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Biobased Chemicals

Bridgestone gets grant for butadiene route

by Alexander H. Tullo
October 27, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 34

 

Bridgestone researchers in a lab. They are wearing gray labcoats and are inspecting colored fluids.
Credit: Bridgestone Americas
Bridgestone has been working on a process to convert ethanol into butadiene.

Bridgestone Americas has received a $9.3 million grant from the US Department of Energy to further develop a process to make butadiene, an important raw material for synthetic rubber, from ethanol. Bridgestone has been collaborating with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which developed a catalyst for the process. As part of the program, Bridgestone will build a pilot plant in Akron, Ohio. The firm hopes that the process proves commercially viable and less greenhouse gas intensive than petrochemical routes to butadiene.

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