{"id":93559,"date":"2021-08-09T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=93559"},"modified":"2021-08-05T08:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T06:57:54","slug":"eni-and-basf-launch-joint-rd-initiative-to-produce-bio-propanol-from-biodiesel-by-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/eni-and-basf-launch-joint-rd-initiative-to-produce-bio-propanol-from-biodiesel-by-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Eni and BASF launch joint R&#038;D initiative to produce bio-propanol from biodiesel by-product"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>In Italy and Germany,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basf.com\/global\/en\/media\/news-releases\/2021\/07\/p-21-265.html\">Eni and BASF signed a strategic agreement on a joint R&amp;D initiative to develop a new technology to produce advanced bio-propanol from glycerin, a side stream of the production of industrial biodiesel (FAME, fatty acid methyl ester),<\/a>\u00a0that Eni will purchase from European producers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new approach consists of a process of applying a high-pressure hydrogenation reaction over a BASF catalyst, ensuring that the bio-propanol is produced with a high yield and purity while minimizing by-products. The bio-propanol offers the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65 to 75% compared to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Propanol obtained via this innovative method can be easily added as a drop-in bio-fuel component to gasoline. Thanks to its better physicochemical properties compared to bioethanol and its very high-octane number, bio-propanol is a valuable component for the preparation of premium gasoline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Italy and Germany,\u00a0Eni and BASF signed a strategic agreement on a joint R&amp;D initiative to develop a new technology to produce advanced bio-propanol from glycerin, a side stream of the production of industrial biodiesel (FAME, fatty acid methyl ester),\u00a0that Eni will purchase from European producers. The new approach consists of a process of applying [&#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":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":" The technology under development involves the conversion of glycerin to propanol via an innovative, catalytic hydrotreatment process.","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[12570,5714],"supplier":[75,3806],"class_list":["post-93559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodiesel","tag-biofuels","supplier-basf-se","supplier-eni-spa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93559","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=93559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93559"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=93559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}