Helping Hands in the Health Crisis
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
Features
Overcoming oxygen supply issues
Patients made severely ill may have difficulty breathing and require treatment with machines such...
Novel Meat for a New Age
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Monitoring in Mining
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based techn...
A periodic exhibition: RSC celebrates 150 years of Mendeleev’s periodic table
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) opened a special exhibition, curated by the University of Ca...
DigiTwin: Moving closer to autonomous management
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), D...
IChemE Members recognised with RAEng Major Project Award 2019
TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engine...
Two become one
ON 25–26 June the University of Cambridge’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology ...
INWED: ‘At the end of the day, we are all engineers’
HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign wh...
Snapshot: Royal Mail stamp of approval for engineering excellence
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
UN report calls for urgent action to tackle chemical pollution
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without...
Growing and Surviving
Amanda Jasi visits the University of Greenwich, where a new lab has opened to support chemeng stu...
Waste-to-BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
Chemical Engineering in the Kitchen
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
News
EPA takes a step to exempt ‘forever chemical’ release
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environm...
Environmentalists slam Australian mining advocate’s climate action plan
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have criticised the Climate Action Plan released by Minerals Council Australia ...
Partnership to develop environmental decision-making platform for the fashion industry
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
UK Government awards £10m grant for first commercial cryogenic energy storage facility
HIGHVIEW Power, a cryogenic energy storage company, has received £10m (US$12.3m) from the UK Gove...
UK Government announces 'major' support for UK research sector
The UK’s Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced two major supp...
Dow and Shell to jointly develop ‘e-cracker’ technology
MATERIALS science company Dow and Shell have agreed to jointly accelerate technology to electrify...
Recycling Association calls for Government to support paper and cardboard recycling
THE UK’s Recycling Association has called for Government to support investment in UK paper and ca...
Partnership to build bio-LNG plant
RENEWI, Nordsol, and Shell have signed an agreement to build a plant to produce bio-based liquid ...
Petrofac awarded contract for Acorn project
PETROFAC has been awarded a contract for engineering and project support for Pale Blue Dot Energy...
BASF to close US catalyst manufacturing facility
BASF has announced that in 2021 it will close its manufacturing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, w...
Partnership to develop large-scale decarbonisation project in the Humber
PHILLIPS 66, Uniper, and Vitol have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Humber ...
Study predicts substantial job losses in oil and gas following price collapse
A STUDY examining prospects for activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has projected a sharp...
UKAEA signs framework agreement to develop fusion energy
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a four-year, multimillion-pound framework agree...
IChemE can help to increase availability of Covid-19 treatment drugs
THE IChemE Covid-19 Response Team is supporting efforts to increase the availability of drugs tha...
Wood commits to reducing its GHG emissions
GLOBAL engineering and consultancy company Wood has pledged to set a science-based target to redu...
RSC opens Emerging Technologies Competition 2020
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is now open for entries into its 2020 Emerging Technolo...
NOx capture system proves successful in trials
AUSTRIAN technology company Krajete has announced the successful testing of a filtration system t...
Solenis closes on acquisition of paper specialty chemicals business
SPECIALTY chemicals producer Solenis has closed on its acquisition of ChemSystems’ paper business...
UK heat network projects awarded £25m
FOUR heat network projects have been awarded almost £25m (US$31.6m) of funding, in the third roun...
Air Products invests US$2bn in world-scale coal-to-methanol facility
AIR Products is to invest US$2bn as part of a long-term agreement for a world-scale coal-to-metha...
First Cobalt repurposes idle plant to produce EV battery component
NORTH American cobalt company First Cobalt has announced a C$2.1m (US$1.6m) work programme as par...
AstraZeneca to begin manufacturing coronavirus vaccine candidate immediately
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment f...
10 dead after chemicals factory explosion in India
10 workers have now died following an explosion on 3 June, at a chemicals factory in India, repor...
Stretch film manufacturer commercialises sustainable alternative
DOXA Plast, a stretch film manufacturing company, is commercialising a family of bio-based high p...
Covestro funds professorship to advance electrochemistry research
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could ...
Vale ordered to put aside US$1.47bn for dam collapse damages
BRAZILIAN mining company Vale has been ordered by a judge to put aside around R$7.93bn (US$1.47bn...
Consortium develops power to methanol demonstration project
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
Researchers source and develop PPE to protect surgeons
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK, have sourced and developed personal respirator equipm...
Australia looks to deploy A$2bn emissions reduction fund
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of te...
Partnership aims to develop tyre recycling technology
MICHELIN and Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) are planning to join forces to develop Enviro’s...
Call for evidence on the economic recovery benefits of hydrogen
THE UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hydrogen has called for submissions to inform an...
New UKRI CEO appointed
BRITISH plant biologist Dame Ottoline Leyser has been appointed as new CEO of UK Research and Inn...
Italian blast seriously injures two workers
ON 15 May, an explosion at a chemicals plant in an industrial zone in Venice, Italy seriously bur...
Energy company to use biomass to refire one of Australia’s top emitting coal power plants
AUSTRALIAN company Hunter Energy is to refire Redbank Power Station, a 151 MW coal plant in New S...
Evonik spends €25m as part of API and intermediates manufacturing expansion
EVONIK is spending €25m (US$27.1m) on the first stage of a long-term project to increase contract...
UK Government warned against plastic lobbyist efforts during the coronavirus crisis
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
Sasol appoints Wood as engineering partner
INTEGRATED chemicals and energy company Sasol has appointed Wood as its engineering partner in a ...
US$130trn investment needed for carbon neutrality by 2060
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
Photocatalytic microreactors for ‘green’ hydrogen
RESEACHERS at the University of Southampton, UK have developed photocatalytic microreactors that ...
Partners plan plant to recycle plastics into high-purity feedstock
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
Sasol cuts production to mitigate coronavirus impacts
SOUTH African integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol has announced production cuts to help...
OGUK calls for urgent action to prevent up to 30,000 job losses
UPTO 30,000 jobs in the UK's oil and gas industry are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and...
Japanese consortium to study CCU
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
ExxonMobil and medical product accelerator collaborate to produce PPE
EXXONMOBIL and the Global Center of Medical Innovation (GCMI) have initiated multi-sector and joi...
Synthetic biology touted for specialty chemicals production
SYNTHETIC biology will develop over the next decade from creating niche, environmentally friendly...
RAEng launches competition for schoolchildren
THE Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a new competition, Engineers in the Making,...
Jacobs awarded more than US$25m in fusion contracts
JACOBS has been awarded several contracts in fusion power, with an estimated value of more than U...
Recycling Technology signs agreement for first European site
SPECIALIST plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies has signed an agreement w...
2021 QEPrize nominations now open
NOMINATIONS for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize), the world’s most prestigious...
Wood wins GSK contracts
WOOD has been appointed GSK’s capital delivery partner for the pharmaceutical company’s Ware site...
Novel steam reforming catalyst has first commercial success
A NOVEL steam reforming catalyst, produced by Clariant, has proved successful in its first commer...
Policies essential for hydrogen to reduce global emissions, says BNEF
NET-ZERO goals and policies are needed to allow hydrogen to help address hard-to-abate greenhouse...
Explosion at US paper mill
AT around noon local time, on 15 April, an explosion occurred at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, US. ...
Organisations call for halt to US mining and drilling decisions, due to coronavirus
ONE hundred and one environmental and public health organisations have sent a letter to the US Go...
Bayer boosts Germany’s coronavirus testing capacity
LIFE science company Bayer has boosted Germany’s coronavirus analysis capacity by several thousan...
Arkema to focus on specialty materials business
ARKEMA is to exit the intermediate chemicals business as it seeks to realise its ambition of beco...
Nouryon to acquire metal alkyl business
SPECIALTY chemicals company Nouryon is to acquire the merchant triethyl aluminium (TEAL) business...
Coronavirus could lead to packaging material shortage, warns Recycling Association
THE UK risks a shortage in material for vital packaging needed to protect food and medical suppli...
Turning CO2 into carbon black
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
First aerogels made using rubber
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
TEPCO proposes methods to dispose of treated water stored at Fukushima
TEPCO, Japan’s largest power company group, has released a report which outlines two potential me...
Companies sign MoU to study hydrogen for Singapore’s energy future
SINGAPOREAN and Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, have signed a memorandum of understandi...
US EPA relaxes policy, citing coronavirus pandemic
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced temporary policy that will allow non-c...
Novel battery technology project succeeds in proof-of-concept
A COLLABORATIVE project has succeeded in demonstrating proof-of-concept for novel sodium-nickel-c...
Life sciences companies collaborate to accelerate coronavirus response
A CONSORTIUM of life sciences companies including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer, is c...
GSK efforts against coronavirus include US$10m to response fund
BRITISH multinational pharma company GSK is helping to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, including...
Engineering company increases ventilator component production
IMI Precision Engineering, a pneumatic motion and fluid control technology company, has rapidly a...
New IChemE Malaysia Board visits Royal Patron
EARLIER this month, members of the new IChemE Malaysia Board paid a courtesy visit to Her Royal H...
ENGIE to supply Heathrow Airport with ‘green gas’
ENERGY and services company ENGIE is to supply ‘green gas’ to Heathrow Airport, the major interna...
IChemE SIG calls on members for supply support in response to coronavirus
ICHEME’s Pharma Special Interest Group (SIG) has called for members to come forward and help supp...
ExxonMobil releases model methane emissions regulatory framework
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
New view of chemical engineering to help serve society
RESEARCHERS have presented a new view of chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineering, which sees t...
First Australian plant to deliver hydrogen blended gas across a city
AUSTRALIAN Gas Networks (AGN), which owns distribution networks across the country, is to constru...
Green process converts almost any carbon source into graphene
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US have discovered a green process which can quickly and cheaply ...
Stretchable battery for wearable electronics
RESEARCHERS at Stanford University, US have developed a soft and stretchable battery that could b...
Vale to begin disposing of mining waste from fatal Brazil dam collapse
MINING giant Vale is to begin disposing of the mine tailings from the fatal collapse of one of it...
New Hydrogen Taskforce calls for £1bn commitment from the UK Government
IN A report to mark its launch, the Hydrogen Taskforce – which involves energy majors Shell and B...
LNG demand to reach 700m t by 2040, says Shell
ACCORDING to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2020, published on 20 February, global demand for LNG is to doub...
Vale knew Brazil dam was unstable more than a decade before collapse, says report
ACCORDING to the summary of a report by an independent consulting committee created by Vale, the ...
Lancaster to make major investment in engineering
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at ...
IChemE Fellow appointed as champion to help address industrial decarbonisation challenges
UK Research and Innovation has appointed Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IChemE Fellow and Professor at He...
CPI and Oxford partner to scale up biocatalysis technology
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI and the University of Oxford, UK have partnered to scale up tech...
Carbon capture company receives US$16m investment
CARBON capture technology company Carbon Clean Solutions (CCSL) has announced the completion of a...
Judge accepts fatal dam collapse charges
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
BASF and JenaBatteries cooperate to develop innovative power storage technology
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
Vale to invest in technology to reduce dam use and increase safety
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale is to invest in technology to reduce tailings dam use and increase op...
Shell signs MoU for first commercial-scale polycarbonate unit
SHELL has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese petrochemicals manufacturing co...
Innovative sponge for offshore oil drilling wastewater cleanup
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK and the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have devel...
CPI partners with RSC to tackle chemical science challenges
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI has partnered with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part ...
Evonik and LIKAT achieve carbonylation breakthrough
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
Queensland mining industry needs to improve safety to avoid deaths
AN expert report says that 12 deaths are likely to occur over any five-year period within the Que...
Derby exhibition showcases women in engineering
THE University of Derby, UK is currently hosting a photography exhibit entitled Women Engineers –...
MOF captures and converts NO2 into useful product
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selec...
Drax and Econic partner to produce plastic using waste CO2
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
A$2bn agreement to support Australia’s energy transition
THE governments of Australia and New South Wales (NSW) have reached a A$2bn (US$1.34bn) energy ag...
16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
IEA calls on oil and gas to ‘step up’ its climate change efforts
THE oil and gas industry needs to “step up” climate change efforts, says the International Energy...
OGA Chairman calls on industry to do more for the energy transition
TIM Eggar, Chairman of the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has said the industry’s “social lice...
Vale launches project to recover area affected by fatal dam collapse
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale has launched a pilot project for the environmental recovery of the ar...
JV will proceed with world-scale anhydrous ammonia plant
GULF Coast Ammonia (GCA), owned by a joint venture (JV) of Starwood Energy and Mabanaft, has reac...
Ineos to build world-scale styrene plant in China
INEOS Styrolution, a global styrenics supplier, is to build a 600,000 t/y greenfield acrylonitril...
Poliakoff receives China’s highest honour for foreign scientists
BRITISH chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff has received the 2019 International Science and Technology C...
Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factor...
‘Artificial leaf’ for carbon neutral syngas production
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas p...
US$1.32m to accelerate waste-reduction innovation and research
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovati...
Novel material for reversible SO2 capture
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and rever...
Upcycling plastic bottles for the chemical industry
RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have ...
Highview Power to build Europe’s largest battery storage system
HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be...
Dam collapse tragedy could have been prevented
BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the taili...
IEA calls for ‘bold’ action to achieve emissions savings through energy efficiency
ENERGY efficiency can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but with efficiency improvements slow...
China’s Jingye to buy British Steel
CHINESE steel firm Jingye is buying British Steel’s business and assets, including its steelworks...
Cheap catalyst for hydrogen production shows commercial-scale promise
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
Partners build Vietnam’s first ‘plastic road’
MATERIALS science company Dow and Vietnamese industrial zone developer DEEP C Industrial Zones ha...
Simple method improves membrane CO2 separation performance
AN international team of researchers has, for the first time, shown that the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
IChemE Member Mandy Lester wins 2019 Karen Burt Award
MANDY LESTER, Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the 2019 Karen Burt Award for her commitment to...
Using CO2 and “green” energy to produce specialty chemicals
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
Carlsberg to halve water usage at Danish brewery
BREWING company Carlsberg has announced investment in a state-of-the-art water recycling plant th...
BP Skills Refinery goes global
BP, a leading graduate recruiter, announced today the 2019 global launch of its Skills Refinery, ...
Partnership to reduce steel industry CO2 emissions
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
Oil and gas innovation to benefit Japanese nuclear sector
RAWWATER Engineering Company, which developed specialist alloys for the oil and gas industry that...
Novel process recovers high-value products from natural gas
LINDE has developed a novel process to recover high-value products, including helium, from natura...
100+ partners commit to the Circular Plastics Alliance
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
Petronas triumphs at IChemE’s Malaysia Awards 2019
OIL and gas company Petronas scooped four out of the eight trophies given at IChemE’s Malaysia Aw...
US CSB release update on Texas chemicals plant explosion
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which ...
Milestone for molten salt nuclear reactors
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
Periodic Videos on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry win
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
Enapter unveils hydrogen electrolyser manufacturing facility
ENAPTER, which manufactures modular hydrogen electrolysers, has unveiled a new serial fabrication...
Husky receives approval for refinery rebuild
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400...
Shell and BP join consortium to tackle methane emissions
OIL and gas companies Shell and BP have joined the Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS...
Scientists win Nobel prize for developing Li-ion batteries
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and A...
Gorgon LNG project faces emissions penalties
CHEVRON’s Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, one of the world’s largest LNG projects, co...
ExxonMobil to sell 50% stake in Bass Strait assets
OIL and gas company ExxonMobil is to sell its 50% stake in its Bass Strait oil and gas assets, of...
Whitehaven Coal says it will survive lower-carbon future
WHITEHAVEN Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal producer, expects to survive a range of low...
Removing pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
Recycling EV batteries
ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lit...
Fire breaks out at a French chemicals plant
A FIRE broke out at a Lubrizol chemicals factory in Rouen, France, in the early hours of 26 Septe...
Clariant’s new HTE lab in the US energy capital to support oil and gas
SPECIALTY chemicals company Clariant has opened a new High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) Labor...
Malaysian students awarded new IChemE SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineer...
Australian mining leads the way in tailings safety
THE Australian minerals industry has released a communiqué, which reinforces its position as a gl...
Novel electrocatalyst produces valuable fuels using CO2
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed an electrocatalytic reactor that could be used...
Cracker consortium aims to reduce carbon emissions
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will join...
Drone attack cuts global oil capacity by 5%
DRONES have targeted the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, reducing the state-owned Sau...
Record-breaking analysis
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed ...
Current European estimates likely underestimate fracking emissions
RESEARCHERS at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam (IASS) have concluded th...
Pilbara Minerals raises US$62.7m in equity
AUSTRALIAN lithium mining company Pilbara Minerals has raised A$91.5m (US$62.7m) in equity. The t...
IChemE’s new interactive case study to improve student laboratory safety
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has produced a new free interactive case study to help chemical en...
BASF and Domo Chemicals to acquire Solvay’s polyamide business
BASF, Solvay, and Domo Chemicals have reached an agreement for the acquisition of Solvay’s polyam...
Santos and Perdaman sign HoA for an ammonium plant
OIL and gas company Santos and diversified company Perdaman have signed a heads of agreement to f...
ExxonMobil and Mosaic Materials collaborate to reduce CO2 emissions
EXXONMOBIL and separations technology company Mosaic Materials have agreed to explore the advance...
Australia investigates building its largest hydrogen production plant
QUEENSLAND Government-owned power generation company Stanwell is spending A$5m (US$3.4m) to study...
BASF to sell pigments business for US$1.3bn
BASF is to sell its global pigments business to fine chemicals company DIC for €1.15bn (US$1.3bn)...
BP sells Alaska business to Hilcorp for US$5.6bn
BP is selling its entire Alaska business to energy company Hilcorp for US$5.6bn, including its sh...
Engineering profession calls for action to secure the UK’s future economy and society
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has published a manifesto for a prosperous and secu...
Blast at Indian pharmaceutical plant injures 16
A REACTOR exploded at a pharmaceutical plant in India injuring 16 workers, according to reports.
UK students to tackle engineering challenges
FIVE UK student teams are to compete against counterparts from the US and China as part of a spec...
Jacobs purchases Wood’s nuclear business for US$303.5m
WOOD is to sell its nuclear business to Jacobs for £250m (US$303.5m). The sale proceeds will go t...
Worsley Alumina signs contracts to receive 1.75m t of LNG
CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina wit...
Clariant and SABIC suspend JV negotiations
SPECIALTY chemical company Clariant and diversified petrochemicals company SABIC have “temporaril...
BHP announces US$400m Climate Investment Program
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
Novel process for damage-free algae biomass harvesting
RESEARCHERS at the University of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a novel, damage-free process for r...
A periodic exhibition: RSC celebrates 150 years of Mendeleev’s periodic table
ON Tuesday the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) opened a special exhibition, curated by the Unive...
Asahi to acquire Carlton and United Breweries for US$10.8bn
BELGIAN brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has agreed to sell its Australian subsidiar...
ExxonMobil plant explosion injures 37
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
QEPrize launches podcast to explore engineering and its impact
THE Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) has launched a new podcast series, Create the...
Advancing low-carbon technologies together
LED by the World Economic Forum (WEF), chemical companies are to collaborate to reduce the chemic...
LPG industry aims for 100% transition to bioLNG by 2040
Liquid Gas UK (formerly UKLPG) has launched its new vision, which sets a goal for the liquid petr...
New SABIC sustainability roadmap aligns with UN SDGs
SAUDI manufacturing company SABIC has launched its sustainability roadmap aligned to the UN Susta...
Perstorp investigates sustainable methanol production
LEADING specialty chemicals company Perstorp is investigating the potential production of recycle...
BP invests US$30m in alternative protein production startup
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to pro...
Chevron Phillips and Qatar Petroleum to build world’s largest ethane cracker
Qatar Petrochemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical have signed agreements to jointly develop petro...
Protein-producing microbes to reduce CO2 emissions
DRAX is partnering with startup Deep Branch Biotechnology (DBB) on a new bioenergy carbon capture...
Avantium commercialising PEF production
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
Philadelphia oil refinery to shut down following fire
REFINERY owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has announced that it is to permanently close ...
A step towards closing the carbon loop
RESEARCHERS at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed a novel electrochemical pat...
Sleipner partnership to release CO2 storage datasets
EQUINOR and its partners are to release datasets from the Sleipner field, the world’s first offsh...
BASF develops climate-friendly methanol production process
BASF has developed a climate-friendly process for methanol production, which if implemented could...
Researchers achieve commercially attractive carbon capture with a MOF
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for ...
New report assesses gas-to-hydrogen transition
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
University of Canterbury student wins New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2019
ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the Univers...
Partners sign MoU for CCUS and hydrogen production in the Humber
DRAX, Equinor, and National Grid Ventures have signed an MoU to investigate construction of a lar...
New plastic can be recycled repeatedly
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
IChemE Fellows receive Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded birthday honours to IChemE Fellow Katherine Hirschfeld and Hono...
European consortium launches CO2 capture demonstration project
A EUROPEAN consortium of 11 research and industry stakeholders has launched a project to demonstr...
A novel process for democratised fertiliser production
RESEARCHERS from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan have developed a bench-scale ammonia pro...
Ithaca Energy acquires North Sea oil and gas fields
OIL and gas company Ithaca Energy is to acquire ten of Chevron’s UK North Sea producing fields fo...
Umicore acquires Europe’s largest cobalt refinery
INTERNATIONAL mining company Freeport-McMoran has agreed to sell Europe’s largest cobalt refinery...
JV to supply US with rare earths separation capacity
LYNAS and Blue Line have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint venture (JV) to d...
Wabash Valley Resources closes investment for CCS project
WABASH Valley Resources (WVR) has closed an investment from Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)...
Exelon to shut down Three Mile Island
THE infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is set to shutdown due to government inaction.
IEA report finds the world is at risk of a steep decline in nuclear power
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the world is at risk of a steep decline in ...
Australian hydrogen energy storage project receives US$2.4m investment
RESEARCHERS in Australia have received a A$3.5m (US$2.4m) investment to develop a system that sto...
IChemE presents awards to ten chemical engineers
ON 23 May IChemE presented ten chemical engineers with medals for their outstanding contributions...
IChemE launches interactive safety case studies
ICHEME has launched two interactive safety case studies – Chemical Plant and Underground Pipeline...
Covestro to transform process engineering workflow
PLASTICS company Covestro has signed a deal with industrial software company AVEVA, to help digi...
BASF to build two plastics plants at proposed site in China
BASF is to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU...
Saudi Aramco and Sempra Energy sign HoA for proposed LNG project
SUBSIDIARIES of energy infrastructure company Sempra Energy and Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s stat...
RPS calls for entries into new science photography competition
THE Royal Photographic Society (RPS), an international charity organisation, is calling for entri...
Final trials begin on a facility to store Chernobyl’s spent nuclear fuel
ON 6 May the final system-wide trials of a new dry storage facility at Chernobyl began. ISF2, loc...
Novel epoxide synthesis
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer ...
ExxonMobil doubles manufacturing capacity of UK specialty elastomers plant
FOLLOWING a plant expansion ExxonMobil has doubled the manufacturing capacity of a plant in Newpo...
World Bank launches first-ever mining fund
THE World Bank has launched a multi-donor fund, the Climate-Smart Mining Facility. The fund is th...
Swedish consortium to build fossil-free iron pellet pilot plant
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European companies to test innovative nanocoated-salt based energy storage technology
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A novel EOR surfactant
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European ports project to store 10m t CO2 in the North Sea
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Consortium aims to bring world-first PET recycling technology to market
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Royal Mail celebrates 50 years of UK engineering excellence
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Wood awarded Evonik contract
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BP and partners to invest US$6bn for oilfield development
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US CSB calls for review to improve HF safety
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ExxonMobil to invest US$2bn in Texas plant expansion
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ExxonMobil stops unplanned flaring at UK plant
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ArcelorMittal to launch project to use hydrogen in steel production
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Wood secures SABIC engineering design contract
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Shell launches New Energy Challenge 2019
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Two injured following Tata Steel explosion
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IChemE Members to vote on Royal Charter and by-law changes
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Update: Criminal measures taken against 26 following fatal Chinese chemicals explosion
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Sunfire and Salzgitter to build world’s most powerful steam electrolysis plant
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Update: Three employees had “significant responsibility” for Chinese chemicals plant explosion
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Action is needed to fight growing science scepticism
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Three more Brazil dams at critical alert
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Operations halted at Vale
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Update: 78 confirmed dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
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Brazil dam in critical alert
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Update: 47 dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
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Six killed in Chinese chemicals plant explosion
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Nouryon and Gasunie to supply ‘green’ hydrogen for methanol production
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Employees re-arrested after fatal Brazil dam collapse
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BASF opens global digital centre
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ECHA publishes comprehensive plastic additive inventory
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Shell joins W2C Rotterdam project
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Stabilising coal ash ponds using ‘biocement’
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Employees removed following Brazil dam collapse
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Novel water treatment pilot plant
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Novel CO2 scrubber
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BASF and Linde team up to serve natural gas processes
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Brazil dam collapse prosecutors investigate collusion
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Vale CEO resigns after Brazil dam collapse
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Largest Indonesian gas find in 18 years
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Brazil approves dam safety bill
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India to move planned refinery
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Creating useful products from desalination waste
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An alternative CO2 capture process
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Brazil bans upstream dams
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Improved process for making plastics from sulfur
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Employees arrested after Brazil dam breach
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Vale ‘knew’ Brazil dam was at risk of collapse, report says
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Update: 165 people confirmed dead after Brazil dam breach
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Clariant partners with ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group
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Update: 157 confirmed dead after dam breach in Brazil
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Update: 134 confirmed dead after Brazil dam breach
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Update: Number killed in Brazil dam breach reaches 99
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Saudi Arabia to invest in South African plants
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Saudi Arabia to build plants in Pakistan
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Fatal dam breach in Brazil leaves hundreds missing
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3D-printed sponge could reduce side effects of chemotherapy
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Novel powder could cut CO2 emissions
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Unilever joins Nouryon’s Imagine Chemistry
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Wylfa suspension could lead to a UK energy crisis
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New alliance combatting environmental plastic waste
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Exxon partners with IBM to advance quantum computing
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A catalyst for ‘greener’ hydrogen production
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Pioneering professor awarded IChemE medal
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UK relaunches search for a GDF site
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IChemE Fellows awarded New Year’s Honours
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BP and SOCAR sign HoA for petrochemicals JV
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Novel method for creating sequence-defined polymers
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Climeworks pioneering air-captured CO2 for drinks carbonation
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New report reveals latest chemical engineering salary trends
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Shell to invest in Shearwater gas infrastructure hub
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Neste to invest €1.4bn in renewable products
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Coca-Cola Company to extend loan for novel PET recycling technology
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HSE feedback on HCR challenge
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator, has ...
Novel ‘organ-on-a-chip’ device
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Scepticism over the UK bioeconomy strategy
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Bayer to sell businesses and cut 12,000 jobs
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Bacton terminal begins receiving gas from Clipper South
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Novel particles for photocatalytic water treatment
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Chemical gas leak causes deadly explosive chain reaction
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The next step for CO2-based plastics
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An ‘evolution’ in renewable energy
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Albemarle signs agreement for lithium mining JV
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Drax starts commissioning Europe’s first BECCS pilot plant
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Impossible to clean Husky oil spill
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Bloomberg hosts second London sustainability summit
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Recycling mixed plastics together
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Understanding why fracking wastewater contains radioactive waste
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New MOF makes plastic manufacturing more energy efficient
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ExxonMobil to contribute US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre partnership
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Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
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BASF and Sinopec sign MoU for China steam cracker
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First apprenticeship survey released
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Demonstration plant for ground-breaking chemicals technology
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More than US$50bn worth of deals for Saudi Arabia
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A membrane technology breakthrough
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Improving water purification
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Covestro to build world-scale MDI plant
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Pioneering SMR technology enters manufacturing phase
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IChemE Congress vote pushed back
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Novartis plans job cuts
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Drax in talks to acquire Scottish Power assets
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Evonik to build a new silicones plant
EVONIK, a world leader in specialty chemicals, is to build a new silicones plant at its Geesthach...
IChemE announces Congress candidates
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Total announces major gas discovery
TOTAL, the world’s fourth-largest oil and gas company, has announced a major gas discovery on the...
An improved methane to syngas catalyst
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Second Cuadrilla approval for onshore fracking
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BP helps to ‘future proof’ students’ skills
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Chemical engineering professors recognised with Royal Academy fellowship
CHEMICAL engineering professors and IChemE members, Chris Hewitt, Zhibing Zhang, and Barry Lennox...
Joint report calls for immediate action to remove greenhouse gases
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
Pulling oil from water
ENGINEERS at Rice University, US, in conjunction with Shell Global Solutions, have developed magn...
Transforming medicines manufacturing
IN a collaboration between Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), and global p...
IChemE announces Global Award finalists
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Nuvia wins contract for Dounreay Site Restoration Limited
NUVIA (UK) has won a multi-million-pound contract with Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) t...
Big little droplets
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Nominations open for new IChemE member advisory body
ICHEME is calling on its members to put themselves forward for its new member advisory board, Con...
Alliance seeks partner to boost lab safety
PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic part...
University of Sheffield to host 2019 Frank Morton Sports Day
CHEMICAL engineering students at the University of Sheffield, UK have successfully won the bid to...
Nuclear energy and sustainability experts heading to Manchester
LEADING engineering experts in nuclear energy and sustainability will deliver keynote speeches at...
Air Products to build a coal-to-syngas facility for Jiutai New Material
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
Drax: Stepping closer to coal-free
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
Uranium: Under the sea
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
‘Green’ high-tech dye synthesis
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Cabot Microelectronics to acquire KMG Chemicals
CABOT Microelectronics, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarisation (CMP) p...
Picky porous electrodes take out toxins
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, are developing a novel water treatment technology to selectiv...
Invista brings latest ADN technology to China
INVISTA Intermediates is to build a 300,000 t/y, world-scale adiponitrile (ADN) plant in China, a...
Novel smart drying technology
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
EPSRC funds Inclusion Matters initiative
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New packaging: cheap and slippery
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Lanxess to sell JV stake to Saudi Aramco
SPECIALTY chemicals group, Lanxess plans to sell its 50% share of Arlanxeo to its joint venture p...
