The Changing Landscape of Hydrocarbon Feedstocks for Chemical Production: Implications for Catalysis: Proceedings of a Workshop

by The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, et al.

A decade ago, the U.S. chemical industry was in decline. Of the more than 40 chemical manufacturing plants being built worldwide in the mid-2000s with more than $1 billion in capitalization, none were under construction in the United States. Today, as a result of abundant domestic supplies of affordable natural gas and natural gas liquids resulting from the dramatic rise in shale gas production, the U.S. chemical industry has gone from the world's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309444799
• ISBN13: 9780309444798
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"