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From waste product to raw material, manufacturing quality polymer materials based on CO2

 “Researchers from Bayer MaterialScience and Bayer Technology Services are working together with RWE Power AG and academic partner RWTH Aachen University on the sustainable use of carbon dioxide (CO2). At the heart of what has been called the “Dream Production” project, sits the construction and commissioning of a pilot plant at Chempark Leverkusen. This is to be the location for the kilogram-scale production of polyether polycarbonate polyols (PPPs) that will be processed into polyurethanes and will involve the chemical bonding of CO2, which will be an integral raw material in this sustainable process. The key technology for this is catalysis.
While catalysis is currently used in the manufacture of more than 85 percent of all chemical products, the low energy density of carbon dioxide has hindered the application of this technology in any attempt to put CO2 to practical use.” Read more at http://www.research.bayer.com/en/News_Detail.aspx?id=9097

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