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THE CATALYST REVIEW (ISSN 0898-3089)
December 2020, Volume 33, Number 12
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In This Issue
Media Review................................................................................................... 1
Commercial
ExxonMobil Announces Potential $240-MM Investment to Baton Rouge
Refinery................................................................................................................... 2
BASF and Eramet Partner to Assess Development of a Nickel-Cobalt Refining
Complex................................................................................................................... 2
Lummus Technology, Chevron Lummus Global Announce Multiple-Technology
Award in Southeast Asia.......................................................................................... 2
Samsung Engineering to Build $1.07bn Methanol Plant in Malaysia......................2
Sipchem, Linde Sign JV Deal for Industrial Gases Projects in Saudi Arabia..............2
Sinopec Plans $4.4Billion Ethylene Project at Tianjin.............................................. 3
Agilyx and Braskem Announce Collaboration to Explore Advanced Recycling
Project in North America......................................................................................... 3
Enerkem Announces Waste-to-Methanol, Biofuels Plant in Quebec......................3
Danish Partnership Sets out to Build World's First Commercial Scale Green
Ammonia Plant........................................................................................................ 3
Process
How to Make Catalysts More Efficient.................................................................... 4
This Nanoengineered Catalyst Converts Mixed, Impure Waste to Biodiesel...........4
Special Feature
Elastomer/Rubber Catalysts: Technology Advances & Markets.............................. 6
Experimental
Recent Progress in CO Hydrogenation over Bimetallic Catalysts for Higher
Alcohol Synthesis..................................................................................................... 15
Cobalt@Cucurbit[5]uril Complex as Highly Efficient Supramolecular Catalyst for
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting................................... 15
The Use of Heterogeneous Catalysis in the Chemical Valorization of Plastic
Waste...................................................................................................................... 16
Next Generation of Zinc Bisguanidine Polymerization Catalysts Towards Highly
Crystalline, Biodegradable Polyesters..................................................................... 17
Movers and Shakers
Robin Kolvenbach, PhD............................................................................................. 18

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