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SIR KEIR STARMER and Donald Trump have signed a bilateral agreement to advance nuclear technology, alongside a series of commercial partnerships between US and UK companies.
Type: News
Rocket Science: From the Mongols to the Moon and beyond
Rocket science is a famously difficult area, but it’s more than the physics of force and trajectories. Martin Pitt takes a chemical engineering view of its history
Type: Feature
Follow our latest news coverage during the crucial UN climate conference in Glasgow
Type: News
Robot-built solar satellites poised to beam constant power from space
THE UK Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA) has shown that remotely operated robots could build gigawatt-scale solar power satellites, marking a step towards “24/7 clean power”.
Type: News
New report reveals latest chemical engineering salary trends
SALARIES for chemical engineers dropped slightly in 2018, according to IChemE’s UK Salary Survey 2018, published yesterday. 1,585 UK members took part in this year’s survey.
Type: News
Kraft Heinz break-up aims to revive struggling brands
US FOOD giant Kraft Heinz will divide into two standalone companies by mid-2026, aiming to reverse a prolonged slump in share price and unlock greater brand value.
Type: News
PETRONAS cancels Pacific NorthWest LNG
PETRONAS and its project partners have decided to cancel the vast US$28bn Pacific NorthWest LNG project near Port Edward in British Columbia, Canada.
Type: News
US CSB safety warning after Hurricane Harvey
A SAFETY alert has been issued by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), urging for diligent safety management when restarting facilities affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Type: News
IEA report finds the world is at risk of a steep decline in nuclear power
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the world is at risk of a steep decline in nuclear power, and that a fall in advanced economies threatens climate goals and energy security.
Type: News
UK funds projects vying to develop net zero industrial clusters
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net zero industrial cluster by 2040.
Type: News
Vale opens plant to make mining waste into construction products
MINING company Vale has opened a pilot plant that will make products for civil construction using mining tailings, helping to foster circular economy within local iron ore processing activities.
Type: News
IChemE’s ECE journal awarded first Impact Factor
ICHEME’s journal Education for Chemical Engineers (ECE) has been awarded its first ever Impact Factor, allowing insight into its importance. Other IChemE journals saw their Impact Factors rise.
Type: News
How Do Engineers Stop Giving Their Clients What They Want?
Tom Baxter on when engineers have to choose between business and principles
Type: Feature
New integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
FOCUSED on integrating technologies that capture and use CO2 in a closed loop carbon cycle, engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), US have built a small-scale machine that captures CO2 from flue gas and converts it to ethylene for use in industry.
Type: News
ExxonMobil and Equinor award FEED contracts for low carbon hydrogen projects
EXXONMOBIL has awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Technip Energies for its low-carbon hydrogen production and CCS project at its complex in Baytown, Texas, US. Meanwhile energy company Equinor has also awarded a FEED contract to Linde Engineering for its H2H Saltend facility.
Type: News
RWE appoints Technip and GE Gas Power to study combining CCGT with CCS
GERMAN multinational energy company RWE has selected Technip Energies and its partner GE Gas Power to undertake a pre-FEED study for a new, natural gas-fired combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant with a fully integrated carbon capture (CCS) facility at a site near Stallingborough, UK.
Type: News
Tata Steel secures £500m in government “green” aid but job losses still feared
TATA STEEL has secured £500m (US$619m) in backing from the UK government to decarbonise its Welsh site in a deal that could still see as many as 3,000 workers lose their jobs.
Type: News
UK’s first 21 carbon storage licences handed out by North Sea Transition Authority
FOURTEEN companies have been awarded 21 licences by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in the UK’s first ever carbon licensing round. The NSTA says the locations could store almost 10% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Type: News
Adam Duckett on why solving the world’s grand challenges needs even grander vision – and how you can contribute
Type: Feature
CO2 leaks: engineers join forces to understand the threat posed by greater use of CCS
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a large pipeline carrying captured CO2 were to fail. Known as Project Skylark, the research will help emergency responders prepare for leaks, and improve models used by industry.
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