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Rockwell says no to Emerson offer
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a takeover offer worth around US$28bn from Emerson Electric.
Type: News
Emerson quits chasing Rockwell
EMERSON ELECTRIC has abandoned its pursuit of Rockwell Automation following a forceful rejection of its recent offers.
Type: News
Assessing the feasibility of carbon capture in the glass industry
C-CAPTURE has announced that it will work alongside glass manufacturer Pilkington to assess the possibility of using its technology to capture CO2 emissions from glass production.
Type: News
£70m for engineers to design and build advanced nuclear fuel plants
THE UK government is offering £70m (US$90m) for engineers to design and build plants needed to manufacture advanced nuclear fuels for the country’s next generation of nuclear reactors.
Type: News
Webinar: Improving Vacuum Distillation Profitability
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to enhance the process performance of vacuum distillation in refineries. A recording of this webinar is now available to stream at the link below.
Type: Feature
New cracker furnaces to reduce Shell’s emissions in the Netherlands
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new state-of-the-art ethylene steam cracker furnaces at its 4.5m t/y Moerdijk petrochemicals complex in the Netherlands.
Type: News
Chris McDonald discusses his career in metals, and why the industry needs more chemical engineers
Type: Feature
STREETS worldwide could be made greener and cooler by incorporating waste cigarette butts into asphalt, according to researchers.
Type: News
AstraZeneca opens new R&D facility
ASTRAZENECA has opened a new £1bn (US$1.3bn) R&D facility in Cambridge, UK.
Type: News
Fire safety will be discussed at Hazards Australasia 2018
FIRE safety will be a key topic at IChemE’s process safety conference Hazards Australasia 2018, with Dame Judith Hackitt and Stan Krpan participating in a Building Fire Safety panel.
Type: News
A century of chemical engineering at UCL
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of the chemical engineering department as it celebrates its one hundredth birthday, and outlined why the role of chemical engineers is more important today than it has ever been. He was speaking at the annual dinner arranged by the chemical engineering department’s student-run Ramsay Society.
Type: News
New York City sues five oil majors over climate change
NEW YORK CITY has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel companies – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell – for billions of dollars to cover its costs for climate change.
Type: News
Filtering fracking water for reuse
A SUPERHYDROPHILIC filter has been shown to remove 90% of hydrocarbons, bacteria, and particulates from contaminated water produced by fracking operations.
Type: News
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham Enterprise has launched EvoPhase, AI-led technology that optimises the design of equipment, including mixers, dryers, roasters, and blenders, for processing granular materials.
Type: News
IChemE sets out priority topics to 2024
ICHEME has identified three priority topics and published Learned Society Priority Topics to 2024, which sets out how the Institution will address these focus areas over the coming years.
Type: News
Steam cracking transforms waste plastic into new
A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which could be integrated into existing petrochemical facilities.
Type: News
UK workers in critical sectors could still send children to school
THE UK Government has announced that the children of those working in the healthcare supply chain, energy, chemicals and food processing sectors are on the priority list to continue attending school.
Type: News
IChemE joins bid to create Australian hydrogen research centre
ICHEME is joining a proposed Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) in Australia that would work to expand the production of green hydrogen and help decarbonise industrial processes and energy systems.
Type: News
Orica saves 1m t of emissions at Australian explosives site
ORICA has installed technology at its Kooragang Island chemicals site in Australia that has saved 1m t of emissions, significantly reducing the environmental footprint of one of the country’s largest emitters.
Type: News
