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Royal Dutch / Shell Group, (1983), The Petroleum Handbook, Elsevier... 

Also, Technochemie GmbH-Vetfahrenstechnik, Dossenheim, Germany is a member of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. 

A number of introductory static hazard texts have been published [25, 33, 67, 72, 731. Useful practical guidelines have also been published by ESCIS [4] and Walmsley [23], respectively based on the contemporary internal practices of Ciba-Geigy [196] and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group [189]. General reading, including electrostatic applications, can be found in the textbooks by Moore [109] and Cross [110]. 

Catalyst Research Associates (CRA) was formed. The original CRA members were Standard of New Jersey (Exxon), Standard of Indiana (Amoco), Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP Oil), The Texas Company (Texaco), Royal Dutch Shell, Universal Oil Products (UOP), The M.W. Kellogg Company, and I.G. Farben (dropped in 1940). 

Formed in 1995 from Royal Dutch/Shell, Montedison polyolefin operations, and Himont polypropylene. http //www.montell.com/montell/about/ company.html... 

Shell" and Biotechnology. Xanthan is manufactured by fermentation, a biotechnological process. How could "Shell", an oil company, be interested in such processes The Royal Dutch/Shell Group is, however, no newcomer to biotechnology. The Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology was set up in 1962 and was headed by Professor John Cornforth, who went on to win the 1975 Nobel prize for Chemistry shortly after he retired. In 1970 a fermentation laboratory was built on the same site. 

It is worth mentioning that the company is a privately held company, which major investors include the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Petro-Canada, DSM and the Government of Canada. 

Royal Dutch Shell has invested in cellulosic ethanol company Iogan and Germany s Choren Industries, which is building a demonstration bio-mass-to-liquids plant using wood feedstock. Royal Dutch Shell has also partnered with Codexis in exploring biomass energy production. 

Biomass gasification processes are in the demonstration phase. Biomass can also be gasified together with coal. Royal Dutch/Shell has commercially demonstrated a 25/75 biomass/coal gasifier. 

Fuel companies like Royal Dutch/Shell have invested heavily in hydrogen. Transition fuels such as onboard methanol-to-hydrogen conversion would require infrastructure investments, which would be difficult to justify. 

The Plato (Proving Lasting Advanced Timber Option) process is derived from a technology that was originally developed by Royal Dutch Shell, and was a spin-off from research into the hydrothermal conversion of biomass into liquid fuels. The Plato thermal modification process involves four stages (Figure 8.3) ... 

In dealing with future uncertainties, Royal Dutch/Shell pioneered Scenario planning (54,55). Alternative assumptions for future developments can be combined under this approach in various ways to give a number of consistent possible outcomes (56) and provide a basis for both actions and reactions. The approach has rewarded Shell handsomely. 

Parent Company Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies... 

Furfural Process. A patent involving furfural for solvent extraction of lubricating oils was issued to Eichwald of the Royal Dutch Shell Co. in 1925 (10). The first commercial application of the furfural process was at the Lawrenceville, 111., refinery of the Indian Refining Co. in December 1933. 

Currently, (N- 1,4-polyisoprene is manufactured in the United States only by The Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. at Beaumont, Texas. In Western Europe, only the Shell Nederland Chemie (Royal Dutch/Shell Group) commercially produces of-1,4-polyisoprene in Japan, the producers are Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd. and Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd. The sole wodd producer of trans- 1,4-p olyis oprene is Kuraray Co., Ltd. in Japan. 

It is interesting to read what "captains of industry," such as the chairmen of prominent multinational companies, have to say about sustainable development. Sir Marc Moody-Stuart, former chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, stated in 1999 in Ref. [5] what sustainable development meant for his company "balancing our own legitimate commercial interests with the wider need to protect and enhance the environment and contribute to social progress and stability."... 

In the U.S., the Department of Energy has selected six proposed new cellulosic ethanol refineries to receive a total of 385 million in federal funding. When completed, these six refineries are expected to produce 130 million gallons of ethanol yearly. Iogen s technology will be used in one of the refineries, to be located in Shelley, Idaho. Partners in the refinery will include Goldman Sachs and The Royal Dutch/Shell Group. 

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL (SHELL GROUP) The Hague SHELL WINDENERGY BV The Hague... 

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