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DaniMer Scientific and Myriant form strategic alliance; bio-succinic acid for production of bio-based polymers

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DaniMer Scientific and Myriant have formed a strategic alliance focused on delivering innovative, cost-effective bio-based materials to the marketplace. As part of the alliance, DaniMer will utilize Myriant’s bio-succinic acid for the production of high-performance, bio-based polymers used to make a broad range of products.

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Myriant starts production at flagship bio-succinic acid plant

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Succinic acid, which is traditionally produced from petroleum, can be used in a wide variety of applications including polymers, urethanes, plasticizers and coatings. Myriant is also advancing its proprietary, low-cost, high-purity process for bio-acrylic acid. billion in new and existing applications.

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Shell, ITM Power to install 10MW electrolyzer for refinery hydrogen

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This would be the largest unit of its kind in Germany and the world’s largest PEM (Polymer Electrolyte Membrane) electrolyzer. Electrolysis using low-cost renewable electricity could be a key technology for CO 2 -free hydrogen production in the Shell Rheinland Refinery.

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32.5M hours of supercomputer time to aid GM, Ford engine projects with Oak Ridge Lab

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Davis (UC Davis), R.Sankaran (ORNL). Influence of Morphology on Proton Transport in Proton Exchange Membranes The successful development of low-cost, high-performance electrochemical devices would have an important impact in the clean energy market. Description. Processor hours (Site). Lacaze (SNL), R. 69,000,000 (LBNL).

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). The critical barrier to wider deployment of electric vehicles is the high cost and low energy of today’s batteries. This ARPA-E program seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long range plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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