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Josh Fearns awarded Ashok Kumar Fellowship

JOSH Fearns, a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Surrey, UK has been awarded IChemE’s 2022 Ashok Kumar Fellowship and will work alongside UK Parliamentary advisers to brief lawmakers.

Type: News

RAEng funds engineering department initiatives to bolster student diversity

EIGHT UK university engineering departments have been awarded more than £700,000 (US$850,000) by the Royal Academy of Engineering to boost diversity and inclusion, and address unequal outcomes experienced by students from underrepresented groups.

Type: News

Beware the Banana

Adam Duckett gets two of his five-a-day while asking for more systems thinking from politicians on net zero

Type: Feature

World-first electric steam cracker demo starts operations in push to slash emissions by 90%

BASF, SABIC and Linde have started operating a demonstration plant to prove that electrically heated steam cracking can significantly cut emissions from one of the chemical sector’s most energy intensive operations.

Type: News

NXplorers: Equipping young chemical engineers to build a sustainable world

YOUNG chemical engineers were given the chance to solve real-world problems with systems thinking, at an IChemE-hosted NXplorers workshop earlier this month. “The purpose is to empower young people and equip them with the tools and the thinking so that they can create the sustainable solutions that the world needs,” explained Tariq Hussain, NXplorers lead at Shell.

Type: News

Raffaella Ocone set to be 84th president of IChemE

RAFFAELLA OCONE, professor of chemical engineering at Heriot-Watt University, will take up the presidency of IChemE next year after being nominated to serve as deputy from June.

Type: News

IChemE proposes new rules allowing non-chartered Fellows and extending votes to the wider membership

ICHEME has proposed changes to its Royal Charter and by-laws that will decouple Fellows from having to be chartered and extend voting rights to associate and technician members.

Type: News

C-Capture uses ‘next generation’ carbon capture tech for UK hard-to-abate industries

UK-BASED startup C-Capture has developed an alternative to traditional carbon capture methods which could be a game-changer for decarbonising hard-to-abate industries like glass and cement.

Type: News

UK greenlights support for long duration energy storage projects

LONG duration energy storage schemes have been given a shot in the arm with the UK government establishing a cap and floor scheme to increase investment confidence in technologies needed to balance out intermittent renewables.

Type: News

Book Review: 50 Essentials on Science Communication

An excellent introduction to a topic that is quickly becoming a field of its own, says Yasmin Ali

Type: Feature

Help shape IChemE’s future (and your own)

With elections for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress scheduled for April, Adam Duckett caught up with three current members to discuss their experiences and why they’d encourage others to stand

Type: Feature

Ineos chairman says UK chemicals sector headed for ‘extinction’ following Grangemouth plant closure

BILLIONAIRE chairman of Ineos Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said the UK’s chemicals industry faces “extinction”, following the company’s closure of its ethanol plant in Grangemouth last week.

Type: News

A Galvanising Moment?

Adam Duckett on how materials innovation hinges on much wider collaboration

Type: Feature

UK government backs Cornwall's tin mining revival with £28.6m investment

TIN MINING’s return to Cornwall after nearly three decades received a boost last week with a £28.6m (US$35.4m) investment from the UK National Wealth Fund (NWF).

Type: News

Full-bore Biotech

Adam Duckett speaks to the University of Warwick researchers who are recoding microbes into competitive chemical factories

Type: Feature

UK government commits £200m for Acorn CCS cluster in Scotland

THE ACORN carbon capture and storage (CCS) cluster across Scotland will receive £200m (US$271m) of state funding, the UK government confirmed yesterday following this week’s spending review.

Type: News

UK cement industry ‘increasingly under threat’ as domestic production falls to record low

UK CEMENT production has plunged to a record low, prompting a stark warning from the industry’s trade body that the sector is “increasingly under threat”.

Type: News

My ChemEng Career Path: Emma Robinson

TCE talk to Emma Robinson, a graduate engineer at Nestle, about what her typical week looks like and being part of the IChemE's Nation Early Careers Group committee

Type: Feature

Phosphate Rocks Chapter 27: Broken Sunglasses

Chapter 27 in the serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry

Type: Feature

Jackdaw downstream emissions to top 23m t CO2e, Shell confirms

GAS EXTRACTED from the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea will be responsible for over 23m tCO2e of emissions over its 11-year lifetime, developer Shell has confirmed.

Type: News