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DuPont to cleave off electronics and water businesses
CHEMICALS and science-based product company DuPont has announced plans to split from its electronics and water businesses to create three distinct, publicly traded companies.
Type: News
Sustainable method for recovering neodymium from electronic waste
A NEW method has been developed to remove neodymium from electronic waste using cellulose, which could lead to more effective recycling.
Type: News
UK and US partner up to bolster global nuclear power
THE UK and the US have forged a new partnership to speed-up the deployment of nuclear technology for decarbonisation and energy security.
Type: News
Chemical engineers collaborate for ‘cookie-cutter’ oxygen units
THREE chemical engineers at different universities around the world are collaborating to develop “cookie-cutter” portable oxygen conversion units that can be easily assembled from locally-sourced equipment, to prevent “thousands” of Covid fatalities in India.
Type: News
Hunt for industry partners begins as UK seeks to build prototype nuclear fusion plant
A COMPETITION is being launched later this month to find the industry partners that will build the UK’s prototype nuclear fusion energy plant.
Type: News
Australian coal-to-hydrogen plant will fuel Japan’s green economy
THE AUSTRALIAN government has entered into a partnership with Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries to turn Australia’s brown coal into hydrogen for use in Japan.
Type: News
Chemical engineering returns to University of Exeter after 25-year hiatus
The University of Exeter is set to welcome its first cohort of chemical engineering students in over 25 years, marking the return of the course to its curriculum.
Type: News
IChemE Fellows receive Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded birthday honours to IChemE Fellow Katherine Hirschfeld and Honorary Fellow Andrew Hopkins. Honours were also awarded to resigned Fellow, Mark Toner, and Kathryn Fagg, who is not an IChemE member, but is a chemical engineer who is set to speak at this year’s Chemeca.
Type: News
UK’s first 21 carbon storage licences handed out by North Sea Transition Authority
FOURTEEN companies have been awarded 21 licences by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in the UK’s first ever carbon licensing round. The NSTA says the locations could store almost 10% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Type: News
Ethics Series Introduction: Ethics and the Chemical Engineer
David Bogle and Raffaella Ocone introduce a new series of articles urging chemical engineers to ‘think ethics’ before taking action
Type: Feature
Martin Pitt looks back on the history of drinking water and chemical engineers’ contribution to it
Type: Feature
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and easier to make
Type: Feature
IChemE training gains official CPD recognition from Board of Engineers Malaysia
THE BOARD of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) has approved eight IChemE training courses for continuing professional development (CPD) hours.
Type: News
Unlocking the Power of Learning: Top Tips for Chemical Engineering Students and Teachers
Professor of chemical engineering education Mo Zandi and PhD student Ya He offer tips for students and teachers on how to boost learning and teaching
Type: Feature
Petronas Chemicals looks to convert waste plastic into feedstock
PETRONAS Chemicals is investigating building a plant to turn plastic waste into virgin feedstock for use at its huge petrochemicals facility under construction in Johor, Malaysia.
Type: News
Update: Cargo ship owner says it was not carrying sodium cyanide at time of North Sea collision
THE OWNER of the cargo ship that crashed into a US-flag tanker in the North Sea on Monday has said it was not carrying sodium cyanide, as previously reported.
Type: News
Australia sets new limits on heavy industry in push for decarbonisation
AUSTRALIA has passed legal reforms that set a hard cap on industrial emissions and require new gas fields supplying LNG facilities to be net zero as it pushes heavy industry to decarbonise.
Type: News
UK government commits funding to fusion
THE UK government has committed to funding the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion energy research project, based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK to 2020.
Type: News
