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New approach for synthetic rubber for degradable tires: converting cyclopentene to polypentenamers

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A team from the Texas A&M University campus in Qatar (TAMU-Qatar) and Caltech has developed a new way to make synthetic rubber; once this material is discarded, it can be easily degraded back to its chemical building blocks and reused in new tires and other products. —Antisar Hlil, TAMU-Qatar. Bazzi, Ph.D.

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Sasol embarking on feasibility study on a US gas-to-liquids facility in Louisiana

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The project is slated to be the first plant in the US to produce Fischer-Tropsch GTL transportation fuels and other products from natural gas, according to Sasol. billion barrels of liquid fuels and chemicals from coal and natural gas. High temperature iron, for Secunda fuels and chemicals production. Source: Sasol.

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