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Chemicals coalition calls on EU leaders to allow UK to remain within REACH
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit to allow the UK to remain bound by European chemicals legislation once it leaves the EU.
Type: News
US refinery shutdown serves as a lesson for process safety
“PROCESS safety is more than just life preservation, it’s about making sure that we look after the communities that surround us as well,” says process safety expert Paul Kenny.
Type: News
Work to begin on Tees Renewable Energy Plant
299 MWe biomass plant will begin operating in 2020
Type: News
Harbour Energy to cut 250 jobs in Aberdeen and review CCS
THE UK’s largest oil and gas producer is cutting 250 jobs in Aberdeen and reviewing its support for the Viking CCS project, blaming the government’s fiscal rules and regulations.
Type: News
Clean energy wins at IChemE Global Awards
ICHEME’s Global Awards saw The University of Birmingham’s Centre for Energy Storage, together with Chinese firm Jinhe Energy, triumph with their technology that can use surplus wind power.
Type: News
Chevron acquires Noble Energy in US$13bn deal
CHEVRON has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire independent energy company Noble Energy for an overall price of US$13bn, in the biggest oil and gas deal since the coronavirus pandemic.
Type: News
New zeolite separates ethane from ethylene
A NEW zeolite that can separate ethane from ethylene could “significantly” reduce the amount of energy and emissions needed for the ethylene production process.
Type: News
Engineering Net Zero Part 9B: Modelling of our Energy System
David Simmonds offers a tool to simplify the presentation of the long-duration balancing measures needed for UK's future power system.
Type: Feature
International group publishes safety guidelines for mining waste storage
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has published guidelines to improve the safety of mining waste storage to protect communities, workers, and the environment from the risks posed by storage facilities.
Type: News
UAE to expand green energy projects in Europe and Africa
WITH plans to become a clean-energy powerhouse that will place the UAE at the forefront of the energy transition, UAE-government owned renewable energy company Masdar has signed an MoU with four Dutch companies to explore the development of a green hydrogen supply chain between Abu Dhabi and the Netherlands.
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United Utilities fined £800,000 for illegally removing water from the environment
UNITED UTILITIES, a water and wastewater services provider, has been fined £800,000 (US$1m) for illegally abstracting 22bn L of water from boreholes in Lancashire, UK, in 2018. The company has apologised for “inadvertently” breaching the three-year rolling limit on its abstraction license and taken steps to prevent similar issues in future.
Type: News
The Design Process: Front End Engineering Design
In the second in a series of articles aimed at giving new graduates a better understanding of the current design process, Tom Baxter takes a look at FEED
Type: Feature
UK environment secretary targets waste reduction in pledge to make ‘reuse and repair the norm’
UK ENVIRONMENT secretary Steve Reed yesterday unveiled the government’s ambitious plans to reduce industrial waste in a speech to business leaders in London.
Type: News
Nuclear-power container shipping could be possible within the decade
NUCLEAR-POWERED container ships could be moving cargo in and out of Europe by the end of the decade, thanks to the launch of a joint study by leaders in the shipping and nuclear industries.
Type: News
Engineering Net Zero Part 8: Electricity plus Hydrogen, not Electricity or Hydrogen
David Simmonds concludes his online series with a call for greater systems analysis to develop a credible hybrid plan for net zero energy
Type: Feature
Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating
Type: Feature
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamlin, Ana Gonzalez Hernandez and Jonathan Cullen review the big issues facing engineers
Type: Feature
UK’s Manchester Prize focuses on clean energy innovation in second round
ROUND TWO of the UK government’s Manchester Prize has been launched, with this year’s focus on AI solutions that will “accelerate” the net zero energy transition.
Type: News
ExxonMobil to contribute US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre partnership
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will be contributing US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre. The announcement was made on 31 October at Singapore International Energy Week 2018.
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