Startech Environmental Distributor w2ge Contracts With One of Poland’s Largest Chemical Companies

Startech Environmental Corp., a fully reporting, award-winning, environment and energy company announced that it has been notified by waste2greenenergy Limited (“w2ge”), the Company’s exclusive distributor for the UK and Poland, that w2ge’s wholly-owned Polish subsidiary SG Silesia Sp Z o.o. (“SG Silesia”) has entered into a formal contract with one of Poland’s largest chemical companies, Zaklady Azotowe Kedzierzyn... Read more..

IFQC Ranks Top 100 Countries by Gasoline Benzene Standards; U.S. Ranks 67th

The International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC) has ranked the top 100 countries based on benzene content standards in gasoline; Colombia came in first with the earliest implementation of the lowest benzene limits. Following in second and third were Canada and Luxembourg, respectively. Benzene is found naturally in crude oil and thus passes into refined products, including transportation fuels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies... Read more..

CMAI’s 2009 World Butadiene Analysis Brings Focus to Uncertain Supply & Demand Outlook

Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI) announces the completion of the 2009 World Butadiene Analysis, an annual global study that covers the future outlook for supply, demand, production, capacity, trade, pricing and profitability of the global butadiene and derivatives industries for the period 2003 to 2013. Included with the analysis is access to CMAI’s online capacity and supply/demand databases with a mid-term update. This analysis is a... Read more..

Terrabon Dedicates Energy Independence I, an Advanced Biofuels Research Facility in Bryan, Texas

Terrabon, L.L.C. held dedication ceremonies Friday, November 7, for its new Advanced Biofuels Research Facility in Bryan, Texas. The event marked completion of the facility, christened Energy Independence I, which will confirm the scaled-up, commercial feasibility of the Company’s MixAlco(TM) technology. MixAlco converts readily-available, low-cost, non-food biomass into chemicals that can be processed into renewable gasoline. Speaking at the... Read more..

Dresser-Rand Invests In the Development of Game-Changing Compressor Technology Focused on Green Energy

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. announced that Dresser-Rand has made an investment in Ramgen Power Systems, LLC, and further expects to support Ramgen’s ongoing development work. Dresser-Rand’s funding will help satisfy Ramgen’s requirement with the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Lab to obtain private matching funds for development. Ramgen is developing game-changing compressor technology that applies proven supersonic... Read more..

Aquatech Commissions FGD Wastewater Zero Liquid Discharge Systems for ENEL in Italy

A consortium led by Aquatech International Corporation successfully commissioned Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) facilities at four of ENEL’s coal-fired power plants throughout Italy. The feed for the plants is Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) purge wastewater. Aquatech’s integrated solution included a combination of physical/chemical, evaporation and crystallization technologies that enabled ENEL to achieve ZLD and environmental compliance.... Read more..

Platts Survey: October OPEC Oil Output Dropped to 32.26 Mil. Barrels Per Day

The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.26 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in October, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials just released. This is a 210,000 b/d decline from the September level of 32.47 million b/d. Excluding Iraq, production from the 12 members hitherto bound by output agreements fell by 220,000 b/d, to 29.96 million b/d from 30.18 million... Read more..

VeruTEK Announces Verification of Complete Environmental Remediation of Toxic Soils and Groundwater Using Advanced Analytical Chemistry Methods

VeruTEK Technologies, Inc. (VTKT.OB) announced the development of new analytical chemistry methods to further support their already advanced Smart Environmental Remediation Technologies including Surfactant Enhanced In Situ Chemical Oxidation (S-ISCOTM), a combination of plant oil-based surfactants and chemical oxidation processes that destroy recalcitrant chemicals. VeruTEK is using Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (UPLC/MS™)... Read more..

Verenium Corporation to Speak at the Credit Suisse Alternative Energy Conference

Verenium Corporation, a pioneer in the development of next-generation cellulosic ethanol and high-performance specialty enzymes, announced today that Carlos A. Riva, President and Chief Executive Officer, will speak at the upcoming Credit Suisse Alternative Energy Conference as part of a panel discussion on biofuels and the future of transportation. The panel is scheduled from 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 and will take... Read more..

ICIS Expands its Global Biofuel Coverage With Additional Price Quotes

ICIS pricing, the world’s largest information provider for the chemical and oil industry, has enhanced its US and European biofuel price reports with new quotations to reflect the growing demand and trade flows of biofuel globally. The new quotes reflect the diversity of a fast moving market which is driven by legislation, progress in technology, increased trade flows and demand. In Europe, adding to the comprehensive biodiesel coverage of rapeseed... Read more..