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⚫ New preprint: Heavy Oil Without Coke — Removing Asphaltenes Before Coking with Vacuum Separation and TEGA Between 15 and 30 million tonnes of petroleum coke lie at…
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Black mountains sit in Venezuela: 15–30 million t of petroleum coke. It comes from coking the residue of heavy oil. There is no use for it in Venezuela.…
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⚫ New preprint: Coke to Work — Turning Venezuelan Petroleum Coke Stockpiles into Metals, Fuel and Graphite Composite Between 15 and 30 million tonnes of petroleum coke lie…
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Black mountains sit in Venezuela: 15–30 million t of petroleum coke. There is no use for it there, and export doesn’t pay: ports and logistics are costly, and…
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🔬 New preprint: No SEI, No Loss — Beam Damage in Solid Sodium Electrolytes and the ARBOK-SODIQ Anode Platform A recent peer-reviewed study showed that the electron beam…
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A microscope destroys what it looks at. The electron beam that shows you the atoms of a battery also rewrites them — and for years that has quietly…
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A borehole shows what was spread on the field decades ago Over 30–40 years of heavy use of chemical fertilizers, 600–1,800 mln t of nitrates have entered the…
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Or — who really runs your plant? On July 13, 2026, a tonne of sulfur in Tampa cost $705. In 2024 it was 15 times less. Almost nobody…
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Or — who really runs your plant? 🏭 On July 13, 2026, a tonne of sulfur in Tampa cost $705. In 2024 it was 15 times less. Almost…
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