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Landmark ruling could put UK fossil fuel projects at risk
THE impact of burning fossil fuels should be taken into account when approving energy developments, the UK’s Supreme Court has ruled in a verdict that may put future oil, gas, and coal projects at risk.
Type: News
Honeywell promise to maximise gigafactory efficiency with automation software
HONEYWELL has launched Battery Manufacturing Excellence Platform (Battery MXP), an artificial intelligence-powered software aimed at optimising battery manufacturing operations. Amid increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries, the software can help increase delivery rates by cutting ramp-up times and reduce scrap by 60% at startup.
Type: News
ITER postponed by a decade in €5bn overhaul
INTERNATIONAL fusion project ITER has been pushed back by almost ten years after leaders decided to revamp its original roadmap, in a move that could drive up costs by an additional €5bn (US$5.4bn).
Type: News
£500m for Port Talbot electric arc furnace, with 2,500 jobs still set to go
THE UK government has agreed to give a £500m (US$651m) grant to Tata Steel to build an electric arc furnace at Port Talbot, though 2,500 jobs will still be lost as the firm presses ahead with plans to shut down the site’s only remaining blast furnace.
Type: News
Hundreds of schoolchildren visit IChemE to be inspired by chemical engineers
ICHEME has hosted more than 300 schoolchildren at its UK headquarters where they met with real-life engineers and took on engineering challenges, to inspire them about the prospects of a career in chemical engineering.
Type: News
Adam Duckett on why the COP failure is an opportunity for engineers
Type: Feature
Update: Cargo ship owner says it was not carrying sodium cyanide at time of North Sea collision
THE OWNER of the cargo ship that crashed into a US-flag tanker in the North Sea on Monday has said it was not carrying sodium cyanide, as previously reported.
Type: News
MSE Filterpressen’s Membrane Chamber Press Paving the Way for Sustainable Construction
The RCO Recycling Center in eastern Switzerland is setting a new benchmark in environmental responsibility, using cutting-edge filtration technology to transform waste into valuable resources and reduce construction’s environmental footprint.
Type: Feature
My Chemical Engineering Hero is: Roger Sargent
David Simmonds celebrates the father of process systems engineering and founding director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College from 1989 until his retirement in 1992
Type: Feature
UK project starts sucking CO2 from the sea
A PILOT plant that sucks CO2 from the sea has started operating at the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth, UK.
Type: News
New research shows IChemE Contracts are among the least disputed
Type: Feature
Book Review: Chemical Process Safety - Learning from Case Histories
This book sets out to be a volume on learning from case histories in process safety.
Type: Feature
Chemical engineers are ideally placed to turn the words in the Paris Agreement into actions on climate change
Type: Feature
Russian Roulette (Process Style)
Professional engineers must blow the whistle on intolerable risks
Type: Feature
The ‘Watermelon’ Effect: Does a green dashboard mean a healthy facility?
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ suggesting that everything is under control, and yet digging below the surface reveals signs of ‘red’ indicating ill-health in the arrangements to prevent major accidents.
Type: Feature
