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By Milica Folić, Product Line Director | Clean Fuels & Chemicals, Topsoe and  Maria Jesus Lorences Perez, Senior Product Line Director | Hydrotreating Catalyst, Topsoe Special to The Digest For over a century, refineries have mastered the art of processing fossil fuels. However, the emerging field of converting renewable feedstocks into transportation fuels, such as […]

New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Ji Liang from Tianjin University, China, systematically introduced the research progress on the preparation of nitrate/nitrite by ammonia electro-oxidation reaction and proposed different strategies to enhance the electrocatalytic performance of the catalysts by modulating their composition and structure to inhibit the side reactions and electrode corrosion in the…

An MIT battery material could offer a more sustainable way to power electric cars. The lithium-ion battery includes a cathode based on organic materials, instead of cobalt or nickel.

It not only reduces the sand that's required but finds a new use for the 60 million tons of coffee grounds that are dumped every year.

By Chuck Sorenson, Ph.D., P.E., Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest Conventional jet fuel is made in oil refineries by a variety of processes that convert crude oil into intermediate streams that boil within the allowable range of jet fuel. These intermediates, called kerosene, are then blended together so that the final product meets […]

Europe's busiest commercial waterway is being closely watched after dryness last summer left it effectively unnavigable.

Several companies have announced plans to build ammonia crackers to use ammonia as a hydrogen carrier. However, do they make sense as long as existing ammonia facilities run on fossil-based hydrogen?

Lack of industry knowledge, safety processes detailed as reasons behind the blast.

Professor Kotohiro Nomura's research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University developed two high-performance catalysts for efficient synthesis of value-added chemicals (fine chemicals, monomers) from polyester and vegetable oil. Their major finding is that simply heating a mixture of polyester and alcohol could convert the solution into raw materials. Their research is published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry &…

In Brazil, Riograndense Refinery (RPR) successfully performed the co-processing test of 5% biomass pyrolysis oil or bio-oil (non-food biomass raw material) with mineral load. In this way, the refinery, located in Rio Grande (RS), which has corporate interests of Petrobras, Ultra and Braskem, was the first in the country able to produce cellulosic-content fuels. Based […]

Hydrogen is pitched as an energy and climate solution in California, but research suggests it comes with risks, and still creates emissions.

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Now, here is a strange thing. One of the most important drivers of perhaps the largest industrial chemical reaction has never been observed in over 100 years of study.

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Automakers have been fighting to eliminate Engine knock since the days of the Model T.

Using green hydrogen to produce zero-carbon electricity is not realistic, says the author, especially with 500+ MWe super-heavy gas turbines.

No injuries were reported after a fire on Thursday morning at Valero Energy Corp's Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery, a company spokesperson said. Corpus...

Miranda McDermott is dreading winter. With home heating costs forecast to reach their highest levels in more than 10 years, McDermott of Allegheny Township said her family can't afford to pay monthly heating bills in full. "Our average heating bill is $800," McDermott said. "We have wood chopped and ready