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RSC urges government to stop PFAS polluters ‘getting off the hook’ following London coffee controversy

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

Changing the World

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

Mammoth Undertaking

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

Waste glycerol gasified to make hydrogen

New solution for biodiesel byproduct

Type: News

A Clean Bill of Health

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

Climate Action Plans

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.

Type: News