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Celebrating IChemE as a Learned Society

Alexandra Meldrum recalls our learned society’s achievements and previews what’s to come

Type: Feature

Investing for a Digital Future

Financing options available for chemical companies looking to fund their own digital revolution

Type: Feature

Materials: Decarbonising Cement

Kerry Hebden talks to the researchers and companies aiming for greener concrete processes

Type: Feature

Giving a Client Value: Whatever That Is

John Downer explains how teams can understand and provide value to projects for clients

Type: Feature

Costain claims world-first as it completes FEED for Teesside elements of the East Coast CCUS Cluster

COSTAIN has created the first digital record of all the above and below ground assets in the Teesside industrial cluster, which forms part of the UK’s wider East Coast CCUS Cluster. The digital record aims to offer a “single source of truth” to guide development of future projects in the densely populated industrial area.

Type: News

UK’s largest pollution fine for Thames Water

Released 1.4bn l of sewage into waterways

Type: News

Industry and government should build on UK strengths to accelerate the hydrogen economy, urges UK hydrogen champion

INDUSTRY should work with government to create a wider hydrogen supply chain strategy that builds on UK strengths to help accelerate the growth of the nation’s hydrogen economy, says the UK’s appointed sector champion Jane Toogood.

Type: News

European Parliament calls for tougher stance on emissions

MEMBERS of the European Parliament have called on the EU to improve its climate change commitments, ahead of the UN’s COP24 summit later this year.

Type: News

Australian-first hydrogen project completes funding

HYDROGEN technology company Hazer’s commercial demonstration project – which will produce low-emission hydrogen and graphite – has completed funding. It has received investor commitments of A$8.4m (US$5.9m) and a A$6m loan facility, adding to a A$9.41m grant received in September 2019 from the Australian Government.

Type: News

IChemE opens member consultation on climate change position

ICHEME has launched a draft climate change position statement for members to comment on.

Type: News

Wood wins contract to engineer Ineos’ huge European chemicals project

WOOD has won a contract worth more than US$100m to help engineer a chemicals facility in Belgium for Ineos which is designed to have the lowest carbon footprint in Europe.

Type: News

Upcycling plastic bottles for the chemical industry

RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have developed a way to convert plastic bottles into porous membranes that could be used for molecular filtration in the chemical industry. The method has the potential to help achieve significant energy savings and “upcycle” plastic waste.

Type: News

Drax announces ambition to be world’s first carbon negative company by 2030

DRAX power station in North Yorkshire, UK, plans to become carbon negative by 2030 through its use of bioenergy with CCS.

Type: News

How to Size Lines

The fundamentals and best practices behind line sizing for a single phase fluid (liquid or gas)

Type: Feature

Careers in Chemical Engineering: Maria Papathanasiou

Yasmin Ali speaks to Maria Papathanasiou about how she ended up using mathematical modelling to answer questions around juggling the Covid-19 vaccine with the flu vaccine, and how the global supply chain would function if a need for regular boosters arises.

Type: Feature

Hydrogen: Deployment Barriers

What is standing in the way of hydrogen deployment and what has been overcome to enable development?

Type: Feature

Crown Estate awards first survey contracts for Celtic Sea floating wind farms

AMBITIOUS plans to deliver an initial 4GW of energy capacity in the Celtic Sea has taken a major step forward after the Crown Estate announced it has awarded the first contract in a multi-million pound programme of marine surveys to investigate potential floating wind farm locations off the southern coast of Ireland.

Type: News

Digital Transformation for Maintenance

How risk-based inspection and maintenance has kept workers safe during Covid-19

Type: Feature

AD out in the cold

Low-temperature anaerobic digestion demonstrated

Type: News

The Adaptive Engineer

Leadership is more than mastering the technical model

Type: Feature