Learned Society Update
Claudia Flavell-While updates on the progress of IChemE’s learned society activities
Features
Climate Crisis Explainer
Amanda Doyle discusses COP26 and why it is important
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, U...
Novel Meat for a New Age
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Pyrolysis Gets Personal
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
The Carbon Collision Course
Andrew Perry looks at the challenges of tackling global carbon emissions, and asks when the worl...
Net Zero and Safety
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie...
Curbing Carbon Emissions with Green Methanol
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into meth...
Spiralling Up
IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE
New narrative needed for CCS
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industrie...
The Grandest Challenges
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Policy Perspective: Sustainable Transitions
Elena Demou explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
Carbon: Feeling the Pinch
Raymond Tan and Dominic Foo explain how pinch analysis techniques can be used to optimise decarbo...
Powering the future: the lithium battery that doesn’t get thrown away
Amanda Doyle speaks to Amrit Chandan, CEO of Aceleron, about the company’s battery pack design wh...
Digging Deeper
Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy
Waste to jet fuels project set for take off
Velocys is a company that has developed technology to convert feedstocks such as household waste ...
Capturing CO2 with C-Capture
C-Capture started as a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK i...
News
UK water industry sets 2030 net zero target
WATER UK has announced that it will develop plans to achieve net zero emissions across the water ...
COP26 postponed due to coronavirus crisis
THE COP26 climate change summit, which was due to take place in Glasgow, UK, in November, has bee...
Norwegian carbon capture research hub extends operations
NORWAY’S carbon capture research hub, Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), has been given government...
New view of chemical engineering to help serve society
RESEARCHERS have presented a new view of chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineering, which sees t...
Rio Tinto will spend US$1bn on reducing emissions
RIO Tinto has announced that it will spend US$1bn over the next five years to reduce its carbon f...
New Hydrogen Taskforce calls for £1bn commitment from the UK Government
IN A report to mark its launch, the Hydrogen Taskforce – which involves energy majors Shell and B...
LNG demand to reach 700m t by 2040, says Shell
ACCORDING to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2020, published on 20 February, global demand for LNG is to doub...
Equinor withdraws from plans to drill for oil in Australian marine park
EQUINOR has pulled out of controversial plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bi...
BP to leave three US trade associations due to misalignment of climate policies
BP HAS announced that it will leave the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), the...
New funding announced for UK decarbonisation projects
THE UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded around £90m (...
IChemE Fellow appointed as champion to help address industrial decarbonisation challenges
UK Research and Innovation has appointed Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IChemE Fellow and Professor at He...
New President announced for COP26 climate summit
ALOK Sharma has been announced as the new President for the COP26 climate summit, which is due to...
BP commits to net zero by 2050
NEW BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney has pledged that BP will reduce its emissions to net zero b...
Evonik and LIKAT achieve carbonylation breakthrough
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
COP26 launch overshadowed by political arguments
THE COP26 climate summit, due to take place in Glasgow in November, was officially launched on 4 ...
Drax and Econic partner to produce plastic using waste CO2
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
IEA calls on oil and gas to ‘step up’ its climate change efforts
THE oil and gas industry needs to “step up” climate change efforts, says the International Energy...
OGA Chairman calls on industry to do more for the energy transition
TIM Eggar, Chairman of the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has said the industry’s “social lice...
LSC member quits over climate change concerns
TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Instit...
Four new biofuel plants receive funding in UK
THE UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has announced funding for four new biofuel plants.
UK’s landmark trial to heat buildings with hydrogen is fully operational
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
Prince William launches Earthshot Prize to repair the planet
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
Drax announces ambition to be world’s first carbon negative company by 2030
DRAX power station in North Yorkshire, UK, plans to become carbon negative by 2030 through its us...
IEA calls for ‘bold’ action to achieve emissions savings through energy efficiency
ENERGY efficiency can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but with efficiency improvements slow...
Borealis and Neste enter agreement for renewable polypropylene
NESTE will provide its renewable propane to Borealis for production of polypropylene as part of a...
Producing cement using electrolysis
MIT scientists have developed a process to produce cement via electrolysis, which would lower the...
New lithium extraction process could revolutionise energy storage
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process usi...
Partnership to reduce steel industry CO2 emissions
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
South Africa unveils 2030 power plan
SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resou...
Future of clean energy discussed at London workshop
THE Fuel and Energy Research Forum held its Workshop on Combustion-related Research and the Inaug...
Milestone for molten salt nuclear reactors
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
Periodic Videos on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry win
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
Velocys signs CCUS agreement for its US biomass-to-fuel plant
RENEWABLE fuels company Velocys has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) to ca...
Shell and BP join consortium to tackle methane emissions
OIL and gas companies Shell and BP have joined the Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS...
Whitehaven Coal says it will survive lower-carbon future
WHITEHAVEN Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal producer, expects to survive a range of low...
Engineers gather to discuss global grand challenges
The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 took place in London on 16-18 September, with satellite e...
Cracker consortium aims to reduce carbon emissions
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will join...
Current European estimates likely underestimate fracking emissions
RESEARCHERS at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam (IASS) have concluded th...
Oil and gas majors are undermining climate goals, report warns
OIL and gas companies have approved US$50bn of investment since 2018 in major projects that under...
Report reveals policy gaps in UK Government’s net zero pledge
THE Science and Technology Committee (STC) has highlighted policy gaps in the Government’s plans ...
Partnership aims to build large-scale hydrogen storage systems
FRAMES Group, Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies (HLT), and MAN Energy Solutions (MES) have entered a...
BHP announces US$400m Climate Investment Program
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
Report calls for swapping fossil fuel subsidies for renewables to boost green energy
A REPORT by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has found that just 10...
