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Emerson to keep an eye on Covestro plants to boost operations
EMERSON will install industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies at Covestro production plants to improve uptime.
Type: News
IChemE Matters – December 2023/January 2024
Nigel Hirst, Trish Kerin and Alexandra Meldrum have their say on the issues affecting IChemE members
Type: News
Heat Pumps, Boilers, and Decarbonisation
Tommy Isaac compares heat pumps and boilers, and which is most suited for decarbonisation
Type: Feature
Project to convert medical waste into hydrogen fuel gets funding from Welsh Government
A PROCESS being developed by researchers in the UK and India to convert medical waste – such as PPE used during the Covid-19 pandemic – into hydrogen fuel has received £47,000 (US$63,000) from the Welsh Government.
Type: News
Pollution Protection for the People
In the second of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute to society, Clare Sheppard shares her work on urban air quality in Australia
Type: Feature
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Then and Now
Geoff Gill reviews how the accident played out, and the huge engineering challenges involved in making the site safe
Type: Feature
Food & Water: Using Water Smarter
Amanda Jasi reports on a project that aims to introduce circular symbiotic arrangements between industry and service providers to help conserve water.
Type: Feature
UK awards energy storage competition winners
THE UK Government has awarded £6.7m (US$8.9m) to projects across the country that are developing innovative energy storage technologies, supporting the clean energy transition.
Type: News
Wood strengthens its commitments to sustainability
WOOD has announced a decade of action with new goals to improve lives, reduce impact on the planet, and sustain growth.
Type: News
Plastics: Towards a Circular Economy
Using chemical recycling to tackle the problem of plastics waste
Type: Feature
UK releases plan on net zero transition
THE UK Government has released its long-awaited Energy White Paper on how the country’s energy system will transition to net zero by 2050.
Type: News
Consortiums investigate nuclear-powered hydrogen production
TWO projects by UK and US consortiums will investigate using nuclear-generated heat and electricity to produce hydrogen.
Type: News
Future of clean energy discussed at London workshop
THE Fuel and Energy Research Forum held its Workshop on Combustion-related Research and the Inaugural Clean Energy Science Lecture on 7 October in London, UK, in collaboration with IChemE’s Clean Energy SIG and other partners.
Type: News
UKRI pumps in £100m to transform engineering biology projects
RESEARCHERS working to combat plastic pollution, improve metals circularity, and develop novel food production are among those set to benefit from a £117m (US$149m) cash injection from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), aimed at unlocking the potential of engineering biology.
Type: News
Agfa-Gevaert wins Process Intensification Award
THE 2019 Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation has been awarded by the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) to Agfa-Gevaert for a new flow process which does not require liquid bromine in the production of photoinitiators for printing plates.
Type: News
Tristan Hunter and Deaglan Gahan share some of the strategies to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity breaches
Type: Feature
European Commission selects large-scale projects for funding
The European Commission (EC) has selected seven large-scale clean-tech projects for funding that will bring “breakthrough” technologies to energy-intensive industries. This includes what is claimed to be the world’s largest cross-border CCS value chain.
Type: News
Chevron to acquire Renewable Energy Group
CHEVRON is buying biorefinery owner Renewable Energy Group (REG) in a US$3.15bn deal.
Type: News
How a new process to recycle carbon fibre composites led to a race-ready kayak
Type: Feature
