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Four proposed UK plastic recycling facilities receive funding
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has invested £20m (US$26m) in four proposed plastic recycling plants.
Type: News
Engineers publish £22bn blueprint for UK to take global lead on hydrogen heating
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydrogen production, distribution and storage system that would create the world’s largest CO2 reduction project. If realised it would decarbonise 14% of UK heat by 2034, and all told cost £22.7bn.
Type: News
With water accessibility increasingly under threat, technology leads the mining industry's efforts towards water-free mining
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Marc-Olivier Coppens
How UCL chemical engineering professor Marc-Olivier Coppens finds inspiration in nature
Type: Feature
Equinor and Captura partner to scale up direct ocean capture
INTERNATIONAL energy company Equinor has partnered with Captura to develop the direct ocean capture company’s technology at industrial scale.
Type: News
Obituary of Jennifer Aitken, process safety advocate and popular member of IChemE's Pharma Special Interest Group, who died unexpectedly in October, aged 50.
Type: News
Shell's CEO to step down next year
SHELL’S CEO, Ben van Beurden, is preparing to step down next year after nearly a decade as head of the giant energy firm, Reuters reports.
Type: News
Drones to monitor methane leaks from UK oil and gas facilities
OIL AND GAS giants Shell, Ithaca Energy and Equinor will use drones to measure methane emissions from leaks at 16 offshore platforms and onshore terminals in the UK.
Type: News
26 MW methane plant opened near Lake Kivu
Project helps prevent catastrophic gas releases
Type: News
Honeywell shakeup continues with US$2.16bn buyout of pumps firm Sundyne
HONEYWELL is buying pumps and compressors manufacturer Sundyne for US$2.16bn, in a move to bolster an automation business that will soon stand alone after a major split was announced last month.
Type: News
Shell and Linde collaborate on low-carbon ethylene
SHELL and Linde have agreed to collaborate to commercialise low-carbon technology for the production of ethylene.
Type: News
Partnership to fill Europe’s EV supply chain gap
WOOD has been appointed as Owner’s Engineer by Green Lithium and will build and operate what is expected to be the UK’s first large-scale commercial lithium refinery.
Type: News
Merck unsure of cyberattack impact
MERCK & Co has said that it still does not yet know the full impact of the NotPetya cyberattack, and that its impact is likely to affect profits and incur delays with some product supply orders.
Type: News
CSB releases update on TPC explosion
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its factual update on the explosion that took place at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) facility in Port Neches, Texas, on 27 November 2019.
Type: News
Front-end lessons: green megaprojects at risk unless government learns from HS2 blunders
Tom Baxter says the UK government must learn from past engineering project mistakes or expensive CCS, hydrogen and electricity grid megaprojects could fail
Type: Feature
Major new refinery proposed for Canada
INDIGENOUS communities and Chinese companies are planning to build a 167,000 bbl/d refinery in Alberta, Canada.
Type: News
Aker Solutions wins contract to design E-fuel plant
AKER SOLUTIONS has won a contract to design a plant in Norway that will use renewable power, water, and captured carbon to produce fuels and chemicals feedstocks.
Type: News
THE COP26 Presidency Programme has been announced and will focus on different themes each day, ranging from zero-emissions transport to gender equality in climate action.
Type: News
Glasgow research centre will extend life of industrial equipment
A NEW £5.5m (US$7m) research centre in Scotland will focus on how industrial equipment can be reused or remade in an effort to reduce emissions, boost UK manufacturing, and reshore supply chains.
Type: News
UK government launches lab in Gateshead to research heating from flooded mines
THE UK government has opened a lab in Gateshead in northeast England to research how heat can be extracted from water inside former coal mines.
Type: News
