Sentences with phrase «production volume chemicals»

«The research group focused on three or four different catalytic reactions used in high production volume chemicals, including this one for producing a precursor to nylon, which as an industry has enormous applications,» said Slowing, who is also an adjunct assistant professor of chemistry at Iowa State University.

Because of this, Trasande said, less than half of the 3,000 high - production volume chemicals on the marketplace have toxicity data, and less than one - fifth have toxicity testing data on the effects on developing organs.

Not exact matches

One of the highest - volume chemicals in commercial production, it's the starting material used to make polycarbonate plastics.

The discovery is discussed in «Chemical Analysis of Glass Beads from Igbo Olokun, Ile - Ife (SW Nigeria): New Light on Raw Materials, Production and Interregional Interactions,» which will appear in an upcoming volume of the Journal of Archaeological Science.

«Our technological achievement rests upon the straightforward implementation of a seemingly real - time, microfluidic - based readout of microRNA sequences of interest, handling down to a few microliters of target volume,» explained Filippo Causa, an associate professor of industrial bioengineering in the Department of Chemical, Materials Engineering, and Industrial Production at the University of Naples Federico II.

The improved enzyme gave a 53 % increase in daily production volume and a 19 % reduction in total cost, as compared to the chemical approach conventionally used to synthesize sitagliptin.

Importantly, the white graphene is produced in a standard atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition process, which Stehle and her colleagues believe could easily be scaled up to commercial production volume levels at a reasonable cost.

We utilized bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) to detect and quantify assembly of the methyl farnesoate receptor (MfR) in response to various high - production volume and other chemicals.

Despite disruptions from this year's historic Hurricane Harvey, chemical production volumes continued to improve in 2017, with significant gains expected in 2018 and 2019.

ACC's Global CPRI measures the production volume of the chemical industry for 33 key nations, sub-regions, and regions, all aggregated to the world total.

Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, stimulates gas production by injecting wells with high volumes of chemical - laced water in order to free - up pockets of natural gas below.

The OECD is still in the information gathering and data review stage of assessing these chemicals under the high production volume (HPV) chemicals program.