Hydrogen: Informing a Safe Decision to Achieve Net Zero
PPE Challenge Accepted
Bulk Solids Flow: Know What you’re Dealing With
June 2020Issue 948
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK, have sourced and developed personal respirator equipment to help address a shortage and protect surgeons and medics in the UK during operations on coronavirus patients. The equipment has been successfully used for high-risk surgeries procedures at NHS hospitals.
THE COP26 climate change summit has been delayed for a full year until November 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
FLUOR has been awarded a FEED contract for Minnkota’s Project Tundra, a CCUS project in North Dakota, US.
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of technologies that reduce emissions and increase efficiency and productivity. This follows the release of an expert panel review aiming to identify new opportunities for low-cost abatement.
Amanda Doyle speaks to Florence Gschwend, CEO and Co-founder of Lixea, about the company's new process to turn wood waste into biochemicals, bioplastics, and biofuels.
HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality
IChemE has accelerated plans to offer many of its most popular training courses virtually in response to the outbreak of Covid-19. For those isolated at home, now might be an opportune time to boost skills and knowledge.
Grant Wellwood calls for manufacturers to include environmental impact labels on their products
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.