December 2019Consultants & Contractors Guide 2020
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovation and research fund for UK-based projects that aim to reduce the negative environmental impacts of packaging, batteries, and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
ICHEME Fellow Clifford Jones has been awarded a Distinguished Fellowship by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
SAUDI Aramco has raised US$25.6bn in its initial public offering (IPO), making it the world’s largest public share sale.
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and reversible capture of sulfur dioxide (SO2). The porous material could help to reduce SO2 emissions and enable use of captured SO2 to produce useful products.
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industries – not just oil and gas – was a key conclusion at CCUS 2019: Capturing the clean growth opportunities, held in London earlier this month.
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Amanda Doyle speaks to Amrit Chandan, CEO of Aceleron, about the company’s battery pack design which allows lithium-ion batteries to be recycled
How digital measurement is making waves in water and wastewater treatment
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.
For a series called Chemical Engineers who Changed the World, it would be downright rude not to feature the man who is widely regarded as the founding father of the discipline and the spiritual father of IChemE.
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than the Haber-Bosch process.