Activated carbon markets? Biochar is an emerging market; growing rapidly, still in its infancy, but with gigaton market potential when we, as in humanity, start addressing the climate crisis. Activated carbons are a mature market of about one million tons annual production, which is growing slowly. They are basically like fraternal twins; they have a…
Plastics & Microwave Pyrolysis by Dr. Elham Khagami. (This article first published in 2016) Energy is fundamental to economy and survival in today’s social activity. Clearly the search of alternative energy sources would have a high priority. Therefore, minimizing the quantity of waste being generated from the source energy such as recycling could be a…
World’s Premier Bioeconomy Consulting Group Adds David Dodds, Ronald Newman, Steven Toon, Bernard Cooker and David Senyk to New Division LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS: October 27, 2016. Lee Enterprises Consulting, the world’s premier bio-economy consulting group, is pleased to announce the addition of five new experts in its newly formed Renewable Chemicals Division. The consulting group,…
Biofuels Digest recently invited two of our noted biofuels experts, Dr. Lorenz Bauer and Dr. Terry Mazanec, to lead webinars on the field of pyrolysis and to discuss its progress and future prospects. Dr. Bauer presented Part 1 and Dr. Mazanec presented part two. For Lee Enterprises Consulting, Dr. Bauer handles bio oil upgrading, catalytic…
Pyrolysis experts assist in the process of heat-treating biomass or wastes in the absence of added oxygen. The aim is to preserve the carbon content so that the product can be used as a fuel or processed to further to produce valuable chemicals. The products include biogas, bio-oil and aqueous material. The relative amounts and…