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Fake lily pads could be second Sun for lithium manufacturers
A TRIAL to boost critical minerals production has shown that fake plastic lily pads could be a second Sun for lithium manufacturers.
Type: News
A Virtuous Circle: Chemical Looping has Solid Potential for Optimising Processes
Ben Anthony and Paul Fennell explore the advantages of chemical looping and call on governments to support its scale up in order to bolster green industry
Type: Feature
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on digital transformation.
Type: Feature
TotalEnergies UK snaps up gas-fired power plant in £450m deal
TOTALENERGIES has struck a deal with US investment firm EIG to buy out all shares of its UK power producer, West Burton Energy, in a deal worth £450m (US$574m).
Type: News
Vladimir Haensel – Breath of Fresh Air
Vladimir Haensel’s brainchild, the platforming process, underpins transport and plastics production while cutting emissions, finds Claudia Flavell-While
Type: Feature
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer and more sustainable alternative.
Type: News
14 partners join CO2-to-plastic consortium
COVESTRO is leading a consortium of 14 European partners from seven countries in a new project to investigate using flue gas from the steel industry to produce plastics.
Type: News
UK Government to reverse recent decision to lift fracking ban
NEW UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has signalled that he will reinstate the moratorium on fracking for shale gas in England, just one month after his short-serving predecessor Liz Truss lifted the ban on the controversial practice.
Type: News
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Type: Feature
After the spill: research for safer offshore operations
A decade on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, James Pettigrew discusses the efforts to bring together stakeholders and conduct research to boost offshore safety
Type: Feature
Monitoring tablet production with near-infrared chemical imaging
A STUDY has shown that near-infrared chemical imaging (NIR CI) can be used for monitoring the mixture of powders during the manufacture of tablets, which will improve the quality of medications.
Type: News
Addressing the Grand Challenges
Claudia Flavell-While looks at learned society priorities
Type: Feature
BASF announces strategy to boost growth but keep emissions flat
BASF has outlined a strategy to outpace average global chemical sales while stagnating emissions.
Type: News
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale operations using lab-scale reactors
Type: Feature
Partners collaborate for sustainable lithium production
SCHLUMBERGER New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) have entered a collaborative agreement to validate and optimise a sustainable lithium production process that could support the rapidly-growing electric vehicle (EV) market.
Type: News
UK awards £32m to advance energy storage technologies
THE UK Government has awarded more than £32m (US$38.9) in funding to five projects across the country developing energy storage technologies that could help to increase resilience of the electricity grid.
Type: News
Moving the Dial to Decarbonise
David Wong and colleagues discuss how the world’s aluminium smelters could enable the rapid uptake of renewables in global power systems
Type: Feature
Australia to set new national energy policy
A NEW proposal from the Australian government seeks to remove renewable energy subsidies and promote power from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, hydro or batteries.
Type: News
Should Green Ammonia be the Hydrogen Carrier of Today?
With decarbonisation on the agenda worldwide, engineers are looking for new ways to use hydrogen as an energy vector. Alex Howard and Jonathan Upton look at the less discussed technical challenges
Type: Feature
IChemE Matters: Chartered members earn more, survey shows
Chartered members significantly outearn their non-chartered peers according to the findings from IChemE’s latest salary survey
Type: Feature
