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Study confirms feasibility of green hydrogen in Australia

A STUDY by BP Australia has proved the technical feasibility of producing green hydrogen and ammonia, at scale, in Western Australia.

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IChemE member’s donation to support RAEng SME programme

IAN Shott, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and IChemE Fellow, has gifted the academy’s Enterprise Hub with a seven-figure donation that is a major boost to its mission of enhancing SME leadership.

Type: News

David Wood AO, 1937-2021

Obituary of David Wood, international statesman of the chemical engineering profession and first President of the World Chemical Engineering Council

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Attacks on Saudi facilities threaten energy security

AIRBORNE attacks on Saudi Aramco energy infrastructure demonstrate a threat to Saudi Arabia’s production capacity and international energy security, officials said after the most recent assaults.

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Sustainable Business Decisions

Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainable future

Type: Feature

Marlene Kanga awarded Queen’s Birthday Honours

MARLENE Kanga, a chartered chemical engineer who successfully campaigned for a global engineering day, has been awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in Australia.

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Shell to start building Netherlands’ new green hydrogen plant

SHELL has announced it has taken the final investment decision to build a new green hydrogen facility in the Netherlands.

Type: News

Engineers will suck CO2 from the ocean

CHEMICAL engineers at Brunel University London are developing a pilot plant to strip CO2 from seawater that will then suck emissions out of the atmosphere.

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Round and round: Newcastle University and Wastefront team up to improve tyre recycling

NEWCASTLE University and rubber recycling firm Wastefront, will use a new UK tyre recycling plant to improve the recovery of carbon black to help produce new tyres from old ones

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Plans to shut UK ammonia plant spark new CO2 supply concerns

CF FERTILISERS UK (CF) has announced plans to halt ammonia production at its Billingham complex due to “market conditions”, renewing industry concerns about CO2 supply.

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Centrica given the go-ahead for North Sea gas storage project

THE North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has granted Centrica the right to resume gas storage operations at its Rough field gas storage site off the east coast of England.

Type: News

Shell's CEO to step down next year

SHELL’S CEO, Ben van Beurden, is preparing to step down next year after nearly a decade as head of the giant energy firm, Reuters reports.

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Production at proposed gigafactory put on hold until 2025

BRITISHVOLT, a startup which says it intends to “create a world-class battery cell ecosystem” and help build a domestic electric car industry at its £3.8bn (US$4.4bn) “gigafactory” in Northumbria, will now not deliver batteries for another three years due to soaring energy costs, its co-founder has said.

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Chemical engineer warns lawmakers about UK’s cyber weaknesses

THE UK is routinely targeted by cyber attackers, with China and Russia posing the greatest state-backed cyber threat, says a parliamentary briefing report by IChemE’s 2021 Ashok Kumar fellow, Amber Keegan.

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Safety is my job: Sophie Horne

Robin Turney speaks to Sophie Horne about her role in the water industry

Type: Feature

UK and US leaders announce new energy partnership

THE UK Government has announced that the US will increase gas exports to the UK as part of a new partnership aimed at cutting bills for British consumers, and to help end dependence on Russian energy.

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Shell invests in used lubricants firm and buys Europe’s biggest biogas producer

SHELL has acquired a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental, a company specialising in the production of high-lubricity, low-sulphur marine fuel derived from recycled used motor oil.

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Crown Estate awards first survey contracts for Celtic Sea floating wind farms

AMBITIOUS plans to deliver an initial 4GW of energy capacity in the Celtic Sea has taken a major step forward after the Crown Estate announced it has awarded the first contract in a multi-million pound programme of marine surveys to investigate potential floating wind farm locations off the southern coast of Ireland.

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Yvonne Baker appointed IChemE CEO

YVONNE BAKER has been appointed the new CEO of IChemE and will join the institution in April.

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Companies eye Britishvolt site in the wake of company collapse

UK battery firm Britishvolt has received interest from more than a dozen companies looking to buy its Northumberland, UK factory site, after last minute talks to save the company failed. The company was forced into administration earlier this week.

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