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Chemical engineers synthesise LGA

LGA among the 30 most valuable chemicals

Type: News

AB InBev to cut 576 UK jobs after merger

SABMiller operations to be “significantly impacted”

Type: News

Making nail polish while producing hydrogen

Efficient process saves high-energy purification

Type: News

EDF investors agree fundraising for Hinkley C

€4bn equity edges project closer to final decision

Type: News

Report: CCS in UK could cost £30bn more

Scrapping of government funding ‘short-termist’

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Grant supports US nuclear waste research

WSU and PNNL will look at chemical reactions

Type: News

How to Reduce Human Failure

THERE is a recurring number that despite magnificent developments in technical safety doesn’t seem to go away. That number is 80, and it relates to the percentage of incidents that in some way has been contributed to by a human. It is a recurring average across industry and in different settings. Looking on the bright side, it means that there is huge scope to make a significant improvement.

Type: Feature

Hybrid Airship: No Roads, No Problem

MORE than two-thirds of the world’s land area and more than half the world’s population have no direct access to paved roads. This lack of infrastructure presents incredible challenges for the resource extraction industries and has left many identified deposits undeveloped, including the Ambler region of Alaska, deposits in sub-Saharan Africa, and regions in the Andes.

Type: Feature

Models of Good Behaviour?

IN 1976, George Box opined: “All models are wrong, some are useful.” How do we assure that a model is not sufficiently wrong that it is useful? A useful model is one that adequately predicts the results under the conditions and scale required for design or a process simulation. Most models of course are not derived at design scale. We are inevitably working outside the envelope of model derivation. So how do we build confidence that the extrapolation is adequately correct that the results may be trusted?

Type: Feature

Bayer increases Monsanto bid to US$65bn

Bayer confident new bid will overcome resistance

Type: News

Reports BASF in talks with Monsanto

Early talks about further agrochem consolidation

Type: News

Danone to buy WhiteWave for US$12.5bn

Purchase will help meet healthy eating pledge

Type: News

UK experts conditionally approve fracking

Government will not accept all CCC recommendations

Type: News

Starbons offers new method of carbon capture

New approach is greener as it is made from waste

Type: News

Shampoo bottle empties to last drop

Special surface resists liquid soap adherence

Type: News

BASF to buy Chemetall for US$3.2bn

Purchase will enhance BASF’s coatings business

Type: News

Queen Birthday honour for plastic banknote pioneer

Chemical engineer gets highest Australian honour

Type: News

Nanorods ooze water in high humidity

Discovery made accidently during nanowire experiment

Type: News

Westlake to buy Axiall for US$3.8bn

Deal creates second largest PVC firm in US

Type: News

Call for urgent change to oil & gas industry

Industry given two years to change direction

Type: News