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Solar Impulse wants 1,000 climate change solutions
THE Solar Impulse Foundation has established a new alliance, which plans to find 1,000 profitable solutions to tackle climate change.
Type: News
Onshore fracking given go ahead in UK
CUADRILLA has been granted permission to begin fracking in the UK’s first onshore horizontal shale gas well.
Type: News
Toshiba withdraws from planned UK nuclear plant
TOSHIBA has announced that it will withdraw from a construction project that had planned to build a new nuclear power plant at the Moorside site in Cumbria.
Type: News
Albemarle signs agreement for lithium mining JV
ALBEMARLE, the global specialty chemicals company, has signed an exclusivity agreement with Minerals Resources (MRL) for a potential joint venture (JV) to own and operate a lithium mine in Western Australia. The companies would ultimately develop an integrated lithium hydroxide operation at the site.
Type: News
Shell to invest in Shearwater gas infrastructure hub
SHELL and its partners ExxonMobil and BP have announced a final investment decision (FID) for a Shearwater gas infrastructure hub.
Type: News
Vale ‘knew’ Brazil dam was at risk of collapse, report says
REUTERS says it has seen an internal document that shows that Vale knew last year that its dam in Brazil was at risk of collapse. The dam collapsed on 25 January in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and so far, 165 deaths have been confirmed whilst 155 remain missing.
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UK-Japan venture seeks to build small nuclear reactor in North East England
THE UK’s Penultimate Power has agreed to form a joint venture with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to build a novel small modular reactor in the UK to provide power and process heat for heavy industry.
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BRAZIL has decided to ban tailings dams built by the upstream method. The decision follows the fatal collapse of such a dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 25 January. So far 169 people have been reported dead and 141 people are missing.
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Novel water treatment pilot plant
RESEARCHERS in Singapore are to build a pilot membrane filtration plant to treat industrial wastewater. The new plant will allow a semiconductor company to reduce liquid waste by more than 90% and allow it to recover precious metals from treated water which could then be sold and reused.
Type: News
A court decision has ordered Vale to stop activities at 13 of its mine tailings containment structures in Brazil. The decision will impact 30m t/y of the company’s iron ore production.
Type: News
Dual-polymer hydrogel can respond dynamically to its environment
A HYDROGEL has been developed that can bend, twist, or stick together when exposed to certain solutions, and could be used to create LEGO-style hydrogel blocks for microfluidics.
Type: News
World Bank launches first-ever mining fund
THE World Bank has launched a multi-donor fund, the Climate-Smart Mining Facility. The fund is the first-ever to be dedicated to promoting “climate-smart” and sustainable minerals mining.
Type: News
Final trials begin on a facility to store Chernobyl’s spent nuclear fuel
ON 6 May the final system-wide trials of a new dry storage facility at Chernobyl began. ISF2, located at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, will process and store spent nuclear fuel to allow for decommissioning of the plant.
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Producing sustainable aviation fuel in the Netherlands
SUSTAINABLE aviation fuel supplier (SAF) SkyNRG will develop Europe’s first dedicated waste-to-fuel plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, capable of producing 100,000 t/y of SAF. A separate planned demonstration plant at Rotterdam The Hague Airport aims to use direct air capture to produce 1,000 L/d of fuel.
Type: News
New approach for desalinating hypersaline brines
USING a temperature-dependent solvent to desalinate water with high concentrations of dissolved salts may prove more efficient than conventional methods.
Type: News
UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant
THE UK Government has announced funding for nine carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects, including the UK’s first industrial-scale CCU plant which will be built by Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) at its site in Northwich, Cheshire.
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ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries from electric vehicles, which could contribute to sustainability.
Type: News
BP Skills Refinery goes global
BP, a leading graduate recruiter, announced today the 2019 global launch of its Skills Refinery, an online portal and community which aims to improve student employability and, in a rapidly-changing world, prepare them for the jobs of the future.
Type: News
Highview Power to build Europe’s largest battery storage system
HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be Europe’s largest battery storage system, in the North of England. The project will also be the UK’s first commercial cryogenic energy storage facility at large scale.
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MOF captures and converts NO2 into useful product
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selective and reversible capture of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). It could allow the capture of NO2 from exhaust streams for conversion into nitric acid, a multi-billion-dollar industry with uses including agricultural fertiliser for crops, rocket propellant, and nylon.
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