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Beale’s Andrew Lecture focuses on CO2 hydrogenation catalysts
ANDY BEALE, professor of chemistry at University College London (UCL), has been awarded IChemE’s 2025 Andrew Medal and Lecture.
Type: News
CENTRICA has been given the green light to seek approval to resume gas storage operations at its Rough field, which could more than double gas storage capacity in the UK.
Type: News
How Soap was Born: From Mud and Urine to Modern Detergents
Martin Pitt comes clean about the history of soap
Type: Feature
Shell invests in used lubricants firm and buys Europe’s biggest biogas producer
SHELL has acquired a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental, a company specialising in the production of high-lubricity, low-sulphur marine fuel derived from recycled used motor oil.
Type: News
Government promises to support UK oil and gas amid North Sea exploration restrictions
THE UK government looks set to follow through on its manifesto promise to ban new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea – though it has left the door open for existing fields to be extended.
Type: News
Exxon Mobil, FuelCell to launch cheaper CCS
Novel fuel cell tech can reduce electricity costs
Type: News
Imagine Chemistry: a New Kind of Innovation Challenge for an Industry that Needs Shaking Up
AkzoNobel is calling on chemical engineers to enter its R&D challenge and help provide the missing ingredient needed to boost company innovation
Type: Feature
Toyota magnet cuts need for rare earth elements
TOYOTA has developed a new magnet for electric car motors that requires less neodymium than conventional magnets.
Type: News
Fire at chemical plant on Stanlow refinery site
A fire broke out yesterday at a chemical plant on the same site as the Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire, England.
Type: News
Industry joins RSC taskforce to chart a greener path for PLFs
UNILEVER, Croda and Crown Paints have joined a taskforce convened by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to help recycle polymers in liquid formulations (PLFs) – a waste stream measured in millions of tonnes.
Type: News
BOC becomes Bronze Corporate Partner
BOC HAS been awarded IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner Award status, in recognition of its professional development and mentoring.
Type: News
Six people missing following blast at Chinese pesticide site
At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical factory in the city of Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, according to Chinese media sources.
Type: News
Lund team turns chicken feathers into food
MILLIONS of tons of chicken feathers are wasted every year, but researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found a way to turn them into proteins for food use.
Type: News
Metal-free catalyst for ester synthesis
A METAL-FREE and recyclable catalyst has been developed for synthesising complex esters which could be used for biodiesel production.
Type: News
IChemE releases special issue of LPB to mark Fukushima anniversary
ICHEME has released a special edition of Loss Prevention Bulletin (LPB) to mark the tenth anniversary of the nuclear accident that occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
Type: News
IChemE Safety Centre Director wins Leader of the Year Award
TRISH Kerin, Director of the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC), has won the Women In Safety Leader of the Year Award.
Type: News
Fluor awarded FEED contract for North Dakota carbon capture project
FLUOR has been awarded a FEED contract for Minnkota’s Project Tundra, a CCUS project in North Dakota, US.
Type: News
Modular nuclear plan put forward for Wylfa
SMALL modular nuclear reactors (SMR) could be twinned with wind power, in a project that has been proposed for Wylfa, Anglesey in the UK.
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