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UK engineering graduate positions fall

Firms are repackaging jobs as apprenticeships

Type: News

Petronas Chemicals, Saudi Aramco in polymers JV

PETRONAS CHEMICALS GROUP has sold a 50% stake in its PRPC Polymers subsidiary to Saudi Aramco for RM3.8bn (US$900m).

Type: News

Air Products and Yankuang to build US$3.5bn syngas plant

AIR PRODUCTS has signed an investment cooperation agreement with Yankuang Group to build a US$3.5bn coal-to-syngas facility in Yulin City, China.

Type: News

Twin wins at IChemE Malaysia awards

Palm oil and energy majors scoop prizes

Type: News

Image sensor engineers win QEPrize

Work has changed how we capture and analyse info

Type: News

Christopher Julian Hewitt, 1969–2019

Obituary of Chris Hewitt, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University

Type: Feature

Take it Apart; Put it Back Together

How do you dismantle a chemical plant for re-erection at the other side of the world? Richard Vann explains

Type: Feature

Opening Up Instrumentation

John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and easier to make

Type: Feature

How to Model Accidents

Consequence analysis is extremely useful for informing designers and operators of hazardous facilities – if understood and used appropriately

Type: Feature

Bezos funds US$30m sustainable protein lab as Imperial engineers seek to revolutionise food production

A US$30m centre for sustainable protein has been launched at Imperial College London as engineers work to develop the processes and new foods needed to reduce the harmful impacts of food production.

Type: News

RAEng report calls for waste-based biofuels

BIOFUELS should be made from waste and byproducts, not food crops, if their carbon emissions reduction potential is to be realised, according to a new report from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).

Type: News

Six UK projects get share of funding for industrial decarbonisation

THE UK Government has awarded a share of £8m (US$11m) to six regional projects to develop ways to cut emissions from industry.

Type: News

Produce less, pollute more

A STANFORD University study suggests that ageing oilfields can demand more energy even while petroleum production drops, and this should be taken into account for climate modelling and policy.

Type: News

Climeworks opens direct air capture plant in Iceland

CLIMEWORKS has opened a new plant in collaboration with Reykjavik Energy in Iceland to capture CO2 from ambient air and store it permanently underground as minerals in basalt rock formations.

Type: News

Trump proposes opening most US waters to drilling

PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration has revealed a plan to open almost all US offshore waters to oil and gas drilling.

Type: News

UK council gets £6.5m funding for mine water energy scheme

BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL in Wales, UK, has been awarded £6.5m (US$9.1m) in funding by the EU for the UK’s first large-scale mine water geothermal energy project.

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Chinese insulation production thought to be source of rise in ozone-damaging chemical

A REPORT by the Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) has discovered widespread use of the banned chemical CFC-11 in China, which corresponds to an unexpected increase of the chemical in the atmosphere.

Type: News

Mobile plant produces fuel from waste wood

TWELVE research groups from seven countries have developed a sustainable method for producing biofuel from wood waste. The process takes place in a mobile unit which has the potential to decentralise fuel production.

Type: News

BASF and JenaBatteries cooperate to develop innovative power storage technology

BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for stationary storage of energy from renewable energy sources and for stabilising conventional transmission grids.

Type: News

First carbon capture laundry product on the market

A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim is the first cleaning product containing a surfactant made from captured carbon.

Type: News