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Built Environment: A Plant-Based Alternative

What if autonomous vehicles could safely transport containers of raw materials around our production plants? John Barratt discusses how an established tracking system used in TV and movies is being adapted for the process industries.

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The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Solving Them

Elaine Loving and Tom Stroud outline the scientific and technical challenges that must be met for the potential of fusion energy to be realised

Type: Feature

New narrative needed for CCS

Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industries – not just oil and gas – was a key conclusion at CCUS 2019: Capturing the clean growth opportunities, held in London earlier this month.

Type: Feature

Climate Crisis Explainer

Amanda Doyle discusses COP26 and why it is important

Type: Feature

Fly Me O2 The Moon

Mark Symes and Beth Lomax explain the thinking behind how to make oxygen on the Moon

Type: Feature

IChemE launches energy and resource efficiency guide

ICHEME has launched an energy and resource efficiency guide which outlines how engineers and organisations can reduce energy and waste in order to tackle climate change.

Type: News

Lean Forward

We should sell Lean Manufacturing to the food industry, says Ian Madden

Type: Feature

Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center: So Much Achieved and Much More to Do

On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at the growing success of the safety center forged in her memory

Type: Feature

Harnessing sunlight to convert CO2 to fuels

Amanda Doyle speaks to Solistra Co-founder Alexandra Tavasoli about the company's process that uses a photoreactor to convert CO2 to fuel and feedstocks.

Type: Feature

CO2 as a commodity, not waste: turning emissions into cost-competitive chemicals

Etosha Cave, Co-founder of clean technology company Opus 12, speaks about the company's process for turning CO2 emissions into cost-competitive products.

Type: Feature

Developing a Justification for a DCS Migration

Why modern distributed control systems are increasingly important

Type: Feature

Chemical engineers talk fire safety

FIRE safety is important to all of us, both in residential buildings and on industrial sites, and chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a risk-based approach. Two chemical engineers, Dame Judith Hackitt and Erin Johnson, have applied those skills to buildings safety, by compiling reports for the UK parliament.

Type: News

Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards

A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top prize at the IChemE Global Awards 2018, held in Manchester UK on 1 November.

Type: News

BASF announces four research projects for reducing CO2 emissions

BASF has outlined four R&D activities that will allow the company to achieve CO2-neutral growth until 2030 as part of its carbon management programme.

Type: News

Wylfa suspension could lead to a UK energy crisis

HITACHI has announced the decision to suspend indefinitely its UK nuclear power station construction project Wylfa Newydd, on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Experts have warned that this could lead to a UK energy crisis.

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Action is needed to fight growing science scepticism

3M, the US-based materials firm, has released the results of an annual survey which show that public scepticism for science is growing, prompting calls for greater outreach by the science community to help gain support.

Type: News

South Africa unveils 2030 power plan

SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) on the country’s energy generation up to 2030. The IRP aims to diversify the energy mix while attempting to address the serious problem of insufficient energy capacity.

Type: News

Rio Tinto will spend US$1bn on reducing emissions

RIO Tinto has announced that it will spend US$1bn over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint as part of plans to get to net zero by 2050.

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Industry pushes to keep staff safe and plants running

Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic

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Transition to low-carbon world needs to be faster, says DNV GL report

ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to exhaust the remaining CO2 budget by 2028, according to DNV GL’s 2020 Energy Transition Outlook.

Type: News