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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
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
CO2 to SAF: A one-step solution
Oxford spinout OXCCU has launched a demonstration plant at London Oxford Airport to trial its one-step process of turning CO2 into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Aniqah Majid visited the plant to investigate the benefits of its “novel” catalyst
Type: Feature
High Court rules UK climate plan ‘unlawful’ – again
ENVIRONMENTAL groups have won their case against the UK government for a second time over its climate action plan, which the High Court has ruled “unlawful”.
Type: News
‘No credible offers’ forces Lindsey refinery to close
THE UK will see one third of its refineries close in just four months after the government announced no credible bidders have come forward to save Lindsey refinery in Humberside.
Type: News
Experts from academia and industry discuss the challenges in chemical engineering education and where it needs to go in future
Type: Feature
Why we Need to Engage with Primary School Children – and How to do it Effectively
Joy Parvin has 32 years of working in primary schools’ outreach under her belt. She reflects on why it is so important for chemical engineers to engage with the youngest in our society, and shares tips from three Children Challenging Industry ambassadors who are out there doing it
Type: Feature
Solar Impulse sets up clean tech alliance
Will build on legacy of round-the-world aeroplane
Type: News
IChemE Fellows recognised with 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded 2020 Birthday Honours to chemical engineers and IChemE Fellows Jane Atkinson and Nilay Shah for their outstanding contribution to chemical engineering.
Type: News
UK strategy is pivot point for fusion development
Experts welcome UK plans to build fusion demonstrator
Type: News
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over the next 5–10 years
Type: Feature
BP sells Alaska business to Hilcorp for US$5.6bn
BP is selling its entire Alaska business to energy company Hilcorp for US$5.6bn, including its share of the prolific Prudhoe Bay. The sale is part of BP’s wider efforts to reconfigure its portfolio including plans to sell assets worth US$10bn.
Type: News
Who Will Win Your Vote in the Trustee Elections?
With voting set to close at 09:30 BST on 16 May, you are running out of time to help decide IChemE’s contested trustee elections. We asked the seven candidates to introduce themselves and their ambitions for IChemE.
Type: Feature
Climate crisis explainer: what is COP26 and why is it important?
In November, the 26th UN Conference of Parties (COP) climate summit will take place in Glasgow, UK. Known as COP26, it will mark five years since the Paris Agreement, and it will be crucial that real progress is made at the summit in order to take immediate action on the climate emergency.
Type: Feature
Engineering options that can prevent sewer overflows
WITH industry forced to apologise for dumping untreated sewage into rivers, changes upstream including smarter sewers would help
Type: News
Rotork Supplies Actuators for a Fully Electrified Offshore Gas Platform
Rotork has supplied over 200 actuators to ONE-Dyas for the N05-A upstream gas processing platform, located in the Dutch North Sea.
Type: Feature
