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Stewart keen to use ANZFChE role to enhance regional STEM growth and collaboration

EWAN STEWART, the new chair of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers (ANZFChE), has pledged to use his position to promote the mutual growth of STEM in the region.

Type: News

IChemE announces Global Awards finalists

ICHEME has announced there are more than 100 finalists shortlisted for its annual Global Awards.

Type: News

Worley to help build UK’s first lithium refinery in Teesside

WORLEY has won a contract to help engineer the UK’s first lithium refinery as developers seek to plug a gap in supplies and take advantage of the ongoing push for decarbonisation.

Type: News

Acorn CCS gets £100,000 Scottish government funding

THE Acorn CCS project, a full-chain CCS project in northeast Scotland, UK, has been awarded £100,000 (US$130,000) funding by the Scottish government.

Type: News

US will invest US$3.5bn in building hubs to suck CO2 from the air

THE US is investing US$3.5bn to create four large-scale direct air capture (DAC) hubs to remove CO2 from the air.

Type: News

Emerson wins automation contract for Ras Laffan petchem complex

EMERSON has won the contract to supply automation and analytics technology for the US$6bn Ras Laffan petrochemical complex that is under construction in Qatar.

Type: News

Kemper clean coal opts for gas instead

IN a blow to clean coal development, the Kemper County power plant in the US has been forced to abandon lignite gasification and burn gas instead.

Type: News

UEL to use River Thames to power campus

NATURAL heat from the River Thames will be used by the University of East London (UEL) to power its Docklands campus, using an innovative heat pump system.

Type: News

Costain chosen to design UK’s novel advanced nuclear fuels facility

COSTAIN has been awarded a contract from Urenco to design an advanced nuclear fuels plant in the UK.

Type: News

Solar power used to power steamboat in world-first

A spinout from ETH Zürich has developed a solar-powered fuel compatible with a 110-year-old steamboat engine.

Type: News

Consortium bails out Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux

TROUBLED Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux has been rescued by a S$530m (US$384m) investment by an industrial consortium formed by the Salim and Medco groups.

Type: News

Rio Tinto studies using hydrogen to make greener alumina

RIO TINTO is investigating the technical implications of using hydrogen feedstock instead of natural gas to reduce emissions from refining alumina.

Type: News

Four more industry players sign up for BP’s Teesside hydrogen plans

BP has signed MoUs with four customers interested in using hydrogen produced at its proposed production facility in Teesside, UK.

Type: News

Shell and Uniper plan blue hydrogen facility in UK

SHELL and Uniper have signed an agreement for a blue hydrogen production facility in in North Lincolnshire, UK.

Type: News

Teesside picked for first green fuels plant

TEESSIDE is set to host the first plant in the UK to produce a drop-in fuel called rDME that is produced by gasifying waste

Type: News

Australia invests A$400m in alumina amid global critical minerals race

AUSTRALIAN aluminum manufacturer Alpha HPA is set to benefit from a A$400m (US$258m) government cash injection, reinforcing the country’s ambition to become a critical minerals leader.

Type: News

Volunteer Spotlight: Clare Dunkerley

Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers

Type: Feature

Chemical engineers explore upcycling microfibres released from washing clothes

UNIVERSITY of Surrey and UK-based washing technology group, Xeros Technology, have teamed up to accelerate research into upcycling the microfibres captured from laundering clothes into a useful and valuable carbon material.

Type: News

Kickstarting the Cycle

Opportunities from crisis

Type: Feature