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  📢It's Story-Time!📢 The usage of composite materials on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner project! The Boeing 787 makes greater use of composite materials in its airframe and primary structure than any previous Boeing commercial airplane. Undertaking the design process without preconceived ideas enabled Boeing engineers to specify the optimum material for specific applications throughout the airframe. The result is an airframe comprising nearly half carbon fiber reinforced plastic and other composites. This approach offers weight savings on average of 20 percent compared to more conventional aluminum designs. Without preconceived ideas, Boeing engineers were able to specify the optimum material for specific applications throughout the airframe. The result couldn't be different: the 787 is 50% composites by weight and by 80% volume with each aircraft containing approximately 32,000 kg of CFRP composites. Selecting the optimum material for a specific application meant analyzing every ...

Avantium N.V., a technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that it has signed an offtake agreement with AmBev, the Brazilian brewing company, part of the AB InBev Group. 100% Plant Based and Recyclable Alternative to Plastic: AmBev will purchase PEF (polyethylene furanoate) - a 100% plant-based and recyclable alternative to plastic - from Avantium’s Flagship Plant and will use it to make bottles for its soft drinks portfolio. Avantium is currently constructing the world’s first commercial plant for the production of FDCA (furan dicarboxylic acid) from plant-based sugars in Delfzijl, The Netherlands. FDCA is the key ingredient for making the plant-based, highly recyclable plastic material PEF, which has superior performance properties compared to today’s widely used petroleum-based packaging materials. Avantium expects to open this FDCA Flagship Plant by the end of 2023, enabling the commercial launch of PEF from 2024 onwards. Over the past year, AmBev and ...

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. and Teijin Limited jointly announced that they will become Japan’s first companies to develop and market biomass-derived bisphenol A (BPA) and polycarbonate (PC) resins, which will support efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout product lifecycles. ISCC PLUS Certified: The joint initiative follows Mitsui Chemicals’ receipt of ISCC PLUS certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC), based on which Mitsui Chemicals will begin supplying biomass BPA produced with the mass-balance approach. In the ISCC PLUS-certified mass-balance approach, materials are verifiably tracked through complex value chains, as in the case of biomass-derived raw materials being mixed with petroleum-derived raw materials to create products. Teijin also will begin developing and producing biomass PC resin using the same BPA. In May 2022, Mitsui Chemicals acquired ISCC PLUS certification ...

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Jitendra Singh launched India's first indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune on Sunday. At the event, Singh called Green hydrogen an excellent clean energy vector that enables deep decarbonization of difficult-to-abate emissions from the refining industry, fertiliser industry, steel industry, cement industry, and also from the heavy commercial transportation sector. The minister informed the gathering that the fuel cell utilizes Hydrogen and Air to generate electricity to power the bus and the only effluent from the bus is water which could be the most environmentally friendly mode of transportation to date. For instance, a single diesel bus plying on long-distance routes typically emits 100 tons of CO2 annually and there are over a million such buses in India. Fuel Cell vehicles also give zero greenhouse gas emissions in stark contrast to diesel-powered heavy commercial vehi...

  Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has commissioned a green hydrogen plant at its AM Naik heavy engineering complex in Hazira, Gujarat. L&T informed that the production of green hydrogen based on an alkaline electrolysis process started on 20 August. The plant will produce 45 kilograms of green hydrogen per day, which will be used for captive consumption in the company’s Hazira manufacturing complex.  The Green Hydrogen Plant is designed for an electrolyser capacity of 800 kilowatts (kW) comprising both Alkaline (380 kW) and PEM (420 kW) technologies. It will be powered by a rooftop solar plant of 990kW peak DC capacity and a 500kWh battery energy storage system (BESS). As part of the first phase of the project, 380 kW alkaline electrolyser has been installed, while the 420 kW PEM electrolyser along with solar plant capacity augmentation to 1.6 MW peak DC, will be part of future expansion.  Subramanian Sarma, whole-time director & se...

Shell Chemicals announces a new investment that supports its plan to transition the chemicals park into a site able to serve the changing needs of our customers. Customers want more low-carbon products and products made using recycled material. The investment marks the first major step in transitioning the park, within ten years, by increasing the use of circular and bio-based feedstocks, growing its offer of low-carbon products, and becoming net-zero emissions through the application of hydrogen and CCS. Investment for Circular Chemicals: To achieve these ambitions, Shell intends to invest billions in Shell Moerdijk's chemical complex over the next decade, subject to investment decisions and within existing capital allocation frameworks. "As our customers demand more low-carbon and circular chemicals we are seeing the reinvention of the chemical industry. At Shell Moerdijk and across our global chemicals business, Shell is investing to be ready to meet our customers’ needs as...

Hyundai Motor Group said Monday it ranked third globally in car sales in the first half of this year -- a first feat for the nation’s largest carmaker. According to its sales data, Hyundai Motor Co., its luxury Genesis brand, and its smaller affiliate Kia Corp. sold a total of 3.299 million vehicles in global markets in the January-June period. The sales figure is the third largest following Toyota Motor Group’s 5.138 million units and Volkswagen Group’s 4.006 million units. Hyundai’s ranking jumped from No. 5 a year ago, outpacing Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and Stellantis Group which sold 3.14 million units and 3.019 million units in the first half, respectively. While its global rivals were hit hard by chip shortages, Hyundai is said to have pulled through the crisis as it was able to secure enough chip supplies.  Adding to that, the robust sales of its luxury Genesis cars and new electric vehicle launches also helped drive overall sales. Genesis sold a total of 25,668 un...

BMW will start mass-producing and selling fuel cell vehicles developed jointly with Toyota Motor as early as 2025, sales chief Pieter Nota told Nikkei, outlining the German automaker's push into greener cars amid increasingly strict environmental regulations in Europe. BMW unveiled the fuel cell iX5 Hydrogen concept car at the International Motor Show Germany in September 2021. Small-scale production of the sport utility vehicle will begin before the end of 2022, the company had previously announced. FCVs can be refueled in three to four minutes -- much faster than a battery electric vehicle. Though BMW has not revealed the iX5's range, the model is equipped with two roughly 6-kilogram tanks to allow for long-distance travel. "We see that hydrogen fuel cell technology is particularly relevant for larger SUVs," Nota said. The iX5 is based on BMW's X5 SUV. BMW and Toyota have also jointly developed sports cars since partnering in 2013, released as the BMW Z4 and the...