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IChemE Matters: Introducing IChemE’s Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability
IChemE are launching a trio of awards to showcase how young engineers are supporting the Institution’s vision of a more sustainable world
Type: Feature
Climate Change, Hazards and Digitalisation
Sam Wilkinson discusses IChemE’s ongoing Learned Society activity
Type: Feature
DUBBED the world’s largest by its founding partners, a “mega” green hydrogen production facility run by NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) is closer to development after receiving a total investment of US$8.4bn from 23 banks and investment firms across the globe.
Type: News
Goodbye 2023, and what to read while we’re away
AS WE put the lids on our pens, close our notebooks, and say goodbye until 2 January, we thought you’d appreciate a few pointers on what to catch up on while we’re away.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Johan Alimin Samad
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
London-based company ruled liable towards the victims of fatal Beirut blast
A BRITISH court has ruled that the London-based chemical company behind the shipment of the ammonium nitrate which caused a deadly blast in Beirut port killing over 130 people in 2020, is liable towards the victims caught up in the incident
Type: News
BP agrees to buy naphtha from Teesside circular plastics plant
BP has signed an agreement to purchase naphtha produced from a plant being built in Teesside, UK by Clean Planet Energy that will convert hard-to-recycle plastics into chemical feedstocks and fuels.
Type: News
ENGINEERS make decisions in uncertain circumstances on a daily basis, but we believe that current education of chemical engineering students does not prepare graduates for this role.
Type: Feature
UK satellites track global water flows to strengthen climate modelling and industrial risk planning
TWO UK-built satellites have been launched into orbit to improve monitoring of the planet’s water cycle – data that chemical and process engineers rely on for climate-risk assessments, emissions modelling and the design of resilient infrastructure.
Type: News
Evonik and Sinopec partner on OSN
EVONIK and the SINOPEC Beijing Research Institute of the Chemical Industry (BRICI) have agreed to build a process development laboratory for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) membrane technology.
Type: News
IChemE and AIChE announce joint hydrogen webinars and annual conference
ICHEME and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will co-host a series of webinars and run an annual conference on hydrogen as part of the alliance they signed last year.
Type: News
Durapipe celebrates 70 years of bringing innovative products to market
Fluid management solutions provider Durapipe has been providing the water and chemical industry with durable, reliable, quality piping products since 1954.
Type: Feature
DuPont buys out UCD spinout OxyMem
DUPONT has bought out OxyMem, a wastewater technology company that was spun out of University College Dublin’s (UCD’s) school of chemical and bioprocess engineering.
Type: News
AN ICHEME student member is representing the profession on the BBC’s University Challenge – and has emerged victorious from the first round of the quiz show.
Type: News
Alvin Nienow wins Peter Dunnill Award
ICHEME Fellow Alvin Nienow has received the Peter Dunnill Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of bioprocessing.
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
LED pioneers win Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
FIVE engineers who helped develop LED lighting have won the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, in recognition of the technology’s contribution to reducing energy use.
Type: News
BASF to downsize in Europe as chemicals trade group warns the sector is at breaking point
BASF has said it must “permanently” cut costs at its European sites to protect the company from weakening chemical market conditions in the region. The blow follows warnings from the European chemicals trade group Cefic that the energy crisis has pushed the sector to “breaking point”.
Type: News
BASF and Sinopec sign MoU for China steam cracker
BASF and Sinopec have signed a memorandum of understanding that will further strengthen their partnership in upstream and downstream chemical production in China. Dai Hou-Liang, chairman of the board and president of Sinopec, and Martin Brudermueller, chairman of the executive board of directors at BASF signed the memorandum in Beijing.
Type: News
