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BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product development to safety.
Type: News
Global Status of CCS report warns ‘more to be done’
THE Global CCS Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to meeting the Paris climate change targets, but while significant advances have been made in the past year, there is a long way to go.
Type: News
UK must remain within REACH as it exits EU
ICHEME has backed calls for the UK to remain within the EU’s chemicals regulation (REACH) despite leaving the EU. Failing to do so will harm industry, the economy, public health, the environment and animal welfare.
Type: News
New MOF makes plastic manufacturing more energy efficient
RESEARCHERS have developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing iron-peroxo (Fe2(O2)) sites which could reduce the amount of energy required for extracting ethylene, the key ingredient in polyethylene plastic.
Type: News
Pilbara Minerals raises US$62.7m in equity
AUSTRALIAN lithium mining company Pilbara Minerals has raised A$91.5m (US$62.7m) in equity. The total amount includes an agreement with China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), an energy storage company, for A$55m in exchange for an 8.5% stake.
Type: News
Research project to revolutionise liquid waste management
AN Engineer at Aarhus University (AU), Denmark has received a US$1.65m grant to develop technology that could revolutionise liquid waste management.
Type: News
Carlsberg to halve water usage at Danish brewery
BREWING company Carlsberg has announced investment in a state-of-the-art water recycling plant that is expected to halve water usage and reduce energy consumption at its brewery in Fredericia, Denmark.
Type: News
LNG demand to reach 700m t by 2040, says Shell
ACCORDING to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2020, published on 20 February, global demand for LNG is to double to 700 m t/y by 2040, as natural gas plays a growing role in shaping a lower-carbon energy system.
Type: News
Coronavirus could lead to packaging material shortage, warns Recycling Association
THE UK risks a shortage in material for vital packaging needed to protect food and medical supplies, if councils cut recycling collection as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The UK’s Recycling Association has sent a letter to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), urging it to ensure that collections are maintained.
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Jacobs awarded more than US$25m in fusion contracts
JACOBS has been awarded several contracts in fusion power, with an estimated value of more than US$25m, by Fusion for Energy (F4E), ITER Organization, and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).
Type: News
IChemE can help to increase availability of Covid-19 treatment drugs
THE IChemE Covid-19 Response Team is supporting efforts to increase the availability of drugs that can help treat the disease and make it less deadly. Preventative vaccines are not expected to be widely available before 2021, making small-molecule drugs important for treating the disease in the meantime.
Type: News
ExxonMobil creates low-carbon business
EXXONMOBIL has created a new business unit to commercialise its low-carbon portfolio, which it is calling Low Carbon Solutions (LCS).
Type: News
Energy partners to develop claimed world-first decarbonisation projects
ENERGY companies Equinor and SSE Thermal have unveiled plans to jointly develop two projects including what they claim will be one of the UK’s first power stations with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and the world’s first major 100% hydrogen-fuelled power station.
Type: News
End of the Road for Wythenshawe Test Rig
How the UK’s least known nuclear facility has played a key part in keeping the lights on
Type: Feature
Process developers awarded £44m to advance UK hydrogen economy
MEMBRANE reactors, chemical looping processes and thermochemical splitting of water by advanced nuclear reactor are among dozens of hydrogen projects that have received a share of £44m (US$55m) in development funding by the UK Government.
Type: News
CENTRICA has been given the green light to seek approval to resume gas storage operations at its Rough field, which could more than double gas storage capacity in the UK.
Type: News
New ‘forever chemical’ elimination method ‘might be the start of something practically interesting’
A TEAM of multinational researchers has developed a novel method for breaking down environmentally persistent and toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Chemical engineer Paul Stevenson says while the method is promising, further work is needed to enable implementation.
Type: News
UK Labour party to set up publicly-owned green energy company if elected
THE Labour party have in their annual meeting outlined plans for an industrial strategy, which includes setting up a publicly-owned green energy company within a year if its leader, Keir Starmer, wins the next election.
Type: News
Final report into 2019 PES fire released
THE FINAL report into a massive fire and subsequent explosions that took place in June 2019 at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been released by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB).
Type: News
Scotland’s “renewables powerhouse” ambitions: strategy seeks rush from oil and gas
THE Scottish government has set out its vision of becoming a renewables powerhouse in its Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan – a set of priorities directed at transitioning away from oil and gas production as “fast as possible”, while significantly scaling up renewable energy production to provide cheap, green electricity to power the country’s economy.
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