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New bacterium can improve wastewater treatment
A NEWLY-discovered bacterium strain could be used to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from sewage wastewater. The method is more environmentally friendly and cheaper than current wastewater treatment processes.
Type: News
Consequence analysis is extremely useful for informing designers and operators of hazardous facilities – if understood and used appropriately
Type: Feature
Digi-Bridging Biochemical Engineering Education
Preparing students for the digitally-enabled workplace, Duygu Dikicioglu and Gary Lye discuss the adoption of digitalisation into the learning environment
Type: Feature
IChemE Energy Centre responds to UK Clean Growth Strategy
THE IChemE Energy Centre has welcomed the UK’s Clean Growth Strategy and investment in carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS), but says more could be done to enhance its impact.
Type: News
Johnson Matthey set targets to lower waste and improve safety on journey to net zero
JOHNSON MATTHEY has announced targets to heavily focus its sales and R&D spend in line with UN Sustainability Goals, and outlined interim targets to reduce waste and safety incidents on its way to being net zero.
Type: News
UK energy security bill set to become law
THE LANDMARK bill announced as part of the Queen’s Speech in May, which puts into law measures to boost long-term energy independence, security, and prosperity within the UK, has been introduced into Parliament.
Type: News
Energy Institute takes over BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy
PUBLISHED for more than 70 years by BP, the Statistical Review of World Energy will from this year belong to the Energy Institute (EI), a chartered professional membership body for people working in energy.
Type: News
Plastic Energy commissions new chemical recycling pilot plant at Loughborough University
CHEMICAL recycling firm Plastic Energy has commissioned a new pilot plant to further develop and optimise its unique chemical recycling technology at its research and development labs in Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park (LUSEP) in the UK.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 14: Pressure Compensated Temperatures
Myke King shows how to pressure compensate distillation column tray temperature controllers
Type: Feature
Process and chemical engineer Ramin Razmi charts his journey from research to industry in the dairy sector
Type: Feature
IChemE’s new interactive case study to improve student laboratory safety
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has produced a new free interactive case study to help chemical engineering students conduct laboratory experiments more safely.
Type: News
Book Review: Process Integration Approaches to Planning Carbon Management Networks
Dominic Foo and Raymond Tan ISBN: 9781032242811; CRC Press; 2021; £59.99
Type: Feature
Engineers push to make zero emissions steel and cement from a single process
WHAT if it were possible to make cement as a byproduct of recycling steel – and power its production with green energy? This is the focus of a new two-year project involving researchers and industry from across the UK who are working to prove that two materials which are fundamental to society can be manufactured in a combined process that could help cut the huge volumes of emissions normally produced.
Type: News
BEIS Committee calls on UK Government to improve industrial policy
A COMMITTEE for the UK’s Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) says Government has failed to set out its approach to industrial policy after scrapping the UK’s Industrial Strategy. In a published report, the committee recommends next steps.
Type: News
New UK DEKRA Organisation: One-stop shop for High Hazard Process Industries
DEKRA announces the merger of its UK Process Safety and Organisational Reliability businesses
Type: Feature
Lummus Technologies acquires water and wastewater treatment technologies from Siemens Energy
LUMMUS Technologies has acquired water and wastewater treatment technologies from Siemens Energy along with intellectual property and copyrights, trade secrets, and research and development properties as part of the deal.
Type: News
Graphene-wrapped nanocrystals improve fuel cell
Innovation can improve performance of hydrogen cars
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 21: Validating Inferentials
In the previous article we covered the application of regression analysis to the development of inferential properties. Here we focus on their validation, prior to commissioning
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett looks at promising energy storage options that could help balance the rise of renewables
Type: Feature
