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Crown Estate awards first survey contracts for Celtic Sea floating wind farms

AMBITIOUS plans to deliver an initial 4GW of energy capacity in the Celtic Sea has taken a major step forward after the Crown Estate announced it has awarded the first contract in a multi-million pound programme of marine surveys to investigate potential floating wind farm locations off the southern coast of Ireland.

Type: News

Folayan awarded MBE in New Year Honours

ICHEME Fellow Oluwole Olawale Folayan has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King’s 2023 New Year Honours List for services to equality, diversity and inclusion in engineering.

Type: News

Shell invests in used lubricants firm and buys Europe’s biggest biogas producer

SHELL has acquired a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental, a company specialising in the production of high-lubricity, low-sulphur marine fuel derived from recycled used motor oil.

Type: News

A Wasted Life

Martin Pitt reflects on the history of the waste industry, including his own experiences

Type: Feature

Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: How to Source Expertise

Grant Wellwood offers up a method for selecting how you source subject matter experts

Type: Feature

Sellafield Digital Twin Project Clinches Top IChemE Award

Adam Duckett reports from this year’s Awards ceremony

Type: Feature

IChemE releases ChERD Centenary Special

In a centenary special issue of the journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design, experts offer their views on the future of separations, 3D-printing, CFD and much more besides.

Type: Feature

The Breakfast Club

Early innovations from the food and drinks industry have done much to influence other industries and sectors. Martin Pitt thinks about it over a breakfast of cereal with cold milk and sugar

Type: Feature

Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'

SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zero is arguably the biggest engineering project ever undertaken by mankind, says the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in a new report.

Type: News

Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award

SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering Award for developing a digital twin of a crucial nuclear waste processing plant which has enabled them to radically improve its performance and extend the life of the facility.

Type: News

Plastics recycling partners plan 100,000 t/y facility

INEOS and Plastic Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding for a 100,000 t/y facility in Köln, Germany, to turn difficult-to-recycle plastic waste into virgin-quality raw materials. The plant will represent the largest use of Plastic Energy’s technology on the market.

Type: News

New online platform helps pinpoint GHG emission sources across the globe

HALF of the world’s 50 largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions across the world are oil and gas production fields and their associated facilities – the same industry which is also significantly underreporting its emissions, a new database by Climate TRACE shows.

Type: News

The RSC commits to 100% open access within five years

THE Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it plans to make all of its fully RSC-owned journals open access within five years by seeking financial support from partners rather than making authors pay article processing charges (APCs).

Type: News

Britishvolt secures short-term funding in wake of closure concerns

THE TROUBLED battery startup Britishvolt and its proposed UK gigafactory has been thrown a lifeline of funding for five weeks to save it from potential closure, following reports that the firm was heading into administration.

Type: News

Fast Followers: Speeding up the Global Energy Transition

As attention turns to the coming COP27 climate conference, David Simmonds looks at where some of the big emitters are at, and what they need to do to combat climate change

Type: Feature

BP buys US biogas firm for US$4.1bn in push to go net zero

BP is buying US biogas producer Archaea Energy for US$4.1bn as part of its plans to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel production.

Type: News

Home Hydrogen: Is it Safe?

Tom Baxter looks at the evidence

Type: Feature

Materials: Making a Positive Difference

Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of our clothes

Type: Feature

The Davidson Symposium 2022

Celebrating a pioneer and looking to the future

Type: Feature

Materials: Switch on/Switch off

Pablo Brito-Parada and colleagues discuss how SOSO technology could provide the paradigm shift needed to make small-scale mining viable

Type: Feature