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Sep 2024
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Polymers and Plastics
Renewable Energy and Chemicals
Petrochemicals

Biorenewable Insights: Green Tires (2024 Program)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the tire industry's shift towards sustainability, focusing on reducing dependence on petroleum-based materials and expanding the use of recycled and bio-based alternatives. It highlights how the electric vehicle (EV) transition is driving growth for tire companies, particularly in the demand for EV-specific tires. The analysis covers a wide range of sustainable materials, including but not limited to bio-isoprene, bio-butadiene, and natural rubber, while addressing key environmental challenges such as tire pollution, waste management, and the sourcing of raw materials like natural and synthetic rubber, and carbon black. The report also presents an economic margin analysis, comparing sustainable tire configurations to conventional tire baselines. It delves into end-of-life tire management strategies, including pyrolysis, retreading, and mechanical recycling, with a detailed cost of production (COP) analysis for recovered carbon black from pyrolysis. Finally, the report profiles 16 leading tire manufacturers, offering an in-depth look at their financial performance, manufacturing practices, and sustainability strategies, showcasing their progress and innovations in driving a more sustainable future.
Aug 2024
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Oil, Gas and Refined Products
Renewable Energy and Chemicals

Biorenewable Insights: Carbon Dioxide Electrolysis (2024 Program)

An investigation the technology and economics for carbon dioxide electrolysis, focusing on near-commercial technologies for power-to-X manufacturing. Covers room-temperature and high-temperature technology for CO production and co-production of CO and hydrogen. Includes cost of production and manufacturing carbon intensity for major near-commercial routes and comparison to conventional methane reforming and dry reforming technology.
Jul 2024
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Renewable Energy and Chemicals

Biorenewable Insights: Methanol to Gasoline (MTG) (2024 Program)

This report assesses the conversion technology of renewable methanol to gasoline in terms of their technical, economic, and carbon intensity aspects, aligning with efforts of transitioning to more sustainable fuel to achieve net zero emission by 2050. Key production pathways covered at the cost of production level include gasoline derived from three renewable methanol sources (ie. biomethanol, MSW-based methanol and e-methanol). This report also presents a comparative analysis of the overall carbon intensity, considering scope 1 and scope 2 emissions in these production pathways.
Jul 2024
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Petrochemicals

Biorenewable Insights: Butadiene (2024 Program)

This report focuses on developments in the bio-butadiene industry sector. This includes routes from sugar, ethanol, BDO, CO, succinic acid, and butanol. Technology descriptions, key company profiles, cost of production model estimates, and capacity analysis is included as well as a discussion of impacts on the conventional industries.
Jun 2024
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Renewable Energy and Chemicals

Biorenewable Insights: Syngas and Carbon Dioxide Fermentation (2024 Program)

This report analyzes the developments in syngas fermentation technologies. Syngas is a readily available gaseous feedstock that has the potential to provide developers of bio-based chemicals with both a cost and carbon intensity advantage in production. The purpose of this study is to assess the technical, commercial, carbon intensity, and economic aspects of syngas fermentation.
Apr 2024
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Renewable Energy and Chemicals

Webinar - Renewable DME and its role in supporting the global net zero pathway

DME (dimethyl ether) is a clean, colorless gas that has remarkable potential for use as automotive fuel, for power generation, and in industrial and domestic applications for heating and cooking.  Bolstered by government support and industry commitments to reach carbon neutrality, this movement has ignited a fresh wave of investments aimed at advancing the scale-up and deployment of sustainable, low carbon fuels – a category that includes Renewable DME.  Renewable DME can assume a crucial role in driving the global energy transition movement leveraging on existing infrastructure to deliver a low carbon fuel solution.This webinar will highligh the applications of renewable DME and its role in supporting the global net zero pathway.  The content of this webinar is sourced from the report Biorenewable Insights: Renewable DME.To listen to the presentation, please contact your Account Manager for the password. 
Dec 2023
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C1 Chemicals and Fertilizers
Renewable Energy and Chemicals

Biorenewable insights: Sustainable Fertilizers (2023 Program)

​​This report assesses sustainable fertilizers production pathways in terms of their technical, economic, and carbon intensity aspects. Key technologies covered at the cost of production level include steam methane reforming with carbon capture, autothermal reforming with carbon capture, PEM electrolysis, alkaline electrolysis and small modular ammonia for low CI ammonia and ammonium fertilizers production. This report also presents a comparative analysis of the overall carbon intensity, considering scope 1 and scope 2 emissions across these production pathways.​
Dec 2023
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Polymers and Plastics
Renewable Energy and Chemicals
Petrochemicals

Biorenewable Insights: Renewable Ethylene, Ethylene Oxide, and Ethylene Glycol (2023 Program)

This report investigates the various commercial and developmental routes for the production of renewable ethylene. Technologies based on bio-ethanol, bio-naphtha, and bio-methanol are investigated for ethylene production, as well as sugar and glycerin-based routes directly to ethylene glycol. Pyrolysis oil from thermal conversion of plastic wastes has seen significant development for conversion into bio-naphtha feedstock, as well as gasification of biomass to produce methanol for ethylene production. Dry reforming of methane with carbon dioxide and electrochemical production of ethylene are the new technologies covered in this edition of the report. Cost of production models, process descriptions, capacity analysis and implications for the conventional industry are included.
Dec 2023
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Polymers and Plastics
Renewable Energy and Chemicals

Biorenewable Insights: Power to Liquids: E-Chemicals (2023 Program)

​​A study of power-to-X manufacturing for e-chemicals, covering both conventional electrolysis-based production and microbial electrosynthesis. Ammonia and methanol are examined as key e-chemical products and platform molecules alongside enabling electrolysis technologies, and microbial electrosynthesis is investigated on a speculative basis. Includes economic and CI analysis of manufacturing costs for conventional production and speculative microbial electrosynthesis modeling.​

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