The researchers are currently working to apply the technique to wood and other biomass
feedstock materials, as well as to better understand and fine - tune the interactions between the PILs and lignin.
Australia Minerals and Mining Group has chosen its Meckering aluminous clay deposit as the key supply of
feedstock material for its HPA chemicals project, which will be located north of Perth.
Australia Minerals and Mining Group has chosen its Meckering aluminous clay deposit as the key supply of
feedstock material for its high purity alumina (HPA) project, which will be located north of Perth.
High quality agaves are very good
feedstock material for biofuel... for the following characteristics: high total sugar density and content; high weight of the fruit and stems; cultivation and harvest cycles of six years; high density of plants per hectare; genetic diversity and high adaptability, low water requirements; CO2 and capture; methane metabolism; soil retention; plant nutrition; products from inulin; and low maintenance during cultivation.
Not exact matches
These recyclables are collected by a single truck and taken to a
Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) to be sorted into various commodity streams for sale to markets, where it is processed into
feedstock which can be used in the manufacture of new products.
The PROTECTOR is installed directly above the
material infeed of the blow molding machine, and reliably separates out impurities beginning from a size of 0,3 mm in the
feedstock, both during initial filling and refilling.
What began in 1989 as a Cargill research project looking for innovative uses of carbohydrates from plants as
feedstock for more sustainable plastics has quickly matured into the innovative
materials for which we are known today.
Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering
materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as
feedstock in commercial methanol production.
Astronauts would only need «
feedstock»
material, such as plastic or metal, to make new tools or spare parts on the fly.
«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide
Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a
feedstock.
Synthetic biology could usher in a new bioeconomy where biomass becomes the primary source of
feedstocks for chemicals and
materials currently manufactured from crude oil and natural gas.
Most
feedstock chemicals — raw
materials used in manufacturing a product — come from oil or natural gas.
The researchers also tested the different microbes» performance with minimal pretreatment of the plant
materials, indicating it may be possible to reduce or eliminate use of heat and chemicals that make the
feedstock accessible to biological processing.
Future studies will explore different
feedstocks, particularly those from biorefineries, and correlations among processing conditions,
material structure and performance.
Industries that use coal as a
feedstock for manufacturing plastics, fertilizers, and other chemicals need such
materials, and scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to oblige.
The process would also generate solid byproduct
materials that leach less contaminants, making them more stable than the original coal fly ash used as
feedstock for the process.
A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one - pot process to produce gasoline - grade (C6 — C18) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)-- an energy storage
material formed from renewable
feedstock in many bacterial species.
While previous methods used county - level slash data to estimate the amount of wood residue available as a
feedstock, the new research reported in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy, uses more refined data on demand from individual sawmills, said Natalie Martinkus, one of the authors of the paper and an assistant professor in WSU's Composite
Materials and Engineering Center.
Throughout the course of this study, the teams compiled an extensive library of experimental and theoretical data including electronic, magnetic, optical, photoelectrochemical, and structural properties, which are now used as
feedstock in
material genome work and near - term development of superior PEC
materials through
materials - by - design techniques.
The
feedstock for the new process is levulinic acid, which can be produced by chemical processing of
materials such as straw, corn stalks or even municipal green waste.
According to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, «although polymers are manufactured from petroleum
feedstock, plastics manufacturers often use additives of animal origin to improve
material properties and / or to aid in processing of raw polymers.»
Indeed, NatureWorks» commitment to responsible innovation means there is a long term plan is to transition the current raw
material supply to one which uses a new carbohydrate
feedstock.
One major step on the pathway to a circular economy is finding ways to transform waste
materials into
feedstock for other products, whether that's as a raw
material for production, or as a «fuel» for generating energy.
So the company spend a lot of time, energy and money sourcing recycled
feedstock, getting it processed into footwear grade
materials, and supplying it to shoemakers.
The facility is a two ton per day biorefinery which uses corn stover as
feedstock — meaning the residual corn leaves, husks, and stalks left after harvest are used as the raw
materials from which the fuel is derived.
Byproduct: A secondary or additional product resulting from the
feedstock use of energy or the processing of nonenergy
materials.
Feedstocks can include more durable
material such as woody biomass and wastes that are not broken down in traditional anaerobic digester plants.
Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the
feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic
materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.
biomass the total quantity of living matter in a particular habitat; plant and organic waste
materials used as fuel and
feedstock in place of fossil fuels
Under the Agreement, CMT will pursue a least - cost strategy for
feedstock supply made possible by the project site's proximity to
feedstock sources and the flexibility of BlueFire's process to use a wide spectrum of cellulosic waste
materials in pure or mixed forms.
Beyond their uses as fuels, oil and natural gas serve as the
feedstocks for thousands of products like medical devices, cellphones, clothing, building
materials and pharmaceuticals.
Cement production is either «wet» or «dry», depending on the water content of the
material feedstock.
Options for mitigation of GHG emissions from industry fall into the following categories: energy efficiency, emissions efficiency (including fuel and
feedstock switching, carbon dioxide capture and storage),
material efficiency (for example through reduced yield losses in production), re ‐ use of
materials and recycling of products, more intensive and longer use of products, and reduced demand for product services.
With more than 130 million tons being landfilled, considerable opportunity remains to recover
material and keep it in the economy as a
feedstock to make new products.
Hydrogen from the waste and many cheaper catalysts move the processes by which the «
feedstock» raw
materials are converted into the oily products.
Each facility will deploy the proprietary technology, which uses all cellulosic waste
materials traditionally disposed of in landfills as
feedstock.
Since a large part of industry fossil fuel use is for
feedstock, to manufacture plastics and other
materials, increased recycling can reduce
feedstock needs.
Fossils fuels are the
feedstock for the petrochemical ndustries (sometimes called the chemical process industries), which manufacture everything from A to Z, such as tough synthetic fibers and exotic
material suchas silicones and Teflon.
Conventional ethanol production is energy - intensive, expensive, and time - consuming as the barley malt or other
material being brewed needs to be heated up as a mash in
feedstock pre-treatment.
The waste
feedstocks for the process will most likely come from a mixture of sources ranging from food scraps and other household
material such as grass and tree cuttings, to agricultural and industrial waste.
Pentatonic is tapping in to this waste stream for
feedstock for its products, which are intended to be truly «circular» in nature, by virtue of being made from 100 % recycled
materials, being fully recyclable, and coming with a lifetime buy - back guarantee.
This approach can be extended to a complete industrial ecosystem, e.g. recycling «waste» outputs from industrial and agricultural processes as
feedstock or energy inputs for other industries and users - cascading and integrating to increase overall
materials and energy efficiency, and, where possible topping up with renewables to drive the system.
We take in biodegradable
materials and use them as
feedstocks and amendments in the manufacture of a branded line of compost products.