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ORNL crystals capture CO2 directly from air

Method needs minimal energy and chemicals

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Risk and Reward: Integrating GenAI into Educational Assessment

As GenAI improves, ideas of authorised or unauthorised use in assessment become harder to discern. Sarah Grundy, Peter Neal, and Sasha Nikolic suggest the controls the community need to use to ensure educational assessment remains secure.

Type: Feature

Seven Soft Skills to Help with Tough Engineering Jobs

How to increase your chances of doing well in leadership positions

Type: Feature

US nuclear plants abandoned

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

Built on Strong Foundations

Adam Duckett on the rich opportunities open to those with a chemical engineering education

Type: Feature

Every water and wastewater company in England and Wales under investigation for sewage spills

OFWAT is now investigating all 11 water and wastewater companies in England and Wales for wastewater treatment practices after launching four more enforcement cases.

Type: News

Graphene solar cells can work in the rain

Ions in water create electrical potential difference

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Refinery Safety Failures – Attitude or Engineering?

How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents

Type: Feature

UK launches £120m nuclear fund

THE UK Government has launched a £120m (US$149.8m) fund to unlock and accelerate new nuclear technologies while encouraging new players into the market.

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Our Research Focus: Spinning out, going green

Jason Hallett on why forming spin-out companies became routine, and how he hopes to help others cross the infamous investment Valley of Death

Type: Feature

Explosion occurs at Florida chemical facility

AN explosion occurred at a chemical facility in Florida, US, on 8 September in a storage area for an isopropyl alcohol-based solution.

Type: News

Rules of Thumb: Heat Exchanger Selection

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

Type: Feature

BASF to close US catalyst manufacturing facility

BASF has announced that in 2021 it will close its manufacturing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, which produces high-quality and proprietary catalysts used in chemical production – primarily petrochemicals.

Type: News

Helping Hands in the Health Crisis

Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus

Type: Feature

TerraPower and SCS install test facility to advance molten chloride fast reactor

NUCLEAR reactor developer TerraPower, and US utility Southern Company have completed the installation of the Integrated Effects Test (IET), a system to learn how TerraPower’s molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) technology will scale and behave at commercial size.

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Drax and Econic partner to produce plastic using waste CO2

DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the potential of using carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from Drax’s biomass power generation to displace oil in plastics production.

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IChemE member’s donation to support RAEng SME programme

IAN Shott, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and IChemE Fellow, has gifted the academy’s Enterprise Hub with a seven-figure donation that is a major boost to its mission of enhancing SME leadership.

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Yvonne Baker appointed IChemE CEO

YVONNE BAKER has been appointed the new CEO of IChemE and will join the institution in April.

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Mitsubishi develops 20,000 t/y plastics recycling plant in Japan

MITSUBISHI Chemical Corporation (MCC) will develop a 20,000 t/y HydroPRS plastics recycling facility in Japan. This is the company’s first HydroPRS project following a licensing agreement for the technology, signed in June.

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M Sam Mannan 1954–2018

M SAM MANNAN, a chemical engineer and pioneer of process safety, passed away on 11 September 2018.

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