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Electric avenue: researchers use electric fields to catalyse chemical reactions
WHAT if you could one day catalyse your industrial reactions with electric fields rather than the chemical catalysts commonly used today? It might be closer than you think after chemists at Kings College London successfully demonstrated the technique inside a microfluidic reactor.
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UK quits ‘climate-wrecking’ Energy Charter Treaty after efforts to modernise it fail
The UK government is leaving the “outdated” and controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an international agreement that allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments over net zero policies that threaten their investments.
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UKAEA and CNL announce tritium partnership as UK signs fusion agreement with Canada
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) have announced a partnership to develop technologies related to managing tritium. The announcement comes alongside an agreement between the governments of the UK and Canada to strengthen collaboration in fusion.
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AUSTRALIAN iron ore majors BHP and Rio Tinto have partnered with a leading steelmaker in the country, BlueScope, to investigate the development of an ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant.
Type: News
Wellcome commits £20m to increase representation of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani researchers
WELLCOME is launching a £20m (US$25m) funding drive to help tackle the underrepresentation of Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani researchers in UK science.
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The Economic Case for Hydrogen in Domestic Heating
Despite its thermodynamic disadvantages, global energy technology specialist Thomas Brewer believes hydrogen has an economic and efficient role in domestic heating. It forced him to deviate from his usual mantra of ‘efficiency above all else’ to get there, though
Type: Feature
Customer Viewpoint: IChemE Forms of Contract
IChemE’s The Blue Book provides a standard reference point for the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contracting model. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Hannah Smith and Vanessa Medina explain why it could not have come at a better time
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Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 rules invaluable for distillation troubleshooting
Type: Feature
Liquid Metal: a Catalyst for Change?
Requiring temperatures into the hundreds of degrees to work, solid catalysts prove incredibly energy intensive. Kerry Hebden spoke to researchers at the University of Sydney who have developed a liquid metal alternative that could make the chemical industry greener
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Interactive Graph Resource for Chemical Engineering Design
Interactive graphs have the potential to provide students with a more dynamic and engaging learning experience. With that in mind, The University of Manchester’s Department of Chemical Engineering has produced an interactive set of graphs that can be easily embedded into any virtual learning environment
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Vendor Viewpoint: Unlocking Constrained Projects for a Greener Future
Decarbonisation must be the end goal for industry but getting there can sometimes be a source of frustration without capital investment. Could the zero capex model be the answer?
Type: Feature
Process Consulting and the Problem with AI-fed ‘Experts’
Grant Wellwood provides tips on how to discern between superficial knowledge and a deep understanding, as a new generation of AI tools further empower ‘the highest paid person in the room’
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Rocket Science: From the Mongols to the Moon and beyond
Rocket science is a famously difficult area, but it’s more than the physics of force and trajectories. Martin Pitt takes a chemical engineering view of its history
Type: Feature
IChemE Matters: A conversation with Congress
Ahead of the official call for nominations in March, representatives from Congress sat down to discuss why all eligible members regardless of experience should consider putting themselves forward
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IChemE Matters: Nominations sought for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress
With the start of the 2024 election cycle nearly upon us, we will soon be seeking nominations for volunteers willing to get involved in two important bodies: The Board of Trustees and Congress
Type: Feature
AI put to work in push for rapid battery development
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is helping slash the time it takes to develop batteries, with Umicore and a US state laboratory both making strides through separate partnerships with Microsoft.
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Xampla and 2M awarded Innovate grant to scale up production of biodegradable materials
XAMPLA, a company specialising in natural, biodegradable materials, has been awarded the Innovate UK Smart Grant alongside 2M Group of Companies to support the manufacturing scaleup of its Morro range of products.
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Chesapeake set to become largest player in upstream US gas supply after acquiring Southwestern
AMERICAN exploration and production company Chesapeake has agreed to buy Southwestern Energy in a US$7.4bn all-share deal. The combined firm will overtake EQT as the largest independent natural gas producer in the US by output and market value, said Reuters.
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Shell to sell stake in German Schwedt refinery to UK's Prax Group
SHELL has agreed to sell its 37.5% stake in the PCK Schwedt oil refinery, one of the largest crude oil processing locations in Germany, to Prax Group, an independent energy firm headquartered in London.
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Goodbye 2023, and what to read while we’re away
AS WE put the lids on our pens, close our notebooks, and say goodbye until 2 January, we thought you’d appreciate a few pointers on what to catch up on while we’re away.
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