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Recycling mixed plastics together
RESEARCHERS in the UK have undertaken a project which aims to develop new technologies for dealing with mixed plastic waste. The project involves scientists and engineers from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT) and the University of Manchester.
Type: News
South Africa unveils 2030 power plan
SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) on the country’s energy generation up to 2030. The IRP aims to diversify the energy mix while attempting to address the serious problem of insufficient energy capacity.
Type: News
Industry pushes to keep staff safe and plants running
Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic
Type: News
Hitachi withdraws from UK nuclear project
HITACHI has announced that its UK subsidiary will cease development of its 5.8 GW UK nuclear project, which includes construction of the Wylfa Newydd power plant, on Anglesey, Wales. Work on the Wylfa development had been suspended since January 2019.
Type: News
Volunteers publish guide to help public understand fill and finish and drug product release
Members of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering UK Affiliate (ISPE UK) and IChemE’s Pharmaceutical Special Interest Group have published the following guide aimed at explaining to the public the process of fill and finish, and drug product release.
Type: News
Santos greenlights Australia’s largest oil and gas investment in close to a decade
SANTOS has sanctioned a US$3.6bn investment in the Barossa gas project off Australia’s Northern Territory, extending the life of the Darwin LNG plant and marking the largest investment in the country’s oil and gas sector since 2012. Concerns about the climate impacts of the project have prompted one group to label the project “a carbon bomb”.
Type: News
Remaining Relevant in a Changing World
New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett
Type: Feature
ArcelorMittal using DRI and Smart Carbon to achieve clean steel
ARCELORMITTAL said it will use direct reduced iron (DRI) and Smart Carbon technologies to reduce its global carbon emissions intensity by 25%, by 2030. The steel and mining company expects to invest about US$10bn to achieve its goal.
Type: News
Five Questions for Kwasi Kwarteng about the UK's Hydrogen Strategy
Tom Baxter asks five questions about the UK Government's new Hydrogen Strategy.
Type: Feature
UK Government props up industry to prevent CO2 shortage
THE UK Government has been forced to step in and pay for industry to keep producing CO2 after a rapid rise in energy prices forced fertiliser manufacturers to shut down operations.
Type: News
Brett Longstaffe talks about his role in engineering novel reactors
Type: Feature
A Cleaner, Greener Future: ‘We are Key, and we are Responsible’
Amanda Jasi speaks to Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold about how chemical engineering can help humanity survive and thrive
Type: Feature
Curbing Carbon Emissions with Green Methanol
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into methanol by direct hydrogenation of captured CO2. It now plans to deploy its technology at commercial scale and help curb emissions from the chemicals sector
Type: Feature
Safety is my job: Mike Rantell
Robin Turney speaks to Mike Rantell about his role in safety at Novartis
Type: Feature
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
Type: Feature
Experts gather to discuss how the discipline can contribute to the energy transition
Type: Feature
Experts gathered to discuss new safety challenges for a sustainable era. Kerry Hebden reports
Type: Feature
Experts discuss the role of chemical engineers in the future health system
Type: Feature
Question Time: Celebrate, Communicate, Inspire
As IChemE wraps up its Centenary year, Adam Duckett looks to the important contributions needed next
Type: Feature
IChemE releases ChERD Centenary Special
In a centenary special issue of the journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design, experts offer their views on the future of separations, 3D-printing, CFD and much more besides.
Type: Feature
