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Cattle feed and dye membranes win MIT water prize
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater and help reduce methane emissions from cattle have been recognised with prizes from MIT.
Type: News
Wastewater Treatment: When Renting Might be the Better Option
Plant operators are increasingly looking at ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of the treatment of the wastewater produced by their industrial sites. Here, NSI Mobile Water Solutions (Nijhuis Saur Industries) looks at how mobile wastewater treatment suppliers can help companies protect their license to operate and reduce their environmental impact when a rapid response is needed.
Type: Feature
Corn oil can remove heavy metals from water
Fatty acids in vegetable oil combine with metals
Type: News
First solar-powered desalination plant for South Africa
The first solar-powered desalination plant in South Africa will convert sea water into fresh water.
Type: News
UK regulator relaxes effluent rules as water treatment firms begin running out of chemicals
A SHORTAGE of chemicals used to treat wastewater in the UK has led the Environment Agency to relax rules and allow facilities to release untreated effluent. A lack of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers is causing chemicals supply chains to fail, an industry group has warned.
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Cornish Lithium gets greenlight to build UK’s first plant to recover lithium from hot water
THE UK’S first commercial geothermal lithium production plant has been approved as Cornish Lithium seeks to demonstrate it can recover valuable battery materials and heat from the rocks beneath Cornwall.
Type: News
UKAEA and Eni join forces to engineer world-leading fusion fuel facility
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority and engineering powerhouse Eni have joined forces to build the world’s most advanced tritium fuel cycle plant in a bid to strengthen the UK’s industrial leadership in fusion power.
Type: News
Webinar: how Tata Steel is speeding up development with data analytics
ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experiment design to optimise the development cycle of new products.
Type: Feature
UK government awards £80m in funding for greener heat projects
A PROJECT to heat homes with sewer water and the UK’s largest high-temperature water source heat pump are among the four winners of a share of around £80m (US$101.7m) from the UK government’s Green Heat Network Fund.
Type: News
How can the oil majors best measure energy transition and routes to net zero?
Type: Feature
Sponge cuts cleaning costs for oil spills
Interconnected structure absorbs oil but not water
Type: News
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralised food production
Type: Feature
Aquaporin partners with PUB to install its biomimetic membranes in NEWater facilities
WATER technology company Aquaporin has announced it is working with Singapore's National Water Agency, PUB (Public Utilities Board), to install its CLEAR Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis (BWRO) modules at the agency’s NEWater facilities.
Type: News
UK government launches lab in Gateshead to research heating from flooded mines
THE UK government has opened a lab in Gateshead in northeast England to research how heat can be extracted from water inside former coal mines.
Type: News
BP warns that world is on unsustainable path
BP HAS warned of a “worrying vicious cycle” of energy use in its new global energy report, as extreme weather caused a growth in energy use and a subsequent rise in emissions last year.
Type: News
Veolia to build Africa’s largest seawater desalination project
FRENCH utilities giant Veolia has struck a deal to develop Africa’s largest seawater desalination project, expected to provide water to nearly 9.3m people.
Type: News
Martin Pitt looks back on the history of drinking water and chemical engineers’ contribution to it
Type: Feature
IChemE Matters: Nominations sought for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress
With the start of the 2024 election cycle nearly upon us, we will soon be seeking nominations for volunteers willing to get involved in two important bodies: The Board of Trustees and Congress
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