary leader who played an instrumental role in shaping the company’s future and global success.
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Affordable Iron Catalysts Offer A Sustainable Route To Prized Z-Alkenes
9/26/2024
Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an iron-catalysed method that overcomes a significant challenge in the sustainable synthesis of trisubstituted Z-alkenes by inserting two alkyl chemical groups into a type of compound called allenes.
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Scientists Discover A Single-Electron Bond In A Carbon-Based Compound
9/26/2024
Covalent bonds, in which two atoms are bound together by sharing a pair of electrons, form the scaffolding that underpins the majority of organic compounds. In 1931, the Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling suggested that covalent bonds made from just a single, unpaired electron could exist, but these single-electron bonds would likely be much weaker than a standard covalent bond involving a pair of electrons.
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Air Liquide To Invest 60 Million Euros To Support The Development Of Wanhua Chemical Group In China
9/26/2024
Air Liquide will invest close to 60 million euros to take over and operate an Air Separation Unit (ASU) within the context of a long-term contract with Wanhua Chemical Group (Wanhua), a global leading supplier of chemical innovative products, in the city of Yantai, China.
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Providing Pre-FEED For e-Methanol Facility
9/25/2024
We’ve entered into an agreement with Liquid Wind to provide design and engineering services for the development of the NorthStarH2 e-methanol facility in Östersund, Sweden.
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Researchers Synthesize High-Energy-Density Cubic Gauche Nitrogen At Atmospheric Pressure
9/24/2024
Recently, a research group led by Prof. WANG Xianlong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, synthesized high-energy-density materials cubic gauche nitrogen (cg-N) at atmospheric pressure by treating potassium azide (KN3) with the plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition technique (PECVD).
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Mitsui Chemicals Launches Effort To Implement Chemical Recycling Technology For MR Ophthalmic Lens Materials
9/24/2024
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. made an announcement today regarding the development of a new technology that chemically recycles shavings and waste lenses generated from the production and processing of MR ophthalmic lens materials so that they may be repurposed into MR ophthalmic lens materials.