Sentence examples for commodity feedstocks from inspiring English sources

A hundred years ago, conservationists recognized that America's economy was overexploiting forests, fur from Canada, ivory from Africa, whale oil from the Antarctic, gutta percha from Indonesia, shellac from India, and countless other commodity feedstocks.

This has been the history of ores, steel, rubber and countless fortunes that found new uses for ever cheaper commodity feedstocks.

It is our view that biofuel systems are more susceptible to the shortcomings of the LCA method, and to differences in interpretation, than typical petrochemical processes working with standardised equipment and commodity feedstocks.

Here we show that pyrolysis oils can be converted into industrial commodity chemical feedstocks using an integrated catalytic approach that combines hydroprocessing with zeolite catalysis.

Expired in 2006, the program provided biofuels producers $150 million in annual reimbursements for use of certain commodities, including biodiesel feedstocks such as canola, soybeans and rapeseed.

Fatty acid metabolism is an attractive route to produce liquid transportation fuels and commodity oleochemicals from renewable feedstocks.

Commodity markets for grass feedstocks do not exist, and therefore supply chains must be designed for individual biorefineries and bioenergy conversion facilities.

It is our view that these factors are likely to be more important for biofuel processes than for typical petroleum refinery or petrochemical processes, which work with standardised equipment and commodity, high energy density feedstocks.

Although cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin transformation has been extensively studied [7] [9], less attention has been given to other extracted compounds, which also constitute important feedstocks for commodities and fine chemicals [10].

We attempt to reconcile the systematic differences in the estimated impacts of biofuel production growth on the prospective prices and production of three major feedstock commodities, maize, sugar cane, and oilseeds across these studies.

The share of domestically produced SW, WP and PP for the domestic production (DP) is computed (step 1 of Figure 1) considering the production, import and export of the feedstock commodities, IRW and Pulp.