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Surrey students’ clean water system wins Davidson Inventors Challenge 2025
YEAR 12 students from Surrey have scooped the top prize at the Davidson Investors Challenge 2025, for their “impressive” water filtration system.
Type: News
Neste forms partnerships to collaborate on renewable PET production
NESTE, an oil company that also produces renewable fuels and other sustainable products, is partnering with Suntory, ENEOS, and Mitsubishi Corporation to manufacture PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resin made with renewable Neste RE on a commercial scale.
Type: News
EXXONMOBIL has agreed to acquire Denbury, a developer of carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR), for US$4.9bn. Through this acquisition, the energy major will gain the largest owned and operated CO2 pipeline network in the US, along with proved oil and gas reserves totalling 200m boe.
Type: News
Cooling Down the Effects of Refrigerants
THE sense of euphoria surrounding the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol has somewhat subsided now. Last October the news broke that 170 countries had successfully negotiated an amendment to the Montreal Protocol Treaty and agreed to get rid of 90% of hydrofluorocar-bons (HFCs), and it was indeed time to celebrate. HFCs typically have a global warming potential 10,000 times higher than carbon dioxide, and with this treaty 0.5oC of future global temperature rise can be avoided. Good news for those hoping to see actions taken to stop or at least slow down the rising global temperature.
Type: Feature
BASF announces four research projects for reducing CO2 emissions
BASF has outlined four R&D activities that will allow the company to achieve CO2-neutral growth until 2030 as part of its carbon management programme.
Type: News
Wendy Wilson reports on the actions from the IChemE Member Engagement survey
Type: Feature
Meng Wai Woo keen to use ANZFChE role to boost the profession and regional ties
MENG WAI WOO, the new chair of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers (ANZFChE), has committed to shining a light on the profession and strengthening ties in the Asia-Pacific region.
Type: News
BP invests in AI to accelerate upstream projects
BP has invested US$5m in artificial intelligence technology in a bid to speed up projects.
Type: News
Siemens and BioNTech commit to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine scale-out, starting in Singapore
SIEMENS and BioNTech say they will build a Covid-19 vaccine facility in Singapore, as part of efforts to rapidly expand worldwide production.
Type: News
Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 3: FEED and Detailed Design
In part three of his four-part series, Steven King concentrates on front-end engineering design (FEED) and detailed design, bridging the gap between concept and construction
Type: Feature
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicomponent gas mixture instruments
Type: Feature
Tom Baxter argues the case for leaving the UK’s inert oil and gas architecture in place, rather than paying a hefty price for decommissioning
Type: Feature
Easter eggsperts: chemical engineers have chocolate eco-ratings licked
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider the environmental impact of chocolate and how it can be made more planet-friendly.
Type: News
Lego building for a greener future as it increases sustainable feedstocks
THOSE LEGO bricks you buy for your children (or sometimes yourself) are on their way to becoming more sustainable with the toymaker announcing that 22% of all its plastics are now made from sustainable materials. Though like the upturned unseen Lego in your carpet, the journey towards making billions of bricks sustainable has not come without some painful steps along the way.
Type: News
World’s ‘smallest’ carbon capture technology launched
CARBON Clean, an industrial carbon capture company, has launched what it says is the world’s smallest industrial capture technology, overcoming a key barrier to widespread CCUS adoption and industrial decarbonisation.
Type: News
MARK APSEY has been elected to IChemE’s Board of Trustees as deputy president and will become president in 2024. Adriana Vargas-Colwill will also join the Board as an ordinary member, while new Congress members include John Gunner as a fellow representative.
Type: News
Drax plans carbon removal business as auditor airs biomass sustainability concerns
DRAX is launching a new business focused on building power plants that burn biomass, capture the emissions (BECCS), and then sell the resulting carbon removal credits. The launch follows hot on the heels of the UK government approving the use of CCS at two biomass-burning units at Drax’s massive Selby plant in Yorkshire but comes alongside doubts from the national auditor whether burning biomass is sustainable.
Type: News
