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IChemE members Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee go head-to-head in a fight for survival on UK television
IChemE members Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee go head-to-head in a fight for survival on UK television
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150...
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest i...
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
Trude Sundset, CEO of Gassnova and a chemical engineer by training, tells Helen Tunnicliffe why c...
Carbon capture and storage costs money, so why bother? On the CCS Safari, Helen Tunnicliffe found...
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
From studying undergraduate biochemical engineering at UCL, to distilling gin in Finland
A collaborative project is underway to develop technology and expertise in concentrated solar power.
A discussion about the promise of 3D-printed membranes, and the research efforts underway that ai...
ICHEME has launched a completely new model form of contract book, Professional Services Contract ...
The Chemical Engineer visits the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous Manufactur...
Striking aerial photographs capture the devastation caused by industrial processes’
Johnson Matthew takes home top prize; Sime Darby, PETRONAS and the National University of Singapo...
The Chemical Engineer visits the cinema to see how Hollywood tackles the subject of the Deepwater...
Matthew Styles and Marc Hutchby discuss using biotechnology to make terpenes, and turning them in...
How a new process to recycle carbon fibre composites led to a race-ready kayak
PREDICTIONS about the downfall of the UK oil and gas industry have abounded in recent years, as e...
After ten years of promoting carbon capture and storage in the UK, the technology is still in 'su...
WE ALL know that chemical engineering is the “boundaryless profession”. Our industry improves pro...
Research is underway to enhance cloud seeding - in a bid to boost freshwater supplies
Functional nanomaterials could tackle some of the world’s biggest problems
Mountains or Oceans: how Shell uses scenarios to assess the company’s strategies for the future
TWO Chartered Members of IChemE, Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee, will clash on Monday night on UK televi...
THE UK arm of global agribusiness company Syngenta has been awarded Silver Corporate Partner stat...
FIVE people are missing after an oil and gas drilling rig near Quinton in Oklahoma, US, exploded ...
SAUDI ARAMCO, CB&I and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA...
BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL in Wales, UK, has been awarded £6.5m (US$9.1m) in funding by the ...
SHELL and ITM Power have announced a plan to build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plan...
COMPUTER technology giant Dell has partnered with Texas recycling company Wistron GreenTech and a...
THE UK government has launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment and reduce “avoidable” p...
GLOBAL solar energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approva...
GFG ALLIANCE, the UK-based metals, mining and energy group owned by Sanjeev Gupta, has bought Eur...
NEW YORK CITY has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel ...
A NEW platinum and copper alloy catalyst developed at University College London, UK, and Tufts Un...
AIR PRODUCTS has agreed a deal to buy Shell’s coal gasification technology business and its paten...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed a nanoparticle catalyst that converts hazardou...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about a 2016 incident in Kansa...
ENGINEERS at Ohio State University, US, are developing a chemical looping process which can creat...
PRIVATE equity firm Brookfield Business Partners has bought troubled nuclear firm Westinghouse El...
A MULTIDISCIPINARY research team from the University of Bath, UK, has developed a cheap, sustaina...
DOMINION ENERGY and fellow energy corporation SCANA have announced that they are to combine in an...
SINOPEC ENGINEERING has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to upgrad...
STAN HIGGINS, an Associate Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded an OBE in the UK’s New Year’s Honou...
THE IChemE UK headquarters close for the Christmas and New Year holiday at 16:00 GMT on 22 Decemb...
ROCHE has agreed a deal to buy oncology drug company Ignyta for US$27/share, a total of US$1.7bn.
AN Italian judge has ruled that Shell and Eni must face charges of aggravated international corru...
A BILL banning new fossil fuel exploration licences in France immediately and all fossil fuel ext...
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS at MIT have engineered a living plant to emit green light, with the eventual h...
INNOVATIVE UK biofuel company Celtic Renewables is to build its first commercial demonstration pl...
STATOIL has bought a 25% stake in Petrobras’ Roncador oil field in the Campos Basin in Brazil.
ELSEVIER, the publisher of IChemE’s journals, has launched a new early stage research network ded...
TEVA PHARAMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES is to cut 14,000 jobs, more than a quarter of its workforce, as p...
A TEAM from the University of Leeds has won the inaugural Young Process Engineer Prize set up by ...
WORLD BANK GROUP president Jim Yong Kim has announced that the organisation will no longer financ...
THE Fluor Pilot Plant at the University of Surrey UK, designed to give chemical engineering stude...
ONE person has been killed and 21 are injured after a huge explosion and fire at the Baumgarten N...
RESEARCHERS at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nanosystems (ENAS) have developed mo...
INEOS has closed its Forties oil pipeline, which transports 40% of the UK’s oil production, aroun...
RESEARCHERS at Princeton University have discovered a way to make hydrogel in an instant and chem...
A NEW zeolite that can separate ethane from ethylene could “significantly” reduce the amount of e...
BASF and LetterOne have signed a letter of intent to merge their oil and gas subsidiaries, Winter...
EVONIK is to build its first Asian research hub in Singapore, with a specific focus on functional...
BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY (Bapco) has awarded a US$2.4bn expansion contract for its Sitra oil ref...
MICHELLE “NANOGIRL” DICKINSON from the University of Auckland and Transpower CEO Alison Andrew wi...
VANESSA SUTHERLAND, chair and CEO of the US Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board (CSB)...
MASS relocation of residents following a major nuclear accident is largely unnecessary, according...
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
THE Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) has approved a DKK21bn (US$3.36bn) investment, allowing M...
AFTER dealing a huge budget blow to its full-chain CCS project, the Norwegian government has anno...
ONE man has been killed and another 11 injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at the Arakawa...
ICHEME Fellow Karen Hapgood has been appointed executive dean of the faculty of science, engineer...
EIGHT global energy majors have committed to reducing methane emissions from their natural gas as...
THE UK government made “grave strategic errors” in its approach to Hinkley Point C, the UK’s firs...
THE engineering profession will need to adapt to an ever-changing world in the coming years, and ...
ROSATOM, the Russian state nuclear company, has denied that a radioactive cloud of ruthenium-106 ...
RESEARCHERS in Sweden have published new analysis of the Chernobyl disaster which suggests that t...
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of Surrey, UK have developed a cost-effective ‘supercatalyst...
ENGINEERS at MIT, US, have developed a chemical composite that can store heat from the sun during...
THE Global CCS Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to meeting the Paris...
SIMON BIGGS, currently the executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Informa...
THE Solar Impulse Foundation has established a new alliance, which plans to find 1,000 profitabl...
GRAPHENE OXIDE membranes were once thought to be permeable only to aqueous solutions, but researc...
TELLURIAN has awarded four contracts worth US$15.2bn to Bechtel for the engineering, procurement ...
SPEAKERS at an IChemE-hosted event at the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, ha...
Shell has sold two-thirds of its remaining stake in Woodside Petroleum to two unnamed investment ...
THE UK government has announced that it has appointed Patrick Vallance as its chief scientific ad...
AIR PRODUCTS has signed an investment cooperation agreement with Yankuang Group to build a US$3.5...
ALASKA and China have signed an historic joint development agreement for the Alaska LNG project, ...
TOTAL has bought Engie’s upstream liquefied natural gas assets for US$1.49bn.
RESEARCHERS in the US have worked out how to make polymer chains self-assemble into a desired str...
PROFESSIONAL services company GHD has been awarded Bronze Corporate Partner status by IChemE.
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed...
A SPINOUT from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) has developed a process to extract...
DESOLENATOR, a company making solar-powered water purification devices, has won the overall Outst...
AN explosion at the Unchahar power station in Utter Pradesh, India has killed 26 people and injur...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have assembled me...
THE OIL AND GAS CLIMATE INITIATIVE (OGCI) has selected the first three low carbon projects to ben...
MUCH of the heat loss from buildings is through the windows, but researchers in Sweden have devel...
ALTERNATIVE and renewable energy firm Renergen says that its gas production subsidiary Tetra4 is ...
ASPHALTENE, the cholesterol of the oil industry, clogs pipelines and interrupts flow, but dispers...
THE Norwegian government has, in its 2018 budget, proposed cutting the funding for its flagship f...
THE National University of Singapore (NUS), Shell and Croda were amongst the winners at the eight...
MALAYSIAN oil and gas giant PETRONAS won three of the seven prestigious IChemE Malaysia Awards at...
HONGHUA GROUP has awarded Wood Group the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for its...
COVESTRO is leading a consortium of 14 European partners from seven countries in a new project to...
ICHEME has appointed Henry Mangkusasono, technical safety engineer at Petroleum Development Oman ...
A WORKER is missing and five have been taken to hospital in Louisiana, US, after an oil platform ...
A NEW report from engineering major Arup says that organic waste such as that from bananas, potat...
CLIMEWORKS has opened a new plant in collaboration with Reykjavik Energy in Iceland to capture CO...
EVONIK has developed a more efficient process to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA), a widely-used...
WORLEYPARSONS has bought Amec Foster Wheeler’s North Sea upstream oil and gas business for a tota...
MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Ka...
A CCS network on the UK east coast could boost the national economy by £163bn (US$210bn) by 2060 ...
STATOIL, Shell and Total have signed a partnership to further develop CO2 storage on the Norwegia...
MICHAEL WIRTH, currently Chevron vice chairman and executive vice president of midstream and deve...
DONG ENERGY, formerly Danish Oil and Natural Gas, will become Ørsted on 6 November 2017, as it se...
PETRONAS CHEMICALS GROUP has sold a 50% stake in its PRPC Polymers subsidiary to Saudi Aramco for...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan have developed vapour jet printing technology, usually ...
MILLIONS of tons of chicken feathers are wasted every year, but researchers at Lund University in...
THE UK government has launched a new initiative to boost the uptake of science, technology, engin...
STEEL majors Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their...
TWO men have been seriously injured in a gas explosion at the Colwick Industrial Estate in Nottin...
THE IgNobel Awards, celebrating the weirdest of weird science, have this year been awarded to suc...
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically b...
FORMER IChemE president Ian Shott says that the huge UK chemical industry must focus on its stren...
THE University of Hull has gained IChemE international accreditation for its chemical engineering...
DOWDUPONT has revised its plans to split into three divisions following its merger and will chang...
AGRIBUSINESS and food giant Bunge has bought a 70% controlling stake in IOI Loders Croklaan from ...
BP AND Bridas Corporation have formed a joint venture combining their interests in Pan America En...
UK-BASED G2O Water Technologies is to scale up production and field-test its patented graphene ox...
SINGAPORE’S senior minister of state for trade and industry, Koh Poh Koon, has launched the count...
THE Acorn CCS project, a full-chain CCS project in northeast Scotland, UK, has been awarded £100,...
THE engineering profession needs a widespread culture change to improve inclusion in the workplac...
THREE IChemE Fellows, Joan Cordiner, Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Dame Angela Strank have been electe...
GFG ALLIANCE has completed its acquisition of Australian metals and mining business Arrium, and w...
RISK MANAGEMENT firm DNV GL predicts that global energy demand will peak in 2025 and plateau afte...
BUILDING materials and construction firm Tarmac has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.
ARKEMA’S organic peroxide plant in Crosby, which has already suffered reported explosions and a s...
ENGINEERS in the US have developed a new form of battery which works on the basis of flowing ions...
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has signed financing agreements with its joint...
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP has bought CH2M HILL for a total of US$3.27bn, including net debt, creat...
ICHEME has begun a member consultation period on the future of the Institution’s governance and i...
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS (SCE&G) and Santee Cooper have abandoned construction of two nuclea...
ROYAL Dutch Shell is to shift its business model in response to lower oil prices, according to Re...
THE UK government has appointed Amec Foster Wheeler to lead a new £2.9m (US$3.8m) nuclear researc...
SHELL says that its Pernis refinery in Rotterdam in the Netherlands is not expected to restart op...
FORMER IChemE president Dame Judith Hackitt is to lead a major independent inquiry into fire safe...
RESEARCHERS at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have developed a “spongy” nickel-b...
BASF is to establish a new group company to develop and expand 3D printing materials, systems, co...
SHELL CEO Ben van Beurden says that the company is adopting a “lower forever” mindset as it seeks...
WESSEX WATER and the University of Bath, UK, are trialling the use of algae farms to reduce the n...
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often l...
PETRONAS and its project partners have decided to cancel the vast US$28bn Pacific NorthWest LNG p...
RESEARCHERS in Finland have successfully produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricit...
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, ac...
A NEW type of cellulose composite material which can turn spilled oil into a rigid floating gel t...
UK ACTOR and comedian Chris Barrie is set to host the 2017 IChemE Global Awards on 2 November, th...
A NEW £5m (US$6.5m) project led by BP and the University of Manchester, UK, will seek to better u...
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) is to sell its Horlicks drinks brand in the UK and shut its Slough manufact...
A NEW form of graphene aerogel, inspired by the structure of a plant stem, is exceptionally stron...
OIL & GAS UK has launched new guidelines aimed at increasing oil and gas production efficiency on...
BIOFUELS should be made from waste and byproducts, not food crops, if their carbon emissions redu...
SIEMENS and AES Corporation have set up a new global joint venture, Fluence, to offer energy stor...
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY team at the University of Bath, UK, is developing a new portable, cheap and e...
VATTENFALL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Statoil and Gasunie to investigate conve...
THE Engineering Council, the UK regulatory body for engineering, has launched a new strategic pla...
AN explosion at Norilsk Nickel’s Zapolyarny mine in the far north of Russia has killed four people.
QATAR PETROLEUM has announced that it will ramp up its LNG production by 30% over the next five t...
RUSSIAN oil firm Gazprom Neft has formed a joint venture with Spain’s Repsol, taking a 25.02% sta...
TOTAL has signed a contract with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), to develop phase 11 of ...
JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) in Banbury, UK, has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.
CHEMISTS in the US and South Korea have developed a technique to produce olefins, a vital chemica...
DICHLOROMETHANE, an unregulated chemical known to deplete the ozone layer, could delay the recove...
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded US$1m in funding to Penn State University and its i...
SBI BIOENERGY has granted exclusive development and licensing rights for its drop-in biofuels tec...
THE UK government has committed to funding the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion energy research ...
A NEW metal-organic framework developed at the University of Adelaide, Australia, can convert CO2...
CHEMISTS at the University of Bath, UK, have developed a process to create polycarbonate plastic ...
Could allow more widespread vaccination programmes
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