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Solar paint turns wall into a fuel station

ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint, thanks to a novel hydrogen-production system developed by researchers at Australia’s RMIT University.

Type: News

BP, Shell lead energy trading blockchain plan

A CONSORTIUM including energy companies BP, Shell and Statoil is developing a blockchain-based digital platform for energy commodities trading.

Type: News

Landmark Piper Alpha Cullen report now free to download

THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), after IChemE lobbied to have the fee waived.

Type: News

Shell resumes production at massive floating LNG plant

SHELL has resumed production of LNG from its huge floating processing plant – Prelude – following a series of project setbacks that halted output for almost a year.

Type: News

Turnaround Kick-Off

Gordon Lawrence explains how to get your maintenance turnaround off on the right foot

Type: Feature

Materials Utilisation

The importance of materials efficiency in the fight against the climate crisis

Type: Feature

Set in Stone

Amanda Doyle speaks to Rahul Shendure about innovations for lower-emissions cement and storing CO2 in concrete

Type: Feature

Decarbonisation of End Uses

Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the technologies available to decarbonise non-power sectors

Type: Feature

Presidential Review: Restating and Reinvigorating IChemE

Ken Rivers reflects on his 18 months as IChemE President

Type: Feature

IChemE announces 2021 Malaysia Awards winners

SUSTAINABLE and digital innovations came out on top at IChemE’s 2021 Malaysia Awards, hosted virtually on 1 October.

Type: News

Biodiesel: The tip of the fatberg

A GIANT “fatberg” made of congealed insoluble matter will be converted into 10,000 L of biodiesel after it has been removed from a London sewer.

Type: News

FLSmidth leads work to electrify calcination in bid to cut cement emissions

ENGINEERS are building a pilot plant to electrify production of a clinker replacement that would reduce emissions from cement production.

Type: News

Turning the Dial – How Can We Bring More Women into Engineering?

Overturning some common perceptions and creating a more flexible working environment is essential to boosting diversity and tackling the industry’s skills gap. An outline of the key challenges that businesses, industry groups and the Government must tackle.

Type: Feature

Book Review: Empathic Entrepreneurial Engineering

David Fernandez Rivas; ISBN: 9783110746624 (paperback); De Gruyter; 29.50 (paperback, PDF, and ePub); 2022

Type: Feature

Ethical Project Management in the Wake of Grenfell

IChemE past-president Nigel Hirst asks whether you really know your suppliers and what their true standards are

Type: Feature

Safe AI Innovation Needs Robust Regulation

Aniqah Majid joined industry leaders as they came together for an IChemE roundtable on AI’s use in plant operation and the role of policymakers in its future

Type: Feature

Safe AI innovation needs robust regulation, warns IChemE roundtable

Industry leaders come together for a roundtable discussion on AI’s use in plant operation and the role of policymakers in its future

Type: News

What Matters to You?

Andrea Hosey reports on the latest IChemE member engagement survey, and finds out how we’re doing

Type: Feature

IChemE’s top journal reviewers recognised at WCCE10

A CEREMONY has been held in Spain to celebrate the top reviewers of IChemE’s journals.

Type: News

US to label cleaner construction materials to accelerate use of greener glass, concrete, and steel

THE AMOUNT of carbon embedded in construction materials could soon become much easier to spot thanks to the US government’s push to introduce labels that will bolster the use of greener steel, concrete, and glass.

Type: News