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Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator, has fed back to industry on its hydrocarbon release (HCR) challenge.
Type: News
Agreement for £230m UK waste-to-energy plant
MAJOR port group PD Port and Wentworth Clean Power (WCP) have entered an agreement for a project to develop a £230m (US$307.7m) waste-to-energy plant in Teesside, UK.
Type: News
Modelling with Excel Part 8: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 2
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
Predicting Direct Air Capture Performance, Come Rain or Shine
Process engineer Adam Ward is modelling DAC at Imperial College London. He explains his research to Aniqah Majid, the challenges of scaling carbon capture technology and why the UK’s famously unpredictable weather has a major bearing on performance
Type: Feature
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.
Type: News
Taskforce suggests recommendations to digitally unite energy sectors
The Offshore Energy Data Strategy (OEDS) Taskforce has in a new report, set out a series of recommendations to digitally unite the offshore oil, gas and renewable sectors, in a bid to help the UK achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Type: News
Rio Tinto says steel industry will need ‘every technology in the book’ to decarbonise
MINING company Rio Tinto says the steel industry will need “every technology in the book” to decarbonise, after announcing its plan to develop a R&D facility for its low-carbon ironmaking process in Western Australia.
Type: News
European consortium launches CO2 capture demonstration project
A EUROPEAN consortium of 11 research and industry stakeholders has launched a project to demonstrate an innovative, and potentially energy- and cost-saving CO2 capture process.
Type: News
New catalyst for hydrogen production
A CATALYST composed of nickel and iron has been developed that will make the production of hydrogen more energy efficient and cost effective. Hydrogen is an important fuel source as the only emission from a hydrogen fuel cell is water vapour.
Type: News
ChemEng intake rises for first time since 2015
THE NUMBER of students starting a UK undergraduate degree in chemical, process, and energy engineering has risen by 6.6%, the first increase since 2015.
Type: News
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for our circular economy webinar series and readers voice Natech concerns
Type: News
Amazon locks in additional 476 MW of clean power from Iberdrola
SPANISH energy giant Iberdrola has agreed to supply Amazon with an additional 476 MW of clean power for its global operations, boosting their contracted supply to more than 66,000 GWh.
Type: News
Public Engagement for a Sustainable World
Alexandra Meldrum and Amit Verma share how IChemE members have been working to shape policy and public conversation
Type: Feature
Nestlé reduces water consumption in South African dairy factory
NESTLÉ South Africa is transforming its Mossel Bay dairy factory into a “zero water” site by re-using water recovered during the milk evaporation process.
Type: News
Turning the Dial – How Can We Bring More Women into Engineering?
Overturning some common perceptions and creating a more flexible working environment is essential to boosting diversity and tackling the industry’s skills gap. An outline of the key challenges that businesses, industry groups and the Government must tackle.
Type: Feature
Mariné Botha and Rachel Ramskill share their experiences of working in risk engineering in the Middle East
Type: Feature
Denham and East Kimberley earmarked for green hydrogen facilities in Western Australia
WESTERN Australia’s push to become a major exporter of renewable hydrogen is rapidly gathering pace following plans for two new green hydrogen facilities: Denham and the East Kimberley clean energy project.
Type: News
Australian minerals and hydrogen research gets A$59m funding boost
A FLOATING device that uses sunlight to produce hydrogen from wastewater and a leaching process aimed at boosting the value of low-grade iron ores are among a series of engineering projects that Australia is funding to boost its key industries.
Type: News
Novel process could recycle PVDC
SOLVAY has shown that polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) has the potential to be recycled and is now calling for collaboration to realise PVDC recycling at an industrial global scale.
Type: News
NIA urges UK to be world leader in nuclear-derived synthetic fuels
A NEW report from the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) is urging the UK to take the lead in the production of synthetic fuels using nuclear energy to help hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as aviation and shipping reach low emission targets.
Type: News
