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Careers in Chemical Engineering: Lina Aglén
Yasmin Ali interviews Lina Aglén, Lead Engineer at FairHeat
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Tom Tribone
Yasmin Ali speaks to Tom Tribone, CEO of Franklin Park, a US-based global owner of energy and infrastructure assets.
Type: Feature
A Virtual Meeting at 10 Downing Street
Tom White, IChemE Trustee and CEO of C-Capture, presses Boris Johnson for support on scaleup
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Doug Hall
Yasmin Ali speaks to US-based Doug Hall – inventor, whiskey maker, and founder of Eureka! Ranch.
Type: Feature
It's not about you and your ideas: how to be effective at facilitation
Type: Feature
The final Council meeting for 2016/17 was hosted in Birmingham on 10 May, alongside the successful Hazards 27 conference.
Type: News
Piper Alpha conference: Chrysaor CEO issues list of challenges to oil industry
PHIL KIRK, CEO of Chrysaor, has issued challenges to the oil industry community at a UK conference seeking to secure a safer future for offshore oil and gas as the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha tragedy approaches.
Type: News
Pioneering SMR technology enters manufacturing phase
NUSCALE Power has selected BWX Technologies (BWXT) to manufacture NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR). The announcement marks the transition of the nuclear technology into the manufacturing phase.
Type: News
Drax starts commissioning Europe’s first BECCS pilot plant
DRAX, the energy company, has started commissioning of its innovative bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot plant. It is the first project of its kind in Europe. Commissioning started today, on the tenth anniversary of the Climate Change Act.
Type: News
Employees re-arrested after fatal Brazil dam collapse
ACCORDING to Reuters, last week a Brazilian court ordered the arrest of 11 Vale employees and two contractors from safety inspector TÜV SÜD. These workers had assessed the safety of a dam which collapsed in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil on 25 January.
Type: News
Exelon to shut down Three Mile Island
THE infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is set to shutdown due to government inaction.
Type: News
New report assesses gas-to-hydrogen transition
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE released a report which assesses the possibility of a transition from natural gas to hydrogen. The transition would help the UK to achieve “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Type: News
CSB calls for new onshore drilling rules after blowout kills five
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has urged regulators to develop safety standards for onshore oil and gas drillers, and address shortcomings in alarm management after a blowout killed five workers last year.
Type: News
Lancaster to make major investment in engineering
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at the university. At the heart of its plans is a £17m (US$21.87m) building, that is to house cutting-edge laboratories and facilities, including a 3D lecture theatre.
Type: News
Green process converts almost any carbon source into graphene
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US have discovered a green process which can quickly and cheaply produce graphene from almost any carbon source, including coal, mixed plastic waste, biomass, and waste food. It could facilitate a reduction in the environmental impact of concrete and other building materials.
Type: News
Novel membrane for crude oil fractionation
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed new membrane technology that could reduce carbon emissions and energy intensity associated with crude oil refining. According to the researchers, the developed membrane is believed to be the first reported synthetic membrane specifically designed to separate crude oil and crude-oil fractions.
Type: News
Numerous countries update climate pledges at summit
THE Climate Ambition Summit was held on 12 December to mark five years since the Paris Agreement, and saw many world leaders submitting new and updated climate pledges.
Type: News
US court blocks rollback of power plant emissions rule
A US court has vacated a rule brought in by the Trump administration that relaxed regulations on coal-fired power plant emissions.
Type: News
UK sets target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035
THE UK has set a new legally-binding target of cutting emissions by 78% from 1990 levels by 2035, building on its previous target of cutting emissions by 68% by 2030.
Type: News
