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Careers in Chemical Engineering: Matt Longley
From working in water treatment to paving the way for film productions including Harry Potter
Type: Feature
Book Review: A Guide to Hazard Identification Methods, Second Edition
Frank Crawley; ISBN: 9780128195437 (paperback); Elsevier; 2020; £117.30
Type: Feature
Tom Baxter argues the case for leaving the UK’s inert oil and gas architecture in place, rather than paying a hefty price for decommissioning
Type: Feature
Tolulope Martin gives three reasons why you should think of applying a zero-based approach to your engineering budgets
Type: Feature
Rules of Thumb: Pump and System Curves
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Type: Feature
Repurposing Drugs: The Key to a Healthier Future
How repurposing drugs has become an industry in its own right.
Type: Feature
Green Brexit: The problem with chemical rules
Why the Great Repeal Bill won't work for REACH
Type: News
The chemical sector and its digital journey
Looking at the technology focus behind Industry 4.0
Type: News
National Grid report says gas can decarbonise heat, transport, and industry
THE UK’s gas and electricity operator, National Grid, has set out its long-term goals in its report The Future of Gas: How gas can support a low carbon future, concluding that gas will play a crucial role in the coming decades but not without clear policies from the government for decarbonising gas.
Type: News
Trump administration scraps methane emission laws
THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas industry.
Type: News
UK moving forward with CCUS plans
THE UK government has unveiled an action plan for developing carbon, capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) projects at the Accelerating CCUS summit in Edinburgh.
Type: News
Novel particles for photocatalytic water treatment
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed novel micrometre-sized, titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles that can trap and degrade bisphenol A (BPA). Further development could lead to a novel water treatment.
Type: News
Trump administration says mercury regulations not appropriate or necessary
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to change the way that the health benefits from reducing mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired plants are calculated, saying that it is not “appropriate and necessary” to regulate hazardous air pollutants.
Type: News
New alliance combatting environmental plastic waste
NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and ExxonMobil, have formed an alliance to combat plastic waste. Announced yesterday in London, UK the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) aims to reduce plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean.
Type: News
BP reveals strategy to reach net zero
FOLLOWING its announcement in February to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, BP has revealed its net zero strategy. The plan includes many shorter-term objectives, including cutting oil and gas production by 40% by 2030.
Type: News
Initiative launches first global standard for safer mining waste storage
ON 5 August, the Global Tailings Review (GTR) initiative established the first global standard for safer management of tailings storage facilities (TSFs), with the launch of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management. The GTR Chair has called for effective implementation across the industry.
Type: News
UK bolsters Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity
THE UK Government has increased the nation’s Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity. It has agreed to a multi-million-pound up-front investment to expand vaccine manufacturing capacity, and secured “crucial” fill and finish services for the vaccine manufacturing process.
Type: News
UK strengthens 2030 climate goals
THE UK Government has announced that it intends to cut emissions by 68% from 1990 levels by 2030, as part of its updated Paris Agreement pledge.
Type: News
