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THE UK government has been urged to make industrial polluters pay for PFAS remediation in waterways after a London woman was fined for pouring coffee down a street drain.
Type: News
Education students differently, with a more scenario- and problem-based engineering curriculum
Type: Feature
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: How to Source Expertise
Grant Wellwood offers up a method for selecting how you source subject matter experts
Type: Feature
Mammoth undertaking: Climeworks starts up world’s largest direct air capture plant
THE world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant – Mammoth – has started operations in Iceland where it is working to draw 36,000 t/y of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Type: News
As Climeworks starts up the world’s largest direct air capture plant, Adam Duckett looks at the engineering challenges involved
Type: Feature
Our Research Focus: 3D-printed Catalysts for Rocket Fuel
Could HTP thrusters finally take off? The New Zealand research partnership looking at an alternative to the dangers posed by hydrazine
Type: Feature
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
Type: Feature
Book Review: Analysis and Design of Membrane Process: A Systems Approach
Mingheng Li; ISBN: 9780735421813; AIP Publishing; 2020; US$135
Type: Feature
Get involved, says Claire MacLeod of IChemE’s Learned Society Committee Responsible Production Working Group
Type: Feature
Carbon nanotubes could make carbon-zero fuels cheaper than fossil fuels
A BREAKTHROUGH has been made in the manufacturing of carbon nanotube membranes which will lead to large-scale production. These “molecular factories” have the potential to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuel.
Type: News
Easter eggsperts: chemical engineers have chocolate eco-ratings licked
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider the environmental impact of chocolate and how it can be made more planet-friendly.
Type: News
Queen of Perak presents IChemE Awards to outstanding young engineers
Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with trophies at the IChemE Malaysia Awards on 15 October.
Type: News
Climeworks pioneering air-captured CO2 for drinks carbonation
COCA-COLA HBC Switzerland has teamed up with Climeworks to pioneer the use of air-captured carbon dioxide (CO2) use in the beverage industry.
Type: News
Update: Criminal measures taken against 26 following fatal Chinese chemicals explosion
LOCAL authorities in China have taken “criminal coercive measures” against 26 people following a chemical plant explosion that killed 78 people and injured more than 600, reports state news agency Xinhua.
Type: News
Final trials begin on a facility to store Chernobyl’s spent nuclear fuel
ON 6 May the final system-wide trials of a new dry storage facility at Chernobyl began. ISF2, located at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, will process and store spent nuclear fuel to allow for decommissioning of the plant.
Type: News
BP invests US$30m in alternative protein production startup
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to produce single-cell protein from natural gas and could help to improve food security.
Type: News
CSB releases final report on explosions at Midland Resource Recovery facility
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found that a lack of hazard identification processes contributed to the tank explosions that killed three people at the Midland Resource Recovery (MRR) facility in West Virginia in 2017.
Type: News
MOF captures and converts NO2 into useful product
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selective and reversible capture of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). It could allow the capture of NO2 from exhaust streams for conversion into nitric acid, a multi-billion-dollar industry with uses including agricultural fertiliser for crops, rocket propellant, and nylon.
Type: News
Consortium develops power to methanol demonstration project
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable methanol for use by chemical companies in Antwerp, Belgium. In this first of its kind project for Belgium, the planned demonstration plant could produce up to 8,000 t/y of methanol, saving at least 8,000 t/y of CO2 emissions.
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