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Three IChemE Fellows elected RAEng Fellows
THREE IChemE Fellows, Joan Cordiner, Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Dame Angela Strank have been elected Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).
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Cutting long-lived nuclear waste
THE half-life of nuclear fission products could be reduced from hundreds of thousands of years to less than 100 years, according to a team of Japanese researchers.
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MIT turns living plants into desk lamps
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS at MIT have engineered a living plant to emit green light, with the eventual hope of creating living, self-repairing, sustainable lighting solutions, like desk lamps.
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3D printing metal alloys for flexible electronics
RESEARCHERS at Oregon State University have developed a method to 3D-print metal alloys which could be used to make flexible electronics.
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Queen honours Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham Hutchings and Jim Ratcliffe
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham Hutchings and Jim Ratcliffe.
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Avantium commercialising PEF production
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% renewable and fully recyclable polymer.
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Understanding localised corrosion of steel pipes
LOCALISED corrosion can cause failures in steel pipes used in the oil and gas industry, but new research which advances understanding of nanoscale corrosion could lead to more robust steel pipes.
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No-deal Brexit could close two UK refineries, leaked report warns
TWO UK refineries could close if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, a leaked government report has warned.
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UK Prime Minister promises funding for CCS and R&D
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised £800m (US$1.03bn) in funding for CCS along with doubling research and development funding to £18bn.
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Stretchable battery for wearable electronics
RESEARCHERS at Stanford University, US have developed a soft and stretchable battery that could be used to power wearable electronics. They claim it is one of the first demonstrations of an intrinsically stretchable lithium-ion battery.
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COP26 delayed a year until November 2021
THE COP26 climate change summit has been delayed for a full year until November 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Shell resumes production at massive floating LNG plant
SHELL has resumed production of LNG from its huge floating processing plant – Prelude – following a series of project setbacks that halted output for almost a year.
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Jacobs awarded US$10.4m Dounreay nuclear contract
JACOBS and its supporting partners have been awarded a six year contract, worth an estimated US$10.4m, to lead integrated design management for cleanup of the UK’s deepest historic radioactive waste store at the Dounreay site in Scotland, UK.
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Explosion at South African power plant
AN explosion at a power station in South Africa has caused extensive damage to the facility’s generator, leaving two units offline and reportedly threatening supply and demand.
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Hydrogen UK makes recommendations to accelerate hydrogen deployment
HYDROGEN UK is calling on the Government to ramp up support for the hydrogen industry in order to meet the UK’s net zero targets.
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ExxonMobil to invest US$2bn in Texas plant expansion
EXXONMOBIL is to invest US$2bn to expand its chemical plant in Baytown, Texas, US, to maximise the value of increased oil and gas production from the Permian Basin.
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IAEA steps in to make Chernobyl safe
NUCLEAR experts have arrived at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to help make it safe after Russian forces left.
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Freeport LNG to remain offline until September
Freeport LNG, which shut down after a fire earlier this month, has announced that its Texas, US plant will be kept fully offline until September with only partial operation through year end due to the damage sustained in an explosion on 8 June.
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New Acland coalmine gets approval for expansion
THE Queensland Government has given the green light to stage three of the New Hope Group’s open-cut coalmine near Toowoomba, granting approval to expand and extend its life for another 12 years to 2034.
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CATL to build second European battery plant in Hungary
CHINESE battery firm CATL plans to build a new 100 GWh battery plant covering an area of 221 ha in the southern industrial park of Debrecen, east Hungary, to meet the growing needs of European carmakers.
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