Materials: Decarbonising Cement
Kerry Hebden talks to the researchers and companies aiming for greener concrete processes
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Food & Water: Water from Unconventional Resources
With clean water scarcity a major problem, Kerry Hebden looks at unconventional options for obtai...
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Experts gathered to discuss new safety challenges for a sustainable era. Kerry Hebden reports
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Zenobē begins construction on battery storage projects in Scotland
EV FLEET and battery storage firm Zenobē has started construction on three battery storage projec...
Plastic Energy opens new R&D labs at Loughborough
RECYCLING technology firm Plastic Energy has opened new research and development labs and a dedic...
Solar farms in space demo could be ready by 2030
A PLAN to use satellites in Earth’s orbit to harvest the Sun’s energy from space and beam it down...
Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'
SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zer...
IChemE member is Australia’s first Chief Circular Engineer
ICHEME member Ali Abbas, one of Australia’s leading chemical engineers, has been announced as Aus...
New Solent Cluster to reduce emissions and produce hydrogen
THE University of Southampton, UK, Solent Local Enterprise Partnership, and ExxonMobil have teame...
UK Autumn statement offers boon to research but little news for industry
AMIDST tax rises and expenditure cutting amounting to around £50bn (US$60bn), funding for researc...
New online platform helps pinpoint GHG emission sources across the globe
HALF of the world’s 50 largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions across the world are oil and g...
Carbon-neutral Steelanol plant to start production within weeks
ARCELORMITTAL, BHP, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) have signed a funding ag...
Cracks found in feedwater pumps at Finland’s OL3 nuclear plant
CRACKS of a few centimetres have been identified in all four of the feedwater pumps of the Olkilu...
Chemical engineer warns lawmakers about UK’s cyber weaknesses
THE UK is routinely targeted by cyber attackers, with China and Russia posing the greatest state-...
The RSC commits to 100% open access within five years
THE Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it plans to make all of its fully RSC-own...
Prince William announces Earthshot Prize finalists
A CARBON-ZERO aggregate made from waste materials and by-products for use in construction, a curt...
NSTA scraps Cessation of Production reports
IN A BID to cut red tape and save money, UK regulator North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has a...
Britishvolt secures short-term funding in wake of closure concerns
THE TROUBLED battery startup Britishvolt and its proposed UK gigafactory has been thrown a lifeli...
TerraPower and SCS install test facility to advance molten chloride fast reactor
NUCLEAR reactor developer TerraPower, and US utility Southern Company have completed the installa...
US DOE awards US$38m for nuclear recycling projects
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding US$38m in funding to twelve projects aimed at recyc...
TRISO-X begins construction on commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility
TRISO-X, a wholly-owned subsidiary of X-energy, has marked the start of construction at a site it...
NZTC reveals winners of its 2022 Open Innovation Programme
NET ZERO Technology Centre (NZTC), a UK-based innovation firm, has revealed the 20 game-changing ...
Final report into 2019 PES fire released
THE FINAL report into a massive fire and subsequent explosions that took place in June 2019 at th...
Exxon and CF Industries partner on large-scale CCS project
EXXONMOBIL and CF Industries have teamed up to capture and permanently store up to 2m t/y of CO2 ...
IChemE Safety Centre Director wins Leader of the Year Award
TRISH Kerin, Director of the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC), has won the Women In Safety Leader of th...
UK Government funds £50m for new industrial fuel switching technologies
THE UK Government has allocated £49.4m (US$55m) in funding to help British industry reduce energy...
Sweden reports a fourth Nord gas leak
ACCORDING to Sweden's coastguard, there are a total of four leaks from the twin Nord Stream gas p...
European Commission to spend €8bn on hydrogen projects
IN A BID to structurally transform its energy system, while ending its dependency on Russian foss...
UK Labour party to set up publicly-owned green energy company if elected
THE Labour party have in their annual meeting outlined plans for an industrial strategy, which in...
New RAEng Fellows includes three IChemE members
THE ROYAL Academy of Engineering has elected 72 leading UK and international figures in the field...
France and Sweden both launch ‘first of a kind’ hydrogen facilities
FRANCE has launched an offshore green hydrogen production platform at the country’s Port of Saint...
Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is launched
CARBON Tracker and Global Energy Monitor have launched The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, a pub...
Green light given to Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project
OIL and gas producer Santos has said it is proceeding with the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Projec...
QEPrize 2023 “Create the Trophy” competition opens
THE Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation (QEPrize) has now opened its 2023 Create the...
Production at proposed gigafactory put on hold until 2025
BRITISHVOLT, a startup which says it intends to “create a world-class battery cell ecosystem” and...
IChemE pays tribute to Her Majesty The Queen
ICheme has issued a statement paying tribute to Her Majesty the Queen, who sadly passed away on 8...
Shell's CEO to step down next year
SHELL’S CEO, Ben van Beurden, is preparing to step down next year after nearly a decade as head o...
Partners push digitalisation for processes
IMPERIAL College London and China’s Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) are ...
IChemE 2022 Global Awards finalists announced
IChemE has announced more than 100 finalist projects from 15 different countries that are in the ...
Centrica given the go-ahead for North Sea gas storage project
THE North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has granted Centrica the right to resume gas storage op...
Large fire breaks out at UK chemical storage unit
FIREFIGHTERS have responded to a large fire at a chemical storage unit in Staffordshire, UK after...
IChemE 2023 medals nominations open
IChemE has opened nominations for its 2023 medals and prizes programme, which aims to recognise t...
Short on sulfur: Is a potential resource crisis about to threaten food security and stifle green technology?
A NEW study by researchers at UCL suggests that supplies of sulfuric acid, a vital ingredient use...
CATL to build second European battery plant in Hungary
CHINESE battery firm CATL plans to build a new 100 GWh battery plant covering an area of 221 ha i...
Back in style: using enzymes to recycle PET from big brand clothing
FRENCH biotech firm Carbios has signed an agreement with On, Patagonia, Puma, and Salomon, to spe...
Round and round: Newcastle University and Wastefront team up to improve tyre recycling
NEWCASTLE University and rubber recycling firm Wastefront, will use a new UK tyre recycling plant...
US climate deal signed into law
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, a b...
Researchers produce jet fuel from sunlight, CO2 and water
RESEARCHERS at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, have successfully created a...
Ineos signs major petchem deals with Sinopec
GLOBAL chemicals firm Ineos has signed three back-to-back deals with Chinese chemical giant Sinop...
Hinkley Point B nuclear power station closes
FRENCH-owned EDF Energy has formally switched off Hinkley Point B’s second reactor, a nuclear pow...
Shell to start building Netherlands’ new green hydrogen plant
SHELL has announced it has taken the final investment decision to build a new green hydrogen fac...
Chemical campaigners warn against lagging UK restrictions
CONCERNS of a widening gap between the EU and UK on hazardous chemical regulation have emerged fo...
Curtin University to lead roadmap to decarbonise WA
CURTIN University’s School of Mines is leading the way in a campaign to decarbonise Western Austr...
UK energy security bill set to become law
THE LANDMARK bill announced as part of the Queen’s Speech in May, which puts into law measures to...
Ingenza awarded funding to develop carbon capture technology
BIOTECHNOLOGY company Ingenza is partnering with Johnson Matthey to produce formic acid from capt...
New Acland coalmine gets approval for expansion
THE Queensland Government has given the green light to stage three of the New Hope Group’s open-c...
New technology extracts more lithium from mining waste
Scientists at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) together with Li...
Taskforce suggests recommendations to digitally unite energy sectors
The Offshore Energy Data Strategy (OEDS) Taskforce has in a new report, set out a series of recom...
Reverend Richard Coles to host IChemE Global Awards 2022
Radio presenter, and Strictly Come Dancing TV show presenter Reverend Richard Coles has been sign...
IChemE’s SPC journal sees big jump in rankings
IChemE’s Sustainable Production and Consumption (SPC) journal has jumped up the rankings in two d...
UK HFCA calls for action on nuclear-enabled hydrogen
Following a push by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to accelerate cleaner hydrogen ...
Moderna to open mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in UK
The UK government has signed a deal with biotech company Moderna to build a state-of-the-art mRNA...
Largest industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant opens in UK
An industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant has been opened by Tata Chemicals Europe in No...
Dow and Shell's ‘e-cracker’ technology now operational
A JOINT experiment by materials science company Dow and Shell to electrically heat steam cracker ...
Dame Judith Hackitt to speak at Hazards 32
Former IChemE President Dame Judith Hackitt will reflect on the importance of cross-sector hazard...
TotalEnergies and AEL invest in green hydrogen
TotalEnergies has signed a deal to acquire a 25% stake in Adani New Industries Limited (ANIL), to...
Mark McBride-Wright wins Rooke Award
Campaigning chemical engineer Mark McBride-Wright is to receive one of the Royal Academy of Engin...
Freeport LNG to remain offline until September
Freeport LNG, which shut down after a fire earlier this month, has announced that its Texas, US p...
Six people missing following blast at Chinese pesticide site
At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical fa...
C-Capture to demonstrate new carbon capture solvents
CARBON dioxide removal firm C-Capture has announced the launch of a national project that capture...
MPI receives funding for green steel hydrogen pilot project
The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) has announced it is leading a national project to demons...
LanzaTech transforms captured carbon into plastic
Carbon recycling specialist LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, says it has found a way to pro...
Jacobs builds robot to sample Fukushima radioactive debris
ENGINEERING group Jacobs has designed and built a remotely-operated robot to collect debris at th...
UK invests £31m to reduce reliance on fossil fuels
The UK Government has announced it is investing more than £31 m (US$38.9m) to help industry cut c...
Cemex opens new non-fossil fuelled facility in UK
CEMEX has officially opened its new Climafuel facility at its Rugby, UK cement plant. The plant, ...
Drax to trial innovative carbon capture technology
RENEWABLE energy firm Drax is working with the University of Nottingham, UK and Promethean Partic...
GSK to buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) has announced it will buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, in a deal wo...
