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Our Research Focus: Securing the future of water
Kariappa Karumbaiah explains how Hydroxsys hopes to place innovative membrane technology at the forefront of sustainable wastewater treatment
Type: Feature
Novel anodes for safe and stable seawater-based aqueous batteries
US RESEARCHERS have developed a battery anode based on a new nanostructured alloy that could change how energy storage devices are designed and manufactured. The novel alloy also progresses the potential of replacing solvent electrolytes with seawater, a safer, inexpensive, and abundant alternative.
Type: News
ExxonMobil and Equinor award FEED contracts for low carbon hydrogen projects
EXXONMOBIL has awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Technip Energies for its low-carbon hydrogen production and CCS project at its complex in Baytown, Texas, US. Meanwhile energy company Equinor has also awarded a FEED contract to Linde Engineering for its H2H Saltend facility.
Type: News
Southern Water fined £330,000 after stream pollution killed 2,000 fish
A UK court has fined Southern Water £330,000 (US$416,748) for a raw sewage leak in July 2019 that killed almost 2,000 fish near areas designated to protect nature. An alarm alerted the company to an issue early in the day, but they failed to act, allowing the spill to last for as much as 20 hours.
Type: News
Ethics Series - For the People: By the People
Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science
Type: Feature
Major investment in Pilkington UK’s Merseyside sites to save 15,000 t/y of carbon emissions
GLASS manufacturer Pilkington UK is making a “multi-million-pound” investment in its Merseyside facilities, one of the biggest the company has made in the country in decades, as part of a project backed by the government that is expected to save 15,000 t/y of carbon emissions.
Type: News
Speeding up Development with Data Analytics
Constant pressure to innovate? Boost development productivity with data analytics
Type: Feature
Prince William launches £50m Earthshot Prize for environmental solutions
PRINCE William has launched the Earthshot Prize, which offers £50m (US$65m) in funding for solutions to the environmental and climate crises.
Type: News
‘Green’ high-tech dye synthesis
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of synthesising organic dyes, that are of great interest to organic electronics.
Type: News
ExxonMobil announces 1,900 US job cuts
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,900 US jobs as part of ongoing global efforts to achieve efficiency, which have been made more urgent by the impacts of Covid-19.
Type: News
South Australia to host world-scale solar thermal plant
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150 MW Aurora thermal solar plant in South Australia, the largest of its kind in the world.
Type: Feature
Plastic Feedstocks: From Plants and Emissions
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers exploring novel routes to greener plastics
Type: Feature
Clean Steam: Greener distillation processes
Brian Williamson and Chris Jackson talk to Adam Duckett about zero emission closed-loop steam
Type: Feature
Piper Alpha conference: Chrysaor CEO issues list of challenges to oil industry
PHIL KIRK, CEO of Chrysaor, has issued challenges to the oil industry community at a UK conference seeking to secure a safer future for offshore oil and gas as the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha tragedy approaches.
Type: News
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Measuring Progression
Macsene Isles-Ahite, David Lloyd-Roach and Alana Collis talk about why IChemE needs to better understand its membership profile
Type: Feature
Education students differently, with a more scenario- and problem-based engineering curriculum
Type: Feature
Chemical engineers helping to close the loop on electric car batteries
CHEMICAL engineers at Imperial College London are working with Altilium Metals to prove that electric car batteries produced with recycled material can match those produced with virgin resources.
Type: News
Adam Duckett is reassured by the early signals from the new UK government as parliament welcomes an IChemE Fellow into its midst
Type: Feature
