Question Time: Energy
Experts gather to discuss how the discipline can contribute to the energy transition
Features
Dreaming Big and Changing the World Through Chemical Engineering
Amanda Jasi speaks to pioneering chemical engineer Robert Langer about his successes and offers a...
Process Engineering for the Final Frontier
Kathryn Hadler tells Amanda Jasi about the exciting prospect of extracting and processing resourc...
A Cleaner, Greener Future: ‘We are Key, and we are Responsible’
Amanda Jasi speaks to Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold about how chemical engineering can help h...
Question Time: Social Experience
Chemical engineers gather to discuss how the profession can help shape a better future
From Junk to Fuel: Addressing the Space Debris Challenge
Amanda Jasi talks to Gary Calnan about his company’s work on developing a forge for recycling was...
Designing Dairy
Yvonne Owens talks about her role as Whey Intake Process Manager at Ireland's largest dairy proce...
Precision Fermentation: A green route for protein production
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Working Hard. Having Fun. Making History
Fiona Ragan talks about her role in process control at Amazon
Cow-Free: A possible future for dairy
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Palm Oil Possibilities
Ausiera Rosland talks about her role as a Project Engineer at Sime Darby Oils in Malaysia
The Cold Treatment
Todd Cline talks about his role in designing sustainable products
Working in Water
Amanda Lake talks about her work in the municipal water sector, in water and wastewater treatment.
We Are the Universal Engineers
Rosey Deverall talks about her roles in nuclear safety and decommissioning
Lab-to-Table: Why Chemical Engineers are Key to a Meat-Free Future
Marianne Ellis talks about her work on tissue engineering to find ways to improve societal health...
Forging Positive Change
Chris McDonald discusses his career in metals, and why the industry needs more chemical engineers
The Nuclear Option
Brett Longstaffe talks about his role in engineering novel reactors
Power Hungry
Amrit Chandan talks about his focus on growing and scaling his company's advanced lithium battery...
Carry on Teaching: Higher Education During a Pandemic
Amanda Jasi surveys students and teachers to understand how Covid-19 has impacted university life...
Bath Triumphs at Virtual Frank Morton 2021
Amanda Jasi speaks to event organiser Benjamin Fadele
Helping Hands in the Health Crisis
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
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
UK not on track for net zero, says the Climate Change Committee
THE UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that the country is not on track to achieve its “amb...
Toxic gas leak kills 13 in Jordan
A LEAK of toxic chlorine gas at Aqaba’s Red Sea port has killed 13 people and injured more than 3...
BP acquires stake in major green hydrogen and renewables hub
ENERGY major BP has agreed to acquire a 40.5% stake in and operate the Asian Renewable Energy Hub...
INWED: Navya Thomas recognised as an innovator
COINCIDING with the celebration of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2022, Research ...
DAC partners announce global deployment approach
CCUS platform 1PointFive and technology company Carbon Engineering have announced a deployment ap...
One killed in Chinese petrochemical plant fire
ONE person was killed by a fire which broke out at an ethylene glycol facility belonging to the s...
New IChemE President David Bogle on using ethics to power the profession
DAVID Bogle has become the 81st President of IChemE. Yesterday, he delivered an Address focussed ...
Shell invests to accelerate UK energy transition
BY 2030, Shell aims to increase its supply of UK oil and gas demand to 15% while reducing emissio...
Marlene Kanga awarded Queen’s Birthday Honours
MARLENE Kanga, a chartered chemical engineer who successfully campaigned for a global engineering...
Australia pays €555m over scrapped nuclear-sub programme
THE Australian Government has announced a €555m (US$579.9m) settlement with France’s majority sta...
Shutdown of US LNG exporter after fire raises supply concerns
ONE of the US’s largest LNG export facilities has shutdown after a fire, raising supply concerns ...
UK fertiliser producer proposes plant closure
CF FERTILISERS UK is proposing permanent closure of its Ince manufacturing facility, near Chester...
UK scrutinises Chinese acquisition of 'prized' semiconductor producer
THE UK Government is conducting a full national security assessment of a Chinese-owned subsidiary...
Chemical blasts in Bangladesh kill at least 41 people, say reports
A CHEMICAL blaze and explosions at a container depot in Bangladesh have killed at least 41 people...
News reports fatal chemical blasts in India
NEWS sites have reported fatal chemical incidents in India’s Hapur district, in the state of Utta...
Woodside completes merger with BHP Petroleum
WOODSIDE Energy has completed its merger with BHP’s oil and gas portfolio, creating a global ener...
JV greenlights delayed gas project
SHELL and its joint-venture (JV) partner SGH Energy have taken a final investment decision (FID) ...
G7 nations make first coal phase out commitment
G7 NATIONS have announced a commitment to achieving “predominantly decarbonised electricity secto...
US CCS project to capture up to 15m t/y of CO2
BP and Linde plan to advance a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will ...
Student team’s water sterilisation system wins sustainability competition
A TEAM of school students who designed a solar water sterilisation system has won this year’s Dav...
UK data hub to boost manufacturing
ULSTER University, UK is leading a new £50m (US$62.9m) data innovation hub and testbed expected t...
UKAEA shows X-rays could support safe, reliable fusion power
SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully shown that X-ray scanning ...
Shell sells Russian retail and lubricants businesses
SHELL has signed an agreement to sell its Russian retail and lubricants businesses to Lukoil, one...
Final licensor selected for Australia’s only fully integrated urea production facility
NEURIZER has selected Stamicarbon to deliver the process design package for front-end engineering...
UK launches £120m nuclear fund
THE UK Government has launched a £120m (US$149.8m) fund to unlock and accelerate new nuclear tech...
UK partnership successfully recycles continuous carbon fibres
ENGINEERS at the UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC), along with partners, have successfully re...
Six dead after ‘worst industrial fire in Slovenia’s recent history’
SIX people are dead following an explosion and fire yesterday at the Melamin chemical plant in Ko...
Recommendations to support UK green hydrogen
UK TRADE association RenewableUK has made policy recommendations to help Government achieve its g...
Scottish trial tests hydrogen in gas pipelines
A TRIAL is underway at Ineos’s Grangemouth site to help determine how existing natural gas networ...
AI discovers routes for recycling chemical waste
RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover routes for recycling waste into us...
BASF announces deadline for Russia exit
BASF has announced that it will wind down its remaining activities in Russia and Belarus by the b...
BP to invest £18bn to support UK energy security
OIL major BP has plans to invest £18bn (US$22.5bn) in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030, ...
New £15m research facility to boost UK nuclear
CONSTRUCTION of a new £15m (US$18.9m) nuclear research facility is underway at Infinity Park Derb...
Nigel Hirst announced as next Deputy President as IChemE voting opens
NIGEL Hirst will be IChemE’s next Deputy President, while David Edwards will join the Board of Tr...
Cemex invests in lower carbon cement technology
CEMEX has invested in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, which has developed technology that uses cli...
Chemical engineers lead efforts to unblock UK hydrogen use
CHEMICAL engineers are investigating how the UK could increase its use of hydrogen and alternativ...
IAEA steps in to make Chernobyl safe
NUCLEAR experts have arrived at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to help make it safe afte...
Ithaca Energy acquisition reawakens Cambo project plans
OIL and gas company Ithaca Energy is acquiring Siccar Point Energy in a deal worth up to US$1.46b...
CSB releases safety video on paper mill incident
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about the 2020 fatal incident ...
BASF outlines plans to continue net zero progress
ONE year after announcing its 2050 net zero target, BASF has outlined plans to continue its progr...
Neste studies plastic waste processing facility
AS IT works to commercialise chemical recycling of plastic waste, Neste is conducting a feasibili...
Attacks on Saudi facilities threaten energy security
AIRBORNE attacks on Saudi Aramco energy infrastructure demonstrate a threat to Saudi Arabia’s pro...
Huge floating LNG plant cleared to restart production
SHELL has been cleared to restart production at is major floating LNG facility Prelude.
‘Clear progress’ made since the North Sea Transition Deal
A YEAR after agreeing to the North Sea Transition Deal with the oil and gas sector, UK Government...
Saudi Aramco to increase oil and gas production
AS part of its growth strategy, Saudi Aramco has announced that it will increase oil and gas prod...
Green investor partners with spinout for novel fluid flow characterisation technology
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered...
Australia to become critical minerals powerhouse by 2030
THE Australian Government has announced an updated strategy which it expects will make the nation...
EDF plans green hydrogen facility in Teesside
EDF and Hynamics, a subsidiary of the EDF Group which specialises in hydrogen, have announced inv...
Viridor opens state-of-the-art resource recovery facility
VIRIDOR has officially opened its £317m (US$417.3m), state-of-the-art, plastics recycling and was...
HyNet launches demonstration of hydrogen-fired consumer goods production
HYNET has launched a demonstration project at Unilever’s Port Sunlight site that is fuelling prod...
Evonik invests in 3D pharmaceuticals printing
EVONIK, through its corporate venture capital unit, has invested an undisclosed amount in Laxxon ...
UK nuclear treatment plant to increase access for European market
NUCLEAR firm Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a non-binding agreement with Perma-Fix Envi...
HyNet developers share FEED lessons from first hydrogen plant
ESSAR Oil UK and Progressive Energy joint-venture Vertex Hydrogen has unveiled a report detailing...
UK awards energy storage competition winners
THE UK Government has awarded £6.7m (US$8.9m) to projects across the country that are developing ...
IChemE bursary to fund postgrad catalysis summer school attendance
ICHEME has launched a new bursary to fund 20 postgraduate students to attend a summer school prog...
Petronas to become Southeast Asia’s sole melamine provider
PETRONAS Chemicals claims it will become Southeast Asia’s sole melamine producer after awarding a...
Australian coal-plant closures spark energy security concerns
AUSTRALIAN energy providers AGL and Origin Energy have announced the early closures of coal-fired...
Eni reaches 19 MoUs for HyNet participation
ENI UK has achieved 19 memorandums of understanding (MoUs), with as many companies interested in ...
Novel method for green ammonia production
RESEARCHERS at Monash University, Australia have discovered a method for producing green ammonia ...
Shell provides CO2 capture technology to Humber Zero
TECHNOLOGY licensor Shell Catalysts and Technologies has announced it will provide the Humber Zer...
Ireland launches €90m startup fund
THE Irish Government has launched the Irish Innovation Seed Fund (IISF), which will invest potent...
BP acquires 30% of UK biofuels company
BP has acquired 30% of Green Biofuels (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable ...
OGUK rebrands to Offshore Energies UK
OIL & Gas UK (OGUK) is changing its name to Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) and expanding to include ...
Ineos plans low-carbon hydrogen plant
INEOS is inviting major engineering design contractors to tender for the next stage of the design...
Partnership to fill Europe’s EV supply chain gap
WOOD has been appointed as Owner’s Engineer by Green Lithium and will build and operate what is e...
Linde starts up hydrogen extraction pilot
LINDE has started up its full-scale pilot plant for extracting hydrogen from natural gas pipeline...
Japanese inventor awarded 2022 QEPrize
MASATO Sagawa has won the 2022 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for his work on th...
New funding to aid bioeconomy
THE Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has launched a new fund to aid biotech co...
IChemE launches Sustainability Hub
ICHEME has launched its new Sustainability Hub, giving chemical engineers access to a suite of ne...
A call for digital chemical engineering editors
THE EDITORIAL board of IChemE’s new journal, Digital Chemical Engineering, is calling for editors...
ExxonMobil developing roadmaps towards net zero
EXXONMOBIL is developing emission-reduction roadmaps for its major facilities and assets, which w...
Johnson Matthey partnership to close EV battery recycling loop
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) and material recycler European Metal Recycling (EMR) have signed a memorandu...
Woodside enters FEED on H2 project
WOODSIDE has entered into front-end engineering design on its H2OK project, after awarding a cont...
Science agency partners up to advance carbon capture
MCDERMOTT and Australia’s national science research agency CSIRO are working together to evaluate...
UK launches hydrogen BECCS funding programme
THE UK Government has launched a £5m (US$6.8m) funding programme to support development of new te...
GSK rejects bids for healthcare business
GSK has declined three “unsolicited” offers to acquire its consumer health business from Unilever...
UKAEA signs two new deals to develop fusion
TWO multimillion-pound frameworks will see experts join the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to...
Grangemouth trial to advance plastics recycling
INEOS and its JV company Petroineos will work with recycling technology company Plastic Energy on...
Yvonne Baker awarded OBE
ICHEME Chartered member Yvonne Baker has been recognised for services to STEM education, receivin...
British Airways to use UK-made SAF
PHILLIPS 66 will supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to British Airways (BA), under a new supp...
Australian partnership for battery storage system
ENGIE, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), and Fluence have partnered to deliver a large-sc...
Fire halts operations at huge floating LNG facility
SHELL has temporarily halted production at its major floating LNG facility Prelude, after an elec...
Australia chooses site for national nuclear waste facility
THE Australian Government has selected Napandee as the site for its National Radioactive Waste Ma...
Talks under way for Covid-19 vaccine supply in Africa
JOHNSON & Johnson and multinational specialty pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare have reache...
Valneva collaborates for Covid-19 vaccine production
VALNEVA and biotech company IDT Biologika are collaborating to produce Valneva’s inactivated Covi...
Australian gas plan ‘locks in devastating global heating’
AS PART of its “gas-led recovery”, the Australian Government has released the first full National...
European Commission selects large-scale projects for funding
The European Commission (EC) has selected seven large-scale clean-tech projects for funding that ...
MPs launch STEM diversity investigation
THE UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry, Diversity in ...
COP26 Latest
Follow our latest news coverage during the crucial UN climate conference in Glasgow
Partnership to accelerate net zero energy transition
SHELL and energy technology company Baker Hughes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) ...
Cemex appoints clean-tech company for carbon capture FEED study
BUILDING materials company Cemex has appointed clean-tech company Carbon Clean to work on the fro...
New initiatives support global climate efforts
Today, on Science and Innovation Day at COP26, global coalitions of businesses, nations, and scie...
A$2.5m to fund pilot for greener lithium extraction
NOVALITH Technologies has raised A$2.5m (US$3.4m) of seed funding that will finance build-out and...
Simple changes for environmental and cost benefits in textiles
ONE-OFF investment in wet processors for simple, practical improvements could lower environmental...
Sabic invests £850m in UK cracker restart and conversion
SABIC is investing £850m (US$1.16bn) to restart its hydrocarbon cracker in Wilton, Teesside, UK, ...
Partners announce FID for Moomba CCS
SANTOS and joint-venture partner Beach Energy have announced a final investment decision on the A...
Solvay announces plans for carbon neutrality by 2050
SOLVAY has announced its plans for achieving carbon neutrality before 2050, building on 2030 targ...
World’s ‘smallest’ carbon capture technology launched
CARBON Clean, an industrial carbon capture company, has launched what it says is the world’s smal...
New £20m facility to strengthen South Wales steel and metals industry
A NEW £20m (US$27.6m) facility has been launched in South Wales, which is expected to set the reg...
Fit for carbon capture
CCUS Council outlines plans to conduct supply chain capability assessment
Ineos invests €2bn in green hydrogen
INEOS will invest more than €2bn (US$2.32bn) in electrolysis projects for green hydrogen producti...
Study identifies kickstarter projects for SA hydrogen valley
A FEASIBILITY study published by the South African Government and partners has identified nine pr...
Novel process could recycle PVDC
SOLVAY has shown that polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) has the potential to be recycled and is now ...
Technology package for carbon-neutral aviation fuel
WOOD and technology company Honeywell have announced that they will combine green refining and hy...
Research could see fish waste used for nylon production
SCOTTISH researchers are exploring a new bio-based process for more environmentally-friendly and ...
Inaugural Earthshot winners announced
TECHNOLOGIES for agricultural waste conversion and green hydrogen production have been recognised...
Engineering regulator increases guidance on cybersecurity
ENHANCING its support in data and cybersecurity, the UK’s Engineering Council has updated its sec...
Shell to use BASF adsorption technology for CCS
AS both companies work to accelerate to a net zero emissions world, Shell has now added BASF’s So...
Australia announces carbon capture initiatives
THE Australian Government has announced initiatives to encourage carbon capture, use, and storage...
U-Battery unveils full-scale AMR mockup
U-BATTERY Ltd has unveiled a full-scale mockup of a first-of-a-kind advanced modular reactor (AMR...
IChemE Fellow awarded 2021 Chemeca Medal
ROSE Amal, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded this year’s prestigious Chemeca Medal, in recog...
UK HSE cybersecurity expert to present at Hazards 31
HAZARDS 31 will feature a talk by cybersecurity expert Sarabjit Purewal – from the UK’s Health an...
IChemE announces 2021 Malaysia Awards winners
SUSTAINABLE and digital innovations came out on top at IChemE’s 2021 Malaysia Awards, hosted virt...
AstraZeneca invests and collaborates for therapeutics platform
ASTRAZENECA and Imperial College London spinoff VaxEquity have agreed to collaborate for the disc...
IChemE member’s donation to support RAEng SME programme
IAN Shott, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and IChemE Fellow, has gifted the academy’s Enter...
Engineers issue six demands for government spending
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has outlined six spending priorities for the UK gov...
Finalists announced for inaugural Earthshot Prize
PRINCE William has announced 15 finalists for the inaugural year of The Earthshot Prize, each of ...
New alliance announces nuclear subs for Australia
THE Australian, UK, and US governments have announced a collaboration on nuclear-powered submarin...
Clean energy partnership supports UK and UAE goals
ENERGY companies Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), BP, and Masdar have signed strategic par...
Industry majors discuss using Houston as major CCS hub
ELEVEN chemicals, energy, and power companies – including Chevron, Dow, ExxonMobil, and Ineos – a...
Partnership to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commerc...
Eneos and Petronas study clean hydrogen supply chain
PETRONAS and Japanese oil company Eneos have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointl...
TotalEnergies and Iraq sign agreements for US$27bn projects
TOTALENERGIES has signed an agreement with the Government of Iraq, and the country’s National Inv...
Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and ...
Siemens launches recyclable wind turbine blades
WIND power company Siemens Gamesa has launched a “world first”, recyclable wind turbine blade for...
ExxonMobil introduces renewable diesel process
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing has introduced ExxonMobil Renewable Diesel (EMRD) process tech...
IChemE co-creates chemical engineering TV programme
ICHEME and ITN Productions’ Industry News are working to co-create Serving Society, a unique, new...
Imperial Oil plans renewable diesel facility
CANADIAN oil major Imperial Oil is advancing plans for a 1bn L/y renewable diesel complex at its ...
Ineos Styrolution joins U.S. Plastics Pact
STYRENICS supplier Ineos Styrolution has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative initiativ...
IChemE announces 2021 Global Awards finalists
ICHEME has announced more than 120 finalists for its 2021 Global Awards.
Report facilitates Franco-Scottish collaboration in floating wind and hydrogen
A REPORT published by the Scottish Government, has recommended areas for research collaboration b...
Mitsubishi develops 20,000 t/y plastics recycling plant in Japan
MITSUBISHI Chemical Corporation (MCC) will develop a 20,000 t/y HydroPRS plastics recycling facil...
ArcelorMittal using DRI and Smart Carbon to achieve clean steel
ARCELORMITTAL said it will use direct reduced iron (DRI) and Smart Carbon technologies to reduce ...
Study confirms feasibility of green hydrogen in Australia
A STUDY by BP Australia has proved the technical feasibility of producing green hydrogen and ammo...
MoU for Canadian mRNA vaccine facility
MODERNA has announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Canadian Government to build a...
Explosion at South African power plant
AN explosion at a power station in South Africa has caused extensive damage to the facility’s gen...
Bayer to buy novel drug discovery company for US$2bn
BAYER is acquiring biopharmaceutical company Vividion Therapeutics, which uses novel discovery te...
Claimants to appeal fatal Samarco disaster ruling in UK court
THE Court of Appeals, the most senior court in England and Wales, has ruled to allow proceedings ...
Partners launch digitally-forward plant project
METHACRYLATE manufacturer Rӧhm has partnered with engineering consultant Wood to launch a signifi...
IChemE’s ECE journal awarded first Impact Factor
ICHEME’s journal Education for Chemical Engineers (ECE) has been awarded its first ever Impact Fa...
At least two killed in explosion at German chemical disposal site
AN EXPLOSION at a hazardous chemical disposal site in Germany has killed at least two people, wit...
Nouryon expands Kromasil facility
NOURYON is investing in its Kromasil manufacturing facility in Bohus, Sweden, to help meet increa...
Chemical engineers collaborate for ‘cookie-cutter’ oxygen units
THREE chemical engineers at different universities around the world are collaborating to develop ...
Siemens starts construction on German 'green' hydrogen plant
SIEMENS has started construction of an 8.75 MW “green” hydrogen plant in Germany, that is expecte...
Acorn CCS partners sign MoUs for carbon capture
THE partners in the UK’s Acorn CCS project have signed three new memorandums of understanding (Mo...
Equity firm acquires specialty chemicals company
PLATINUM Equity, an investment firm, is to acquire specialty chemicals company Solenis for US$5.2...
Partners to accelerate biofuels production cycle
TOTALENERGIES and Veolia have teamed up to accelerate the development of microalgae cultivation u...
IChemE invites Ashok Kumar Fellowship applications
ICHEME is inviting UK postgraduate students in chemical or process engineering to apply for the A...
Sanofi invests in mRNA vaccine centre
SANOFI will invest about €400m (US$472m) annually in a first-of-its-kind vaccines mRNA Center of ...
BEIS Committee calls on UK Government to improve industrial policy
A COMMITTEE for the UK’s Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) says Gover...
Shell starts up Europe’s largest PEM ‘green’ hydrogen electrolyser
SHELL has started operations at what it claims is Europe’s largest polymer electrolyte membrane (...
IChemE allows free access to 25 new books
ICHEME members can now access 25 additional technical textbooks through Knovel, with titles added...
Three researchers awarded IChemE Andrew Fellowship
ICHEME has awarded three chemical engineering researchers the Andrew Fellowship to advance the fi...
CCC says UK policy is failing climate action
DESPITE historic climate commitments, the UK Government has been too slow to follow these with de...
UKAEA to host first-of-its-kind fusion project
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has entered into an agreement with General Fusion, that will see t...
WHO announces first Covid vaccine technology transfer hub
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African conso...
Partners collaborate for sustainable lithium production
SCHLUMBERGER New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) have entered a collaborative...
Researchers receive £1.3m to develop low-carbon energy storage for buildings
THE University of Nottingham, UK has received £1.3m (US$1.8m) for a project to develop a novel, l...
IChemE Fellow joins international carbon emissions panel
DATUK Sazali Hamzah, IChemE Fellow and CEO of Petronas Chemical Group, has been appointed to the ...
US refinery shutdown serves as a lesson for process safety
“PROCESS safety is more than just life preservation, it’s about making sure that we look after th...
Air Products to build world-scale hydrogen energy complex
AIR Products has announced a multibillion-dollar plan for a “landmark”, world-scale net-zero hydr...
Drax enters carbon capture deals to advance BECCS
DRAX has entered into carbon capture agreements with services company Bechtel, and industrial fir...
Australia announces winners of carbon capture fund
THE Australian Government has announced six winners of a A$50m (US$38.7m) carbon capture fund. Th...
CO2 capture to reduce Netherlands refinery emissions by 90%
AIR Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a contract with Zeeland Refinery for a carbon c...
Novel wearable gas sensor
RESEARCHERS at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea have develo...
Landmark court ruling will see Shell reduce emissions by 45% by 2030
IN A landmark ruling, the Netherlands’ District Court of The Hague has ordered international ener...
Sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate net-zero
LED by the University of Bath, UK, a major new collaboration between academia and industry seeks ...
Australia to ‘recklessly’ invest A$600m in gas project
AS PART of its 2021–22 Budget, the Australian Government is investing up to A$600m (US$464.3m) to...
Singapore and UK to address climate change in the ASEAN region
RESEARCHERS in Singapore, in a first-of-its-kind international collaboration, are partnering with...
BP and CEMEX partner for net-zero cement
BP and building materials company CEMEX have partnered to accelerate progress of CEMEX’s ambition...
Increasing yield for portable vaccine production method
RESEARCHERS at Northwestern University, US have discovered a way to improve their new protein-bas...
First carbon capture laundry product on the market
A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim i...
Major US pipeline restarts following cyberattack
AFTER a five-day shutdown, operator Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) has restarted operations at i...
Engen to convert SA refinery into terminal
AFRICAN-based energy group Engen has announced that it will be progressing plans to convert its 1...
Declining demand sees Stora Enso plan to close pulp and paper mills
PENDING discussions with employees, renewable materials company Stora Enso plans to permanently c...
Firefighter injured at US chemical plant explosion
ONE firefighter was injured while responding to a large fire at a chemical plant in Affton, St Lo...
Novel sponge tech collects oil in ultra-cold waters
RESEARCHERS in Canada and the UK have developed a coating for commercially-available sponges that...
Sanofi to support 200m Covid vaccines
SUPPORTING global supply demand, Sanofi will help Moderna manufacture up to 200m doses of the bio...
IChemE sets out priority topics to 2024
ICHEME has identified three priority topics and published Learned Society Priority Topics to 2024...
Arkema says Singapore polyamide plant on track for 2022
SPECIALTY materials company Arkema has said despite challenges from the pandemic it is on track t...
Jacobs supports UK nuclear reactor development
JACOBS is going to provide “cutting-edge” technical support to two companies as they continue to ...
Australia to invest A$539m in carbon capture and hydrogen projects
AUSTRALIA’s budget for this fiscal year will see it invest A$539.2m (US$416.6m) in hydrogen and c...
TEPCO to flush Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific
THE Japanese Government will allow TEPCO to discharge treated wastewater stored at the Fukushima ...
Energy partners to develop claimed world-first decarbonisation projects
ENERGY companies Equinor and SSE Thermal have unveiled plans to jointly develop two projects incl...
UK announces Horizon funding following science budget cuts
THE UK Government has announced that it is making an additional £250m (US$345.5m) in funding avai...
Chemical engineers develop ‘smart bandages’
RESEARCHERS at the University of Rhode Island (URI), US have embedded nanosensors into microfibre...
Wastewater leak causes concern for Florida marine life
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contami...
Partners to build world-first commercial recycling facility
WOOD and advanced recycling company ReNew ELP have partnered to build the world’s first commercia...
Agreement to support Covid-19 vaccine manufacture
BIOPHARMACEUTICAL company Takeda and IDT Biologika have announced an agreement to use IDT capacit...
BioNTech expects 2.5bn Covid-19 vaccines in 2021
BioNTech expects to expand manufacturing capacity for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine to up to 2.5bn ...
GSK supports UK vaccine manufacture
GSK, Novavax, and the UK Government Vaccines Taskforce have reached an agreement in principle for...
Five seriously injured in Indonesian refinery explosion
AN EXPLOSION, which occurred at 00:45 local time on 29 March at an Indonesian refinery, has serio...
£40m water challenge to launch in May
6 May will see the first round of a new £40m (US$55.2m) collaborative competition expected to enc...
Partners to convert waste sewage into hydrogen
Organics Group, Severn Trent, and researchers at Coventry University, UK, are collaborating to co...
Jacobs awarded US$10.4m Dounreay nuclear contract
JACOBS and its supporting partners have been awarded a six year contract, worth an estimated US$1...
Petronas and CNOOC sign MoU for extended partnership
Petronas and Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have signed a memorandum of unders...
Australia invests A$50m in carbon capture projects
THE Australian Government has opened the A$50m (US$38.5m) Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage Develo...
IChemE announces 2021 Medals and Prizes recipients
ICHEME has announced that it is recognising more than 30 chemical engineers with prizes and medal...
Partners to develop waste-to-fuel plant by 2025
WASTE-to-fuel company Fulcrum BioEnergy, along with Essar Oil UK and its subsidiary Stanlow Termi...
Partners move closer to first-of-its-kind CO2-to-methanol plant
CIVIL engineering is now underway for a first-of-its-kind 110,000 t/y carbon dioxide (CO2)-to-met...
Novel anodes for safe and stable seawater-based aqueous batteries
US RESEARCHERS have developed a battery anode based on a new nanostructured alloy that could chan...
UK announces nuclear waste competition winners
FOURTEEN companies have won contracts in a £3.9m (US$5.5m) competition aimed at developing a wast...
Consortium investigates Australian P2X industry
A RESEARCH consortium led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia is invest...
Accelerating novel vaccine inactivation method
SEEKING to accelerate a novel method for producing inactivated vaccines to market and ensure comp...
ExxonMobil creates low-carbon business
EXXONMOBIL has created a new business unit to commercialise its low-carbon portfolio, which it is...
Shell lays out net-zero strategy
OIL and gas major Shell has set out a strategy for achieving net zero energy transformation by 20...
Parties reach US$7.02bn settlement for fatal Brazil dam collapse
MINING giant Vale and Brazilian authorities have agreed on a global settlement of about R$37.69bn...
Court finds Shell liable for Nigerian oil spills
A DUTCH appeals court has ruled that Shell is responsible for the consequences of oil spills in t...
IChemE Fellows awarded 2021 Australia Day Honours
LAST week, chemical engineers and Fellows of IChemE Chris Fell and the late Graeme Paul were reco...
Brazil dam collapse victims take TÜV SÜD to court
TWO years after the fatal collapse of a Vale dam, victims have brought landmark action against TÜ...
US announces US$160m funding for hydrogen technologies
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans for US$160m of federal funding aimed at dec...
INEOS donates £100m to antimicrobial research
CHEMICAL company INEOS has donated £100m (US$136.8m) to the University of Oxford, UK for a new, s...
CPI launches programme to support SMEs
CPI, an independent technology centre, has announced the launch of a programme aiming to support ...
KBR secures recycling technology licence
KBR has signed an agreement with Mura Technology under which KBR will be an exclusive licencing p...
Wood secures contract for Chinese refinery expansion
WOOD has secured a contract with Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical to provide engineering, pro...
Hydrogen for steel completes feasibility study
Project partners Equinor, OGE, and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have completed their joint feasibili...
Novel process for cost-effective biofuel recovery
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient p...
Partnership to develop UK’s first low carbon production hub
REFINERY owner Essar Oil UK and Progressive Energy, a project development and implementation comp...
Partners to develop and commercialise polysaccharide technology
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and ...
Neste acquires stake in plastics recycling company
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
Partnership investigates potential battery materials complex
BASF and Eramet, a global mining and metallurgy group, have signed an agreement to jointly assess...
Drax sells gas turbine assets
DRAX has agreed to sell four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power stations to electricity comp...
Research and industry sign MoUs for Australian offshore CCS hub
AUSTRALIAN energy company Transborders Energy has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs)with ...
Worker dies in US chemical plant explosion
AN explosion at a chemical facility in Belle, West Virginia, US has killed one worker and injured...
Vale opens plant to make mining waste into construction products
MINING company Vale has opened a pilot plant that will make products for civil construction using...
UK funding to help SMR programme advance
RECENT funding, announced as part of the UK’s ten-point plan for an industrial revolution, will h...
Narrabri project receives environmental approval
SANTOS’ controversial A$3.6bn (US$2.64bn) Narrabri gas project has received environmental approva...
Shell launches ‘blue’ hydrogen technology
SHELL Catalysts & Technologies, which licenses technologies and brings capabilities to market, ha...
Partnership to develop AI technologies for industry
WOOD and industrial software company Cognite have partnered to accelerate industrial transformati...
Chemical JV to close BDO plant in Malaysia
BASF Petronas Chemical (BPC), a Malaysian-based joint-venture (JV) between BASF and Petronas Chem...
Agreement for £230m UK waste-to-energy plant
MAJOR port group PD Port and Wentworth Clean Power (WCP) have entered an agreement for a project ...
UK to invest £12bn for a ‘green industrial revolution’
UK PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has announced £12bn (US$15.87bn) in funding for a ten-point plan ...
Linde and Siemens partner to help decarbonise the petrochemicals sector
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
Fire at Indian gas well extinguished after five months
A FIRE which broke out at a gas well in India, in June, has now been “doused completely”, accord...
Two killed in Indian reactor explosion
ON 5 November, in the early hours of the morning, two people were killed as a result of a reactor...
US oil and gas lagging in efforts to achieve net zero, says Carbon Tracker
US OIL and gas majors are lagging behind European rivals as companies seek to transition towards ...
MoU for CO2-free hydrogen production in Malaysia
ENEOS has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sarawak Economic Development Company (S...
UKAEA’s £55m device successfully takes a step closer to fusion power
TAKING a step to achieving a fusion power plant, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) £55m ...
ExxonMobil announces 1,900 US job cuts
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,900 US jobs as part of ongoing global efforts to achi...
Solvay opens second plant for bio-based solvent in Brazil
SOLVAY has started up its second dedicated plant for manufacture of sustainable bio-based solvent...
LyondellBasell sets ambitious plastics sustainability target
LYONDELLBASELL has released its 2020 Sustainability Report in which it sets the target of produci...
BES appointed to fit out UK’s VMIC
SERVICES company BES has been appointed to fit out the UK’s new Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation ...
EU project targets nuclear accident combustion risk
A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of sever...
Experts warn global Covid vaccine could take until late 2023
DESPITE global efforts to develop and deploy a successful Covid-19 vaccine to end the current pan...
Australia talks to accelerate refinery package
THE Australian Government and “struggling” oil refiners are in talks to secure a rescue package b...
US$130m facility to expand Asia Pacific sterile filling capacity
SCIENCE company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to expand sterile filling capacity f...
IChemE Fellows recognised with 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded 2020 Birthday Honours to chemical engineers and IChemE Fellows ...
Solvay launches products to help prevent Covid spread
SOLVAY has recently launched two new products that could help prevent the spread of coronavirus –...
IChemE awards Arup Gold Corporate Partner status
ICHEME has awarded Gold Corporate Partner status to Arup, an international company comprised of d...
UK students at Bradford awarded IChemE’s 2020 SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded a team of engineering students at the University of Bradford, UK, with the 202...
Pilot project to convert waste into construction material
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
Affordable carbon capture for the cement industry
CEMEX has signed an agreement with carbon capture tech company Carbon Clean that will see them jo...
Controversial Narrabri gas project gets ‘green light’ from NSW development authority
SANTOS has received “phased” and strictly conditioned approval from the independent planning comm...
New cracker furnaces to reduce Shell’s emissions in the Netherlands
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new stat...
BASF uses waste tyre oil as feedstock
BASF has signed an agreement with New Energy, a Hungarian technology company which has developed ...
Cefic calls for Covid-19 recovery plans to drive chemicals sustainability
EUROPE’S chemicals industry trade body, Cefic, has called for the EU to use its rescue funding to...
Chemical engineers urge industry action to break cycle of accidents
INDUSTRY has to do more to ensure that it is learning lessons to help prevent it from repeating t...
ExxonMobil launches voluntary redundancy programme
EARLIER this month, ExxonMobil announced that it had launched a voluntary redundancy programme fo...
Government publishes response to CCUS business model consultation
THE UK Government has published its response to a 2019 consultation on business models for carbon...
Hitachi withdraws from UK nuclear project
HITACHI has announced that its UK subsidiary will cease development of its 5.8 GW UK nuclear proj...
IChemE announces Global Awards 2020 finalists
ICHEME has announced more than 120 finalist entries which are in with a chance of winning a troph...
Consultation open for new Victoria engineer registration scheme
THE state government of Victoria, Australia has opened a public consultation for a scheme that wi...
Nuclear industry releases cost cutting framework
THE Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), a UK trade association for civil nuclear industry, has re...
Researchers to develop carbon-negative power plant
RESEARCHERS at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US have received just over US$800,000 ...
Hunterston B begins operating after two-year shutdown
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving a...
Novel membrane for crude oil fractionation
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed new membrane technology that could reduce carbon emi...
Unilever invests €1bn to develop sustainable cleaning products
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks ...
Singapore site to pioneer digital twin technology for Shell
SHELL has announced that its manufacturing site in Pulau Bukom, Singapore, home of Singapore’s fi...
UK bolsters Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity
THE UK Government has increased the nation’s Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity. It has agre...
Partners build facility to test hydrogen transmission
NATIONAL Grid is partnering with gas distribution companies, safety organisations, and academia, ...
Repsol produces Spain's first batch of aviation biofuel
SPANISH energy company Repsol has produced the national market’s first batch of aviation biofuel....
Jacobs selected to build nuclear testing facility
MOLTEX Energy, a nuclear energy company, has selected Jacobs to build a bespoke experimental faci...
Partnership to accelerate plastic waste elimination
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology compa...
IChemE Fellow recognised for efforts against Covid
ICHEME Fellow Zhanfeng Cui and his team at the University of Oxford, UK have received an award fr...
Chevron ordered to inspect Gorgon for cracks
ON 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Austr...
Initiative launches first global standard for safer mining waste storage
ON 5 August, the Global Tailings Review (GTR) initiative established the first global standard fo...
Developing sulfur polymers
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
Suppliers commit to achieving 100% renewable Apple production
AS technology company Apple seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, 71 of its suppliers have ...
Partnership offers decision-making platform to the mining industry
BASF and industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company IntelliSense.io have announced the joint...
RAEng working to deliver more representative Fellowship
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a campaign aiming to deliver a Fellows...
Repairs underway at Gorgon as ‘thousands’ of cracks found in critical equipment
REPAIRS are underway to resolve welding issues at Chevron’s Gorgon liquid natural gas (LNG) proje...
IChemE members now have access to new titles via Knovel and the associated app
ICHEME members can now access new books using IChemE’s online resource Knovel, as well as to the ...
OGCI to reduce carbon intensity by 2025
OIL and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a target to reduce the collective average car...
Nouryon doubles organic peroxides capacity at Brazil site
NOURYON has completed a project to double the capacity for organic peroxides at a plant in Itupev...
UK Government invests £100m to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine manufacture
THE UK Government has announced a £100m (US$127.7m) investment to fund a state-of-the-art facilit...
Chevron acquires Noble Energy in US$13bn deal
CHEVRON has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire independent energy company Noble Energ...
Researcher develops coating to inactivate Covid-19 virus
A PROFESSOR at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), US has develo...
Partnership to further develop chemical safety database
THE Pistoia Alliance and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical So...
Evonik develops novel membrane for hydrogen production
EVONIK has developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM) that could contribute to commercial re...
Worley awarded FEED for bio-based plastic intermediate plant
TECHNOLGY developer Avantium has awarded Worley the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract ...
International group publishes safety guidelines for mining waste storage
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has publish...
Atkins awarded contract for nuclear project
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
UK Government starts conversation to improve R&D
THE UK Government has released a research and development (R&D) plan which it says marks the star...
Researchers awarded funding to develop reusable facemasks to help meet PPE shortfall
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in fundi...
Australian-first hydrogen project completes funding
HYDROGEN technology company Hazer’s commercial demonstration project – which will produce low-emi...
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 Technologies 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
A Swedish consortium is to begin construction on a pilot plant that will use biofuel to achieve f...
European companies to test innovative nanocoated-salt based energy storage technology
VATTENFALL, a leading European energy company, and Swedish company SaltX Technology have commissi...
A novel EOR surfactant
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
European ports project to store 10m t CO2 in the North Sea
THREE European ports have submitted an application to the European Commission for a project to co...
Consortium aims to bring world-first PET recycling technology to market
PEPSICO, Nestlé Waters, and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe have joined a consortium to help bri...
Royal Mail celebrates 50 years of UK engineering excellence
THE UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Wood awarded Evonik contract
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik has awarded Wood a contract to deliver services for a new poly...
BP and partners to invest US$6bn for oilfield development
BP AND its partners are to invest US$6bn in the Azeri Central East (ACE) project to further devel...
US CSB calls for review to improve HF safety
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), has released a letter calling on the...
ExxonMobil to invest US$2bn in Texas plant expansion
EXXONMOBIL is to invest US$2bn to expand its chemical plant in Baytown, Texas, US, to maximise th...
ExxonMobil stops unplanned flaring at UK plant
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it has ceased unplanned flaring at its Fife Ethylene Plant (FEP) at...
ArcelorMittal to launch project to use hydrogen in steel production
THIS year steel and mining company ArcelorMittal is to launch a project in Hamburg, Germany that ...
Wood secures SABIC engineering design contract
WOOD has secured a contract with SABIC to design a world-class petrochemicals research centre in ...
Shell launches New Energy Challenge 2019
SHELL and its partners have launched the fourth edition of New Energy Challenge. The challenge se...
Two injured following Tata Steel explosion
IN the early hours of today, two people were injured at an explosion at the Tata steelworks plant...
IChemE Members to vote on Royal Charter and by-law changes
ICHEME Voting Members, ie Fellows and Chartered Members, are being invited to vote on proposed ch...
Update: Criminal measures taken against 26 following fatal Chinese chemicals explosion
LOCAL authorities in China have taken “criminal coercive measures” against 26 people following a ...
Sunfire and Salzgitter to build world’s most powerful steam electrolysis plant
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire, the Salzgitter Group, and their international partners are to build t...
Update: Three employees had “significant responsibility” for Chinese chemicals plant explosion
THREE employees of Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Company are said to have “significant responsibilit...
Action is needed to fight growing science scepticism
3M, the US-based materials firm, has released the results of an annual survey which show that pub...
Three more Brazil dams at critical alert
VALE has put three more of its Brazilian mine tailings dams on the highest level of alert – level...
Using AI to improve drug development
SCIENCE and technology company Merck is collaborating with Iktos to use Iktos’ artificial intelli...
Operations halted at Vale
A court decision has ordered Vale to stop activities at 13 of its mine tailings containment struc...
Update: 78 confirmed dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
ON 25 March the death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant rose to 78, report...
Brazil dam in critical alert
ON 22 March Vale raised the alert level of its Sul Superior Dam of the Gongo Soco mine located in...
Update: 47 dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
THE death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has now reached 47, reports st...
Six killed in Chinese chemicals plant explosion
FOLLOWING an explosion at a Tianjiayi chemicals plant in Yancheng, eastern China, six people are ...
Nouryon and Gasunie to supply ‘green’ hydrogen for methanol production
NOURYON and Gasunie have agreed to supply ‘green’ hydrogen to BioMCN for renewable methanol produ...
Employees re-arrested after fatal Brazil dam collapse
ACCORDING to Reuters, last week a Brazilian court ordered the arrest of 11 Vale employees and two...
BASF opens global digital centre
BASF has opened a global digital centre in Madrid, Spain to enhance and broaden its digital compe...
ECHA publishes comprehensive plastic additive inventory
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a comprehensive inventory of all of the high-v...
Shell joins W2C Rotterdam project
SHELL has partnered with world-leading companies to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemic...
Stabilising coal ash ponds using ‘biocement’
RESEARCHERS at North Carolina State University (NCSU), US have developed a technique that adds ba...
Employees removed following Brazil dam collapse
FOLLOWING the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam the company has decided to remove severa...
Novel water treatment pilot plant
RESEARCHERS in Singapore are to build a pilot membrane filtration plant to treat industrial waste...
Novel CO2 scrubber
RESEARCHERS at Michigan Technological University (MTU), US have designed a carbon dioxide (CO2) s...
BASF and Linde team up to serve natural gas processes
BASF and The Linde Group’s Engineering Division have announced a collaboration to serve natural g...
Brazil dam collapse prosecutors investigate collusion
THE lead prosecutor investigating the cause of the fatal dam collapse at a mine in Brazil has all...
Vale CEO resigns after Brazil dam collapse
FABIO Schvartsman has resigned as the CEO of Vale, following the fatal collapse of a Vale mine ta...
Largest Indonesian gas find in 18 years
SPANISH energy company Repsol has made the largest gas discovery in Indonesia for 18 years. It is...
Brazil approves dam safety bill
THE Brazilian Senate has passed a bill to tighten dam safety, reports Reuters. This follows the c...
India to move planned refinery
WESTERN Indian state Maharashtra, is to relocate a planned Saudi Aramco refinery due to protest b...
A matter of cost
The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to e...
Creating useful products from desalination waste
ENGINEERS at MIT, US have proposed a method that could use desalination waste to produce useful c...
An alternative CO2 capture process
SCIENTISTS at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US have developed ...
Brazil bans upstream dams
BRAZIL has decided to ban tailings dams built by the upstream method. The decision follows the fa...
Improved process for making plastics from sulfur
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for t...
Employees arrested after Brazil dam breach
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of ...
Vale ‘knew’ Brazil dam was at risk of collapse, report says
REUTERS says it has seen an internal document that shows that Vale knew last year that its dam in...
Update: 165 people confirmed dead after Brazil dam breach
165 people have now been confirmed dead following the collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Bra...
Clariant partners with ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group
Clariant has partnered with ExxonMobil and the biofuel firm Renewable Energy Group (REG) to devel...
Update: 157 confirmed dead after dam breach in Brazil
TWO weeks after the collapse of a Vale tailings dam 157 people have been confirmed dead, 134 of w...
Update: 134 confirmed dead after Brazil dam breach
FOLLOWING the collapse of a Vale dam in Brazil, 134 people have now been confirmed dead, with 120...
Update: Number killed in Brazil dam breach reaches 99
AFTER the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil, 99 people have been reported dead...
Saudi Arabia to invest in South African plants
SAUDI Arabia plans to build an oil refinery and a petrochemicals complex in South Africa. This is...
Saudi Arabia to build plants in Pakistan
SAUDI Arabia is to invest US$10bn in Pakistan. The Wall Street Journal reports that this investme...
Fatal dam breach in Brazil leaves hundreds missing
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
3D-printed sponge could reduce side effects of chemotherapy
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, have developed a 3D-printe...
Novel powder could cut CO2 emissions
RESEARCHERS at the University of Waterloo, Canada, have created a novel advanced ultramicroporous...
Unilever joins Nouryon’s Imagine Chemistry
NOURYON has launched the 3rd edition of Imagine Chemistry, a collaborative challenge which aims t...
Wylfa suspension could lead to a UK energy crisis
HITACHI has announced the decision to suspend indefinitely its UK nuclear power station construct...
New alliance combatting environmental plastic waste
NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and...
Exxon partners with IBM to advance quantum computing
EXXONMOBIL has become the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community t...
A catalyst for ‘greener’ hydrogen production
A RESEARCHER at the University of Delaware (UD), US has patented a process that could enable gree...
Pioneering professor awarded IChemE medal
ICHEME has awarded the Andrew Medal to Freek Kapteijn, Professor and Section Head of Catalysis En...
UK relaunches search for a GDF site
The UK has relaunched its search for a site to bury its nuclear waste after previous plans were h...
IChemE Fellows awarded New Year’s Honours
ICHEME Fellows and chemical engineering professors, Geoffrey Maitland and Raffaella Ocone, have b...
BP and SOCAR sign HoA for petrochemicals JV
BP and SOCAR Turkey have signed a heads of agreement (HoA) to evaluate the creation of a joint ve...
Novel method for creating sequence-defined polymers
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a new class of multifunctional sequence...
Climeworks pioneering air-captured CO2 for drinks carbonation
COCA-COLA HBC Switzerland has teamed up with Climeworks to pioneer the use of air-captured carbon...
New report reveals latest chemical engineering salary trends
SALARIES for chemical engineers dropped slightly in 2018, according to IChemE’s UK Salary Survey ...
Shell to invest in Shearwater gas infrastructure hub
SHELL and its partners ExxonMobil and BP have announced a final investment decision (FID) for a S...
Neste to invest €1.4bn in renewable products
THE oil company Neste is to invest €1.4bn (US$1.6bn) to enable the production of additional renew...
Coca-Cola Company to extend loan for novel PET recycling technology
THE Coca-Cola Company has announced an agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies, a start...
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
RESEARCHERS led by the University of Cambridge, UK have developed a three-dimensional (3D) ‘organ...
Scepticism over the UK bioeconomy strategy
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The ...
Bayer to sell businesses and cut 12,000 jobs
BAYER, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, has announced plans to ...
Bacton terminal begins receiving gas from Clipper South
OIL and gas major Shell has started to supply energy from the Clipper South gas field into the UK...
Novel particles for photocatalytic water treatment
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed novel micrometre-sized, titanium dioxide (TiO2...
Chemical gas leak causes deadly explosive chain reaction
CHEMCHINA has released a statement stating that a blast which killed 23 and injured 22 was caused...
The next step for CO2-based plastics
COVESTRO’s carbon dioxide-based polyols have been used to produce synthetic sports flooring. The ...
An ‘evolution’ in renewable energy
GENERAL Electric (GE), the American multinational conglomerate, is close to completing the world’...
Albemarle signs agreement for lithium mining JV
ALBEMARLE, the global specialty chemicals company, has signed an exclusivity agreement with Miner...
Drax starts commissioning Europe’s first BECCS pilot plant
DRAX, the energy company, has started commissioning of its innovative bioenergy with carbon captu...
Impossible to clean Husky oil spill
Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News r...
Bloomberg hosts second London sustainability summit
THROUGHOUT history, industries have either fought change or embraced it. Now, with the global thr...
Recycling mixed plastics together
RESEARCHERS in the UK have undertaken a project which aims to develop new technologies for dealin...
Understanding why fracking wastewater contains radioactive waste
RESEARCHERS at Dartmouth College, US, have released a study explaining the transfer of radium to ...
New MOF makes plastic manufacturing more energy efficient
RESEARCHERS have developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing iron-peroxo (Fe2(O2)) sites...
ExxonMobil to contribute US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre partnership
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will be contributing US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre. The ...
Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top ...
BASF and Sinopec sign MoU for China steam cracker
BASF and Sinopec have signed a memorandum of understanding that will further strengthen their par...
First apprenticeship survey released
SCIENCE Industry Partnership (SIP), a membership organisation for employers across the UK’s scien...
Demonstration plant for ground-breaking chemicals technology
PHOTANOL, a platform renewable chemicals company, is building a demonstration plant for what it c...
More than US$50bn worth of deals for Saudi Arabia
SAUDI Arabia has announced more than US$50bn worth of deals in oil, gas, infrastructure and other...
A membrane technology breakthrough
RESEARCHERS from the Livingston Group at Imperial College London, UK, in collaboration with BP, h...
Improving water purification
A NEW, multi-university research centre, headquartered at the US' University of Texas at Austin (...
Covestro to build world-scale MDI plant
COVESTRO, a leading supplier of high-tech polymer materials, is to invest €1.5bn (US$1.73bn) to b...
Pioneering SMR technology enters manufacturing phase
NUSCALE Power has selected BWX Technologies (BWXT) to manufacture NuScale’s small modular reactor...
IChemE Congress vote pushed back
ICHEME has pushed back the vote for Congress, its new advisory body. The ballot will now open at ...
Novartis plans job cuts
NOVARTIS, the pharmaceuticals group, has announced plans to cut more than 2,000 jobs in the UK an...
Drax in talks to acquire Scottish Power assets
DRAX, the UK power company, has entered talks to discuss acquiring Scottish Power energy assets f...
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
ICHEME has announced the nominees for Congress – the Institution’s new advisory body. The body wi...
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
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved...
Second Cuadrilla approval for onshore fracking
CUADRILLA, the natural resource company, has been granted government approval for fracking at a s...
BP helps to ‘future proof’ students’ skills
BP has launched the Skills Refinery, an online global portal developed to help improve student em...
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
IChemE has announced the finalists of the IChemE Global Awards 2018. More than 100 entries from a...
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
RESEARCHERS at MIT have discovered a method that makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their ta...
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
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
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
THE EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) has announced that it is giving a ...
New packaging: cheap and slippery
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
Lanxess to sell JV stake to Saudi Aramco
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