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Question Time: Built Environment & Transport
A panel of experts speaking at IChemE’s Centenary webinar urged attendees to think and work together creatively to overhaul the built environment and transport as we move into a more heterogenous future.
Type: Feature
Dow goes nuclear: chemical firm will install reactors at US chemicals complex
DOW will install advanced nuclear reactors at one of its Gulf Coast sites to provide low carbon power and process heat for its chemicals production.
Type: News
Charles Darwin University will install hydrogen system to collaborate with industry
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) develop greener industries.
Type: News
CENTRICA has been given the green light to seek approval to resume gas storage operations at its Rough field, which could more than double gas storage capacity in the UK.
Type: News
UK overturns planning advice and approves Sizewell C nuclear plant
THE UK Government has given planning consent to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, overturning independent advice as it pushes ahead with plans to increase output of low-carbon energy.
Type: News
David Simmonds asks how do we achieve energy security and what’s the role of gas storage?
Type: Feature
David Bogle looks at trends for developing chemical engineers in Europe
Type: Feature
Ethics Series - For the People: By the People
Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science
Type: Feature
Safety: My Five Lessons from Five Decades of Engineering
Tom Baxter shares safety lessons learned from across his career
Type: Feature
Safety: Digitalising Process Safety
Helen Kilbride and Krisshala Sinanan discuss the benefits and challenges
Type: Feature
New data hub invites companies to map global supply chains
A NEW open data platform has been launched for companies to map their global supply chains to improve insights about production facilities and better address emissions.
Type: News
Marlene Kanga awarded Queen’s Birthday Honours
MARLENE Kanga, a chartered chemical engineer who successfully campaigned for a global engineering day, has been awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in Australia.
Type: News
Energy: Using Hydrogen for Glass
Andrew Keeley and Mike Haden talk about decarbonising the glass manufacturing process using hydrogen as a fuel
Type: Feature
Ethics Series: Educating Ethical Chemical Engineers
David Shallcross and Allyson Woodford discuss challenges and methods to teach ethics, using real-life cases
Type: Feature
Martin Pitt looks at the origins of the pharmaceutical industry
Type: Feature
GSK to buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) has announced it will buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, in a deal worth approximately US$3.3bn
Type: News
BP agrees to buy naphtha from Teesside circular plastics plant
BP has signed an agreement to purchase naphtha produced from a plant being built in Teesside, UK by Clean Planet Energy that will convert hard-to-recycle plastics into chemical feedstocks and fuels.
Type: News
Process Engineering for the Final Frontier
Kathryn Hadler tells Amanda Jasi about the exciting prospect of extracting and processing resources in space
Type: Feature
UK first: Cornish Lithium trials direct extraction of key battery metal from geothermal waters
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot plant, as the company pushes to produce an element that is critical to the clean energy transition. There are also plans to provide geothermal heat from the water to local industries. We caught up with members of the development team to discuss the project in more detail, including their expectations that the production process will provide significant benefits over traditional lithium extraction techniques.
Type: News
BASF outlines plans to continue net zero progress
ONE year after announcing its 2050 net zero target, BASF has outlined plans to continue its progress, as it reaffirmed its climate commitment.
Type: News
