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Ivan Vince takes a look back at Buncefield, and the need for a new breed of ‘remembrancers’
Type: Feature
Solar farms in space demo could be ready by 2030
A PLAN to use satellites in Earth’s orbit to harvest the Sun’s energy from space and beam it down to Earth using microwaves could be up and running as early as 2030, with the first-of-a-kind operational system delivering power into the grid by 2040.
Type: News
Shell invests in used lubricants firm and buys Europe’s biggest biogas producer
SHELL has acquired a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental, a company specialising in the production of high-lubricity, low-sulphur marine fuel derived from recycled used motor oil.
Type: News
New integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
FOCUSED on integrating technologies that capture and use CO2 in a closed loop carbon cycle, engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), US have built a small-scale machine that captures CO2 from flue gas and converts it to ethylene for use in industry.
Type: News
Equinor and RWE collaborate for large-scale clean hydrogen
ENERGY companies Equinor and RWE have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreeing to jointly develop large-scale value chains for low-carbon hydrogen. The news comes at the same time as Norway and Germany announce a decarbonisation collaboration across industry for the two countries.
Type: News
Obituary of John Davidson, often referred to as a “founding father of fluidisation” in chemical engineering and former IChemE president
Type: News
GeoPura secures £36m investment to scale its green hydrogen business
GEOPURA has secured £36m (US$43m) of investment from big players in industry, manufacturing and finance to support the roll out of its containerised hydrogen power units (HPU), the firm said
Type: News
NIA urges UK to be world leader in nuclear-derived synthetic fuels
A NEW report from the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) is urging the UK to take the lead in the production of synthetic fuels using nuclear energy to help hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as aviation and shipping reach low emission targets.
Type: News
Book Review: Recycling of Plastics
Norbert Niessner; ISBN: 9781569908563; Hanser Publications; 2022; US$249.99
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett on opportunities for communication and digitalisation
Type: Feature
Turning the Dial – How Can We Bring More Women into Engineering?
Overturning some common perceptions and creating a more flexible working environment is essential to boosting diversity and tackling the industry’s skills gap. An outline of the key challenges that businesses, industry groups and the Government must tackle.
Type: Feature
US approves Texas offshore oil port despite environmental outcry
THE US has given the greenlight for Enterprise Products Partners to begin construction on a deepwater offshore oil export terminal near the Texas coast, despite fierce opposition from environmentalists and locals.
Type: News
CSB releases final report on fatal bp-Husky Toledo refinery explosion
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has issued its final report identifying the “critical” safety issues leading to an explosion that caused the death of two brothers at a former bp-owned refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
Type: News
Book Review: 50 Essentials on Science Communication
An excellent introduction to a topic that is quickly becoming a field of its own, says Yasmin Ali
Type: Feature
Why You Shouldn’t be Afraid of Sales
Nigel Hirst argues that despite their wariness of sales roles, chemical engineers actually make the best technical salespeople
Type: Feature
UK government backs Cornwall's tin mining revival with £28.6m investment
TIN MINING’s return to Cornwall after nearly three decades received a boost last week with a £28.6m (US$35.4m) investment from the UK National Wealth Fund (NWF).
Type: News
Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 4: Construction & Commissioning
In the final part of his series, Steven King looks at construction and commissioning, the critical phases of project execution
Type: Feature
Master Troubleshooting in Process Operations
ESD’s practical, simulation-based course equips engineers with the real-world skills to diagnose faults, fix failures fast, and keep process plants running safely and efficiently
Type: Feature
US and Ukraine sign minerals deal set to reduce China’s rare earths dominance
AFTER months of negotiations, the US and Ukraine have reached an agreement to equally share profits from the future sale of Ukraine’s mineral, oil, and gas reserves.
Type: News
UK Energy Security Strategy deemed ‘a missed opportunity’
THE UK Government has released its much-delayed Energy Security Strategy, which improves long-term plans for more oil and gas, hydrogen, nuclear, and offshore wind. However, the strategy has received strong criticism for failing to deliver on solar power, onshore wind, energy efficiency, and demand reduction.
Type: News
