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Marlene Kanga to present at joint Chemeca and Hazards Australasia event
CHARTERED chemical engineer Marlene Kanga, who successfully campaigned for World Engineering Day, will present at the 51st Chemeca, held in conjunction with Hazards Australasia. She will speak at the events’ dinner, to be hosted by IChemE, in Melbourne, Australia.
Type: News
Optimising Safety for the Renewable Energy Sector
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
Type: Feature
Safety: My Five Lessons from Five Decades of Engineering
Tom Baxter shares safety lessons learned from across his career
Type: Feature
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.
Type: News
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.
Type: News
SSE begins work with Siemens to integrate hydrogen production, storage and combustion
ENERGY firm SSE is developing plans to integrate hydrogen production, storage and power generation technologies at a project in the UK’s Humber region, in an effort to balance intermittent renewables and boost green energy use.
Type: News
UK government announces £75m nuclear fuel fund
UNDER plans to encourage investment in new and robust nuclear fuel production capabilities in the UK, the government has begun accepting bids on a £50m (US$60m) funding pot for projects it hopes will help “squeeze out” Russian reliance while creating more jobs and export opportunities.
Type: News
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.
Type: News
NIA urges UK to be world leader in nuclear-derived synthetic fuels
A NEW report from the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) is urging the UK to take the lead in the production of synthetic fuels using nuclear energy to help hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as aviation and shipping reach low emission targets.
Type: News
The Chemical & Process Engineering Expo, CHEMUK, returns this May
The UK trade show for process, control, and plant engineers returns on 10 and 11 May and is free to attend. Keynote speakers include senior members of IChemE.
Type: Feature
Liddell, Australia’s oldest coal-fired power plant, shuts down
AFTER more than five decades of operation, Australia’s oldest coal-fired power plant, Liddell, has been shut down as the site prepares to become a hydrogen hub
Type: News
Major US steel producer and the US’ Purdue University consider using SMRs
HAS the time of small modular reactors (SMRs) finally come? With reported benefits such as increased safety margins in comparison to existing reactors, the ability to scale up or down to meet energy demands, and the potential to be carbon-free, both Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer in the US, and Purdue University in Indiana, US, have each announced that they are considering using SMRs to power their respective facilities.
Type: News
Peak Cluster: UK lime and cement producers join forces to capture 3m t/y of emissions
CEMENT and lime producers in the UK have formed a carbon capture and storage cluster – the Peak Cluster – to reduce the sector’s emissions by 40%.
Type: News
Book Review: In the Shadow of Piper Alpha
Ian Maloney; ISBN: 9781913836160; Tippermuir Books; £5.00; 2022
Type: Feature
RWE, Mitsui, and Port of Tilbury sign MoU on green hydrogen projects to decarbonise port operations
RWE, one of the UK’s largest power generators, along with global trading and investment company Mitsui and the Port of Tilbury have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop two green hydrogen projects that will help decarbonise operations at the port in Essex.
Type: News
Sika announces funding award for new concrete-recycling technology that stores carbon
SPECIALITY chemicals company, Sika, has announced that its reCO2ver technology is now receiving targeted support from Switzerland’s Climate Cent Foundation. The novel concrete-recycling process allows old concrete to be entirely reused while also locking in a significant amount of carbon dioxide. According to Sika, the climate protection programme is guaranteeing the purchase of CO2 certificates for an initial amount of CHF10m (US£11.2m).
Type: News
California sues ‘Big Oil’ for decades of cover-up and deception surrounding climate change
CALIFORNIA is suing “Big Oil” for more than 50 years of “deception, cover-up, and damage” that have cost its taxpayers billions of dollars in health and environmental impacts. The move was announced by the US state’s governor Gavin Newson, and Rob Bonta, the state’s attorney general.
Type: News
BASF commercially produces metal-organic frameworks for CO2 capture in world first
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hundred tons per year, after completing a scaleup project on behalf of CO2 capture and removal company Svante Technologies.
Type: News
Modelling with Excel Part 10: Test and Validate
Stephen Hall wraps up his series on how to use Excel for project engineering. Download the interactive workbook to experiment with the entire series
Type: Feature
Customer Viewpoint: IChemE Forms of Contract
IChemE’s The Blue Book provides a standard reference point for the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contracting model. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Hannah Smith and Vanessa Medina explain why it could not have come at a better time
Type: Feature
