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RAEng working to deliver more representative Fellowship
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a campaign aiming to deliver a Fellowship that is “Fit for the Future” – one that “embodies the full breadth and diversity of engineering excellence” – by 2026, RAEng’s 50th anniversary year. To achieve this, it has set the goal that at least half of all elected candidates will come from target groups.
Type: News
Researchers to develop carbon-negative power plant
RESEARCHERS at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US have received just over US$800,000 in funding to develop a carbon-negative power plant that produces reduced amounts of carbon emissions and captures carbon from the atmosphere during idle periods.
Type: News
IChemE sets out priority topics to 2024
ICHEME has identified three priority topics and published Learned Society Priority Topics to 2024, which sets out how the Institution will address these focus areas over the coming years.
Type: News
The Signpost to Sustainability
Adam Duckett on the missing elements of the UK’s hydrogen strategy
Type: Feature
Japanese inventor awarded 2022 QEPrize
MASATO Sagawa has won the 2022 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for his work on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of the world’s most powerful permanent magnet, contributing to enabling cleaner, energy-saving technologies.
Type: News
How Do Engineers Stop Giving Their Clients What They Want?
Tom Baxter on when engineers have to choose between business and principles
Type: Feature
IChemE’s SPC journal sees big jump in rankings
IChemE’s Sustainable Production and Consumption (SPC) journal has jumped up the rankings in two different categories and seen a large percentage increase in its Impact Factor. Other IChemE journals have also seen their Impact Factor rise.
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
ICHEME’s Sustainable Production and Consumption journal has received the institution’s highest Impact Factor (IF) yet after seeing a 36% increase from 8.921 last year to 12.1 in 2023. This is the first time IChemE has received a score in double digits. Other IChemE journals also saw success this year.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Jamie Cleaver CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Top Tips for Young Engineers Entering the YEAIS Awards
With IChemE’s Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability (YEAIS) now open for nominations, Adam Duckett asked the judges what top tips they have to share with those looking to throw their hat in the ring
Type: Feature
Get involved: nominations sought for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress
IChemE will shortly be asking for nominations to join either the Board of Trustees or Congress. Raffaella Ocone, along with her fellow Trustees, is keen for as many members as possible to consider standing
Type: Feature
£4bn of contracts awarded for construction of UK CCS projects
ENGINEERING firms, including Costain and Wood, have been awarded contracts worth £4bn (US$5bn) to construct two CCS projects in Teesside. The projects involve building a world-first gas-powered power plant with the systems needed to capture its emissions and transport them offshore for burial beneath the North Sea.
Type: News
Adam Duckett on how materials innovation hinges on much wider collaboration
Type: Feature
Edinburgh researchers use bacteria to turn waste plastic into paracetamol
RESEARCHERS at the University of Edinburgh have developed a method to convert waste plastic bottles into paracetamol using bacteria.
Type: News
UK government launches competition for efficiency solutions in energy intensive industries
THE UK government has launched a Contracts for Innovation competition that will fund projects to test resource efficiency solutions across three energy intensive sectors, including chemicals.
Type: News
Painkillers from plastic waste
PLASTIC bottles could one day ail your ills rather than harming the environment after researchers showed bacteria can convert them into paracetamol.
Type: News
Coolbrook cracks pyrolysis oil using renewable electricity
RENEWABLE process heat developer Coolbrook has successfully cracked pyrolysis oil made entirely from waste plastic using an electrically powered steam cracker.
Type: News
Nanocatalyst enables four reactions at once
Reduces steps and waste for greener chemistry
Type: News
Jacobs buys CH2M for US$3.27bn
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP has bought CH2M HILL for a total of US$3.27bn, including net debt, creating a merged company worth US$15bn.
Type: News
