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Safety issues to the fore at IChemE-hosted roundtable on battery energy storage systems

SAFETY concerns surrounding lithium-ion batteries dominated a recent IChemE-hosted roundtable discussion on the state of the UK’s battery energy storage systems (BESS).

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Microplastics Explainer

MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are, where they come from, and what we can do to help prevent them? To find out, read our Earth Day explainer.

Type: Feature

Health: What’s the Formula for Sustainability in Pharma?

Zeb Ahmed discusses the growing demand for sustainable built assets

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Synchrotron shows that defects make catalysts

Long-standing hypothesis confirmed

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Adrian Chiles to host IChemE Global Awards

2016 awards adds two new categories

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Triumph Out of Adversity

Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonstration and further development of a mobile self-cleaning water filtration unit

Type: Feature

Decarbonising the Grid: What Role for Great British Energy?

David Simmonds says that to encourage the private investment needed to realise the transition away from fossil fuels, the UK government must first overcome key flaws in its plan

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New narrative needed for CCS

Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industries – not just oil and gas – was a key conclusion at CCUS 2019: Capturing the clean growth opportunities, held in London earlier this month.

Type: Feature

Pyrolysis Gets Personal

Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that allows homes and businesses to process waste into gas for heating

Type: Feature

After the spill: well incident response

Scott Powell and Scott Vickers look at how industry's emergency response measures have evolved in the years following Deepwater Horizon

Type: Feature

Health and Safety: Diverse and Inclusive

Employers should know that robust D&I initiatives will lead to better H&S

Type: Feature

Strategy 2024

IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to the Institution’s future

Type: Feature

Leaf-inspired microreactor

INSPIRED by nature, researchers have developed a leaf-shaped photo-microreactor that could one day make drugs at the point of use, such as malaria treatments in the jungle.

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Bath process produces safer microbeads

Uses cellulose as a biodegradable alternative

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Erin Johnson IChemE’s 2017 Ashok Kumar Fellow

Will spend three months at UK parliament

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Nanocatalyst enables four reactions at once

Reduces steps and waste for greener chemistry

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Bath process produces safer microbeads

Uses cellulose as a biodegradable alternative

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Catalyst drives reaction in both directions

Could be used in fuel cells, batteries

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UK Energy Security Strategy deemed ‘a missed opportunity’

THE UK Government has released its much-delayed Energy Security Strategy, which improves long-term plans for more oil and gas, hydrogen, nuclear, and offshore wind. However, the strategy has received strong criticism for failing to deliver on solar power, onshore wind, energy efficiency, and demand reduction.

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Solvay kicks the Acetow habit

Cigarette filter unit sold as part of transformation

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