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New Photodegradable Polymer Could Promise Cleaner Seas

To address plastic pollution plaguing the world's seas and waterways, Cornell University chemists have developed a new polymer that can degrade by ultraviolet radiation, according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

21 Apr 2020

Solar Device Generates Cooling Load Without Electricity

Heating and cooling of space is a standard requirement in a majority of the inhabited regions. Europe’s energy consumption on air conditioning is increasing, and this situation is likely to become worse in the days to come because of the rise in temperature in different parts of the world.

24 Mar 2020

New Model can Pave Way for Cleaner, More Efficient Transport Fuels

Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a simple, economical, and fast technique for modeling the combustion properties of gasoline.

10 Mar 2020

Scientists Examine the Effect of Palm-Oil Biodiesel on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Despite the rising controversy over the sustainability of vegetable oil biofuels, these products are increasingly being utilized as a substitute for fossil fuels.

28 Feb 2020

Novel Method Improves Production of Chemicals from Biomass

A team of researchers, which included doctoral student FUJIWARA Ryosuke, Associate Professor TANAKA Tsutomu (both from the Graduate School of Engineering of Kobe University) and Research Scientist NODA Shuhei (from RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science), has successfully improved the production of target chemicals from biomass.

26 Feb 2020

Kipp & Zonen ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited Calibration Service

We are proud to announce that the radiometric calibration laboratory at our factory in Delft, the Netherlands has been accredited to the EN ISO/IEC 17025 quality management standard for the sensitivity calibration of our pyranometers and pyrheliometers.

From Kipp & Zonen 14 Feb 2020

Replacing Petroleum with Wood in Chemical Industry to Reduce CO2 Emissions

At KU Leuven, an interdisciplinary team including economists and bio-engineers has delineated ways to use wood as an alternative to petroleum in the chemical industry.

14 Feb 2020

Water-Separation Membrane Efficiently Converts CO2 into Methanol

An efficient and multipurpose chemical, methanol is used as fuel for producing an unlimited number of products. By contrast, carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that is regarded as an undesirable byproduct resulting from several industrial processes.

7 Feb 2020

DMC Biotech Completes Successful Pilot of L-Alanine

DMC Biotechnologies has successfully produced its lead product, L-alanine at pilot scale. Commercial key performance metrics were achieved and performance from the bench scale was also demonstrated at 3m3scale fermentation and for each of the downstream purification unit operations.

From DMC Biotechnologies, Inc. 7 Feb 2020

New Tool for Sugarcane Farmers to Help the Great Barrier Reef

In a world first, sugarcane farmers in far north Queensland have a new app by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, that will help them manage fertiliser use and reduce nitrogen runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef.

20 Jan 2020