4,985 results found
Remote tools: Undergraduate labs, under control
Joanne Tanner speaks to Amanda Doyle about lockdown labs and their future
Type: Feature
Methane emissions test site to be built in US
Researchers given US$3.5m to build and operate site
Type: News
ExxonMobil commits to US LNG export investment
EXXONMOBIL and Qatar Petroleum will invest more than US$10bn in the Golden Pass LNG export project in Texas, US.
Type: News
Update: 78 confirmed dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
ON 25 March the death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant rose to 78, reports the South China Morning Post (SCMP), with 56 of the dead identified. SCMP said this is the deadliest industrial accident since the 2015 Tianjin explosion.
Type: News
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: Forms of Contract – 50 Years and Still Going Strong
John Challenger recounts the development of IChemE’s Forms of Contract and trails the launch of a new Blue Book covering EPCM contracts
Type: Feature
Royal Society of Chemistry calls for a chemicals agency to overhaul ‘broken’ UK regulatory system
AHEAD of the UK’s 4 July general election, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is urging the next government to immediately establish a dedicated national chemicals agency to oversee and overhaul the country’s “broken chemicals regulation and management system”. The RCS warns of crisis, saying that the existing system could have a detrimental impact on industry, and the UK’s global standing.
Type: News
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS (SCE&G) and Santee Cooper have abandoned construction of two nuclear reactors at VC Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, South Carolina, US.
Type: News
Get involved, says Claire MacLeod of IChemE’s Learned Society Committee Responsible Production Working Group
Type: Feature
Australia must act now to own big downstream battery opportunity
AUSTRALIA’S government has been urged to act now if it wants domestic industry to push downstream and dominate the full value chain for lithium-ion battery production, rather than just mining the metal itself.
Type: News
Using CO2 and “green” energy to produce specialty chemicals
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in which they are developing a process that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) and renewable energy to produce specialty chemicals and could reduce CO2 emissions.
Type: News
Student team’s water sterilisation system wins sustainability competition
A TEAM of school students who designed a solar water sterilisation system has won this year’s Davidson Inventors Challenge.
Type: News
UK government launches competition for efficiency solutions in energy intensive industries
THE UK government has launched a Contracts for Innovation competition that will fund projects to test resource efficiency solutions across three energy intensive sectors, including chemicals.
Type: News
Engineering skills shortage poses “real threat” to UK circular economy
A SHORTAGE of essential engineering skills has been highlighted as a significant threat to the UK’s circular economy efforts, according to leading figures in academia, industry and government.
Type: News
Maersk investment group funding €1.5bn plant making fossil-free plastics from methanol
THE MAERSK shipping family are funding a new company producing fossil-free plastics from green methanol. Launched by Maersk’s holding company AP Moller Holding and headed by chemicals executives, Vioneo plans to spend €1.5bn (US$1.64bn) building a 300,000 t/y plant in Belgium that could start operations in 2028.
Type: News
US DOE awards US$38m for nuclear recycling projects
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding US$38m in funding to twelve projects aimed at recycling used nuclear fuel from the country’s commercial power reactors.
Type: News
Technology transfer: how digital trends in the consumer market might benefit process plant operations and asset management.
Type: Feature
Nathaniel Wyeth – Got a lot of bottle
Richard Jansen-Parkes looks into the life and times of Nathaniel Wyeth, inventor of the PET bottle
Type: Feature
