The global polypropylene compounds market revenue was around US$ 17.2 billion in 2022, and the polypropylene compounds industry is estimated to reach US$ 29.7 billion by 2031, growing at a compound ...

Two years ago, Hartwig and his UC Berkeley team came up with a process for breaking down polyethylene plastic bags into the monomer propylene -- also called propene -- that could then be reused to ...

The catalytic process efficiently breaks down polymers into chemical precursors, advancing the development of a circular ...

IOCL has recently implemented a trial-based import duty exemption for propene and LPG in the Moby market. This move is ...

Two years ago, Hartwig and his UC Berkeley team came up with a process for breaking down polyethylene plastic bags into the monomer propylene—also called propene—that could then be reused to ...

Compounds such as ethanol, lactic acid, succinic acid and glycerol would then replace — or at least reduce our reliance on — fossil-based compounds such as ethene, propene, butadiene and benzene.

The same reaction occurs with polypropylene to form a combination of propene and a hydrocarbon called isobutylene. Isobutylene is used in the chemical industry to make polymers for products ...

At the University of California, Berkeley, a new chemical process claims to 'essentially vaporize' polyethylene, ...

The reactions run at 320 °C and produce a mix of ethene, propene, and isobutene, which could be teased apart by standard industrial cryogenic separations. It takes about 90 minutes to convert 1 g of ...

Ernst and colleagues used this approach to switch the chirality of a propene (C 3 H 6) molecule adsorbed on a copper surface. To gain further insight into the switching process, the researchers ...

The resulting output is propylene and propene molecules. Another byproduct is valuable isobutylene gas. All three are used in the chemical industry to make different plastics. For instance ...

Plastic bags, bottles, and containers may soon get a second life, thanks to a new chemical process developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. This innovation not only breaks ...