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Electric avenue: researchers use electric fields to catalyse chemical reactions
WHAT if you could one day catalyse your industrial reactions with electric fields rather than the chemical catalysts commonly used today? It might be closer than you think after chemists at Kings College London successfully demonstrated the technique inside a microfluidic reactor.
Type: News
Researchers inject vegetables with melatonin using microneedles to extend shelf life
RESEARCHERS from the US and Singapore have developed a method to extend the shelf life of vegetables by injecting them with biodegradable microneedles containing the hormone melatonin.
Type: News
Bio-compatible ion current battery created
ENGINEERS in the US have developed a new form of battery which works on the basis of flowing ions, rather than flowing electrons, the same kind of electrical energy used by living organisms.
Type: News
Queensland government invests A$24m in flow batteries to boost battery network
THE QUEENSLAND government is investing A$24m (US$15.4m) into iron and zinc flow batteries from local manufacturers to support the next stage of the state’s local battery capabilities, and to help meet its renewable energy commitments.
Type: News
Wood extends Shell contract to include work on new North Sea oil vessel
ENGINEERING firm Wood has signed a two-year extension to its contract with Shell for work on the oil giant’s newest floating vessel in the North Sea.
Type: News
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of traditionally-sourced meat. Amanda Jasi looks at the novel emerging alternatives
Type: Feature
Wood gets contract for green ammonia facility
WOOD has announced that it will provide conceptual engineering for a large-scale green hydrogen production facility in Chile, where the hydrogen will be used to produce ammonia.
Type: News
LIVE Reporting from IChemE's Hazards34 Process Safety Conference
The final day of Hazards34 is now closed. You can read our full coverage below including our audio interviews with delegates and the key insights that safety experts have been sharing over the last three days.
Type: News
TCE Frank Morton 2025 live blog
Welcome to the The Chemical Engineer magazine's live blog for the Frank Morton sports day 2025, hosted by last year's winners, The University of Nottingham. Edited by Aniqah Majid and Sam Baker
Type: News
The importance of engineers and not strangling AI
SIR PATRICK VALLANCE reflects on five years as the UK’s chief scientific advisor.
Type: News
Miguel Johansson Finguerut describes his work on community water projects in central Mexico
Type: Feature
INWED 2025: Rebuilding Industry with Waste
To mark International Women in Engineering Day, Sam Baker speaks with Krisztina Kovacs-Schreiner about her startup, which transforms waste wood into green building blocks – while also challenging outdated ideas about engineering, equity, and the future of manufacturing
Type: Feature
Chemistry Australia's gas price warning
CHEMISTRY Australia has said that manufacturing and jobs are still being affected by rising gas prices, despite government action.
Type: News
IChemE awards engineers for their work on process safety
SEVEN chemical engineers have been awarded medals for their outstanding contributions to process safety.
Type: News
IChemE sets out priority topics to 2024
ICHEME has identified three priority topics and published Learned Society Priority Topics to 2024, which sets out how the Institution will address these focus areas over the coming years.
Type: News
British Airways to use UK-made SAF
PHILLIPS 66 will supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to British Airways (BA), under a new supply agreement, which the companies say will make the airline the first to use SAF produced on a commercial scale in the UK.
Type: News
THE field of process safety is constantly evolving. This goes right from the early 1800s – when Éleuthère Irénée du Pont recognised the importance of leadership commitment and had his managers and their families live at the gunpowder factory, thus ensuring they had a focus on safety – to modern-day technological developments in the design of instrumented protective systems.
Type: Feature
New evacuation a week after Texas chemical plant explosion
A WEEK after the explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) facility in Port Neches, Texas, a voluntary evacuation order has been issued due to elevated levels of 1,3-Butadiene.
Type: News
Partners build facility to test hydrogen transmission
NATIONAL Grid is partnering with gas distribution companies, safety organisations, and academia, to build a first-of-its-kind offline hydrogen test facility in the UK. The facility is expected to help understand how hydrogen gas could be used in future to heat homes and deliver green energy to industry.
Type: News
Preventing the Next Battery Incident: Rethinking Battery Energy Storage Safety
As battery energy storage systems expand, recent fires and explosions prove compliance isn’t enough. James Close and Edric Bulan say only a layered, system-wide safety approach can meet the risks of thermal runaway and real-world failure
Type: Feature
