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Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most cost-effective emissions abatement system.
Type: News
Firefighter injured at US chemical plant explosion
ONE firefighter was injured while responding to a large fire at a chemical plant in Affton, St Louis County, Missouri.
Type: News
Innovation challenge launched to decarbonise cement and concrete industry
THE Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched a programme to help accelerate low-carbon technologies in cement and concrete production by partnering startups with industry.
Type: News
Peel NRE plans second plastic-to-hydrogen facility in UK
PEEL NRE has announced plans to develop a waste plastic to hydrogen facility in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Type: News
IChemE Energy Centre responds to UK Clean Growth Strategy
THE IChemE Energy Centre has welcomed the UK’s Clean Growth Strategy and investment in carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS), but says more could be done to enhance its impact.
Type: News
Bayer to buy novel drug discovery company for US$2bn
BAYER is acquiring biopharmaceutical company Vividion Therapeutics, which uses novel discovery technologies to unlock high value, traditionally “undruggable” targets with precision therapeutics.
Type: News
UK funds projects to boost production of biomass
THE UK Government has awarded £4m (US$5.5m) across 24 projects to increase biomass production that can be used for green energy.
Type: News
Clean Cells to build new production facility
BIOPHARMACEUTICAL company Clean Cells has invested €13m (US$15.3m) in a new production facility in France that would quadruple its analysis and production capacity.
Type: News
UK Government starts conversation to improve R&D
THE UK Government has released a research and development (R&D) plan which it says marks the start of a conversation that will help improve and address challenges within the R&D sector. The plan has been welcomed by IChemE’s UK Research Committee.
Type: News
Dow plans zero emissions ethylene complex
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, through an expansion and retrofitting of its Fort Saskatchewan site in Alberta, Canada.
Type: News
MPs launch STEM diversity investigation
THE UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry, Diversity in STEM, to investigate the extent of underrepresentation within STEM and to explore what policies from Government, academia, and industry could address it.
Type: News
IChemE elections open in January
Type: News
Linde starts up hydrogen extraction pilot
LINDE has started up its full-scale pilot plant for extracting hydrogen from natural gas pipelines using membrane technology.
Type: News
Ireland launches €90m startup fund
THE Irish Government has launched the Irish Innovation Seed Fund (IISF), which will invest potentially €90m (US$102.1m) to support Irish startups.
Type: News
The Hydrogen Economy Needs You
Emma Houchell talks about her role at Air Products, helping develop technology for the burgeoning hydrogen economy.
Type: Feature
Jon Prichard to step down as IChemE CEO
JON PRICHARD will step down as CEO of IChemE on 30 September to take up a new appointment at the Mineral Products Association.
Type: News
Jacobs builds robot to sample Fukushima radioactive debris
ENGINEERING group Jacobs has designed and built a remotely-operated robot to collect debris at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, to assess the state of a damaged reactor at the facility
Type: News
Dame Judith Hackitt to speak at Hazards 32
Former IChemE President Dame Judith Hackitt will reflect on the importance of cross-sector hazards learnings in a prestigious lecture at IChemE’s Hazards 32 conference later this year
Type: News
£3.8bn UK gigafactory receives funding
THE UK Government has committed funding towards a huge £3.8bn (US$4.5bn) battery manufacturing plant that BritishVolt is building in Northumberland.
Type: News
Policy progress – Australia’s Skills Supply
Alexandra Meldrum reports back from a national engineering skills meeting where calls were made for a multidisciplinary approach
Type: News
