THE UK Government has launched a review into how it will license the offshore oil and gas industry while striving to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

18th September 2020

Industry

Hitachi withdraws from UK nuclear project

HITACHI has announced that its UK subsidiary will cease development of its 5.8 GW UK nuclear project, which includes construction of the Wylfa Newydd power plant, on Anglesey, Wales. Work on the Wylfa development had been suspended since January 2019.

17th September 2020

Industry

Transition to low-carbon world needs to be faster, says DNV GL report

ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to exhaust the remaining CO2 budget by 2028, according to DNV GL’s 2020 Energy Transition Outlook.

17th September 2020

IChemE

IChemE announces Global Awards 2020 finalists

ICHEME has announced more than 120 finalist entries which are in with a chance of winning a trophy for excellence in chemical, biochemical, and process engineering in the Institution’s Global Awards 2020.

16th September 2020

Vaccine Development: Mind the Gap

Timothy Clayton reviews the myriad of considerations faced by IChemE volunteers seeking to support successful vaccine production against Covid-19

Process

Success for Recipes

Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety

IChemE

Giving Back to the Profession

Jane Cutler, IChemE’s newly-elected Deputy President, talks to Adam Duckett

Risk & Safety

Hydrogen: Informing a Safe Decision to Achieve Net Zero

A review of the safety implications of a wider use of hydrogen, and the efforts under way to address them

Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World

People

Kenneth Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start

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.

People

George E Davis – Meet the Daddy

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.