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Bookshelf: January 2025
The following is a list of recently published books for the CPI (January 2025): Biomass Conversion Through Nanomaterials, Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science. Edited by Inamuddin, Tariq Altalhi and Jibran Iqbal, Elsevier Press, 2025,…
BASF sells Food and Health Performance Ingredients business
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has signed a binding agreement to sell its Food and Health Performance Ingredients business, including the production site in Illertissen, Germany, to Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), a leading global merchant and processor of agricultural goods including…
Mitsubishi Chemical Group targets EV batteries, semiconductors with pair of expansion projects
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG; Tokyo) has announced two capacity expansions at its production sites in Japan in response to growing demand for semiconductor materials and lithium-ion batteries. In the first project, MCG will increase its production capacity of a…
AGC and CERT Systems enter research partnership to further CO2-to-ethylene conversion
AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) has agreed to a joint research contract with Canada-based climate tech startup company, CERT Systems Inc. (hereafter CERT) to conduct research on the production of ethylene using CO2 as a raw material through electrolysis technology. In this…
Messer Group starts up “green” CO2 plant
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) has begun operations at a new plant producing green CO2 at its Vrdy site in the Czech Republic. This enables Messer to increase the supply reliability of its customers, for example in the local…
Desalination advances with new photothermal evaporator
Water scarcity is a growing global concern that is driving increasing efforts to conserve, re-use and treat water. Desalination of seawater is a known technology to combat water shortages, but it is an energy-intensive process. Solar-powered evaporation can be a…
Powerful permanent magnets — without the rare-earth elements
Permanent magnets — materials that create their own persistent magnetic field — are frequently used in most types of electronics, turbines, engines and motors. Currently, nearly all powerful permanent magnets require rare-earth elements (REEs), such as neodymium or samarium. A…
Chementator Briefs
Powerful permanent magnets Permanent magnets — materials that create their own persistent magnetic field — are frequently used in most types of electronics, turbines, engines and motors. Currently, nearly all powerful permanent magnets require rare-earth elements (REEs), such as neodymium…
Single-atom catalysis reduces water-splitting costs
One of the main limiting factors in the production of “green” hydrogen via electrochemical water splitting is the relatively slow rate of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the use of very expensive noble metals like iridium to catalyze the…
New electrode design improves electrochemical CO2-to-ethylene conversion
Electrochemically converting carbon dioxide into useful chemicals or fuels is a promising CO2-utilization strategy, but scaling up the process is a challenge. One reason is that the gas-diffusion electrodes (GDEs) used to facilitate contact between gaseous CO2, solid catalyst and…