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IChemE invites Ashok Kumar Fellowship applications
ICHEME is inviting UK postgraduate students in chemical or process engineering to apply for the Ashok Kumar Fellowship, which would see them working alongside policymakers in Parliament.
Type: News
The Problem of Waste Plastic and Why Pyrolysis Oil Might Just Contain the Answer
For Earth Day, Aniqah Majid speaks to chemical engineer George Huber who is looking to simplify the process of integrating pyrolysis oil back into the plastics production chain
Type: Feature
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
Blyth Decision Means UK’s Industrial Reboot Loses Another Site of National Importance
Northumberland County Council today approved plans to put a data centre on a site previously earmarked for a £2.6bn gigafactory. Chris McDonald, the former CEO of the Materials Processing Institute, outlines why the decision has the potential to create long-lasting economic damage for the region – and the country
Type: Feature
Fight for Port Talbot steel jobs ‘is not over’ say unions despite Tata Steel final decision
UNIONS have promised strike action after Tata Steel rejected their plan to keep one blast furnace open at its Port Talbot site in South Wales, the largest steelworks in the UK.
Type: News
Engineering Inclusivity: Bridging the Gap with DEI
Mark McBride-Wright says diversity, equity and inclusion requires the perfect integration of unique components – a concept engineers should already be familiar with
Type: Feature
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Using a vast array of mirrors that focus the sun’s heat onto a tower, the technology’s developer Synhelion plans to use its process to produce greener fuel for planes, ships and cars, and even low-carbon cement.
Type: News
Update: Anochrome Ltd admits spilling toxic chemical into Walsall canal
ANOCHROME LTD, a company that provides electroplating and coatings, has said it is the source of a toxic sodium cyanide spill that has sparked a major incident in the UK.
Type: News
UK government must do more to avert worrying outlook for UK chemicals sector, think tank warns
TENS of thousands of jobs in the UK chemical sector are at risk due to lagging decarbonisation policies, including a lack of support for industrial electrification, a think tank has warned.
Type: News
Sweden’s green steel pilot project a success with commercialisation now underway
ENGINEERS have declared that their attempts to produce fossil-free steel have been successful and their industrial consortium will now press ahead with commercialising the technology. The team behind the Hybrit project in Sweden have produced a report outlining what has been learned during six years of pilot trials in what could prove a revolutionary phase in the decarbonisation of steel production.
Type: News
Drax to expand US business with deal to supply wood pellets to Texas SAF startup
BRITISH-based power generator Drax has agreed the terms of a deal to supply wood pellets to a US sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) startup.
Type: News
Subsidies for Drax to halve as UK government sees ‘more limited role’ for power station
DRAX power station’s state subsidies will be halved once the current arrangement expires in April 2027, the UK government announced on Monday.
Type: News
THE UK government is “confident” the supply of coke over the coming days will be sufficient for British Steel to continue operations at the Scunthorpe blast furnaces it took control of over the weekend.
Type: News
A Circular Economy for Plastics
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
Type: Feature
CO2 Capture: Putting the Sea into CCS
Amanda Jasi and Kerry Hebden talk to companies developing technologies to capture CO2 from the ocean
Type: Feature
Modelling with Excel Part 5: Visualising Batch Processes with Gantt Charts
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
Imagining What Chemical Engineering Will Look Like in 50 Years
Duncan Barker got in touch to share a prize-winning essay that he discovered his late father Andy had written 50 years ago imagining what life at Stanlow Refinery would look like in 2023. Given he followed his father into chemical engineering, we couldn’t resist seeing if Duncan had inherited the literary gene too. Here’s his take on what life will be like at a plant 50 years from now…
Type: Feature
Emails out mailouts in for the policy team, DiscoverChemEngLIVE and new Fellows
Type: News
Using Bow Ties to Classify Barriers
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
Type: Feature
