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WBCSD and Engie join forces to develop industrial decarbonisation principles

THE World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and sustainability consultancy Engie Impact are developing principles to decarbonise manufacturing.

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BP partners with Abu Dhabi energy firms to develop Teesside hydrogen plants

BP has joined forces with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the country’s renewable energy company, Masdar, to engineer its hydrogen projects in Teesside, UK.

Type: News

Six people missing following blast at Chinese pesticide site

At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical factory in the city of Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, according to Chinese media sources.

Type: News

Largest industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant opens in UK

An industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant has been opened by Tata Chemicals Europe in Northwich, Cheshire, UK, with an aim to capture CO2 and turn it into sodium bicarbonate.

Type: News

Wood wins contract to engineer Ineos’ huge European chemicals project

WOOD has won a contract worth more than US$100m to help engineer a chemicals facility in Belgium for Ineos which is designed to have the lowest carbon footprint in Europe.

Type: News

UK set to host rare earths processing hub in push for cleantech security

THE UK is set to host a new US$195m rare earth processing hub that Pensana is building at the Saltend chemicals park on Humberside. It will become one of only three such facilities operating outside of China and comes as the UK has launched a new strategy to shore up supplies of the critical materials needed for the energy transition.

Type: News

Rules of Thumb: Heat Exchanger Selection

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

Type: Feature

Giving Back

Andrea Hosey and Mark Sutton examine the needs and experiences of IChemE’s bank of volunteers

Type: Feature

BP buys US biogas firm for US$4.1bn in push to go net zero

BP is buying US biogas producer Archaea Energy for US$4.1bn as part of its plans to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel production.

Type: News

Question Time: Education

Experts from academia and industry discuss the challenges in chemical engineering education and where it needs to go in future

Type: Feature

Question Time: Safety

Experts gathered to discuss new safety challenges for a sustainable era. Kerry Hebden reports

Type: Feature

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Adam Duckett on the calls for rapid investment in technology

Type: Feature

Iain Conn appointed next chair of EngineeringUK

IAIN CONN, a chemical engineer and IChemE Fellow, is set to become the new chair of EngineeringUK, a charity that works to inspire the next generation of engineers.

Type: News

Renewables developer Amp Energy selected to lead South Australian hydrogen precinct

AMP Energy has signed an agreement to develop and build a 5 GW green hydrogen production facility in South Australia’s Cape Hardy, where Iron Road is working to develop a green hydrogen and industrial port precinct with multi-commodity capability.

Type: News

INWED: ‘At the end of the day, we are all engineers’

HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign which celebrates women in engineering, and encourages young women and girls to consider the career opportunities that engineering offers.

Type: Feature

Adisa Azapagic awarded IChemE’s Davis Medal

ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded IChemE’s most prestigious medal for her exceptional service to chemical engineering.

Type: News

CAPE Crusaders: Exploring Career Opportunities in Computer-Aided Process Engineering

ESCAPE-33 attendee Tom Cowley provides his key takeaways from the IChemE-hosted panel discussion at the computer-aided process engineering symposium in Greece

Type: Feature

Webinar: how Tata Steel is speeding up development with data analytics

ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experiment design to optimise the development cycle of new products.

Type: Feature

Huge blast at oil terminal in Guinea's capital kills at least 18 people

AT LEAST 18 people are dead and 178 have been injured following a huge explosion, and subsequent fire at Guinea’s main oil terminal in the capital of Conakry. The total number of casualties and fatalities could still rise as according to a government spokesman, officials “still haven't finished counting the number of victims", the BBC said.

Type: News

Heriot-Watt researchers make hydrogen from whisky wastewater

WASTEWATER from whisky distilleries could be used to produce hydrogen, saving precious freshwater, thanks to nanoparticles used by researchers at Heriot-Watt University.

Type: News