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Green investor partners with spinout for novel fluid flow characterisation technology

UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered to commercialise a smart, AI-based system expected to optimise fluid production in chemical, fast-moving consumer goods, food, and oil and gas sectors.

Type: News

Recommendations to support UK green hydrogen

UK TRADE association RenewableUK has made policy recommendations to help Government achieve its goal of producing 5 GW of green hydrogen by 2030.

Type: News

Hinkley Point C costs rise again to £26bn

THE COST the UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has risen again, this time by £3bn (US$3.7bn), and startup will be delayed by a further 15 months. EDF has blamed Covid for the changes.

Type: News

Chemical blasts in Bangladesh kill at least 41 people, say reports

A CHEMICAL blaze and explosions at a container depot in Bangladesh have killed at least 41 people and “hundreds” of others are missing or injured, BBC News reports.

Type: News

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