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Behold the Plastic Age: synthetic fibres found in fossil record
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in sediments, after researchers discovered rising volumes of waste are being preserved in the fossil record.
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Solar paint turns wall into a fuel station
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint, thanks to a novel hydrogen-production system developed by researchers at Australia’s RMIT University.
Type: News
INWED: Navya Thomas recognised as an innovator
COINCIDING with the celebration of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2022, Research Fellow at Cranfield University Navya Thomas has been announced among the winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering, for invention and innovation.
Type: News
Wizz and poo: airline signs US$1bn deal to buy jet fuel made from human waste
YOUR flight abroad could one day be powered by human waste after a UK company announced plans to build a world-first facility that turns sewage sludge into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
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US researchers find new route for tyres that have reached the end of the road
USED tyres could one day be recycled to produce epoxy resins according to researchers exploring chemical processes that aim to extract greater value from end-of-life tyres.
Type: News
World leaders announce new commitments at climate summit
US President Joe Biden hosted a climate summit on Earth Day, where some world leaders announced new commitments and Biden unveiled the US’ new Paris Agreement pledge.
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Let’s Go Round Again: Closing the Loop on Problem Plastics
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to Jess Gregson, a chemical engineer building a plant in the UK that will allow tricky to recycle plastics to be used over and over again
Type: Feature
Volunteer Spotlight: Cameron Langford AMIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Honeywell promise to maximise gigafactory efficiency with automation software
HONEYWELL has launched Battery Manufacturing Excellence Platform (Battery MXP), an artificial intelligence-powered software aimed at optimising battery manufacturing operations. Amid increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries, the software can help increase delivery rates by cutting ramp-up times and reduce scrap by 60% at startup.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Steve Flynn CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Government publishes response to CCUS business model consultation
THE UK Government has published its response to a 2019 consultation on business models for carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS). The response sets out progress made on business models to incentivise CCUS and the new carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure fund announced in the UK’s spring budget.
Type: News
To mark Earth Day’s focus on slashing plastic production, Amanda Jasi speaks to David Gardner and Andrea Paulillo to find out how they are helping to make the plastic system more sustainable
Type: Feature
Hydrogen UK makes recommendations to accelerate hydrogen deployment
HYDROGEN UK is calling on the Government to ramp up support for the hydrogen industry in order to meet the UK’s net zero targets.
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Southern Water fined £330,000 after stream pollution killed 2,000 fish
A UK court has fined Southern Water £330,000 (US$416,748) for a raw sewage leak in July 2019 that killed almost 2,000 fish near areas designated to protect nature. An alarm alerted the company to an issue early in the day, but they failed to act, allowing the spill to last for as much as 20 hours.
Type: News
INWED: Female chemical engineers recognised for green leadership
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up with the six chemical engineers who today were announced as winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering, for their work on sustainability.
Type: Feature
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE could one day help us clean up microplastics after researchers at Monash University showed AI can help with rapid identification. The system could eventually sweep the oceans and carry out real-time wastewater analysis.
Type: News
Electric avenue: researchers use electric fields to catalyse chemical reactions
WHAT if you could one day catalyse your industrial reactions with electric fields rather than the chemical catalysts commonly used today? It might be closer than you think after chemists at Kings College London successfully demonstrated the technique inside a microfluidic reactor.
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Bayer boosts Germany’s coronavirus testing capacity
LIFE science company Bayer has boosted Germany’s coronavirus analysis capacity by several thousand tests per day. The company is providing more than 40 pieces of equipment from its research operations, which are used for the isolation and amplification of viral RNA, and is making its personnel available to help.
Type: News
Modelling with Excel Part 8: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 2
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
Bio-compatible ion current battery created
ENGINEERS in the US have developed a new form of battery which works on the basis of flowing ions, rather than flowing electrons, the same kind of electrical energy used by living organisms.
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