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Toxic gas leak kills 13 in Jordan
A LEAK of toxic chlorine gas at Aqaba’s Red Sea port has killed 13 people and injured more than 300 others, Jordan state media reports.
Type: News
UK HFCA calls for action on nuclear-enabled hydrogen
Following a push by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to accelerate cleaner hydrogen production using nuclear energy, the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (UK HFCA), is now calling on the government to embrace the benefits of nuclear-enabled Hydrogen (NEH) with legislation, financial backing and more nuclear sites to help combat CO2 emissions.
Type: News
Plant-based alternative to plastic microbeads set for scaleup
ENGINEERS have received funding to scale up a technology that produces sustainable alternatives to the harmful plastic microbeads that used to be found in everyday personal care products, and are still used in cosmetics, paints and construction.
Type: News
Ingenza awarded funding to develop carbon capture technology
BIOTECHNOLOGY company Ingenza is partnering with Johnson Matthey to produce formic acid from captured industrial CO2 emissions for use across a wide range of industries such as pharmaceuticals and agriculture, and as a potential feedstock for other bioprocesses.
Type: News
UK overturns planning advice and approves Sizewell C nuclear plant
THE UK Government has given planning consent to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, overturning independent advice as it pushes ahead with plans to increase output of low-carbon energy.
Type: News
CPH2 licenses membrane-free electrolyser for use alongside solar power plants
CLEAN Power Hydrogen (CPH2) has signed a license agreement with solar power venture GHFG to build its membrane-free electrolyser technology in Ireland.
Type: News
Double wins for Sime Darby and Petronas at IChemE Malaysia Awards
SIME Darby and Petronas both won two awards at IChemE’s annual Malaysia Awards, held virtually on 17 October.
Type: News
US DOE awards US$38m for nuclear recycling projects
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding US$38m in funding to twelve projects aimed at recycling used nuclear fuel from the country’s commercial power reactors.
Type: News
We Must Go Round in the Right Circles
Adam Duckett on the need to go around in the right circles
Type: Feature
UK awards £32m to advance energy storage technologies
THE UK Government has awarded more than £32m (US$38.9) in funding to five projects across the country developing energy storage technologies that could help to increase resilience of the electricity grid.
Type: News
BASF strengthens R&D capabilities with a more powerful supercomputer
BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany, which it says is the largest in the world used for industrial chemical research. The 3-petaflop supercomputer takes over for a 1.75 petaflop predecessor, offering more capacity and computing to allow increasingly complex modelling, virtual experiments, and simulations.
Type: News
US-designed natural gas reactor heats up alternative propylene production
US RESEARCHERS have designed a reactor that produces propylene from natural gas, potentially providing a sustainable pathway to meeting the growing global demand for the popular monomer.
Type: News
Researchers design ‘highly selective’ catalyst that turns CO2 into green fuel
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed a copper-based material that can turn CO2 into methanol using sunlight.
Type: News
Wizz and poo: airline signs US$1bn deal to buy jet fuel made from human waste
YOUR flight abroad could one day be powered by human waste after a UK company announced plans to build a world-first facility that turns sewage sludge into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Type: News
German wind turbine manufacturer develops 500 kW green hydrogen electrolyser prototype
GERMAN manufacturer Nordex Group is advancing green hydrogen production in Spain with the development of a 500 kW pressurised alkaline electrolyser, the largest ever to be manufactured in the country.
Type: News
How Your Magazine is Made: Paper and Ink
Aniqah Majid goes back to basics to learn how the paper and ink used for TCE is produced
Type: Feature
IChemE launches virtual work experience for 14 to 18-year-olds
IChemE’s new virtual work experience programmme helps youngsters experience life as a process design engineer and carry out a real-world task
Type: Feature
Australia funds project to grow plants on the moon
PLANTS could soon be grown off Earth thanks to a team of Australian researchers who plan on sending seeds to the moon.
Type: News
German researchers to convert wood waste into biohydrogen
GERMAN engineers have developed a biotechnological process to convert old wood waste into biohydrogen which can be used to power local industry.
Type: News
Equinor search for potential hydrogen customers months after scrapping pipeline to Germany
OIL AND gas giant Equinor has pushed ahead with plans to market hydrogen in Europe, issuing a call for potential buyers in the EU to register interest.
Type: News
