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Glycerin to Epiclorohydrin: Epicerol Enters the Asian Market

Solvay announced that its Thai affiliate Vinythai has successfully commissioned its world-class bio-sourced Epichlorohydrin plant based on Solvay’s innovative Epicerol® technology in Map Ta Phut, Thailand. The Epicerol® technology is based on the transformation of glycerin obtained as by-product from refining vegetable oils into biofuel. This technology is protected by 1000 patent titles, some of [...]

February 29, 2012 Full Story »
From Glycerine To Green Chemicals
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From Glycerol to Green Chemicals Part 2

Read the first part of this article As promised a few days ago I hereby publish the second part of the article: From Glycerine to Green Chemicals. If you haven’t read the first part, it’s highly recommended to do so. Propylene Glycol Archer Daniels Midland (US), one of the largest agricultural processors in the world, [...]

December 15, 2010 Full Story »
Biodiesel Transesterification
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From Glycerine to Green Chemicals Part 1

Guess what?! There is still a lot to know about what to do with the increasing amount of generated glycerol (also glycerine, glycerin) obtained by biodiesel production. Besides the well established sell of purified glycerine to manufacturers of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals a variety of novel conversion techniques are introduced. This article is intended to be [...]

December 12, 2010 Full Story »
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Glycerol – The Recovery of a High Potential Industrial By-Product

Glycerine, the simplest trihydric alcohol, is a naturally occurring substance which shows wide distribution in form of different esters termed mono-, di- and triglycerides. Usually, vegetable oils are trigycerides. For decades, this versatile, clear, colourless, viscous and syrupy tasting liquid derived industrially by the conversion of propen into epichlorohydrin followed by subsequent procession into synthetic [...]

October 6, 2010 Full Story »