All Pharma & Bio
Resurrected process can convert sugar directly to diesel (Comment)
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Berkeley, California - A long-abandoned fermentation process, once used to turn starch into explosi…
GSK process is year's top advance
Added: 3 Nov 2012
London – GlaxoSmithKline has taken top prize in the IChemE 2012 Awards for a process technology tha…
UK aims to be more pharma-friendly
Added: 26 Oct 2012
London – The UK government has launched a new consultation, which sets out proposals to make the c…
Processing butyric acid from biomass
Added: 26 Oct 2012
Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will test production of butyric acid from bioma…
Oxygen sensor for safer pharma, chemicals operations
Added: 12 Oct 2012
London – Pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals are typically produced in batches by mixing sever…
Telstar to build two pharma plants
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Barcelona, Spain - Telstar will direct the full execution of two new pharmaceutical plants for the …
Eni to convert Venice refinery into bio-refinery
Added: 26 Sep 2012
Venice, Italy – Eni is investing Euro100 million to convert its Venice refinery to produce only bio…
Bayer CropScience to invest Euro7bn
Added: 20 Sep 2012
Monheim, Germany - Bayer CropScience (BCS) has unveiled plans to invest Euro7 billion between 2011 …
Burning matters
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…
Biofuel waste recycled for electricity
Added: 7 Sep 2012
Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is c…
TEG secures £21m for AD plant
Added: 3 Sep 2012
Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dag…
Waste oil cuts cost of bioplastics
Added: 3 Sep 2012
‘Bioplastics’ that are naturally synthesised by microbes could be made commercially viable by using…
Teaching microbes to produce fuel
Added: 29 Aug 2012
Scientists at MIT have modified the soil bacterium, Ralstonia Eutropha, to turn carbon dioxide or w…
Research to investigate impact of biofuel processes
Added: 23 Aug 2012
Aston University Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) has been awarded £424,000 of research funds, as pa…
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes in biotech advance
Added: 20 Aug 2012
London – BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have signed an agreement to develop technologies to produce ac…
Engineer sans frontiers
Added: 17 Aug 2012
When process engineers apply their skills to other fields, remarkable results can be achieved. Elli…
Reusing co-streams from fish and oil plant processing
Added: 13 Aug 2012
Researchers are developing together new ways of using the substantial co-streams from fish and oil …
Legionella outbreaks spark industry response
Added: 2 Aug 2012
London - The recent outbreaks of legionella in Stoke-on-Trent and Edinburgh have led to a spike in …
Bio-industries must tackle feedstock issues
Added: 31 Jul 2012
Boston, Massachusetts – The bio-based materials and chemicals sector needs to tap newer, non-food …
Collaboration to produce butadiene from biomass
Added: 24 Jul 2012
Versalis, Eni’s chemicals subsidiary in the production of elastomers, together with Genomatica and …
