Germany’s Chemical Industry Looks at Switching to Biomass
by Jane Burgermeister (Renewable Energy World) Germany’s chemical industry — the world’s third biggest — depends on fossil fuels for its products. But a new research center to be built in Germany’s industrial heartland Leuna in Saxony Anhalt may help to change that. The center will assist the chemical industry in its goal of building industrial biorefineries that will increase the use and consumption of biomass as a raw material. This will not only slash the region’s pollution but also cut the cost of importing oil.
Figuring out how to build these biorefineries, which can turn straw, wood, algae and other biomass into the kinds of raw material that can be used by the chemical industry in large volumes and at a low cost, will be the challenge of the Chemical Biotechnological Process Center (Chemisch-Biotechnologische Prozesszentrum, CBP). READ MORE
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