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New steel manufacturing process could lower emissions in car industry
ENGINEERS have developed a new method of steel manufacturing to produce strong, lightweight steel which could help to lower CO2 emissions in car manufacturing by making the vehicles lighter.
Type: News
Using CO2 and “green” energy to produce specialty chemicals
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in which they are developing a process that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) and renewable energy to produce specialty chemicals and could reduce CO2 emissions.
Type: News
Vanda Jones discusses how you can cut your compressed air energy consumption
Type: Feature
Book Review: People, Planet, Profit: Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Businesses
Kit Oung; ISBN: 9781637421819; Business Expert Press; 2022; US$17.99
Type: Feature
New process for creating biodegradable polyesters
RESEARCHERS have developed a new polymerisation process involving a light-activated catalyst that could be used to create biodegradable plastic.
Type: News
Process developers awarded £44m to advance UK hydrogen economy
MEMBRANE reactors, chemical looping processes and thermochemical splitting of water by advanced nuclear reactor are among dozens of hydrogen projects that have received a share of £44m (US$55m) in development funding by the UK Government.
Type: News
Creating a Winning Final Year Design Project
Glen McClea and Campbell Tiffin were part of the team that won the 2023 IChemE Australia and New Zealand Student Design Prize. Here, they provide a comprehensive guide to undergraduates on how to create a successful final year project
Type: Feature
A step towards closing the carbon loop
RESEARCHERS at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed a novel electrochemical pathway to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable products, such as jet fuel and plastics. It could significantly improve the economics of direct-air capture (DAC) of CO2.
Type: News
Enzyme process makes ammonia and electricity
Could one day be alternative to Haber-Bosch process
Type: News
Getting Started Part 1: Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers
In this new series, Everard Brewester focuses on the process equipment that form the building blocks of process plants
Type: Feature
Plans to headquarter GB Energy in Aberdeen welcomed
KEIR STARMER has announced that the UK’s state-owned energy company GB Energy will be based in Aberdeen, Scotland, supporting the city’s transition from oil capital to energy transition powerhouse.
Type: News
Engineering Net Zero Part 9A: The Role of Balancing in our Energy System
David Simmonds extends his Engineering Net Zero series by visualising the workings of a renewables-based UK power system
Type: Feature
Process modelling has come (and will continue to go) a long way
Type: Feature
CCS pilot phase successfully completed on Norwegian waste-to-energy plant
FORTUM Oslo Varme’s Klemetsrud site in Oslo, Norway, has successfully validated carbon capture technology at its pilot plant, which is a significant step forward in Norway’s planned full-scale carbon capture and storage project.
Type: News
BP ensures energy supplies are uninterrupted
IN its response to the coronavirus crisis, BP has said that it will ensure supplies of energy, fuel, and petrochemicals are uninterrupted, while supporting the call to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Type: News
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Type: Feature
