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Learned society responds to Covid-19
It is a key part of our professional engineering responsibility that we use our skills and expertise to support challenges such as tackling the Covid-19 pandemic where we can. So, it is very encouraging that volunteers have come together to form IChemE’s Covid-19 Response Team
Type: Feature
EU prepares ban on PFAS in consumer products as industry seeks exemptions
THE EUROPEAN Union will push ahead with proposals to ban PFAS in consumer products, the EU’s environment commissioner Jessika Roswall told Reuters this week.
Type: News
Green light given to Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project
OIL and gas producer Santos has said it is proceeding with the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project, a 123 km pipeline that will run alongside the existing Bayu-Undan pipeline, so that gas can be transported from the Barossa gas field in the Timor Sea, direct to the Darwin liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility.
Type: News
DowDuPont revises split plans following merger
DOWDUPONT has revised its plans to split into three divisions following its merger and will change which businesses end up in which company.
Type: News
Lancaster to make major investment in engineering
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at the university. At the heart of its plans is a £17m (US$21.87m) building, that is to house cutting-edge laboratories and facilities, including a 3D lecture theatre.
Type: News
A Chemical Engineer’s Festive University Challenge
Chemical engineer and science communicator Yasmin Ali sits down with Aniqah Majid to discuss the energy transition, her university days, and her upcoming appearance on this year’s University Challenge Christmas series
Type: Feature
Landmark court ruling will see Shell reduce emissions by 45% by 2030
IN A landmark ruling, the Netherlands’ District Court of The Hague has ordered international energy company Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45% by 2030. Shell intends to appeal.
Type: News
New £15m research facility to boost UK nuclear
CONSTRUCTION of a new £15m (US$18.9m) nuclear research facility is underway at Infinity Park Derby to bolster UK development of small modular reactors, and fusion power.
Type: News
Ingenza awarded funding to develop carbon capture technology
BIOTECHNOLOGY company Ingenza is partnering with Johnson Matthey to produce formic acid from captured industrial CO2 emissions for use across a wide range of industries such as pharmaceuticals and agriculture, and as a potential feedstock for other bioprocesses.
Type: News
Plastics Europe launches ‘radical’ €235bn roadmap for industry sustainability
PLASTICS EUROPE has revealed a “radical plan” to completely redesign the European plastics sector, aimed at delivering increased circularity and net zero by 2050.
Type: News
The conversion of rocks to metals is quintessential chemical engineering which created the technological society. Martin Pitt recalls some of the less common metals he has known
Type: Feature
Essar Oil UK invests £360m in CCS at Stanlow
ESSAR Oil UK, which produces 16% of the UK’s transport fuels, plans to build a £360m (US$430m) carbon capture plant at its Stanlow refinery, in line with its ambition of becoming a leading low carbon refinery by 2030.
Type: News
UoQ’s A$13m research centre wants to lead the way on greener plastics
THE University of Queensland, in Australia is leading a new training centre that aims to become a hub for world-leading research in green plastic.
Type: News
Book Review: Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care
Clive Lloyd; ISBN: 9780367509538; CRC Press; 2020; US$64.95 (Hardback), US$20.65 (ebook)
Type: Feature
ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries from electric vehicles, which could contribute to sustainability.
Type: News
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industries – not just oil and gas – was a key conclusion at CCUS 2019: Capturing the clean growth opportunities, held in London earlier this month.
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett on the need to engage with equality, diversity and inclusion
Type: Feature
Solar Impulse wants 1,000 climate change solutions
THE Solar Impulse Foundation has established a new alliance, which plans to find 1,000 profitable solutions to tackle climate change.
Type: News
THE paramount importance of good safety performance is a message we need to continue to hammer home to our chemical engineering students, and since my last article (The Chemical Engineer 899), I have been involved in a number of discussions on how we teach safety at Loughborough University.
Type: Feature
