Sentences with phrase «petrochemical feedstock»
As we mentioned awhile back, paper vs. plastic is not just about renewable vs. petrochemical feedstock or compostable vs. hundreds of years in the landfill.
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The fuel has already replaced oil as a petrochemical feedstock, home heating fuel and in electricity generation.
Although Borregaard's vanillin is considered artificial by regulators, many food makers prefer it to vanillin made from petrochemical feedstocks because it is considered sustainable, says Amie Byholt, the company's U.S. director for sales and marketing.
This has been the mainstay of gas phase conversions of petrochemical feedstocks for decades - now it is beginning to demonstrate its worth in liquid phase synthetic chemistry.
Our nation's world - class refineries provide fuels and petrochemical feedstocks needed to manufacture thousands of everyday products, such as plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers and more.
Yet the growth in oil demand from trucks has outpaced all other sectors — including passenger cars, aviation, industry and petrochemical feedstocks — since 2000 and contributed 40 % to global oil demand growth, a similar contribution as cars.
Some fossil fuels may be used for other purposes which do not involve combustion, eg as petrochemical feedstocks.
Not exact matches
The shale - growth - driven natural gas output is expected to bring benefits to the petrochemical industry as manufacturers will continue to enjoy low - cost feedstock for plants in and close to areas where shale gas and natural gas plant liquids production is abundant.
The upcoming restart of a giant petrochemical complex in Fujian province could further intensify competition among regional end - users to secure ultra-light crude feedstocks.
Investing in Iran includes enormous political risks, but there are major advantages for international petrochemical investors, including low - cost steam cracker feedstocks and access to the European and Asian markets.
Ghana's new status as a producer and exporter of petroleum, he said, offers the perfect opportunity to create a petrochemical industry, including monetising the country's gas to create a multibillion dollar gas feedstock industry.
It is unfortunate that we will oxidize a lot of it for electricity production versus using its chemical properties for higher added - value petrochemical and chemical feedstock uses.
This growing source of feedstock has made it more economically attractive to produce petrochemicals here in the United States.
The idea is to only use oil for feedstock to produce petrochemical products and not fuel that is burned in the air.
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.