WATER UK has announced that it will develop plans to achieve net zero emissions across the water sector by 2030.

3rd April 2020

Industry

Woodside CEO: Browse project could get carbon capture from day one

WOODSIDE says it will add a carbon capture project to its Browse gas project off the coast of Western Australia in response to environmental concerns.

3rd April 2020

Coronavirus

UK relaxes rules to speed up sanitiser production

THE UK Government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have relaxed rules over the manufacture of hand sanitisers to help increase production.

2nd April 2020

Coronavirus

COP26 postponed due to coronavirus crisis

THE COP26 climate change summit, which was due to take place in Glasgow, UK, in November, has been postponed in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

2nd April 2020

Hydrogen in Vehicular Transport

A look at the challenges and opportunities of using hydrogen as a transport fuel

Policy

Climate crisis explainer: what is COP26 and why is it important?

In November, the 26th UN Conference of Parties (COP) climate summit will take place in Glasgow, UK. Known as COP26, it will mark five years since the Paris Agreement, and it will be crucial that real progress is made at the summit in order to take immediate action on the climate emergency.

Risk & Safety

Monitoring in Mining

Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based technology, which is used to manage potentially tragic mining failures

Waste Management

Pyrolysis Gets Personal

Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that allows homes and businesses to process waste into gas for heating

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.