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The £300 Industrial Secret that Changed the World
Martin Pitt looks at how acquiring gunpowder know-how shaped the world as we know it
Type: Feature
3M pledges to stop making and using “forever chemicals” by 2025
US manufacturing firm 3M has said it will stop making and using PFAS, a group of over 4700 industrial chemicals commonly known as “forever chemicals”, across its product range by the end of 2025.
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
Tony Margetts explains the industry’s challenges around connecting and collecting
Type: Feature
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
Equinor and RWE collaborate for large-scale clean hydrogen
ENERGY companies Equinor and RWE have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreeing to jointly develop large-scale value chains for low-carbon hydrogen. The news comes at the same time as Norway and Germany announce a decarbonisation collaboration across industry for the two countries.
Type: News
UK partners to advance inertial confinement fusion
FOLLOWING the US’s major fusion breakthrough with inertial confinement technology, a UK partnership has announced that it will design and construct a demonstrator for a similar approach at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Campus in Oxfordshire, UK.
Type: News
New energy and net zero department created as BEIS dissolved
A SIGNIFICANT overhaul by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will see the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) split into three new entities, including a department dedicated to energy security and net zero
Type: News
Chemical engineers explore upcycling microfibres released from washing clothes
UNIVERSITY of Surrey and UK-based washing technology group, Xeros Technology, have teamed up to accelerate research into upcycling the microfibres captured from laundering clothes into a useful and valuable carbon material.
Type: News
Australia’s biggest polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year from July
A REFORM to Australia’s climate safeguard mechanism means that more than 200 of the country’s heaviest polluters will be required to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 4.9% a year until 2030 under binding pollution caps introduced from 1 July
Type: News
Why Should Cybersecurity Matter to You?
IChemE has launched fact files on the importance of cybersecurity in the process industries. Helen Kilbride explains why cybersecurity must be on your radar
Type: Feature
Worker found dead after an explosion at a pharmaceuticals plant in Massachusetts, US
A WORKER has been killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a pharmaceutical plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, US, decimating a building, and sending a vat flying nine metres into a parking lot. This is the facility’s third incident since 2020.
Type: News
Rio Tinto completes transition of heavy machinery to renewable diesel at US California borax site
RIO Tinto has completed the full transition of heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable diesel at its borax operation in Boron, California, US. The mining giant said this is the first open pit mine in the world to achieve this milestone.
Type: News
Raffaella Ocone and Nina Baker seek out the stories of chemical engineering’s female forerunners
Type: Feature
MARK APSEY has been elected to IChemE’s Board of Trustees as deputy president and will become president in 2024. Adriana Vargas-Colwill will also join the Board as an ordinary member, while new Congress members include John Gunner as a fellow representative.
Type: News
RESEARCH projects led by the universities of Strathclyde and Sheffield in the UK are receiving a share of almost £1m (US$1.2m) to develop technologies to detect and process radioactive waste. The research strives to support decommissioning of the UK’s Sellafield nuclear plant and radioactive debris removal at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident site.
Type: News
Brewing Up a Storm: The Origins of Biotechnology Part 2
In this two-part contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt focuses on the interesting developments in biotechnology
Type: Feature
Taking a Look Back at Control: Part 1
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, kicking off with mechanical and pneumatic controls
Type: Feature
Obituary of John Griffiths, who was awarded IChemE's Hebden Medal for his work in the field of gasification research, development, and commercialisation, and died in June 2023, aged 83.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Health and Safety for Beauty Products
In the latest in her series highlighting the breadth of career opportunities in chemical engineering, Yasmin Ali talks to Séverine Convenant, an environment, health, and safety director at L’Oréal.
Type: Feature
