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Jun 20, 2023
Meeting the challenges head on
Nina Karpynec, Clariant Adsorbents, head of sales, marketing and technical business development purification Americas, and Guido Appl, Clariant Adsorbents, head of sales, marketing and technical business development purification EMEA, outlines how the global company has fared in the past 12 months. Can you outline how the past 12 months have been for Clariant Adsorbents? Guido: Last year…
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Jun 13, 2023
It starts with enzymes
Move over crude and kerosene, vegetable oils are the fuel of the future. As automotive, aerospace and other industries transition away from fossil fuels, demand for vegetable-based biofuels has skyrocketed. In 2020, total biofuel consumption peaked at 122 million tons representing a 35% increase on 20181, and between 2021-2026, global demand for these fuels is expected to rise by another 30%.2…
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Jun 8, 2023
SAF – welcome aboard
As the demand for low carbon aviation fuels continues to grow in a world taking steps to decrease its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the main challenge faced by the aviation sector is to both to meet that demand and reduce its GHG emissions to net-zero by mid-century. Along with most of the aeronautical companies involved in the CORSIA initiative, net-zero targets for aviation are now…
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May 12, 2023
On the cusp of a New Energy Revolution
For many years the concept of decarbonisation for any industrial process to produce their desired product without the need to emit carbon seemed alien. In fact, when people stop and think and move past the well-trodden words of net zero, carbon neutrality or even carbon negative, which from the cynical mind have become cliché, it is still hard to believe firms can manufacture the same product,…
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May 11, 2023
Being at the heart of the energy transition
Philipp Schoelzel, vice-president next generation biofuels, bp, outlines why he finds the complex world of biofuels a fascinating sector to work in. What was your first job? Within bp it was as a product scheduler at our Rotterdam Refinery for Light and Middle Distillates. Basically, I was managing day-to-day refinery production, imports and exports of oil products and supply into local and…
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May 5, 2023
Collaboration is the key ingredient driving shipping’s decarbonisation
Wärtsilä’s participation in a recent test using 100% biofuels to fuel a cruise ship’s engine was as much a demonstration of the power of collaboration as it was a technical milestone for the industry. We worked with GoodFuels and Holland America Line (HAL) to complete the cruise industry’s first multi-week test of biofuels. The 20-day test was conducted onboard the Volendam at the Port…
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May 3, 2023
Working towards a green future
Operations manager Marko Leinonen ensures that the biofuel production at UPM Lappeenranta biorefinery runs optimally and safely. What projects are you mainly working on right now? I am responsible for production operations at the biorefinery in Finland. We are currently preparing for next spring's major shutdown in cooperation with the HSE as well as the maintenance and development departments.…
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May 2, 2023
Meeting the challenges head on
Can you outline how the past 12 months have been for Clariant Adsorbents? Guido: Last year continued to be another challenging year for the industry. In 2021, much like the year before, almost all the geographies and markets in which we operate were impacted by the global Covid-19 crisis. However, the business, last year, was more affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This affected…
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Apr 26, 2023
Taking to the skies
Although demand for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is expected to experience significant growth1, production is currently limited with only a handful of commercial plants available today. bp believes that producing SAF through co-processing at existing refineries will help the aviation sector as it transitions to a low-carbon industry and builds dedicated and more efficient standalone units…
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Apr 20, 2023
Innovating to recycle the unrecyclable with Zero Waste Box
Cytiva™ produces more than 25 million syringe filters each year and these are used in a variety of settings – from tracking air pollution levels to monitoring and optimising the conversion of glucose to ethanol in the production of bioethanol. Each time a Whatman™ syringe filter is used during one of these processes, the remaining plastic waste is the size of a small coin. Making…
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Apr 14, 2023
In the palm of your hand
Increasing the use of sustainable biofuels is the most effective way to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels for the transport and energy sectors in the European Union. Waste and residues from agricultural activities have the best potential to deliver zeroemissions energy as traditional sources of farm emissions from the biodegradation of farm wastes are converted into renewable sources of…
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Apr 4, 2023
Growing feedstock supply for the future
Last year marked another pivotal year for the Renewable Energy Group business. Early in the year, the company acquired two fuel distribution companies based in California. The business saw great progress with their improvement and expansion project at the Geismar, Los Angeles renewable diesel biorefinery, and the lower carbon feedstock expansion project in Emden, Germany. Maybe, most notably,…
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Mar 27, 2023
Waste taking centre stage as a feedstock
For the planet to reach net carbon neutrality by 2050 we need solutions, which are both actionable and scalable today. Despite impressive and steady gains, we unfortunately cannot solely rely on electrification to reduce all GHG emissions from transport, especially for maritime, aviation and larger road vehicles such as HGVs. During 2022 we saw a big focus on waste-based fuels, such as HVOs.…
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Mar 20, 2023
A central role for biofuels in the new regulatory era
New regulation on greenhouse gas emissions from shipping only increases the need for solutions that can make a difference now. 2023 heralds yet another shift in shipping’s regulatory tectonic plates. It marks the beginning of the CII era, and this year will also see the scaling and implementation of a number of regional, international and national regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas…
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Mar 13, 2023
Sharing a passion for conservation
Tim Cesarek, chief commercial officer at Gevo outlines some of the challenges the biofuels industry faces Can you tell us a bit about Gevo and the work that you do there? Gevo’s mission is to transform renewable energy and carbon into energy-dense liquid hydrocarbons. The liquid hydrocarbons can be used for drop-in transportation fuels such as petroleum, jet fuel and diesel fuel, that when…
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Mar 7, 2023
Impressive track record in renewable fuels sector
Can you introduce yourself as well as explain to our readers what FTC does? Houston-based Filtration Technology Corporation (FTC) has an impressive history of developing and delivering innovative filtration and separation products and solutions since 1987. FTC’s extensive line of proprietary and industrystandard products covers liquid-solids filtration, liquid-liquid separation, …
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