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Accelerating Progress on Hydrogen Fuel Cells
A hydrogen-powered society is possible - with a little help from our engineers
Type: Feature
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite, whose work ushered in the age of polymers
Type: Feature
Dermot Manning and colleagues at ICI – Plastic Fantastic
The commercial success of PE starts with Reginald Gibson, Eric Fawcett, Michael Perrin and Dermot Manning at ICI. Claudia Flavell-While tells their story
Type: Feature
Partners build facility to test hydrogen transmission
NATIONAL Grid is partnering with gas distribution companies, safety organisations, and academia, to build a first-of-its-kind offline hydrogen test facility in the UK. The facility is expected to help understand how hydrogen gas could be used in future to heat homes and deliver green energy to industry.
Type: News
TerraPower and SCS install test facility to advance molten chloride fast reactor
NUCLEAR reactor developer TerraPower, and US utility Southern Company have completed the installation of the Integrated Effects Test (IET), a system to learn how TerraPower’s molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) technology will scale and behave at commercial size.
Type: News
Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system
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Mura and Ghent Uni join forces to extend recycling process to other problem plastics
MURA TECHNOLOGY, the firm behind a plastics recycling demonstration plant that’s under construction in the UK, has formed a research partnership with Belgium’s Ghent University to explore how its technology might be used to recycle a wider range of waste.
Type: News
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technologies together. Hugh Sutherland, Head of Development at ZapGo speaks to Neil Clark
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Has Carbon Utilisation Captured its Audience?
A look into public awareness and acceptance of carbon capture and utilisation
Type: Feature
National Grid report says gas can decarbonise heat, transport, and industry
THE UK’s gas and electricity operator, National Grid, has set out its long-term goals in its report The Future of Gas: How gas can support a low carbon future, concluding that gas will play a crucial role in the coming decades but not without clear policies from the government for decarbonising gas.
Type: News
After ten years of promoting carbon capture and storage in the UK, the technology is still in 'suspended animation'
Type: Feature
Victor Mills – A 'Pampered' Career
Claudia Flavell-While charts the contribution of P&G’s Victor Mills
Type: Feature
Screening Heat Exchangers for High Pressure Differential Relief
An insight into the Energy Institute’s guidance on pressure relief in shell and tube heat exchangers with high differential pressures.
Type: Feature
The universities with standout methods for teaching sustainability
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Paul Héroult and Charles Hall – Turning a Rarity into a Commodity
What’s the most valuable metal in the world? Today, it’s gold, the price of which has soared so much in recent years that it overtook platinum and rhodium as the most expensive metal in the world. Two hundred years ago, it was a metal that today is so cheap it’s become the ultimate disposable commodity: aluminium.
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Bloomberg hosts second London sustainability summit
THROUGHOUT history, industries have either fought change or embraced it. Now, with the global threat posed by current unsustainable practices it is important that industry takes action. The Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit brought together global business experts to discuss how they are embracing change towards a more sustainable future.
Type: News
Developing Policies: What Can We Do?
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian perspective
Type: Feature
Why is it that the introduction of innovative process technologies appears to be so slow in the process industries? For example, the benefits of implementing flow chemistry at smaller commercial scales have been discussed for over a decade, and yet the reality is that new products continue to be realised through batch processes. Economies of scale and the two-thirds rule dominate the approach to large-volume, commodity chemicals, leading to highly centralised production, reliance on long-established process routes, and incremental improvements.
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Waste to jet fuels project set for take off
Velocys is a company that has developed technology to convert feedstocks such as household waste into aviation fuel, and plans are underway for a commercial-scale plant in Immingham, UK. I spoke to Neville Hargreaves, Vice President of Waste to Fuels at Velocys, about how the company can contribute to the decarbonisation of the aviation industry with its renewable jet fuel.
Type: Feature
