AMES, Iowa – A special issue of the journal Energy Technology details the latest advances in pyrolysis technologies for converting biomass into fuels, chemicals and fertilizers. “The purpose of this ...

AMES, Iowa – On a whim, Iowa State University’s Robert C. Brown asked students to crank up the oxygen. Brown and the engineers in his research group had worked for years to develop a thermochemical ...

As a biofuel, ethanol has drawbacks. Conventional engines and infrastructure can corrode when exposed to it. The alcohol can absorb water from the air, reducing its already low energy density and ...

Stockholm – Scandinavian Enviro Systems has advanced waste tire pyrolysis efforts following the successful completion of tests on its recovered oil by a “leading US oil company." The Swedish ...

A new generation of the HTL process can convert all kinds of biomasses to crude bio-oil, which is sufficiently similar to fossil crude oil that a simple thermal upgrade and existing refinery ...

Workers inspect a Quantafuel pyrolysis plant in Denmark. Quantafuel, which runs this plant in Skive, Denmark, is collaborating with BASF’s ChemCycling project to turn pyrolysis oil into chemicals.

Clean Planet Technologies (CPTech), part of the Clean Planet Group, has announced that its core pyrolysis-oil upgrading process has now been formally patented in both the United States and Saudi ...

The chemical recycling (aka advanced recycling) market for plastics is skyrocketing. The plastic packaging portion of the chemical recycling market, which is valued at $730 million in 2022, is ...

Kevin A. Schug receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health, ExxonMobil, and Weaver Consultants Group. He is affiliated with VUV Analytics, Inc. and ...