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Seaweed heat storage material set for steelmaking trial
ENGINEERS at Swansea University, UK have developed a heat storage material made from seaweed that they will now test at Tata Steel to see how well it can capture waste heat from industrial operations.
Type: News
Grid operators submit £67bn plan to revamp UK transmission network
MAJOR grid operators are set to add almost 70 GW of new power as part of a major upgrade of transmission networks.
Type: News
George Rosenkranz and colleagues – Engineering the Sexual Revolution
Chemical engineers have a lot to answer for – including the Summer of Love. Claudia Flavell-While explains
Type: Feature
Old-school Chemical Engineering
A look at chemical engineering in the 1950s, when chemical engineering was done at a more basic level.
Type: Feature
WHP wins contract for new UK vaccine centre
ENGINEERING contractor WHP has won a contract to help design the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre.
Type: News
Two killed in Indian reactor explosion
ON 5 November, in the early hours of the morning, two people were killed as a result of a reactor explosion at a pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals company’s facility in India, reports The Times of India.
Type: News
Trump declares national emergency over threat to power system
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power system and ordered the government to ban equipment from foreign adversaries and audit equipment already installed.
Type: News
Air Products acquires full ownership of China gasification joint venture
AIR Products has announced that it has acquired the remaining 50% stake in a gasification joint venture from China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical.
Type: News
Petronas and Shell join forces on CCS for Malaysia
PETRONAS and Shell have teamed up to study opportunities to collaborate on the use of carbon capture and storage in Malaysia.
Type: News
Aramco and Linde to develop novel ammonia cracking technology
ARAMCO and Linde Engineering have signed an agreement to jointly develop a new ammonia cracking technology, and already have plans to build a demonstration plant in northern Germany.
Type: News
Nuclear Waste Disposal: The Defining Chemical Engineering Challenge of Our Time?
Steve Reece of Nuclear Waste Services on the challenges of developing a geological disposal facility
Type: Feature
Planning for Carlton Power’s major £750m battery storage project in Manchester given green light
Planning permission for Carlton Power’s major £750m (US$953m) battery storage project that will support Greater Manchester’s net zero 2038 target, and the UK’s net zero 2050 target, has been given the green light by the local planning authority.
Type: News
Obituary of David White, who was awarded IChemE’s Hebden Medal in 2015 for his work on gasification and died in January 2024 aged 88.
Type: News
Thyssenkrupp sells stake to Czech billionaire in green steel reprogramme
GERMAN engineering conglomerate Thyssenkrupp saw its share price rise more than 10% after announcing a major partnership with Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský.
Type: News
UK selects Wylfa as preferred site for third nuclear power station
THE UK government has selected Wylfa in Anglesey as its preferred site for the nation’s third large-scale nuclear power station. It brings the UK a step closer to its ambition of quadrupling nuclear power capacity to 24 GW by 2050.
Type: News
Former bp boss: UK must ‘step up’ on climate action as US cuts back renewables funding
FORMER bp boss Lord John Browne of Madingley has urged the UK to become a global leader in climate action in the face of “regrettable” low-carbon cutbacks happening in the US.
Type: News
