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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.

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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.

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Back to the Future!

Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before

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New Year’s Resolutions

As we face grand challenges, Alexandra Meldrum says let’s consider the practical actions we can each take to help shape a sustainable future

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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