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Careers in Chemical Engineering: Tom Tribone
Yasmin Ali speaks to Tom Tribone, CEO of Franklin Park, a US-based global owner of energy and infrastructure assets.
Type: Feature
Fission reactor in development for future space travel
A PROTOTYPE nuclear fission reactor is currently being tested as part of NASA’s Kilopower project. The reactor has the potential to provide power for crewed missions to Mars as well as robotic deep space travel.
Type: News
UK satellites track global water flows to strengthen climate modelling and industrial risk planning
TWO UK-built satellites have been launched into orbit to improve monitoring of the planet’s water cycle – data that chemical and process engineers rely on for climate-risk assessments, emissions modelling and the design of resilient infrastructure.
Type: News
Space Odyssey: From Rocket Engines to Hair Dryers and Back Again
Lolan Naicker explains his unconventional career path to Adam Duckett, from daydreaming in lectures to a £150k win for a lunar water system
Type: Feature
The Middlewich Job (the Pump Preservation Society)
In the fourth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to society, David Nellist explains how Europe’s last-surviving brine pump in a hand-dug shaft was saved from dereliction
Type: Feature
A positive look at what has been and what can be achieved to reduce our carbon footprint
Type: Feature
US government approves huge Alaska oil and gas development
A CONTROVERSIAL Alaskan oil and gas project has been given final approval by the Biden Administration, on what is described as the largest tract of undisturbed public land in the US, despite promises of ‘no more drilling on federal land” by the US president during his election campaign.
Type: News
INEOS unveils €2bn expansion in Europe
Plans new PDH plant and increased cracker capacity
Type: News
Brexit: The Impact on Energy and Climate Change
Since Brexit negotiations have entered full force, concerns are growing about the future of the UK’s climate change policy, a lot of which is underpinned by EU regulations.
Type: Feature
Brexit: The Impact on Energy and Climate Change
What are the likely effects in the immediate and long term?
Type: Feature
Major US steel producer and the US’ Purdue University consider using SMRs
HAS the time of small modular reactors (SMRs) finally come? With reported benefits such as increased safety margins in comparison to existing reactors, the ability to scale up or down to meet energy demands, and the potential to be carbon-free, both Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer in the US, and Purdue University in Indiana, US, have each announced that they are considering using SMRs to power their respective facilities.
Type: News
Direct Air Capture: The State of Play and What’s to Come
An introduction to direct air capture
Type: Feature
JV will proceed with world-scale anhydrous ammonia plant
GULF Coast Ammonia (GCA), owned by a joint venture (JV) of Starwood Energy and Mabanaft, has reached a final investment decision (FID) for the world’s largest single train ammonia synthesis loop with a production capacity of approximately 1.3m t/y. The facility is to be located within an industrial chemical site in Texas City, Texas, US.
Type: News
Engineers publish £22bn blueprint for UK to take global lead on hydrogen heating
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydrogen production, distribution and storage system that would create the world’s largest CO2 reduction project. If realised it would decarbonise 14% of UK heat by 2034, and all told cost £22.7bn.
Type: News
A call for digital chemical engineering editors
THE EDITORIAL board of IChemE’s new journal, Digital Chemical Engineering, is calling for editors from underrepresented groups to join.
Type: News
ArcelorMittal trial novel plasma technology for circular CO2 steelmaking
STEEL producer ArcelorMittal is trialling a novel technology that uses plasma to convert CO2 into carbon monoxide (CO) that can be used as feedstock for circular steelmaking.
Type: News
Paris Agreement targets can’t be reached with negative emission technologies
A REPORT has evaluated the potential of negative emission technologies (NETs) in the context of meeting the Paris Agreement. The report concluded that NETs cannot remove sufficient carbon from the atmosphere and that focus should remain on cutting carbon emissions.
Type: News
IPCC climate change report signals ‘code red for humanity’
THE frequency and intensity of extreme weather events associated with human-caused climate change is going to get worse as the world reaches 1.5oC of warming in the next 20 years, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, there is, it says, still time to limit the damage.
Type: News
IChemE Member Madeleine Jones wins Karen Burt Award
MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Karen Burt Award for a newly chartered female engineer.
Type: News
