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IChemE Energy Centre responds to UK Clean Growth Strategy
THE IChemE Energy Centre has welcomed the UK’s Clean Growth Strategy and investment in carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS), but says more could be done to enhance its impact.
Type: News
Putting human waste to good use
NUTRIENTS, energy and water will be safely recovered from the faeces and urine of up to 1,000 people a day, in a wastewater treatment trial in South Africa.
Type: News
India power station blast kills 26, injures 80
AN explosion at the Unchahar power station in Utter Pradesh, India has killed 26 people and injured more than 80 more.
Type: News
What to do About Creeping Change
A new hazard identification methodology can identify creeping changes, potentially averting catastrophic consequences
Type: Feature
STUNNING 3D images that show the effect of electric fields on ionic winds flowing from a flame could help improve combustion efficiency and reduce pollution, according to researchers.
Type: Feature
Part 1: Expanding the value and reach of IChemE’s professional development offers
Type: Feature
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
Type: Feature
What should we do to prevent the next process safety catastophe?
Type: Feature
HAZARD and operability (HAZOP) is a well understood, respected and employed technique in the process (and other) industries. It offers systematic rigour in challenging the design and operating intent of a new, modified, or established facility and provides a foundation for further analysis and risk assessment.
Type: Feature
Removing silica from power plant water
COOLING tower water could be reused and recycled ten or more times by using a new silica-removing membrane, according to US researchers.
Type: News
Wood Group wins contract for offshore LNG platform
HONGHUA GROUP has awarded Wood Group the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for its first-of-a-kind offshore LNG platform.
Type: News
Australia to set new national energy policy
A NEW proposal from the Australian government seeks to remove renewable energy subsidies and promote power from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, hydro or batteries.
Type: News
Ban the Steam Engine and Build Ten Hinkleys
As products improve and prices fall, the take-up of petrol-electric hybrids and 'pure' electric vehicles (EVs) might come much sooner. Today’s ‘conventionals’ will become obsolete long before they’re banned.
Type: Feature
IChemE Member Madeleine Jones wins Karen Burt Award
MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Karen Burt Award for a newly chartered female engineer.
Type: News
A Sneak Peak at Air Products’ Graduate Recruitment Process
Insights on how a major employer of engineers handles its graduate recruitment process.
Type: Feature
Fracking banned in Scotland “indefinitely”
THE SCOTTISH government has announced an effective ban on fracking activities, following “overwhelming” public opposition, and consideration of environmental and economic reports.
Type: News
Carbon Capture or Kettle Smart?
Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions than CCS.
Type: Feature
Petronas Chemicals, Saudi Aramco in polymers JV
PETRONAS CHEMICALS GROUP has sold a 50% stake in its PRPC Polymers subsidiary to Saudi Aramco for RM3.8bn (US$900m).
Type: News
Vapour jet printing personalised medicines
RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan have developed vapour jet printing technology, usually used in electronics manufacturing, to print pure, ultra-precise, custom doses of drugs for patients.
Type: News
