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Solar power used to power steamboat in world-first
A spinout from ETH Zürich has developed a solar-powered fuel compatible with a 110-year-old steamboat engine.
Type: News
Battery storage facility given greenlight in Tees Valley
A 100 MW-capacity battery energy storage system (BESS) is set to be built in Tees Valley at the Teesworks industrial zone – the UK’s largest freeport.
Type: News
Liberty Steel UK debts put 1,450 jobs at risk
A SOUTH YORKSHIRE steelworks operated by international manufacturer Liberty Steel is at risk of closure, putting 1,450 jobs in jeopardy as the company struggles to repay its debts.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Clare Dunkerley
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
GOOGLE has agreed to buy half the power from what could be the world’s first grid-scale fusion energy plant.
Type: News
HyNet CCUS expansion to boost UK workforce to 2,800 in northwest
TWO CARBON capture, usage and storage (CCUS) projects have been added to the UK’s HyNet decarbonisation cluster, boosting the number of jobs supported by the project to 2,800 across the northwest.
Type: News
Government takes control of UK’s third-largest steelworks amid spiralling debts
THE UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed under government control after efforts to secure financial backing for its mounting debts failed.
Type: News
Nestlé to axe 16,000 jobs despite recent business growth
NESTLÉ has announced it will cut 16,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years as part of the newly appointed CEO’s “accelerated growth” efforts.
Type: News
UK ‘most expensive place in the world’ for nuclear
COMPLEX regulations and delays have made the UK the “most expensive country in the world” to build nuclear projects, according to a stark report from the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce.
Type: News
Breakthrough bone marrow model could reduce need for animal testing
RESEARCHERS have replicated the body’s blood-producing system by creating a bone marrow model made entirely from reprogrammed human cells.
Type: News
Drax shuts down Canadian pellet plant amid tightening UK sustainability rules
DRAX, the UKs largest power station, will shut down one of its wood-pellet mills in Canada after declaring the facility “no longer commercially viable”, even as the UK places greater pressure on the company to demonstrate sustainable biomass sourcing.
Type: News
Grangemouth to welcome industrial-scale biorefinery
CHEMICALS producer Celtic Renewables has taken a further step towards building an industrial-scale biorefinery at Grangemouth after appointing engineering consultancy Allen Associates to carry out a front-end engineering design (FEED) study.
Type: News
Thousands of cancer therapies to be produced using recycled uranium
URANIUM recovered from spent nuclear reactor fuel will be reprocessed to support the manufacture of cancer therapies under a project backed by the UK Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
Type: News
Steve Rae: Piper Alpha Survivor
A personal perspective from Steve Rae, a survivor of Piper Alpha who has made it his duty to ensure that the legacy of the disaster continues to be re-visited
Type: Feature
Hydrogen Lessons from Huawei: Unlocking UK Growth
The journey of Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s 5G network provides lessons to be learnt for the nation’s nascent hydrogen industry.
Type: Feature
LABELLED as a strategy that will “scale up affordable, clean, homegrown power” while building “thriving green industries in Britain”, the UK government’s new Powering up Britain plan conversely acknowledges that existing climate policies will not enable the UK to meet its Sixth Carbon Budget.
Type: News
Digitalisation progress in pharmaceutical manufacturing has been too slow. David Margetts looks at what can engineers do to speed up adoption
Type: Feature
The big data revolution is happening, and we must harness its potential to develop formulated products better, faster and cheaper than ever before
Type: Feature
Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies
Type: Feature
Waste to jet fuels project set for take off
Velocys is a company that has developed technology to convert feedstocks such as household waste into aviation fuel, and plans are underway for a commercial-scale plant in Immingham, UK. I spoke to Neville Hargreaves, Vice President of Waste to Fuels at Velocys, about how the company can contribute to the decarbonisation of the aviation industry with its renewable jet fuel.
Type: Feature
