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UK greenlights support for long duration energy storage projects
LONG duration energy storage schemes have been given a shot in the arm with the UK government establishing a cap and floor scheme to increase investment confidence in technologies needed to balance out intermittent renewables.
Type: News
Watch: ship delivers vast €150m furnaces for major chemicals plant
INEOS has released a video showing the moment two huge furnaces worth €150m (US$156m) completed a 20,000 km sea trip to Belgium ahead of installation at the heart of a vast new ethane cracker.
Type: News
Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before
Type: Feature
As we face grand challenges, Alexandra Meldrum says let’s consider the practical actions we can each take to help shape a sustainable future
Type: Feature
Webinar: Improving Vacuum Distillation Profitability
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to enhance the process performance of vacuum distillation in refineries. A recording of this webinar is now available to stream at the link below.
Type: Feature
CO2 as a commodity, not waste: turning emissions into cost-competitive chemicals
Etosha Cave, Co-founder of clean technology company Opus 12, speaks about the company's process for turning CO2 emissions into cost-competitive products.
Type: Feature
Consider treating unused desal filters
A BIOFOULING study that has examined colonies of bacteria on membranes suggests desalination plants might benefit from treating new filters before they are installed.
Type: News
Amec Foster Wheeler wins Donges upgrade FEED
AMEC FOSTER WHEELER has been awarded a FEED contract to help upgrade Total’s Donges refinery in France.
Type: News
Hydrogen-powered boat begins six-year journey
SEEKING to raise awareness of the promise of hydrogen fuel, a converted racing boat equipped to produce the gas from the sea has begun its emissions-free journey around the world.
Type: News
Very strong plant-inspired graphene aerogel
A NEW form of graphene aerogel, inspired by the structure of a plant stem, is exceptionally strong and resilient, and could be used in flexible electronics.
Type: News
Bismuth could replace lead in solar cells
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Type: News
Exxon and partner double algae oil output
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels research after modifying algae to double its oil output without inhibiting growth.
Type: News
Sarawak to set up own oil company
SARAWAK’S state government plans to set up its own oil exploration company, despite the national oil company, PETRONAS, gaining a large part of its Malaysian revenue from gas fields in the state.
Type: News
Lund team turns chicken feathers into food
MILLIONS of tons of chicken feathers are wasted every year, but researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found a way to turn them into proteins for food use.
Type: News
ENGIE Fabricom selected to design and build novel Saltend chemical plant
ENGIE Fabricom has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a novel wood chip acetylation plant at the Saltend chemicals park in the UK.
Type: News
NUS, NTU and ExxonMobil set up Singapore Energy Centre
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed a memorandum of understanding with ExxonMobil to set up the Singapore Energy Centre.
Type: News
Bioinspired polymers self-assemble like proteins
RESEARCHERS in the US have worked out how to make polymer chains self-assemble into a desired structure in a similar way to biological molecules like proteins, by tuning the electrostatic charges.
Type: News
New method weeds out flipping drugs
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially transform into harmful versions of themselves once inside the human body. One pharmaceutical major is already working to implement the tool.
Type: News
Shell and ITM to build world’s largest electrolysis plant
SHELL and ITM Power have announced a plan to build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plant at Shell’s Rheinland refinery in Wesseling, Germany.
Type: News
Five people missing after Oklahoma rig explosion
FIVE people are missing after an oil and gas drilling rig near Quinton in Oklahoma, US, exploded at around 08:45 local time on 22 January.
Type: News
