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Supply shortages drive olefin market profitability (Chemicals & The Economy)
The above chart would have seemed unbelievable at any time in the past 30 years. It shows the performance of propylene and butadiene relative to ethylene. Not because it shows butadiene prices racing ahead relative to ethylene (green line). This...
sugarmake
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kilomentor
<p class="">Although mixtures of carboxylic acids or mixtures of amines are each fit for separations based on extractions at controlled pHs, most functional groups are not so easy to isolate from each other. Kilomentor thinks a good deal about how to simplify separating molecules with the same
Coskata looking at bio-propylene
The blog normally does not cover IPOs (initial public offerings) filed by biofuel companies given that there are so many biofuel companies out there. But the one thing that caught the green blog's attention in their $100m IPO announcement is...
A quick recovery for butadiene (Asian Chemical Connections)
By Malini Hariharan Asian butadiene prices are once again on their way up, rising over 20% in the last two weeks. Prices last week were at $1,900/tonne cfr Northeast Asia, up from a low of $1,500-1,600/tonne cfr Northeast Asia in...
China looks for LPG (Asian Chemical Connections)
By Malini Hariharan The blog has been trying to get more information on what's driving Chinese interest in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-based petrochemical projects. Plans for eight propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plants have already been announced and more could be in...
PDH spreads in China (Asian Chemical Connections)
By Malini Hariharan After methanol-to-propylene (MTP), Chinese companies are racing to build propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plants with eight new projects announced over the last three months. The blog estimates that PDH projects with a total propylene capacity of 4.6m tonnes/year...
Amyris and Michelin in bio-isoprene
ICIS Green Chemicals Monitoring the development of green within the chemical industry Amyris and Michelin in bio-isoprene By Doris de Guzman on September 28, 2011 1:01 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks Okay, let's start with this one after numerous "green chemical-related" press releases (and
First bio-EPDM rubber by Lanxess
I have been working on this week's news roundup when I came across Lanxess' news today about its planned bio-based EPDM (ethylene-propylene-diene) monomer production in Brazil using sugarcane as feedstock for the ethylene component. Braskem will supply the bio-ethylene...
The Benzene Versus Propylene Debate (Asian Chemical Connections)
By John Richardson SHELL Chemicals put an argument forward last week that polystyrene (PS) had regained ground from polypropylene (PP) as a result of expensive propylene. And the petrochemicals major forecast a bright future for both PS and expandable...
