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An innovative gas-fed fermentation process provides an alternative protein source for the aquaculture industry
Type: Feature
Hyundai wins contract for fertiliser plants
Consortium to build five Russian plants worth US$5bn
Type: News
Nanomaterials plant gives students huge responsibility
Nottingham placement students given input over design, construction and commissioning in SHYMAN project
Type: Feature
IN 1976, George Box opined: “All models are wrong, some are useful.” How do we assure that a model is not sufficiently wrong that it is useful? A useful model is one that adequately predicts the results under the conditions and scale required for design or a process simulation. Most models of course are not derived at design scale. We are inevitably working outside the envelope of model derivation. So how do we build confidence that the extrapolation is adequately correct that the results may be trusted?
Type: Feature
Clariant to reduce CO2 in steel industry
By-product gases can be used in chemical production
Type: News
Nanorods ooze water in high humidity
Discovery made accidently during nanowire experiment
Type: News
IT’S no secret that each year, eye-watering amounts of food go to waste. With that as a starting point, in 2014 we formed TerraServ, a South African company based in the town of Secunda. The aim was fairly simple, to develop processing of waste sugary foodstuffs – discarded mostly for ‘cosmetic’ reasons – into bio-ethanol based products such as hand sanitisers and cleaning products, under the EcoEth brand.
Type: Feature
With oil prices low, what does the future hold for the global petrochemicals industry?
Type: Feature
Polycarbonate can be recycled using glycerol
Simpler and greener than current methods in use
Type: News
