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Not new, but still a first
When it comes to hydrogen and fuel cells AkzoNobel and NedStack belong to ‘the usual suspects’.
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Incidentlezing Shell – Rijswijk en Jaarvergadering Nederlandse Procestechnologen
Het incident met de MSPO-II fabriek in Juni 2014 heeft een enorme impact gehad.
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Reversed photosynthesis in fuel production
Researchers in Denmark claim that they have found a process that should make it possible to transform methane into methanol by a clean sun driven process.
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Step closer to large scale production of green benzene
A year ago ECN proudly announced the production of the first liter of bio-BTX. Now they are going a step further.
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Ammonia as a super battery
Nuon and Delft technical university are investigating the use of a facility in the Eemshaven for storing energy in ammonia.
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Solar fuel: fuel without the fossil
Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the benefits of natural gas or other fuels, without net emission of CO2? If only we could recycle the CO2.
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DuPont starts Cellulosic Ethanol Facility in Nevada, Iowa
The $225 million cellulosic ethanol plant will be among the first commercial-scale cellulosic bio refineries in the world.
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NPT Café Oost opent 20 november met Pub-quiz
NPT Café Oost is een initiatief van NPT en richt zich op de lokale procestechnologie community in Oost Nederland, rondom Twente. Het is de bedoeling om enkele keren per jaar (3 à 4) een gezellige bijeenkomst te organiseren in de avond. Door de avond te kiezen, hopen we ook de werkende ingenieurs te bereiken.
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A brand new journal
So new in fact that the first issue is yet to come out. As of January 2016 the Royal Society of Chemistry will be publishing an on-line journal by the name of Reaction Chemistry & Engineering.
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Shell gets a passing grade
The explosion at Shell Moerdijk in June last year (see also our earlier post of 13 July) was followed of course by both internal and external investigations not only about the cause and who was to blame, but also about the effects on the environment.