Petrochemicals – A brief introduction

April 23, 2018

50 steam crackers in operation in EU 28, homogenous geographic coverage > 300,000 direct employees; 1,2 million incl. multiplying effects contribution to overall European GDP: 155 bn € (= 155,000,000,000 €) energy intense: > 80% of production costs related to oil & gas as feedstock and energy.

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Chiron AS provides the scientific community worldwide with sophisticated solutions for difficult chemical analysis. Since 1983 Chiron has supplied reference standards, fine chemicals and reagents for toxicological, pharmaceutical, environmental, food safety, petroleum and geochemical analysis.

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Planet Positive Chemicals

whitePaper | September 24, 2022

Climate action in the global chemical industry is lagging compared to other sectors. As of August 2022, only seventeen industry players had committed to targets in line with a 1.5 degrees future as part of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

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Sustainable Polymers

whitePaper | October 21, 2022

Products made from polymers are all around us – from safe and hygienic food and personal care packaging to clothing made of synthetic fibers that protect us from harmful UV rays.

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Carbon Capture, Transport, & Storage

whitePaper | February 24, 2022

The report “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition” lays out the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the energy supply chain as well as the federal government plans to address these challenges and opportunities.

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Olefin Plant -- Naphtha Steam Cracking (NSC) unit optimization solutions

whitePaper | March 11, 2023

This white paper illustrates how the fast response times and excellent repeatability of on-line FT-NIR and other analyzers can be used to provide complete real-time data for the optimization of naphtha steam-cracking furnaces

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AQUAZOL STABILIZED HYDROGEN PEROXIDE: AN INNOVATIVE COMBINATION

whitePaper | November 30, 2021

Hydrogen peroxide is a reagent used in many industries and this usage is growing especially where it is replacing reagents known or suspected of causing cancer and other long-term health problems.

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CLIMATE AND ENERGY IMPLICATIONS OF CRYPTO-ASSETS IN THE UNITED STATES

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

The U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that reducing global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG).

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Chiron AS

Chiron AS provides the scientific community worldwide with sophisticated solutions for difficult chemical analysis. Since 1983 Chiron has supplied reference standards, fine chemicals and reagents for toxicological, pharmaceutical, environmental, food safety, petroleum and geochemical analysis.

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