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Victoria lifts ban on onshore gas development
AUSTRALIA’s Victoria state Government is lifting a ban on conventional onshore gas development and banning fracking amid warnings that the state could experience energy shortages.
Type: News
Oil tank collapse likely caused by melting permafrost
AROUND 21,000 t of diesel has leaked into a Russian river near Norilsk, which is inside the Arctic circle, after a storage tank collapsed. It is believed that posts supporting the tank sank due to melting permafrost following unusually warm weather.
Type: News
BASF uses waste tyre oil as feedstock
BASF has signed an agreement with New Energy, a Hungarian technology company which has developed a rubber waste pyrolysis process, to use New Energy’s pyrolysis oil as feedstock at a chemical production site as well as to carry out a joint feasibility study.
Type: News
IChemE pays tribute to Royal Patron Prince Philip
ICHEME has paid tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his time as Royal Patron of the Institution.
Type: News
Australia to invest A$539m in carbon capture and hydrogen projects
AUSTRALIA’s budget for this fiscal year will see it invest A$539.2m (US$416.6m) in hydrogen and carbon capture, use, and storage (CCS/CCUS) projects that will support industry, create 2,500 jobs, help cut emissions, and drive further investment.
Type: News
Hydrogen Valley planned for Aussie coal country
A CONSORTIUM has outlined proposals to create a ‘hydrogen valley’ in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales in Australia, that would help pioneer clean energy and feedstocks in place of the region’s coal industry.
Type: News
Australia announces winners of carbon capture fund
THE Australian Government has announced six winners of a A$50m (US$38.7m) carbon capture fund. The projects will demonstrate ways that capture technologies can reduce emissions from hard-to-abate sectors.
Type: News
COP26 summit closes with compromises made on climate deal
Negotiators finally agreed on the Glasgow Climate Pact late on Saturday evening, with a compromise made that more ambitious pledges need to be made next year to limit warming to 1.5C.
Type: News
Book Review: Osmosis Engineering
Editors: Nidal Hilal, Ahmad Ismail, Mohamed Khayet Souhaimi, Daniel Johnson; ISBN: 9780128210161; Elsevier; 2021; €170.04
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett on the reverberating shocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Type: Feature
Chemical engineers lead efforts to unblock UK hydrogen use
CHEMICAL engineers are investigating how the UK could increase its use of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels as part of the nation’s commitment to net zero by 2050.
Type: News
TRISO-X begins construction on commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility
TRISO-X, a wholly-owned subsidiary of X-energy, has marked the start of construction at a site its parent company has billed as “North America’s first commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility” in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Type: News
Ofgem sets out proposals to transform UK energy system
THE UK’S energy regulator Ofgem has set out proposals to establish a "more decentralised, decarbonised, and dynamic energy system" as part of a wider reform agenda to promote more flexible and efficient use of energy across the country.
Type: News
Rio Tinto completes transition of heavy machinery to renewable diesel at US California borax site
RIO Tinto has completed the full transition of heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable diesel at its borax operation in Boron, California, US. The mining giant said this is the first open pit mine in the world to achieve this milestone.
Type: News
Chemical Engineer - What's in a Name?
An occasional contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, Martin Pitt looks at the origins of the name Chemical Engineer
Type: Feature
UK lithium boost as engineers use membranes to extract lithium from brine
ENGINEERS have piloted a process that uses membranes to produce battery grade lithium carbonate from UK saline brines, a move that could improve materials security and offer an alternative to lithium produced using water- and energy-intensive extraction processes.
Type: News
A GREENER and more easily recycled lithium-ion battery, a microbial fuel cell for cleaning water while generating electricity, and polycotton recycling technology are among the 15 developments across six continents that could receive a share of £5m (US$6.1m) from the Earthshot Prize this year.
Type: News
Two workers at Fukushima nuclear site hospitalised after being splashed with contaminated fluid
TWO contractors are under observation in hospital after they were exposed to contaminated liquid while cleaning pipes in the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) facility, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site.
Type: News
Equinor and Captura partner to scale up direct ocean capture
INTERNATIONAL energy company Equinor has partnered with Captura to develop the direct ocean capture company’s technology at industrial scale.
Type: News
