Industry Trends

April 2020

See what has been happening in Asia’s petrochemicals, agrochemicals, automotive, bio energy, and mining industries over the last weeks. What are experts and industry magazines talking about?

What has been happening?

Scientists develop organic battery, AI techniques used to improve battery health and safety, oil edges higher as producers move toward deal, and more. Find out what journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

Scientists develop organic battery
MINING.com

Researchers at Uppsala University have developed an all-organic proton battery that can be charged in a matter of seconds using a solar cell. The battery can be also charged and discharged over 500 times without any significant loss of capacity and is unaffected by ambient temperatures.
AI techniques used to improve battery health and safety
ScienceDaily

Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict battery health with 10x higher accuracy than current industry standard, which could aid in the development of safer and more reliable batteries for electric vehicles and consumer electronics.
Oil Edges Higher as Producers Move Toward Deal
Rigzone.com

Oil resumed gains on signs the world’s biggest producers are moving toward a deal to call off their price war and cut output as the coronavirus eviscerates energy demand around the world.
4 New Opportunities for Ethanol Facilities, thanks to breakthrough membrane technology
Biofuels Digest

A unique and affordable membrane technology exhibiting extremely low fouling rates can offer significant benefits to dry mill ethanol operations, especially on streams containing protein and oil components.
How It All Ties Together – LCFS, Biobased Fuel, Zero Emission Vehicles, ICEV Bans: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to The Big 3 Policies for Fuels
Biofuels Digest

Few countries blend ethanol beyond 10% right now but are targets moving? What about biodiesel targets, mostly set below 7% volume in some countries? How about the 18 countries that plan to ban of phase out ICEVs and more than 45 countries have set or are setting national targets for EVs by 2030 – how will that impact biofuels?
Why testing is critical for the adoption of Autonomous Vehicles
Electronics Weekly

Interested in the development of Autonomous Vehicles? There’s a whitepaper from Keysight, now available on the site, which addresses this topic. It’s entitled: High-Speed Digital Design Success Demands A Modern Workflow.
University of Cordoba researchers determine best valorization paths for restaurant food waste
Biofuels Digest

In Spain, research into the field of the bioeconomy and the search for waste valorization strategies, such as agricultural by-products, is the field of research for the BIOSAHE (a Spanish acronym of biofuels and energy-saving systems) research group at the University of Cordoba.
Lanxess introduces new normalisation software
Filtep

The PerforMem program, developed by LANXESS, can be used to evaluate the performance of a reverse osmosis system and quickly identify faults. Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has developed PerforMem, software for analysing reverse osmosis which automatically imports system data from templates in standard process control systems and normalises large volumes of data.
Philippines domestic ethanol prices continue to rise to triple CIF price
Biofuels Digest

In the Philippines, Platts reports that while ethanol prices in many other origins around the world are collapsing, ethanol prices in the Philippines rose more than 8% on the year during the first half of March to $1,280/cu m which was nearly 4% higher than during the last half of February. Domestic ethanol is typically twice that of landed imported ethanol but with US ethanol prices falling, that factor has risen to three with CIF Philippines at $440.26/cu m.
Malaysian palm oil prices fall to five-year low on poor Indian demand and falling petroleum prices
Biofuels Digest

In Malaysia, Bloomberg reports that Malaysian palm oil prices have hit a five-month low as the country fails to find another buyer to absorb the demand gap left by India following a political spat over India’s treatment of Kashmir. With petroleum prices falling to an 18-year low on Wednesday, palm oil’s use as a biofuel feedstock is also becoming less viable although countries like Indonesia continue to bet on it in order to save forex.

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