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A Circular Economy for Plastics

What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses

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Attractive Solutions

Alessandro Viola explains how magnets can filter out metal particle contamination in pharmaceutical manufacturing

Type: Feature

Internet of Things: A New Era for Biomanufacturing?

Duygu Dikicioglu and Lidia Borgosz explore the opportunities and challenges that will determine the future of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in bioprocessing

Type: Feature

Why we are Wrong to Overlook the Cinderella of Hazard Studies

Britest’s Rob Peeling argues that despite its reputation as a dowdy workhorse, Hazard Study One is a risk assessment tool fit for a prince

Type: Feature

How to Reduce the Risk of a Dust Explosion

Unwrapping the explosion pentagon to reduce risk

Type: Feature

IChemE Fellows elected at RAEng's 40th AGM

Ghadiri and Lye honoured with 48 other engineers

Type: News

Nexen completes accident investigations

350 jobs to be cut in wake of leak and explosion

Type: News

Singapore to help struggling offshore sector

S$1.6bn in loans to be made available

Type: News

Book Review: Databook of Green Solvents 2nd Edition

Anna Wypych and George Wypych ; ISBN: 978-1-927885-43-7; ChemTec Publishing; 2019; US$285

Type: Feature

Singapore to introduce carbon tax

Public consultation to begin in March

Type: News

Rise of incinerators risks circular economy

A SURGE in the construction of facilities that burn residual waste is a direct threat to the UK achieving more environmentally-friendly recycling processes needed to reach a circular economy.

Type: News

Unilever joins forces with Ioniqa to scale up breakthrough plastic waste recycling process

UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s largest producer of PET resin, to scale up a technology that converts plastic waste back into virgin feedstock.

Type: News

Pulling oil from water

ENGINEERS at Rice University, US, in conjunction with Shell Global Solutions, have developed magnetic nanoparticles capable of removing the last drops of crude oil from produced water.

Type: News

New carbon capture technology granted funding for further development

THE Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and Carbon CCS-US, the US subsidiary of Carbon Clean Solutions Limited (CCSL), have received US$2.9m in funding to test a prototype that could make carbon capture more cost-effective.

Type: News

Novel water treatment pilot plant

RESEARCHERS in Singapore are to build a pilot membrane filtration plant to treat industrial wastewater. The new plant will allow a semiconductor company to reduce liquid waste by more than 90% and allow it to recover precious metals from treated water which could then be sold and reused.

Type: News

UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant

THE UK Government has announced funding for nine carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects, including the UK’s first industrial-scale CCU plant which will be built by Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) at its site in Northwich, Cheshire.

Type: News

UK Government pledges £390m to develop hydrogen technology

THE UK Government has announced a £390m (US$468m) hydrogen technology fund focussed on supporting low carbon production and clean steel.

Type: News

Suppliers commit to achieving 100% renewable Apple production

AS technology company Apple seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, 71 of its suppliers have committed to using 100% renewable energy for the company’s products.

Type: News

Chevron ordered to inspect Gorgon for cracks

ON 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Australia, amid concerns about worker safety, with reports stating that this could result in a shutdown. This follows news that repairs are underway to resolve welding issues discovered during routine maintenance.

Type: News

Four proposed UK plastic recycling facilities receive funding

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has invested £20m (US$26m) in four proposed plastic recycling plants.

Type: News