{"id":20574,"date":"2014-05-26T02:35:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biomassmagazine.com\/articles\/10425\/biobased-chemicals-get-boost-from-shale-gas-boom"},"modified":"2014-06-17T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:24:36","slug":"bio-based-chemicals-benefit-shale-gas-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bio-based-chemicals-benefit-shale-gas-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-based chemicals benefit from shale gas boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It explained that sugars, glycerin and other plant-derived products are emerging as \u201ceconomically competitive starting materials for a range of commodity chemicals\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IHS Chemical Special Report: Chemical Building Blocks from Renewables puts this down to tight supplies of conventional chemicals such as propylene, isobutylene, butadiene and isoprene, caused by the shale gas boom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth American ethylene producers have switched from petroleum-derived naphtha to lighter, natural gas-based feedstocks,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Marifaith Hackett, director of specialty chemicals at IHS Chemical and the report\u2019s lead author, said that consumer demand and corporate sustainability initiatives are also driving the increased use of bio-based chemicals. IHS said that bio-based chemicals usually have lower greenhouse gas emissions than their fossil-fuel-based counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Hackett added: \u201cNonetheless economics has a significant impact on demand. Cost and performance considerations continue to outweigh sustainability in most corporate purchasing decisions. Some manufacturers are willing to pay a premium for the sustainability benefits and customer appeal, but performance of these renewable chemicals has to equal that of their fossil-fuel based equivalents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long used as starting materials for shampoos and detergents, biobased chemicals now attracting inter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[15669],"class_list":["post-20574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ihs-markit-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=20574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}