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IChemE urges next UK government to sustainably transform energy and industry
ICHEME has drawn on its new technical challenge report to set out a vision for how the next government should play its part in achieving a sustainable world. This follows PM Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the next UK general election will be on 4 July.
Type: News
Useful Data Needs More Diagrams Not More Data
Grant Wellwood explains how consultants with process empathy hold the key to unlocking value from data and how a simple graphic device can enable you to participate in the growing data economy
Type: Feature
Practical Process Control Part 15: Feedforward Control - Part 1
In the first of a two-parter on feedforward control, Myke King explains the basics
Type: Feature
Rockwell Automation teams up with Cornish Lithium to develop the firm’s demonstration plant
LITHIUM exploration within Cornwall, UK has received a boost after Rockwell Automation announced it is working with Cornish Lithium on a demonstration plant to validate the sustainable production of lithium hydroxide from granite containing mica.
Type: News
The potential of big data, the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 to transform performance in the process industries.
Type: Feature
The universities with standout methods for teaching sustainability
Type: Feature
Steve Rae to give Trevor Kletz lecture
PIPER Alpha survivor Steve Rae will share the story of how his survival has led to a lifelong drive to improve safety culture in the oil and gas industry in a lecture at the annual IChemE Hazards 30 conference.
Type: News
enfinium partners with Hitachi Zosen Inova for UK’s first waste-to-energy carbon capture pilot plant
WASTE-TO-ENERGY company enfinium has selected Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install a carbon capture pilot plant at one of its facilities in West Yorkshire, UK. The scaled-down, mobile, containerised plant will be housed at the Ferrybridge 1 facility.
Type: News
Digital Risk Management: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
Joanne Tanner and Tristan Hunter introduce a new member-led series on digitalisation, and in this first article discuss how you can help improve digital security
Type: Feature
Developing a low-cost smartphone app to help craft beer breweries and homebrewers monitor and control key process variables
Type: Feature
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down the drains in Malaysia
Type: Feature
Photocatalytic microreactors for ‘green’ hydrogen
RESEACHERS at the University of Southampton, UK have developed photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy.
Type: News
Unlocking New Opportunities for Seamless Instrument Integration in Chemical Applications
ABB's David Bowers looks at how new technologies, including cloud computing, edge computing, and data networking, are helping to address some of the challenges of the chemical industry, from tackling communication barriers and reducing cost and complexity, to driving efficiency and safety
Type: Feature
UK to collaborate with Saudi Arabia on minerals, and UAE on green energy
The UK and Saudi Arabia have agreed to deepen collaboration and work together in areas including critical minerals, and space based solar power. In a separate meeting, the UK has also strengthened its relationship with UAE on hydrogen technology.
Type: News
Industry and universities have a plan to boost process safety awareness among students
Type: Feature
Coal-to-nuclear could add US$275m to local communities, US report finds
CONVERTING the US’ ageing coal-powered plants to nuclear could drive economic growth and preserve and create new jobs in addition to benefiting the environment, according to new guidance published by the government.
Type: News
World still on track for 2.7C of warming, UN report warns
THE UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released its annual Emissions Gap Report, saying that current pledges under the Paris Agreement are nowhere near enough to limit warming to 1.5C.
Type: News
Clean Hydrogen. Part 1: Hydrogen from Natural Gas Through Cost Effective CO2 Capture
Producing hydrogen with carbon capture via the Low Carbon Hydrogen (LCH) process
Type: Feature
Practical Process Control Part 18: Fired Heaters - Part 2
Following on from his look at duty controls, Myke King shows how to control fired heater (or boiler) duty and minimise combustion air
Type: Feature
