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Food and Drink: Learning from Others
Contractors are borrowing techniques from the petchem, pharma and auto in-dustries to help food and drink re-establish itself in manufacturing
Type: Feature
DONG Energy to rename itself Ørsted
DONG ENERGY, formerly Danish Oil and Natural Gas, will become Ørsted on 6 November 2017, as it seeks to become a pure play renewable energy firm.
Type: News
Suppliers commit to achieving 100% renewable Apple production
AS technology company Apple seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, 71 of its suppliers have committed to using 100% renewable energy for the company’s products.
Type: News
UN climate experts warn society must make unparalleled shift
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate experts have warned policymakers in a follow up to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Type: News
US and UK invest US$52m in landmark joint venture to advance fusion technology
ENERGY bodies from the US and UK have committed US$52m in a joint venture to upgrade an experimental fusion facility that will “unlock near-unlimited” fusion power.
Type: News
The Muon: A Particle that Punches above its Weight
Peter Walmsley explains the role of muon tomography in waste management at the Sellafield site
Type: Feature
Chemical engineers and chemists are working together to create a sustainable future at AstraZeneca
Type: Feature
IChemE: Streamlining Chartered Membership
A new stage towards Chartered Membership for 2021: the Initial Professional Development process
Type: Feature
Safety is my job: Muhammad Naeem Ullah
Robin Turney speaks to Muhammad Naeem Ullah about his work as a process safety specialist at the Health and Safety Executive
Type: Feature
IChemE Fellows Ding, Edwards and Matar elected to RAEng
THREE ICHEME Fellows – Yulong Ding, David Edwards and Omar Matar – have been elected as Fellows of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering.
Type: News
UK scientists develop disruptive membrane
Urges nuclear industry to rapidly introduce process
Type: News
Who is Running Your Plant at 3 AM?
Safety experts John Bresland and Ian Travers review the recruitment and training of process staff from around the world.
Type: Feature
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
Thyssenkrupp develops new industrial-scale water electrolysis units to produce green hydrogen
THYSSENKRUPP has launched industrial-scale water electrolysis technology to make hydrogen production economically feasible for large projects using renewable energy.
Type: News
IPCC calls for stronger adaptation to worsening climate hazards
THE IPCC has said that human-caused climate change is already resulting in detrimental effects on people and the planet. It calls for urgent action to accelerate climate resilient development and risk management across all industry sectors – including energy, water, and mining – to account for worsening climate hazards.
Type: News
ExxonMobil and Mosaic Materials collaborate to reduce CO2 emissions
EXXONMOBIL and separations technology company Mosaic Materials have agreed to explore the advancement of “breakthrough” technology that can remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from emissions sources.
Type: News
Why is it that the introduction of innovative process technologies appears to be so slow in the process industries? For example, the benefits of implementing flow chemistry at smaller commercial scales have been discussed for over a decade, and yet the reality is that new products continue to be realised through batch processes. Economies of scale and the two-thirds rule dominate the approach to large-volume, commodity chemicals, leading to highly centralised production, reliance on long-established process routes, and incremental improvements.
Type: Feature
Noor Al-Rifai and Rene Holm look at the use of nanosuspensions as long-acting injectables
Type: Feature
Vattenfall plans London heat network
VATTENFALL will design a heat network to supply more than 10,000 homes in London, using heat captured from Cory Riverside Energy’s energy-from-waste plant.
Type: News
