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US ammonia tanker spill kills five, injures seven
ANHYDROUS ammonia released from a tanker during a traffic incident in Teutopolis, US, is believed to have killed five people and hospitalised a further seven. Hundreds of residents were also evacuated as a precaution but were allowed to return home some hours later when it was determined the danger to the area had passed.
Type: News
Occidental agrees to acquire direct air capture developer Carbon Engineering
OXY LOW CARBON VENTURES, a wholly owned subsidiary of international energy company Occidental, will spend US$1.1bn to acquire Carbon Engineering, a Canadian-based company working to commercialise direct air capture (DAC) technology.
Type: News
Woodside to become ‘global LNG powerhouse’ with US$900m Tellurian acquisition
AUSTRALIAN energy company Woodside aims to become a ‘global LNG powerhouse’ following its agreement to buy Tellurian for $900m, a deal that will more than double its existing output.
Type: News
Appraisals: Turning a Wince into a Smile
How to get the best out of appraisals, either as an appraiser, or as an appraisee.
Type: Feature
The ‘Watermelon’ Effect: Does a green dashboard mean a healthy facility?
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ suggesting that everything is under control, and yet digging below the surface reveals signs of ‘red’ indicating ill-health in the arrangements to prevent major accidents.
Type: Feature
Climeworks starts up industrial-scale direct air capture facility
CLIMEWORKS has started operations at the world’s largest direct air capture and CO2 storage facility, in Iceland.
Type: News
UK seeks feedback on industrial strategy
THE UK government is asking for feedback on a new industrial strategy, Invest 2035, focused on attracting investment in eight priority sectors where it sees the largest potential for growth.
Type: News
Partnership to develop AI technologies for industry
WOOD and industrial software company Cognite have partnered to accelerate industrial transformation by creating AI technologies that will allow heavy-asset infrastructure and industry to achieve more connected, sustainable, and data-driven operations.
Type: News
Parika Ale explains why she believes that – in some ways at least – the global pandemic has been the secret saviour of innovation and equality.
Type: Feature
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 1: Radioactivity
For just over 100 years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Martin Pitt charts their emergence
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett speaks to the University of Warwick researchers who are recoding microbes into competitive chemical factories
Type: Feature
First Cobalt repurposes idle plant to produce EV battery component
NORTH American cobalt company First Cobalt has announced a C$2.1m (US$1.6m) work programme as part of a project to repurpose its inactive cobalt refinery to produce about 25,000 t/y of cobalt sulfate, an essential component in electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacture. The facility would be the first in North America to produce cobalt sulfate.
Type: News
UK government launches nuclear cybersecurity centre months after Sellafield fine for data breaches
THE UK NUCLEAR Decommissioning Authority has launched a cybersecurity centre near the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, months after the plant was fined over vulnerabilities in its data systems.
Type: News
BASF strengthens R&D capabilities with a more powerful supercomputer
BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany, which it says is the largest in the world used for industrial chemical research. The 3-petaflop supercomputer takes over for a 1.75 petaflop predecessor, offering more capacity and computing to allow increasingly complex modelling, virtual experiments, and simulations.
Type: News
Sumitomo Chemical cutting 10% of workforce to stem bleeding from record US$2bn losses
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL will slash 4,000 jobs and restructure its business to “stop the bleeding” of its record loss of 312bn yen (US$2bn).
Type: News
UK researchers develop fridge-free hydrogel to store vital medicines
UK SCIENTISTS have developed a water-based gel that can store vital medicines, including the diabetes drug insulin, without the need for refrigeration.
Type: News
US to label cleaner construction materials to accelerate use of greener glass, concrete, and steel
THE AMOUNT of carbon embedded in construction materials could soon become much easier to spot thanks to the US government’s push to introduce labels that will bolster the use of greener steel, concrete, and glass.
Type: News
Report outlines path to significantly reducing emissions from cement industry
A REPORT has outlined how the cement and concrete industry can reduce its CO2 emissions by 95% by 2050.
Type: News
GeoPura secures £36m investment to scale its green hydrogen business
GEOPURA has secured £36m (US$43m) of investment from big players in industry, manufacturing and finance to support the roll out of its containerised hydrogen power units (HPU), the firm said
Type: News
