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Babcock & Wilcox | November 22, 2022

Babcock & Wilcox announced that it has signed an agreement with NRG Korea to study the applicability of B&W’s BrightLoop™ technology for a hydrogen generation facility using biomass fuel in South Korea. B&W’s BrightLoop chemical looping technology is part of its ClimateBright™ suite of decarbonization and hydrogen technologies. The BrightLoop process uses a proprietary, regenerable particle and has been demonstrated to effectively separate carbo...

Houston Chronicle | April 06, 2020

The Woodlands petrochemical company Huntsman is switching production at an Alabama plant to make hand sanitizer that will be sent to health care facilities nationwide as they combat the coronavirus, the company said Monday. The plant in McIntosh normally makes coatings and adhesives for the aerospace, wind energy and automotive industries. The first 5-ton shipment of hand sanitizer will be donated to the Huntsman Cancer Institute and associated medical facilities at the University of Utah in Sal...

The guardian | June 18, 2020

US environmental regulators have decided they will not put restrictions on perchlorate – a rocket fuel ingredient known to harm fetal brain development – in drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency argued that the federal government, states and public water systems have already taken proactive steps to reduce perchlorate levels. Perchlorate is found in rocket fuel, explosives, fireworks and other products. It can also be naturally occurring. The chemical disrupts the thyro...

Chemistry World | July 07, 2020

Fuelled by the expanding global population, the World Economic Forum expects demand for chemicals and materials to quadruple by 2050. To meet the growing need for sustainable approaches to chemical synthesis and manufacturing, industry is opening its doors to new ideas. Increasingly, companies within the chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors are relying on R&D from outside sources. As such, the previously closed world of chemical manufacturing is becoming less reserved, with innovation evolv...