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Air Products invests US$2bn in world-scale coal-to-methanol facility

AIR Products is to invest US$2bn as part of a long-term agreement for a world-scale coal-to-methanol facility in Bengalon, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The facility will produce nearly 2m t/y of methanol from almost 6m t/y of coal.

Type: News

US-UK deal nuclear signed to speed up reactor approval, as companies announce cross-border partnerships

SIR KEIR STARMER and Donald Trump have signed a bilateral agreement to advance nuclear technology, alongside a series of commercial partnerships between US and UK companies.

Type: News

How to Sample Heat Transfer Fluids

A practical guide to taking a representative sample, and doing so safely.

Type: Feature

Carbon Capture or Kettle Smart?

Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions than CCS.

Type: Feature

Separations under Control

Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during solid-liquid separation operations

Type: Feature

North Sea Success

PREDICTIONS about the downfall of the UK oil and gas industry have abounded in recent years, as existing, easy-to-access reserves have become depleted, and the oil price has collapsed, meaning that many remaining reserves are becoming less economical to exploit. Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost, and there’s little doubt that the industry is struggling, particularly in the North Sea.

Type: Feature

Making connections

Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest in process automation and control

Type: Feature

Plastic as a heat conductor

A PLASTIC has been developed that can dissipate heat instead of trapping it, which could be used to stop electronic devices overheating.

Type: News

Reducing the environmental impact of palm oil production

NEW technology has been developed that will convert palm oil waste into building materials and biofuels.

Type: News

Circular hydraulic jump not caused by gravity

A FLUID mechanics phenomenon commonly seen when tap water hits a sink, and first observed by Leonardo da Vinci, has finally been explained as being caused by surface tension and viscosity, and not gravity as previously thought.

Type: News

Green amino acid production incorporates carbon dioxide

L-METHIONINE is an amino acid that is typically produced using toxic hydrogen cyanide. Researchers have now devised an environmentally friendly way to produce the amino acid, while also providing a new industrial use for CO2.

Type: News

Covestro partners with 3D printing pioneer to scale up production

COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon that has developed a 3D printing technique that rapidly draws fully-formed objects from a vat of liquid like the T1000 robot in the Terminator 2 film.

Type: News

A periodic exhibition: RSC celebrates 150 years of Mendeleev’s periodic table

ON Tuesday the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) opened a special exhibition, curated by the University of Cambridge’s Peter Wothers, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev’s first periodic table of the elements.

Type: News

Time for Change

Adam Duckett on the UK energy crisis and opportunities for change

Type: Feature

Toxic gas leak kills 13 in Jordan

A LEAK of toxic chlorine gas at Aqaba’s Red Sea port has killed 13 people and injured more than 300 others, Jordan state media reports.

Type: News

Year 11 students’ sustainable flavonoid soap wins the Davidson Inventors Challenge 2023

FABNOIDS, a team of year 11 students from the Benenden School in Cranbrook, UK has won this year’s Davidson Inventors Challenge for developing soaps that reduce the risk of infections using sustainable flavonoids and other ingredients that do not contain harmful chemicals.

Type: News

Norwegian researchers pioneer CCS process for post-combustion CO2

RESEARCHERS from SINTEF have developed a “simpler” low-cost carbon capture and storage (CCS) system for sequestering post-combustion CO2.

Type: News

BP starts 140,000 bbl/d platform in the US Gulf of Mexico

BP has started oil production at its new Argos platform in the US Gulf of Mexico. The 140,000 bbl/d platform is the first that BP has started in the region since 2008 and will increase the company’s production capacity in the region by 20%.

Type: News

GSK efforts against coronavirus include US$10m to response fund

BRITISH multinational pharma company GSK is helping to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, including via a US$10m donation to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. The fund was created by the UN Foundation, Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, and the World Health Organization (WHO) to support WHO and its partners in preventing, detecting, and managing the coronavirus pandemic.

Type: News

Oil and gas innovation to benefit Japanese nuclear sector

RAWWATER Engineering Company, which developed specialist alloys for the oil and gas industry that are being adapted to support Sellafield decommissioning challenges, has announced a contract that will take it into the Japanese nuclear sector.

Type: News