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Materials: Upcycling – Making Plastic Waste Valuable
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers working to realise novel chemical upcycling methods
Type: Feature
UK quits ‘climate-wrecking’ Energy Charter Treaty after efforts to modernise it fail
The UK government is leaving the “outdated” and controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an international agreement that allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments over net zero policies that threaten their investments.
Type: News
Exxon partners with IBM to advance quantum computing
EXXONMOBIL has become the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community that aims to advance quantum computing and explore science and business applications. Advancement could lead to the development of next-generation energy and manufacturing technologies.
Type: News
Digitalisation and automation are great for control loop optimisation - but we still need humans, says Kevin Starr
Type: Feature
Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest in process automation and control
Type: Feature
Technology transfer: how digital trends in the consumer market might benefit process plant operations and asset management.
Type: Feature
Lab-to-Table: Why Chemical Engineers are Key to a Meat-Free Future
Marianne Ellis talks about her work on tissue engineering to find ways to improve societal health by developing biotherapies and non-animal technologies
Type: Feature
Milk Monitoring: Rethinking Sustainability in the Dairy vs Plant-Based Debate
While plant-based alternatives are often touted as the more sustainable choice, Peter de Jong and David Pearce argue that a deeper, nutrient-focused analysis is needed to fully understand the environmental impact of milk and its substitutes
Type: Feature
Wood digestion without enzymes
SUCCESSFULLY understanding the unique, non-enzymatic digestion of wood by a fungus has been described by researchers as “a paradigm shift in understanding fungal biocatalysis for biomass conversion.”
Type: News
Norwegian researchers pioneer CCS process for post-combustion CO2
RESEARCHERS from SINTEF have developed a “simpler” low-cost carbon capture and storage (CCS) system for sequestering post-combustion CO2.
Type: News
Wanted: More Efficient Heat Exchange
Imagine if heat exchange of process fluids in an industrial setting was as simple as boiling a jug of water. We all know the process is not as simple as that, and companies can experience a raft of different issues and challenges that require new and innovative technical solutions. That’s what keeps chemical engineers in business.
Type: Feature
UK regulator relaxes effluent rules as water treatment firms begin running out of chemicals
A SHORTAGE of chemicals used to treat wastewater in the UK has led the Environment Agency to relax rules and allow facilities to release untreated effluent. A lack of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers is causing chemicals supply chains to fail, an industry group has warned.
Type: News
Safety Gaps: Good Practice is Still Not Common Practice
Ken Rivers, Chair of the COMAH Strategic Forum, shares his views on how IChemE can help improve safety more widely
Type: Feature
Screening Heat Exchangers for High Pressure Differential Relief
An insight into the Energy Institute’s guidance on pressure relief in shell and tube heat exchangers with high differential pressures.
Type: Feature
UK first: Cornish Lithium trials direct extraction of key battery metal from geothermal waters
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot plant, as the company pushes to produce an element that is critical to the clean energy transition. There are also plans to provide geothermal heat from the water to local industries. We caught up with members of the development team to discuss the project in more detail, including their expectations that the production process will provide significant benefits over traditional lithium extraction techniques.
Type: News
OGA Chairman calls on industry to do more for the energy transition
TIM Eggar, Chairman of the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has said the industry’s “social licence to operate is under serious threat and there is no scope for a second chance”. He called on the sector to do more to help solve climate change challenges and to drive net zero.
Type: News
Making Every Molecule Matter: The Technology Journey
Nick Flinn describes the technologies that may play a crucial role as the energy transition develops
Type: Feature
PSE becomes IChemE Gold Corporate Partner
PROCESS SYSTEMS ENTERPRISE (PSE) is the first process engineering software company to become an IChemE Gold Corporate Partner.
Type: News
UK government’s energy market reforms overshadowed by call to build new gas power stations
ENGINEERS are pushing the UK government to do more to support CCUS and hydrogen following its highly politicised spin about the need to build new gas plants that overshadowed a much wider package of energy market reforms.
Type: News
Net Zero: Alternatives to Hydrogen
An alternative view for how the UK can achieve net zero for housing and other users, without the wholesale use of hydrogen.
Type: Feature
