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...
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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...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
IChemE Fellows awarded New Year’s Honours
ICHEME Fellows and chemical engineering professors, Geoffrey Maitland and Raffaella Ocone, have b...
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...
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
SPECIALTY chemicals group, Lanxess plans to sell its 50% share of Arlanxeo to its joint venture p...
