Science news articles about 'chemical feedstock'

... fermentation, a pathway that uses 1,2-PDO, a chemical similar to 1,3-PDO, that E. ... 100 times more. Succinate is a high-demand chemical feedstock that's used to make everything from noncorrosive airport ...

... raw glycerol into 1,3-propandiol – a chemical base for producing polyesters or wood paint. ... example, can produce a comparatively high yield of chemical feedstock. However, these bacteria cannot convert ...

Chemical producers brace for shortages as thousands of tonnes of raw material are stranded in port due to traces of GM crops

... implanting the isoflavonoid-synthesis pathway into bioenergy crops to promote disease resistance and thereby prevent yield losses, and/or to enhance the production of other useful chemical feedstocks.

... use -- the plastics, foams, nylons -- have been limited by the structures of petroleum-based chemical feedstocks. But if we understand how to engineer designer desaturase-like plant enzymes, we can ...

... required for afforestation and transformation of the biomass to electrical energy, heat, fuels and chemical feedstock is actually sustainable and not more, probably even less, than what would need to ...

... be used to convert the carbohydrates in biomass, as well as other polyhdroxy compounds, into the chemical feedstocks, such as olefins (alkenes) that are now derived from petroleum. The technique ...