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Cuadrilla to start fracking second well
CUADRILLA plans to frack a second well in Lancashire, UK, before its planning permission expires in November.
Type: News
New President announced for COP26 climate summit
ALOK Sharma has been announced as the new President for the COP26 climate summit, which is due to take place in Glasgow, UK, in November.
Type: News
Replacing petroleum with wood in chemicals production
AN interdisciplinary team of researchers has calculated how wood could replace petroleum in the chemical industry, based on their process that converts wood waste into chemicals.
Type: News
Bayer boosts Germany’s coronavirus testing capacity
LIFE science company Bayer has boosted Germany’s coronavirus analysis capacity by several thousand tests per day. The company is providing more than 40 pieces of equipment from its research operations, which are used for the isolation and amplification of viral RNA, and is making its personnel available to help.
Type: News
UK gas networks join forces for net zero
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to achieve net zero emissions.
Type: News
COP26 delayed a year until November 2021
THE COP26 climate change summit has been delayed for a full year until November 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Type: News
Researcher develops coating to inactivate Covid-19 virus
A PROFESSOR at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), US has developed a surface coating which inactivates the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
Type: News
New catalyst for creating syngas from waste CO2
A CATALYST produced via flame spray pyrolysis can be used to turn waste CO2 into syngas for use in fuels and feedstocks.
Type: News
Prelude will not resume full production this year, says Shell
SHELL has said its huge floating LNG production plant – the Prelude FLNG facility – is not expected to resume full production this year, following a troubled start for the pioneering facility.
Type: News
Petronas aspires to be net zero by 2050
PETRONAS has said it aspires to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, becoming the latest oil and gas major to make an emissions reduction pledge.
Type: News
Partnership investigates potential battery materials complex
BASF and Eramet, a global mining and metallurgy group, have signed an agreement to jointly assess developing a state-of-the-art nickel and cobalt hydrometallurgical refining complex.
Type: News
Concerns over stockpile of hazardous waste at New Zealand aluminium smelter
CONCERNS have been raised over a stockpile of hazardous waste at Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. The company says it is working on solutions to deal with it.
Type: News
Pilot project develops process to recycle single-use face masks
A COLLABORATION between research and industry is developing a closed loop process where single-use face masks can be recycled to produce new masks.
Type: News
Oil spill preparations underway for stricken ship off Sri Lanka
EXPERTS have begun modelling how oil might spill from a cargo ship that caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka and then sank.
Type: News
James Colley offers sound advice on careers transition when you need to switch sectors
Type: Feature
The Greatest Teacher, Accidents Are
A bow-tie diagram could have saved the Death Star, says David Jamieson
Type: Feature
Greener steel: Primetals successfully tests 100% hydrogen reduction process
PRIMETALS has successfully tested a pilot-scale process that promises several breakthroughs in the development of greener steel, including the reduction of iron ore using 100% hydrogen and the elimination of a key materials processing step.
Type: News
Chemical engineers join Biden advisory panel
TWO chemical engineers – Frances Arnold and Paula Hammond – will advise US President Joe Biden as part of an independent panel of science and technology advisors.
Type: News
Safety Gaps: Good Practice is Still Not Common Practice
Ken Rivers, Chair of the COMAH Strategic Forum, shares his views on how IChemE can help improve safety more widely
Type: Feature
Towards a Circular Chemical Economy: Stakeholders’ Perspectives
Bing Xu, Umit Bititci, Melissa Marques, Mengfei Jiang, and Jin Xuan discuss challenges and motivations
Type: Feature
