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Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: How to Source Expertise
Grant Wellwood offers up a method for selecting how you source subject matter experts
Type: Feature
12 Steps to a Green Chemicals Score
Merck's free-to-all method for product sustainability scoring
Type: Feature
CO2 leaks: engineers join forces to understand the threat posed by greater use of CCS
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a large pipeline carrying captured CO2 were to fail. Known as Project Skylark, the research will help emergency responders prepare for leaks, and improve models used by industry.
Type: News
New plastic can be recycled repeatedly
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) have developed a next-generation plastic that can be recycled repeatedly without loss of performance or quality.
Type: News
Potential new processing route for nickel
HUGH Morgan, owner of Comet Minerals, has announced a new process which could be used to extract the company’s nickel deposits in Nigeria.
Type: News
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Using a vast array of mirrors that focus the sun’s heat onto a tower, the technology’s developer Synhelion plans to use its process to produce greener fuel for planes, ships and cars, and even low-carbon cement.
Type: News
Funding Available for Sellafield Cleanup Innovators
Sellafield Ltd is seeking game-changing solutions from chemical and process engineers to address the challenges of post operational clean out of nuclear plants.
Type: Feature
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
Type: Feature
Tony Margetts explains the industry’s challenges around connecting and collecting
Type: Feature
EU project targets nuclear accident combustion risk
A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of severe accidents at nuclear power plants has been launched.
Type: News
UK government lays out national vision for engineering biology industry
THE UK government has said it will invest £2bn (US$2.5bn) over the next ten years in engineering biology disciplines as part of a national vision to develop and commercialise opportunities within the sector. However, some experts say that while the announcement is encouraging, the vision lacks quantitative measures, and the funding is on par with what is already spent by government.
Type: News
Report finds gender bias in chemical sciences publishing
THE Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released a report showing that a number of subtle biases against women exist throughout each stage of the publishing process.
Type: News
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie Gilmour
Type: Feature
McDermott awarded contract for plastics recycling project
MCDERMOTT has announced that it has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract from Michelin Group to industrialise a plastic recycling project.
Type: News
ScottishPower plans £5.4bn investment in green UK energy infrastructure
SCOTTISHPOWER has unveiled £5.4bn (US$6.8bn) worth of contract opportunities covering the next ten years that will support electricity network ambitions and a net zero future.
Type: News
Partnership to reduce steel industry CO2 emissions
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel producer Baowu, and Tsinghua University, China to work together to reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental performance across the entire steel value chain.
Type: News
