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Petronas triumphs at IChemE’s Malaysia Awards 2019

OIL and gas company Petronas scooped four out of the eight trophies given at IChemE’s Malaysia Awards for outstanding achievements in the profession in Malaysia.

Type: News

Process Patents: Are They Worth It?

What protection does a process patent provide? And how easy are they to enforce?

Type: Feature

Encapsulating agents improve edible food film

Films more resilient, better antimicrobial action

Type: News

Time to Transfer?

James Colley offers sound advice on careers transition when you need to switch sectors

Type: Feature

Flixborough 50 Years On: Application of Inherent Safety Principles to Plant Design

Steven Murphy and Graham Ackroyd look at how applying Trevor Kletz’s concept of inherent safety avoids rather than controls hazards

Type: Feature

Our Research Focus: Achieving Zero Harmful Discharge to Sea

Benaiah Anabaraonye discusses the Danish Offshore Technology Centre’s role in developing and accelerating sustainable offshore solutions

Type: Feature

UK clean energy auction fails to secure offshore wind bids as government accused of ‘complacency and incompetence’

HAVING failed to heed warnings that its offshore wind budget in the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) round was too low to address rising development costs, the UK government has failed to secure any new offshore bids. The record 95 successful projects – up from 93 last year – are set to deliver 3.7 GW of renewable energy, down from the 11 GW achieved last year led by offshore wind.

Type: News

Palm Oil: Better with Enzymes

How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient

Type: Feature

Materials: Making a Positive Difference

Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of our clothes

Type: Feature

Researchers develop mussel-inspired coating that can extract rare earth elements

RESEARCHERS at Penn State University, US, have developed a mussel-inspired nanocellulose coating (MINC) that can extract neodymium – a critical element used in clean energy technologies – from secondary sources such as industrial wastewater without using a high amount of energy.

Type: News

Fawley opens new Isopar unit

Efficiency boost as production moves from Belgium

Type: News

Harmony Energy debuts battery energy storage project

INVESTMENT firm Harmony Energy has announced that its huge battery energy storage project based at its Pillswood site in the UK is now online.

Type: News

Safety Talk, Safety Action

Adam Duckett on taking action to improve safety

Type: Feature

Alliance seeks partner to boost lab safety

PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic partner to help boost its online database of chemical reaction hazards as it seeks to improve laboratory safety.

Type: News

Impossible to clean Husky oil spill

Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News reports that it is the largest ever oil spill in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador (C-NL) province. Rough weather conditions in the area initially prevented clean-up, and clean-up has now been deemed impossible.

Type: News

Innovative sponge for offshore oil drilling wastewater cleanup

RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK and the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed an innovative surface engineered sponge which could enable offshore oil drilling to clean up wastewater and increase oil recovery.

Type: News

Design Fire Fighting

What do you do when you unexpectedly lose a crucial piece of your refinery complex? Shahidan Laili and M Safwan Atan explain

Type: Feature

‘Unsuitable design’ blamed for gas release at Shell’s new North Sea facility

OIL AND GAS giant Shell has been ordered to improve the design of its newest facility in the North Sea following a gas release in April.

Type: News

LanzaTech produces ethylene directly from CO2

PROCESS technology company LanzaTech has successfully engineered biocatalysts to directly produce ethylene from CO2, in a continuous process at lab scale.

Type: News

UK offers £40m for manufacturers to plan and deploy greener technologies

THE UK Government is offering £40m (US$56m) in funding for energy-intensive companies to conduct feasibility and engineering studies, and deploy greener technologies.

Type: News