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Greener steel: Primetals successfully tests 100% hydrogen reduction process
PRIMETALS has successfully tested a pilot-scale process that promises several breakthroughs in the development of greener steel, including the reduction of iron ore using 100% hydrogen and the elimination of a key materials processing step.
Type: News
Sustainable method for recovering neodymium from electronic waste
A NEW method has been developed to remove neodymium from electronic waste using cellulose, which could lead to more effective recycling.
Type: News
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine designed to replace steam cracking with a greener alternative powered by renewable energy.
Type: News
Rio Tinto announces manufacturing research lab in Australia as it charges ahead with batteries push
RIO TINTO is building a battery manufacturing laboratory at its research facility in Bundoora, Melbourne, the latest move in the company’s efforts to make headway in the global battery metals sector.
Type: News
Sweden’s Northvolt hails sodium battery breakthrough
NORTHVOLT says it has made a breakthrough in the development of sodium-ion batteries that could help reduce dependence on China.
Type: News
Rio Tinto to invest US$2.5bn in Argentina lithium mine
RIO TINTO has announced plans for a 20-fold expansion of lithium extraction at a mine in northwest Argentina.
Type: News
Tom Baxter explains why he does not see a future for hydrogen fuel cells in passenger cars
Type: Feature
Switching to Green Energy in the Food Manufacturing Industry
How Robert Barrack and process engineering staff at Aurecon NZ provided their client with a concept to fully electrify their food manufacturing plant
Type: Feature
The Sustainability Hub: Why? What? Who? & How?
Trish Melton looks at IChemE’s new Sustainability Hub for members
Type: Feature
Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how real-time data and dynamic insights can drive sustainable change
Type: Feature
THE UK government is “confident” the supply of coke over the coming days will be sufficient for British Steel to continue operations at the Scunthorpe blast furnaces it took control of over the weekend.
Type: News
Turbocharging towards CO2-free cracking
ENGINEERS at Coolbrook and ABB have set their sights on replacing steam cracking technology with a novel turbomachine called the Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) that they will pilot at a chemicals site in the Netherlands later this year.
Type: News
FLSmidth leads work to electrify calcination in bid to cut cement emissions
ENGINEERS are building a pilot plant to electrify production of a clinker replacement that would reduce emissions from cement production.
Type: News
Johnson Matthey shakes up business in wake of battery exit
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) has sold its battery materials business and will focus more on hydrogen technologies, with the CEO restructuring the company after a period of poor performance.
Type: News
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the technologies available to decarbonise non-power sectors
Type: Feature
UK Autumn statement offers boon to research but little news for industry
AMIDST tax rises and expenditure cutting amounting to around £50bn (US$60bn), funding for research and development is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise austerity-focused budget outlined by UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his Autumn Statement
Type: News
New integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
FOCUSED on integrating technologies that capture and use CO2 in a closed loop carbon cycle, engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), US have built a small-scale machine that captures CO2 from flue gas and converts it to ethylene for use in industry.
Type: News
Major US steel producer and the US’ Purdue University consider using SMRs
HAS the time of small modular reactors (SMRs) finally come? With reported benefits such as increased safety margins in comparison to existing reactors, the ability to scale up or down to meet energy demands, and the potential to be carbon-free, both Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer in the US, and Purdue University in Indiana, US, have each announced that they are considering using SMRs to power their respective facilities.
Type: News
X-energy and Cavendish given £3m to assess Hartlepool ‘gumball’ nuclear reactor
X-ENERGY and Cavendish Nuclear have been awarded £3.34m (US$4.24m) by the UK government to assess how domestic manufacturing could support the construction of a novel small pebble-bed nuclear reactor. The pair want to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool by the early 2030s to help decarbonise local industry.
Type: News
US EPA to fund US$4.5bn worth of emission reduction projects
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) has announced grants worth more than US$4.5bn for climate projects aimed at reducing emissions in heavy industry.
Type: News
