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Nanomaterials plant gives students huge responsibility
Nottingham placement students given input over design, construction and commissioning in SHYMAN project
Type: Feature
Taking the P on King’s Day in Amsterdam
Dutch company Waternet makes sustainable fertiliser
Type: News
26 MW methane plant opened near Lake Kivu
Project helps prevent catastrophic gas releases
Type: News
Germany bans fracking after years of debate
End of five-year moratorium stokes quick action
Type: News
Operations suspended at Barrick gold mine
Spilled process solution caused temporary shutdown
Type: News
Unilever, Suchel build US$35m Cuba factory
Factory will make home and personal care items
Type: News
Bechtel signs US$15.2bn in LNG contracts with Tellurian
TELLURIAN has awarded four contracts worth US$15.2bn to Bechtel for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the vast Driftwood LNG export facility planned near Lake Charles, Louisiana, US.
Type: News
RENEWABLE electricity targets feature prominently in many countries’ emissions reductions strategies, but are all renewables the panacea that they are often made out to be?
Type: Feature
I HOPE the following will not be perceived as a rant; I have no wish to offend with an intemperate polemic, but hope rather to catalyse useful debate by reporting two illustrative cases where there was an exchange of views with the regulator. Both cases relate to hazardous area installations, but that is really beside the point. There are wider questions here.
Type: Feature
New Nigerian spill damages claims for Shell
Ogale Community and Bille Kingdom sue in London
Type: News
Deepwater Horizon: As it Happened
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
Type: Feature
Consequence analysis is extremely useful for informing designers and operators of hazardous facilities – if understood and used appropriately
Type: Feature
Why is it that the introduction of innovative process technologies appears to be so slow in the process industries? For example, the benefits of implementing flow chemistry at smaller commercial scales have been discussed for over a decade, and yet the reality is that new products continue to be realised through batch processes. Economies of scale and the two-thirds rule dominate the approach to large-volume, commodity chemicals, leading to highly centralised production, reliance on long-established process routes, and incremental improvements.
Type: Feature
Is Spider-Man Just a Big Gecko?
How introducing a biomimetic engineering course at the University of Canterbury led to unexpected research on the ‘existence’ of Spider-Man
Type: Feature
Bulk Solids Handling: Perspective on a Professional Blind Spot
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids handling and asks how can we get it right
Type: Feature
