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Warm Up Acts

Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating

Type: Feature

Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster

FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to pay ¥13trn yen (US$94bn) in damages for failing to prevent disaster at the site in 2011.

Type: News

Explosion at natural gas facility injures four

AN explosion at MarkWest natural gas processing facility in Pennsylvania, US, has injured four people.

Type: News

Process pioneer: Rodney Allam discusses the development of his CCS technology

As testing begins in Texas, Allam shares his thoughts on building emissions-free natural gas plants with new carbon capture technology

Type: Feature

Equity firm acquires specialty chemicals company

PLATINUM Equity, an investment firm, is to acquire specialty chemicals company Solenis for US$5.25bn.

Type: News

One killed and four injured at Turkish explosives factory

A blast at a state-owned explosives factory in Ankara, Turkey, on 24 May has killed one and injured four.

Type: News

Fire at Kemaman Bitumen Company refinery injures four

A FIRE at the Kemaman Bitumen Company (KBC) refinery in Malaysia has destroyed two crude oil tanks and injured four people.

Type: News

Health: What’s the Formula for Sustainability in Pharma?

Zeb Ahmed discusses the growing demand for sustainable built assets

Type: Feature

Electrochemistry for greener steel

Amanda Jasi speaks to technology developers working to use electrolysis to reduce emissions from steel manufacture

Type: Feature

Norilsk Nickel mine explosion kills four

AN explosion at Norilsk Nickel’s Zapolyarny mine in the far north of Russia has killed four people.

Type: News

Four new biofuel plants receive funding in UK

THE UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has announced funding for four new biofuel plants.

Type: News

A Fluid Situation

Chemical engineers are starting to think about wastewater treatment in an entirely new way

Type: Feature

Petronas wins four awards at IChemE Malaysia ceremony

PETRONAS won four of eight awards at IChemE’s Malaysia Awards ceremony, which was held virtually yesterday evening.

Type: News

Adding CO2 improves biofuel production

Method controls ionic liquid toxicity, lowers costs

Type: News

Air Separation: Cryogenic or Not?

Separating air into oxygen and nitrogen using non-cryogenic and cryogenic processes

Type: Feature

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and IChemE

Macsene Isles-Ahite shares her vision for ED&I in IChemE and the chemical engineering profession.

Type: Feature

US rejoins Paris Agreement

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order for the country to rejoin the Paris Agreement, along with other orders intended to confront the climate crisis and attempt to “undo the damage” of the last four years.

Type: News

Finding future chemical and process engineers in the primary school classroom

Jo Cox and Stem Education experts on engaging with children as young as four, how changes to the primary curriculum can help, and what makes a good role model

Type: Feature

‘Green’ high-tech dye synthesis

RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of synthesising organic dyes, that are of great interest to organic electronics.

Type: News

Solenis closes on acquisition of paper specialty chemicals business

SPECIALTY chemicals producer Solenis has closed on its acquisition of ChemSystems’ paper business, following an agreement signed in February.

Type: News