Energy majors to invest A$350m in new gas drilling projects for Australian east coast
OIL AND GAS giants ExxonMobil and Woodside have approved a A$350m (US$220m) investment to launch ...
News
Latest News
RFK Jr eyes ban on synthetic dyes in food
ROBERT F Kennedy Jr has told US food and drink manufacturers he intends to ban synthetic dyes bei...
Manchester Prize winner uses AI to improve battery materials
THE FIRST Manchester Prize has been awarded to Polaron, a startup which uses generative AI to “sp...
Project Willow to focus on recycling and bio-feedstock, first official glimpse of Grangemouth future shows
GRANGEMOUTH could host recycling and bio-feedstock production facilities after the site’s oil ref...
Microplastic pellets from North Sea cargo ship collision found washed up on shore
THE CARGO ship that crashed into an anchored jet fuel carrier near Hull, England last week was tr...
Elsevier launches new AI service designed to speed up R&D
ICHEME’s journals publisher Elsevier has launched a new AI tool to help engineers extract, summar...
Industry
Energy majors to invest A$350m in new gas drilling projects for Australian east coast
OIL AND GAS giants ExxonMobil and Woodside have approved a A$350m (US$220m) investment to launch ...
RFK Jr eyes ban on synthetic dyes in food
ROBERT F Kennedy Jr has told US food and drink manufacturers he intends to ban synthetic dyes bei...
Project Willow to focus on recycling and bio-feedstock, first official glimpse of Grangemouth future shows
GRANGEMOUTH could host recycling and bio-feedstock production facilities after the site’s oil ref...
Process
UEL to use River Thames to power campus
NATURAL heat from the River Thames will be used by the University of East London (UEL) to power i...
Cornish Lithium gets greenlight to build UK’s first plant to recover lithium from hot water
THE UK’S first commercial geothermal lithium production plant has been approved as Cornish Lithiu...
Kellogg’s fuels your breakfast with hydrogen
A KELLOGG’S factory has successfully demonstrated that hydrogen fuel can be used to toast cereals.
IChemE
IChemE Matters – March 2025
Mark Apsey and Duncan Lugton talk policy and we catch up with Dylan Sherman to ask about his expe...
Wanted: contributors for Hazards process safety conference
ICHEME is inviting abstract submissions for its Hazards process safety conference taking place fr...
IChemE calls for contributors for returning ChemEng digitalisation conference
ICHEME is inviting abstract submissions for its Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Ind...
Research & Development
Elsevier launches new AI service designed to speed up R&D
ICHEME’s journals publisher Elsevier has launched a new AI tool to help engineers extract, summar...
Engineers say artificial reefs could filter microplastics from the sea
WHAT if we could build artificial coral reefs to filter microplastics from the sea? That’s a poss...
Monash team enlists AI to rapidly identify microplastics in step towards real-time environmental analysis
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE could one day help us clean up microplastics after researchers at Monash ...
Policy
Safe AI innovation needs robust regulation, warns IChemE roundtable
Industry leaders come together for a roundtable discussion on AI’s use in plant operation and the...
Engineers call for smaller electric car batteries and ban on vapes
USING smaller electric car batteries and stripping materials out of old wind turbines for use in ...
UK climate efforts ‘not enough’ says CCC in new report
THE UK is set to miss its 2030 net zero targets despite meeting all previous ones, according to t...
Risk & Safety
New UK lab will connect industry with emerging tech developers to boost worker safety
A NEW initiative has been launched to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies that could...
Investigation launched into fatal hydrogen sulfide leak that killed two US workers
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into a ...
HSE fines Scottish solvents manufacturer for Walkerburn explosion
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined solvents manufacturer Rathburn Chemicals £40,000 ...
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