Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'chemical'
A corny car
Sue, my colleague, found this picture of a corn built car on the Gas 2.0 blog in a post about Dow Chemical and Ford Motor Co and the future of fuels and motoring....
ICIS chemial business has biofuels feature
ICIS Chemical Bsiness, my old publication, has a feature on biofuels this week and is worth checking out....
Driving around from chemical plant to chemical plant
There's probably only a limited appeal for this but my colleague, Barbera, over on Chemical Confidential has a number of drives between or too chemicals plants, some with maps....
Could methanol be the new ethanol?
Could methanol be the new ethanol in a couple of years time. I ask the question because my good pal, John Richardson, over on the Asian Chemicals Connection blog has an interesting post about a surfeit of methanol due from...
Comparative econonmics of first and second generation biofuels
A study in the comparative economics of first and second generation biofuels has been published in Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining, a Society of Chemical Industry journal. The key finding in the paper from Mark Wright and Robert Brown, of the...
Cargill and Ashland in biofuel chemicals jv
Cargill and Ashland will announce later today at the Bio conference in Boston that they plan to form a 50:50 joint venture to produce chemicals from biofuels waste. In a joint press statement (which is not yet on either firm's...
Historical perspective 1
One man's meat is another man's poison as the saying goes. And that's fine, but the trouble with biofuels is that very often that one man's biofuel is another man's supper and potentially a third man's chemical feedstock. Although chemicals...
If only things were simple
Here’s an interesting take on the idea that biodiesel production uses chemicals, and that these are contained in biodiesel. How else are they going to make it? It doesn’t quite grow on trees....
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