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Vale to invest in technology to reduce dam use and increase safety
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale is to invest in technology to reduce tailings dam use and increase operational safety.
Type: News
Nouryon and Ineos Nitriles start work on new chelates plants
NOURYON and Ineos Nitriles have started construction of new facilities in Germany that will produce raw materials for Nouryon’s biodegradable chelates.
Type: News
Collaboration looks at powering Singapore data centres with hydrogen
KEPPEL Data Centres and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific (MHI-AP) have signed a memorandum of understanding to investigate the use of hydrogen to power data centres in Singapore.
Type: News
Dow to build new MDI facility in Texas
DOW has announced that it will build a new methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) facility in Texas, US.
Type: News
Fire at Thailand chemicals facility
AN EXPLOSION and fire at a chemicals facility in Bangkok has killed one person and injured more than 60 others.
Type: News
Climeworks starts up industrial-scale direct air capture facility
CLIMEWORKS has started operations at the world’s largest direct air capture and CO2 storage facility, in Iceland.
Type: News
Shell sells Permian business to ConocoPhillips
SHELL has announced the sale of its Permian assets to ConocoPhillips for US$9.5bn.
Type: News
Novel process could recycle PVDC
SOLVAY has shown that polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) has the potential to be recycled and is now calling for collaboration to realise PVDC recycling at an industrial global scale.
Type: News
Thyssenkrupp to install green hydrogen facility for Shell
THYSSENKRUPP has signed a contract with Shell to supply a 200 MW green hydrogen facility in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Type: News
Shell awards EPC contract for Malaysian gas project
SHELL’s Malaysian business has awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the offshore platform of its Rosmari-Marjoram gas project to Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE), an energy industry and marine solutions provider.
Type: News
TAKING a step in developing a UK lithium supply chain, natural resources company Weardale Lithium has announced successful extraction of lithium carbonate from geothermal brines in County Durham. The company said it was the first time that lithium carbonate had been produced from geothermal brines in the North East of England.
Type: News
Biotech secures £9m to expand collagen-based biomaterial for the fashion industry
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE spinout PACT has secured £9m (US$12m) to scale the production of its “versatile” biomaterial made from natural collagen.
Type: News
UNESCO and Nestlé have teamed up to find and fund 100 young entrepreneurs who have innovative ideas for how to boost the resilience and sustainability of food.
Type: News
PFAS inquiry launched by UK MPs
UK MPs have launched an inquiry into PFAS and are inviting expert input on whether enough is being done to understand and manage the risks around thousands of persistent chemicals.
Type: News
Training for emerging technology and new managers
ICHEME has launched training courses for engineers improving safety in emerging industries, as well as those looking to improve their skills as new managers and project managers.
Type: News
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has issued its final report into a near-fatal ammonia release at a food processing plant last year, finding “critical deficiencies” in the facility’s safety systems.
Type: News
ChemEng Culture: From Hieroglyphics to Hydraulics
The latest art history exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK is a fascinating look at ancient Egyptian craftwork – and explores how their spiritual beliefs helped develop some of the most fundamental principles of chemical engineering, writes Sam Baker
Type: Feature
HYDROGEL fibres similar to spider silk have been spun at room temperature, and researchers say it could offer a sustainable low-energy alternative to current manufacturing methods.
Type: News
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
Turning dirty foil into useful catalysts
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often landfilled, but a researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has found a way to turn it into Al2O3 catalysts.
Type: News
