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Funding to extract rare earths from coal
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded US$1m in funding to Penn State University and its industry partners to help commercialise a process to extract rare earth elements from coal.
Type: News
Talks under way for Covid-19 vaccine supply in Africa
JOHNSON & Johnson and multinational specialty pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare have reached an advanced stage in discussions for a potential Covid-19 vaccine licensing agreement for supply in Africa, with subsidiaries having confirmed a non-binding term sheet.
Type: News
New online platform helps pinpoint GHG emission sources across the globe
HALF of the world’s 50 largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions across the world are oil and gas production fields and their associated facilities – the same industry which is also significantly underreporting its emissions, a new database by Climate TRACE shows.
Type: News
Insolvency climbs among oil services firms
Woes continue as second study raises safety concerns
Type: News
Harbour Energy to cut 250 jobs in Aberdeen and review CCS
THE UK’s largest oil and gas producer is cutting 250 jobs in Aberdeen and reviewing its support for the Viking CCS project, blaming the government’s fiscal rules and regulations.
Type: News
Wood completes FEED for major Saudi Aramco CCS hub
WOOD has completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the first phase of Saudi Aramco’s Accelerated Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ACCS) project in Saudi Arabia. The project could capture 14m t/y of CO2 by 2035, which Wood expects to make it the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hub, once completed.
Type: News
Solar farms in space demo could be ready by 2030
A PLAN to use satellites in Earth’s orbit to harvest the Sun’s energy from space and beam it down to Earth using microwaves could be up and running as early as 2030, with the first-of-a-kind operational system delivering power into the grid by 2040.
Type: News
Industrial Aftermath: Project Ends Toxic Pesticide Legacy
Mag Sim of Pure Earth takes us inside the collaborative effort that cleaned up a polluted industrial hotspot in record time
Type: Feature
BASF approves investment in €10bn world-scale Chinese chemicals complex
BASF has approved the construction of the core of its €10bn (US$10bn) integrated chemicals site in Zhanjiang, China. The huge complex will become the German company’s third-largest site worldwide after Ludwigshafen in Germany and Antwerp in Belgium.
Type: News
European Young Engineers – Networking, Knowledge and now, IChemE
Laura Grindey explains how European Young Engineers (EYE) is shaping engineering and fostering connections, and why IChemE finds itself at the heart of it
Type: Feature
University of Bristol switches on fastest, greenest supercomputer
THE UK’S most powerful and greenest supercomputer – Isambard-AI – has begun to come online and researchers can soon apply to use it to make breakthroughs in the likes of drug and carbon capture developments.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 16: Feedforward Control – Part 2
In the second of a two-parter, Myke King shows how to apply feedforward control
Type: Feature
Total signs contract with NIOC for South Pars
TOTAL has signed a contract with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), to develop phase 11 of Iran’s South Pars gas field (SP11), the largest gas field in the world.
Type: News
Wastewater leak causes concern for Florida marine life
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contaminated wastewater into a local creek leading to Tampa Bay, Florida’s largest open-water estuary. Researchers are currently investigating the effects.
Type: News
Net Zero: Alternatives to Hydrogen
An alternative view for how the UK can achieve net zero for housing and other users, without the wholesale use of hydrogen.
Type: Feature
European Commission selects large-scale projects for funding
The European Commission (EC) has selected seven large-scale clean-tech projects for funding that will bring “breakthrough” technologies to energy-intensive industries. This includes what is claimed to be the world’s largest cross-border CCS value chain.
Type: News
At-a-glance information on what's in the second of our centenary theme specials
Type: Feature
The Problem of Waste Plastic and Why Pyrolysis Oil Might Just Contain the Answer
For Earth Day, Aniqah Majid speaks to chemical engineer George Huber who is looking to simplify the process of integrating pyrolysis oil back into the plastics production chain
Type: Feature
UPDATE: Explosion at Texas chemicals facility
A SECOND major explosion at a chemicals facility in Port Neches, Texas, has resulted in the evacuation of 50,000 people.
Type: News
