
Bath Triumphs at Virtual Frank Morton 2021
Amanda Jasi speaks to event organiser Benjamin Fadele
Amanda Jasi speaks to event organiser Benjamin Fadele
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
Patients made severely ill may have difficulty breathing and require treatment with machines such...
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based techn...
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) opened a special exhibition, curated by the University of Ca...
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), D...
TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engine...
ON 25–26 June the University of Cambridge’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology ...
HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign wh...
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without...
Amanda Jasi visits the University of Greenwich, where a new lab has opened to support chemeng stu...
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
FOURTEEN companies have won contracts in a £3.9m (US$5.5m) competition aimed at developing a wast...
A RESEARCH consortium led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia is invest...
SEEKING to accelerate a novel method for producing inactivated vaccines to market and ensure comp...
EXXONMOBIL has created a new business unit to commercialise its low-carbon portfolio, which it is...
OIL and gas major Shell has set out a strategy for achieving net zero energy transformation by 20...
MINING giant Vale and Brazilian authorities have agreed on a global settlement of about R$37.69bn...
A DUTCH appeals court has ruled that Shell is responsible for the consequences of oil spills in t...
LAST week, chemical engineers and Fellows of IChemE Chris Fell and the late Graeme Paul were reco...
TWO years after the fatal collapse of a Vale dam, victims have brought landmark action against TÜ...
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans for US$160m of federal funding aimed at dec...
CHEMICAL company INEOS has donated £100m (US$136.8m) to the University of Oxford, UK for a new, s...
CPI, an independent technology centre, has announced the launch of a programme aiming to support ...
KBR has signed an agreement with Mura Technology under which KBR will be an exclusive licencing p...
WOOD has secured a contract with Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical to provide engineering, pro...
Project partners Equinor, OGE, and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have completed their joint feasibili...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient p...
REFINERY owner Essar Oil UK and Progressive Energy, a project development and implementation comp...
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and ...
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
BASF and Eramet, a global mining and metallurgy group, have signed an agreement to jointly assess...
DRAX has agreed to sell four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power stations to electricity comp...
AUSTRALIAN energy company Transborders Energy has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs)with ...
AN explosion at a chemical facility in Belle, West Virginia, US has killed one worker and injured...
MINING company Vale has opened a pilot plant that will make products for civil construction using...
RECENT funding, announced as part of the UK’s ten-point plan for an industrial revolution, will h...
SANTOS’ controversial A$3.6bn (US$2.64bn) Narrabri gas project has received environmental approva...
SHELL Catalysts & Technologies, which licenses technologies and brings capabilities to market, ha...
WOOD and industrial software company Cognite have partnered to accelerate industrial transformati...
BASF Petronas Chemical (BPC), a Malaysian-based joint-venture (JV) between BASF and Petronas Chem...
MAJOR port group PD Port and Wentworth Clean Power (WCP) have entered an agreement for a project ...
UK PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has announced £12bn (US$15.87bn) in funding for a ten-point plan ...
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
A FIRE which broke out at a gas well in India, in June, has now been “doused completely”, accord...
ON 5 November, in the early hours of the morning, two people were killed as a result of a reactor...
US OIL and gas majors are lagging behind European rivals as companies seek to transition towards ...
ENEOS has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sarawak Economic Development Company (S...
TAKING a step to achieving a fusion power plant, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) £55m ...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,900 US jobs as part of ongoing global efforts to achi...
SOLVAY has started up its second dedicated plant for manufacture of sustainable bio-based solvent...
LYONDELLBASELL has released its 2020 Sustainability Report in which it sets the target of produci...
SERVICES company BES has been appointed to fit out the UK’s new Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation ...
A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of sever...
DESPITE global efforts to develop and deploy a successful Covid-19 vaccine to end the current pan...
THE Australian Government and “struggling” oil refiners are in talks to secure a rescue package b...
SCIENCE company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to expand sterile filling capacity f...
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded 2020 Birthday Honours to chemical engineers and IChemE Fellows ...
SOLVAY has recently launched two new products that could help prevent the spread of coronavirus –...
ICHEME has awarded Gold Corporate Partner status to Arup, an international company comprised of d...
ICHEME has awarded a team of engineering students at the University of Bradford, UK, with the 202...
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
CEMEX has signed an agreement with carbon capture tech company Carbon Clean that will see them jo...
SANTOS has received “phased” and strictly conditioned approval from the independent planning comm...
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new stat...
BASF has signed an agreement with New Energy, a Hungarian technology company which has developed ...
EUROPE’S chemicals industry trade body, Cefic, has called for the EU to use its rescue funding to...
INDUSTRY has to do more to ensure that it is learning lessons to help prevent it from repeating t...
EARLIER this month, ExxonMobil announced that it had launched a voluntary redundancy programme fo...
THE UK Government has published its response to a 2019 consultation on business models for carbon...
HITACHI has announced that its UK subsidiary will cease development of its 5.8 GW UK nuclear proj...
ICHEME has announced more than 120 finalist entries which are in with a chance of winning a troph...
THE state government of Victoria, Australia has opened a public consultation for a scheme that wi...
THE Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), a UK trade association for civil nuclear industry, has re...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US have received just over US$800,000 ...
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving a...
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed new membrane technology that could reduce carbon emi...
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks ...
SHELL has announced that its manufacturing site in Pulau Bukom, Singapore, home of Singapore’s fi...
THE UK Government has increased the nation’s Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity. It has agre...
NATIONAL Grid is partnering with gas distribution companies, safety organisations, and academia, ...
SPANISH energy company Repsol has produced the national market’s first batch of aviation biofuel....
MOLTEX Energy, a nuclear energy company, has selected Jacobs to build a bespoke experimental faci...
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology compa...
ICHEME Fellow Zhanfeng Cui and his team at the University of Oxford, UK have received an award fr...
ON 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Austr...
ON 5 August, the Global Tailings Review (GTR) initiative established the first global standard fo...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
AS technology company Apple seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, 71 of its suppliers have ...
BASF and industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company IntelliSense.io have announced the joint...
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a campaign aiming to deliver a Fellows...
REPAIRS are underway to resolve welding issues at Chevron’s Gorgon liquid natural gas (LNG) proje...
ICHEME members can now access new books using IChemE’s online resource Knovel, as well as to the ...
OIL and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a target to reduce the collective average car...
NOURYON has completed a project to double the capacity for organic peroxides at a plant in Itupev...
THE UK Government has announced a £100m (US$127.7m) investment to fund a state-of-the-art facilit...
CHEVRON has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire independent energy company Noble Energ...
A PROFESSOR at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), US has develo...
THE Pistoia Alliance and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical So...
EVONIK has developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM) that could contribute to commercial re...
TECHNOLGY developer Avantium has awarded Worley the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract ...
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has publish...
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
THE UK Government has released a research and development (R&D) plan which it says marks the star...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in fundi...
HYDROGEN technology company Hazer’s commercial demonstration project – which will produce low-emi...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environm...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have criticised the Climate Action Plan released by Minerals Council Australia ...
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
HIGHVIEW Power, a cryogenic energy storage company, has received £10m (US$12.3m) from the UK Gove...
The UK’s Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced two major supp...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Shell have agreed to jointly accelerate technology to electrify...
THE UK’s Recycling Association has called for Government to support investment in UK paper and ca...
RENEWI, Nordsol, and Shell have signed an agreement to build a plant to produce bio-based liquid ...
PETROFAC has been awarded a contract for engineering and project support for Pale Blue Dot Energy...
BASF has announced that in 2021 it will close its manufacturing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, w...
PHILLIPS 66, Uniper, and Vitol have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Humber ...
A STUDY examining prospects for activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has projected a sharp...
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a four-year, multimillion-pound framework agree...
THE IChemE Covid-19 Response Team is supporting efforts to increase the availability of drugs tha...
GLOBAL engineering and consultancy company Wood has pledged to set a science-based target to redu...
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is now open for entries into its 2020 Emerging Technolo...
AUSTRIAN technology company Krajete has announced the successful testing of a filtration system t...
SPECIALTY chemicals producer Solenis has closed on its acquisition of ChemSystems’ paper business...
FOUR heat network projects have been awarded almost £25m (US$31.6m) of funding, in the third roun...
AIR Products is to invest US$2bn as part of a long-term agreement for a world-scale coal-to-metha...
NORTH American cobalt company First Cobalt has announced a C$2.1m (US$1.6m) work programme as par...
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment f...
10 workers have now died following an explosion on 3 June, at a chemicals factory in India, repor...
DOXA Plast, a stretch film manufacturing company, is commercialising a family of bio-based high p...
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could ...
BRAZILIAN mining company Vale has been ordered by a judge to put aside around R$7.93bn (US$1.47bn...
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK, have sourced and developed personal respirator equipm...
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of te...
MICHELIN and Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) are planning to join forces to develop Enviro’s...
THE UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hydrogen has called for submissions to inform an...
BRITISH plant biologist Dame Ottoline Leyser has been appointed as new CEO of UK Research and Inn...
ON 15 May, an explosion at a chemicals plant in an industrial zone in Venice, Italy seriously bur...
AUSTRALIAN company Hunter Energy is to refire Redbank Power Station, a 151 MW coal plant in New S...
EVONIK is spending €25m (US$27.1m) on the first stage of a long-term project to increase contract...
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
INTEGRATED chemicals and energy company Sasol has appointed Wood as its engineering partner in a ...
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
RESEACHERS at the University of Southampton, UK have developed photocatalytic microreactors that ...
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
SOUTH African integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol has announced production cuts to help...
UPTO 30,000 jobs in the UK's oil and gas industry are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and...
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
EXXONMOBIL and the Global Center of Medical Innovation (GCMI) have initiated multi-sector and joi...
SYNTHETIC biology will develop over the next decade from creating niche, environmentally friendly...
THE Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a new competition, Engineers in the Making,...
JACOBS has been awarded several contracts in fusion power, with an estimated value of more than U...
SPECIALIST plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies has signed an agreement w...
NOMINATIONS for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize), the world’s most prestigious...
WOOD has been appointed GSK’s capital delivery partner for the pharmaceutical company’s Ware site...
A NOVEL steam reforming catalyst, produced by Clariant, has proved successful in its first commer...
NET-ZERO goals and policies are needed to allow hydrogen to help address hard-to-abate greenhouse...
AT around noon local time, on 15 April, an explosion occurred at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, US. ...
ONE hundred and one environmental and public health organisations have sent a letter to the US Go...
LIFE science company Bayer has boosted Germany’s coronavirus analysis capacity by several thousan...
ARKEMA is to exit the intermediate chemicals business as it seeks to realise its ambition of beco...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Nouryon is to acquire the merchant triethyl aluminium (TEAL) business...
THE UK risks a shortage in material for vital packaging needed to protect food and medical suppli...
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
TEPCO, Japan’s largest power company group, has released a report which outlines two potential me...
SINGAPOREAN and Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, have signed a memorandum of understandi...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced temporary policy that will allow non-c...
A COLLABORATIVE project has succeeded in demonstrating proof-of-concept for novel sodium-nickel-c...
A CONSORTIUM of life sciences companies including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer, is c...
BRITISH multinational pharma company GSK is helping to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, including...
IMI Precision Engineering, a pneumatic motion and fluid control technology company, has rapidly a...
EARLIER this month, members of the new IChemE Malaysia Board paid a courtesy visit to Her Royal H...
ENERGY and services company ENGIE is to supply ‘green gas’ to Heathrow Airport, the major interna...
ICHEME’s Pharma Special Interest Group (SIG) has called for members to come forward and help supp...
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
RESEARCHERS have presented a new view of chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineering, which sees t...
AUSTRALIAN Gas Networks (AGN), which owns distribution networks across the country, is to constru...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US have discovered a green process which can quickly and cheaply ...
RESEARCHERS at Stanford University, US have developed a soft and stretchable battery that could b...
MINING giant Vale is to begin disposing of the mine tailings from the fatal collapse of one of it...
IN A report to mark its launch, the Hydrogen Taskforce – which involves energy majors Shell and B...
ACCORDING to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2020, published on 20 February, global demand for LNG is to doub...
ACCORDING to the summary of a report by an independent consulting committee created by Vale, the ...
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at ...
UK Research and Innovation has appointed Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IChemE Fellow and Professor at He...
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI and the University of Oxford, UK have partnered to scale up tech...
CARBON capture technology company Carbon Clean Solutions (CCSL) has announced the completion of a...
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale is to invest in technology to reduce tailings dam use and increase op...
SHELL has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese petrochemicals manufacturing co...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK and the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have devel...
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI has partnered with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part ...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
AN expert report says that 12 deaths are likely to occur over any five-year period within the Que...
THE University of Derby, UK is currently hosting a photography exhibit entitled Women Engineers –...
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selec...
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
THE governments of Australia and New South Wales (NSW) have reached a A$2bn (US$1.34bn) energy ag...
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
THE oil and gas industry needs to “step up” climate change efforts, says the International Energy...
TIM Eggar, Chairman of the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has said the industry’s “social lice...
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale has launched a pilot project for the environmental recovery of the ar...
GULF Coast Ammonia (GCA), owned by a joint venture (JV) of Starwood Energy and Mabanaft, has reac...
INEOS Styrolution, a global styrenics supplier, is to build a 600,000 t/y greenfield acrylonitril...
BRITISH chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff has received the 2019 International Science and Technology C...
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factor...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas p...
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovati...
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and rever...
RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have ...
HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be...
BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the taili...
ENERGY efficiency can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but with efficiency improvements slow...
CHINESE steel firm Jingye is buying British Steel’s business and assets, including its steelworks...
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Vietnamese industrial zone developer DEEP C Industrial Zones ha...
AN international team of researchers has, for the first time, shown that the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
MANDY LESTER, Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the 2019 Karen Burt Award for her commitment to...
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
BREWING company Carlsberg has announced investment in a state-of-the-art water recycling plant th...
BP, a leading graduate recruiter, announced today the 2019 global launch of its Skills Refinery, ...
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
RAWWATER Engineering Company, which developed specialist alloys for the oil and gas industry that...
LINDE has developed a novel process to recover high-value products, including helium, from natura...
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
OIL and gas company Petronas scooped four out of the eight trophies given at IChemE’s Malaysia Aw...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which ...
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
ENAPTER, which manufactures modular hydrogen electrolysers, has unveiled a new serial fabrication...
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400...
OIL and gas companies Shell and BP have joined the Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS...
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and A...
CHEVRON’s Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, one of the world’s largest LNG projects, co...
OIL and gas company ExxonMobil is to sell its 50% stake in its Bass Strait oil and gas assets, of...
WHITEHAVEN Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal producer, expects to survive a range of low...
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lit...
A FIRE broke out at a Lubrizol chemicals factory in Rouen, France, in the early hours of 26 Septe...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Clariant has opened a new High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) Labor...
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineer...
THE Australian minerals industry has released a communiqué, which reinforces its position as a gl...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed an electrocatalytic reactor that could be used...
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will join...
DRONES have targeted the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, reducing the state-owned Sau...
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed ...
RESEARCHERS at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam (IASS) have concluded th...
AUSTRALIAN lithium mining company Pilbara Minerals has raised A$91.5m (US$62.7m) in equity. The t...
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has produced a new free interactive case study to help chemical en...
BASF, Solvay, and Domo Chemicals have reached an agreement for the acquisition of Solvay’s polyam...
OIL and gas company Santos and diversified company Perdaman have signed a heads of agreement to f...
EXXONMOBIL and separations technology company Mosaic Materials have agreed to explore the advance...
QUEENSLAND Government-owned power generation company Stanwell is spending A$5m (US$3.4m) to study...
BASF is to sell its global pigments business to fine chemicals company DIC for €1.15bn (US$1.3bn)...
BP is selling its entire Alaska business to energy company Hilcorp for US$5.6bn, including its sh...
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has published a manifesto for a prosperous and secu...
A REACTOR exploded at a pharmaceutical plant in India injuring 16 workers, according to reports.
FIVE UK student teams are to compete against counterparts from the US and China as part of a spec...
WOOD is to sell its nuclear business to Jacobs for £250m (US$303.5m). The sale proceeds will go t...
CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina wit...
SPECIALTY chemical company Clariant and diversified petrochemicals company SABIC have “temporaril...
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a novel, damage-free process for r...
ON Tuesday the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) opened a special exhibition, curated by the Unive...
BELGIAN brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has agreed to sell its Australian subsidiar...
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
THE Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) has launched a new podcast series, Create the...
LED by the World Economic Forum (WEF), chemical companies are to collaborate to reduce the chemic...
Liquid Gas UK (formerly UKLPG) has launched its new vision, which sets a goal for the liquid petr...
SAUDI manufacturing company SABIC has launched its sustainability roadmap aligned to the UN Susta...
LEADING specialty chemicals company Perstorp is investigating the potential production of recycle...
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to pro...
Qatar Petrochemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical have signed agreements to jointly develop petro...
DRAX is partnering with startup Deep Branch Biotechnology (DBB) on a new bioenergy carbon capture...
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
REFINERY owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has announced that it is to permanently close ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed a novel electrochemical pat...
EQUINOR and its partners are to release datasets from the Sleipner field, the world’s first offsh...
BASF has developed a climate-friendly process for methanol production, which if implemented could...
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for ...
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the Univers...
DRAX, Equinor, and National Grid Ventures have signed an MoU to investigate construction of a lar...
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded birthday honours to IChemE Fellow Katherine Hirschfeld and Hono...
A EUROPEAN consortium of 11 research and industry stakeholders has launched a project to demonstr...
RESEARCHERS from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan have developed a bench-scale ammonia pro...
OIL and gas company Ithaca Energy is to acquire ten of Chevron’s UK North Sea producing fields fo...
INTERNATIONAL mining company Freeport-McMoran has agreed to sell Europe’s largest cobalt refinery...
LYNAS and Blue Line have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint venture (JV) to d...
WABASH Valley Resources (WVR) has closed an investment from Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)...
THE infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is set to shutdown due to government inaction.
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the world is at risk of a steep decline in ...
RESEARCHERS in Australia have received a A$3.5m (US$2.4m) investment to develop a system that sto...
ON 23 May IChemE presented ten chemical engineers with medals for their outstanding contributions...
ICHEME has launched two interactive safety case studies – Chemical Plant and Underground Pipeline...
PLASTICS company Covestro has signed a deal with industrial software company AVEVA, to help digi...
BASF is to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU...
SUBSIDIARIES of energy infrastructure company Sempra Energy and Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s stat...
THE Royal Photographic Society (RPS), an international charity organisation, is calling for entri...
ON 6 May the final system-wide trials of a new dry storage facility at Chernobyl began. ISF2, loc...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer ...
FOLLOWING a plant expansion ExxonMobil has doubled the manufacturing capacity of a plant in Newpo...
THE World Bank has launched a multi-donor fund, the Climate-Smart Mining Facility. The fund is th...
A Swedish consortium is to begin construction on a pilot plant that will use biofuel to achieve f...
VATTENFALL, a leading European energy company, and Swedish company SaltX Technology have commissi...
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
THREE European ports have submitted an application to the European Commission for a project to co...
PEPSICO, Nestlé Waters, and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe have joined a consortium to help bri...
THE UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik has awarded Wood a contract to deliver services for a new poly...
BP AND its partners are to invest US$6bn in the Azeri Central East (ACE) project to further devel...
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), has released a letter calling on the...
EXXONMOBIL is to invest US$2bn to expand its chemical plant in Baytown, Texas, US, to maximise th...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it has ceased unplanned flaring at its Fife Ethylene Plant (FEP) at...
THIS year steel and mining company ArcelorMittal is to launch a project in Hamburg, Germany that ...
WOOD has secured a contract with SABIC to design a world-class petrochemicals research centre in ...
SHELL and its partners have launched the fourth edition of New Energy Challenge. The challenge se...
IN the early hours of today, two people were injured at an explosion at the Tata steelworks plant...
ICHEME Voting Members, ie Fellows and Chartered Members, are being invited to vote on proposed ch...
LOCAL authorities in China have taken “criminal coercive measures” against 26 people following a ...
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire, the Salzgitter Group, and their international partners are to build t...
THREE employees of Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Company are said to have “significant responsibilit...
3M, the US-based materials firm, has released the results of an annual survey which show that pub...
VALE has put three more of its Brazilian mine tailings dams on the highest level of alert – level...
SCIENCE and technology company Merck is collaborating with Iktos to use Iktos’ artificial intelli...
A court decision has ordered Vale to stop activities at 13 of its mine tailings containment struc...
ON 25 March the death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant rose to 78, report...
ON 22 March Vale raised the alert level of its Sul Superior Dam of the Gongo Soco mine located in...
THE death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has now reached 47, reports st...
FOLLOWING an explosion at a Tianjiayi chemicals plant in Yancheng, eastern China, six people are ...
NOURYON and Gasunie have agreed to supply ‘green’ hydrogen to BioMCN for renewable methanol produ...
ACCORDING to Reuters, last week a Brazilian court ordered the arrest of 11 Vale employees and two...
BASF has opened a global digital centre in Madrid, Spain to enhance and broaden its digital compe...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a comprehensive inventory of all of the high-v...
SHELL has partnered with world-leading companies to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemic...
RESEARCHERS at North Carolina State University (NCSU), US have developed a technique that adds ba...
FOLLOWING the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam the company has decided to remove severa...
RESEARCHERS in Singapore are to build a pilot membrane filtration plant to treat industrial waste...
RESEARCHERS at Michigan Technological University (MTU), US have designed a carbon dioxide (CO2) s...
BASF and The Linde Group’s Engineering Division have announced a collaboration to serve natural g...
THE lead prosecutor investigating the cause of the fatal dam collapse at a mine in Brazil has all...
FABIO Schvartsman has resigned as the CEO of Vale, following the fatal collapse of a Vale mine ta...
SPANISH energy company Repsol has made the largest gas discovery in Indonesia for 18 years. It is...
THE Brazilian Senate has passed a bill to tighten dam safety, reports Reuters. This follows the c...
WESTERN Indian state Maharashtra, is to relocate a planned Saudi Aramco refinery due to protest b...
The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to e...
ENGINEERS at MIT, US have proposed a method that could use desalination waste to produce useful c...
SCIENTISTS at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US have developed ...
BRAZIL has decided to ban tailings dams built by the upstream method. The decision follows the fa...
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for t...
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of ...
REUTERS says it has seen an internal document that shows that Vale knew last year that its dam in...
165 people have now been confirmed dead following the collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Bra...
Clariant has partnered with ExxonMobil and the biofuel firm Renewable Energy Group (REG) to devel...
TWO weeks after the collapse of a Vale tailings dam 157 people have been confirmed dead, 134 of w...
FOLLOWING the collapse of a Vale dam in Brazil, 134 people have now been confirmed dead, with 120...
AFTER the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil, 99 people have been reported dead...
SAUDI Arabia plans to build an oil refinery and a petrochemicals complex in South Africa. This is...
SAUDI Arabia is to invest US$10bn in Pakistan. The Wall Street Journal reports that this investme...
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, have developed a 3D-printe...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Waterloo, Canada, have created a novel advanced ultramicroporous...
NOURYON has launched the 3rd edition of Imagine Chemistry, a collaborative challenge which aims t...
HITACHI has announced the decision to suspend indefinitely its UK nuclear power station construct...
NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and...
EXXONMOBIL has become the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community t...
A RESEARCHER at the University of Delaware (UD), US has patented a process that could enable gree...
ICHEME has awarded the Andrew Medal to Freek Kapteijn, Professor and Section Head of Catalysis En...
The UK has relaunched its search for a site to bury its nuclear waste after previous plans were h...
ICHEME Fellows and chemical engineering professors, Geoffrey Maitland and Raffaella Ocone, have b...
BP and SOCAR Turkey have signed a heads of agreement (HoA) to evaluate the creation of a joint ve...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a new class of multifunctional sequence...
COCA-COLA HBC Switzerland has teamed up with Climeworks to pioneer the use of air-captured carbon...
SALARIES for chemical engineers dropped slightly in 2018, according to IChemE’s UK Salary Survey ...
SHELL and its partners ExxonMobil and BP have announced a final investment decision (FID) for a S...
THE oil company Neste is to invest €1.4bn (US$1.6bn) to enable the production of additional renew...
THE Coca-Cola Company has announced an agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies, a start...
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator, has ...
RESEARCHERS led by the University of Cambridge, UK have developed a three-dimensional (3D) ‘organ...
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The ...
BAYER, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, has announced plans to ...
OIL and gas major Shell has started to supply energy from the Clipper South gas field into the UK...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed novel micrometre-sized, titanium dioxide (TiO2...
CHEMCHINA has released a statement stating that a blast which killed 23 and injured 22 was caused...
COVESTRO’s carbon dioxide-based polyols have been used to produce synthetic sports flooring. The ...
GENERAL Electric (GE), the American multinational conglomerate, is close to completing the world’...
ALBEMARLE, the global specialty chemicals company, has signed an exclusivity agreement with Miner...
DRAX, the energy company, has started commissioning of its innovative bioenergy with carbon captu...
Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News r...
THROUGHOUT history, industries have either fought change or embraced it. Now, with the global thr...
RESEARCHERS in the UK have undertaken a project which aims to develop new technologies for dealin...
RESEARCHERS at Dartmouth College, US, have released a study explaining the transfer of radium to ...
RESEARCHERS have developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing iron-peroxo (Fe2(O2)) sites...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will be contributing US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre. The ...
A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top ...
BASF and Sinopec have signed a memorandum of understanding that will further strengthen their par...
SCIENCE Industry Partnership (SIP), a membership organisation for employers across the UK’s scien...
PHOTANOL, a platform renewable chemicals company, is building a demonstration plant for what it c...
SAUDI Arabia has announced more than US$50bn worth of deals in oil, gas, infrastructure and other...
RESEARCHERS from the Livingston Group at Imperial College London, UK, in collaboration with BP, h...
A NEW, multi-university research centre, headquartered at the US' University of Texas at Austin (...
COVESTRO, a leading supplier of high-tech polymer materials, is to invest €1.5bn (US$1.73bn) to b...
NUSCALE Power has selected BWX Technologies (BWXT) to manufacture NuScale’s small modular reactor...
ICHEME has pushed back the vote for Congress, its new advisory body. The ballot will now open at ...
NOVARTIS, the pharmaceuticals group, has announced plans to cut more than 2,000 jobs in the UK an...
DRAX, the UK power company, has entered talks to discuss acquiring Scottish Power energy assets f...
EVONIK, a world leader in specialty chemicals, is to build a new silicones plant at its Geesthach...
ICHEME has announced the nominees for Congress – the Institution’s new advisory body. The body wi...
TOTAL, the world’s fourth-largest oil and gas company, has announced a major gas discovery on the...
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved...
CUADRILLA, the natural resource company, has been granted government approval for fracking at a s...
BP has launched the Skills Refinery, an online global portal developed to help improve student em...
CHEMICAL engineering professors and IChemE members, Chris Hewitt, Zhibing Zhang, and Barry Lennox...
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
ENGINEERS at Rice University, US, in conjunction with Shell Global Solutions, have developed magn...
IN a collaboration between Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), and global p...
IChemE has announced the finalists of the IChemE Global Awards 2018. More than 100 entries from a...
NUVIA (UK) has won a multi-million-pound contract with Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) t...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have discovered a method that makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their ta...
ICHEME is calling on its members to put themselves forward for its new member advisory board, Con...
PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic part...
CHEMICAL engineering students at the University of Sheffield, UK have successfully won the bid to...
LEADING engineering experts in nuclear energy and sustainability will deliver keynote speeches at...
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
CABOT Microelectronics, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarisation (CMP) p...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, are developing a novel water treatment technology to selectiv...
INVISTA Intermediates is to build a 300,000 t/y, world-scale adiponitrile (ADN) plant in China, a...
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
THE EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) has announced that it is giving a ...
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
SPECIALTY chemicals group, Lanxess plans to sell its 50% share of Arlanxeo to its joint venture p...
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