Embedding ‘An Awareness of Sustainability’ into Chemical Engineering Curricula
Madoc Sheehan says it is vital that future chemical engineers understand and build knowledge of t...
Features
Snapshot: Eco-Friendly Fashion
US biotechnology company MycoWorks makes fashion eco-friendly with its patented Fine Mycelium tec...
Bringing Biomass to the Masses
A flagbearer for biotech companies looking to replace petroleum-based chemicals with plant-based ...
Microplastics Explainer
MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are...
The Science Behind Sustainability: Chemical Engineers Equipping Decision-Makers to Improve the Plastics Economy
To mark Earth Day’s focus on slashing plastic production, Amanda Jasi speaks to David Gardner and...
Let’s Go Round Again: Closing the Loop on Problem Plastics
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to J...
Oil Change: Using Microbes to Produce Edible Oils
With the food system threatening to crumble under the weight of a growing population, Chris Chuck...
Palm Oil in Numbers
Palm oil's impact and benefits in numbers
Sharing the Secrets of Greener Palm Oil
Adam Duckett interviews researchers working to optimise the palm oil sector
The Economic Case for Hydrogen in Domestic Heating
Despite its thermodynamic disadvantages, global energy technology specialist Thomas Brewer believ...
Liquid Metal: a Catalyst for Change?
Requiring temperatures into the hundreds of degrees to work, solid catalysts prove incredibly ene...
Fresh Nanotech Solutions to a Freshwater Problem
With fresh water in limited supply, ensuring water security is a global challenge demanding urgen...
Vendor Viewpoint: Unlocking Constrained Projects for a Greener Future
Decarbonisation must be the end goal for industry but getting there can sometimes be a source of ...
Soil Survivor: Using Nanotech for Regenerative Agriculture
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers using nanotechnology to help preserve, replenish and analyse soil
Engineering Net Zero Part 7: Energy Security and Affordability
In his penultimate feature on achieving net zero, David Simmonds considers the structure of the e...
Making Wind Power More Sustainable
Designed to withstand decades of strong winds and harsh weather conditions, wind turbine blades a...
Rules of Thumb: Centrifugal Pump Efficiency
Tom Baxter looks at how focusing on fluid efficiency can maximise cost savings while also reducin...
Imagining What Chemical Engineering Will Look Like in 50 Years
Duncan Barker got in touch to share a prize-winning essay that he discovered his late father Andy...
Life After End of Life
The limited lifespans of wind turbines and solar panels mean many of the vital materials involved...
The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Helping to Make Fusion Energy Sustainable
In the final part of our series on fusion energy, Mirjana Damjanovic and Lewis Simmons highlight ...
Back to the Future
Adam Duckett on engineers and readers predicting and shaping the future
Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Health and Safety for Beauty Products
In the latest in her series highlighting the breadth of career opportunities in chemical engineer...
IChemE Congress: Giving IChemE Members a Voice on the Issues that Matter
Lisa Julian is a regional representative for New Zealand in IChemE Congress. Here, she explains t...
Viewpoint: Heating Homes with Hydrogen – a Hazard that Should be Avoided
Tom Baxter’s TCE article “Home Hydrogen: Is it Safe?” generated a lot of interest from the chemen...
Fuelling the World with Biomass
Our reliance on gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel shows little sign of declining despite the push to...
Engineering Net Zero Part 6: Skilling Up
David Simmonds looks at who we need to deliver our energy transition, from the local technician t...
Cleaner Cleaners: Creating More Sustainable Surfactants
Widely recognised for the part they play in keeping things clean, surfactants act as a key compon...
Current thinking: PFAS alternatives for semiconductors
The semiconductor industry has long been reliant on PFAS but that could be set to change thanks t...
Our Research Focus: Achieving Zero Harmful Discharge to Sea
Benaiah Anabaraonye discusses the Danish Offshore Technology Centre’s role in developing and acce...
Vendor Viewpoint: How RotoDynamic Technology enables clean olefin production
Coolbrook CEO Joonas Rauramo charts the path to fully electrified steam cracking, a game-changing...
Engineering Net Zero Part 5: Consuming the Planet's Resources
David Simmonds explores the picnic basket of our energy transition, our increasing dependency on ...
Students, educators, and generative AI in peaceful coexistence
Stuart Prescott addresses the strengths and weaknesses of generative AI in an education setting
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation ...
Ethics and AI: Concepts and Relevance for Chemical Engineers
John McDermid considers the ethical implications of using AI in a chemical engineering setting
CAPE Crusaders: Exploring Career Opportunities in Computer-Aided Process Engineering
ESCAPE-33 attendee Tom Cowley provides his key takeaways from the IChemE-hosted panel discussion ...
Engineering Net Zero Part 4: Giving Industry and Transport Operators a Choice
David Simmonds has called for more choice for domestic customers when it comes to clean transport...
Should Green Ammonia be the Hydrogen Carrier of Today?
With decarbonisation on the agenda worldwide, engineers are looking for new ways to use hydrogen ...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 4: Hybrid Schemes and Analysis
Izak Nieuwoudt reviews the hybrid schemes that can help process engineers reduce the energy use o...
Engineering Net Zero Part 3: Turning up the Heat for Consumers
David Simmonds argues that there is no one-size-fits-all energy efficient solution to heating our...
Engineering Net Zero Part 2: How We Can Give Consumers Choice in the Push for Green Transport
David Simmonds discusses the need to accelerate flexibility when it comes to cleaner transport op...
Nuclear Waste Disposal: The Defining Chemical Engineering Challenge of Our Time?
Steve Reece of Nuclear Waste Services on the challenges of developing a geological disposal facility
Plastic Recycling: A Crosslinking Approach for Managing Mixed Waste
Amanda Jasi talks to Eugene Chen, Sanat Kumar, and Tomislav Rovis about the crosslinking solution...
Waste Away
Adam Duckett on our plastic plight and the efforts of engineers
Plastic Feedstocks: From Plants and Emissions
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers exploring novel routes to greener plastics
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 3: Improvements Through the Use of Novel Mass Transfer Internals
The push for fewer emissions and greater profitability are driving the development of more effici...
Engineering Net Zero Part 1: Communicating a Plan
David Simmonds opens a new series on net zero asking: what can engineers do to help secure public...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 2: Improvements Through the Use of Dividing Wall Columns
Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary dis...
The Rise of AI
Adam Duckett on the rise of artificial intelligence
CO2 Capture: Putting the Sea into CCS
Amanda Jasi and Kerry Hebden talk to companies developing technologies to capture CO2 from the ocean
The Role of Biofuels in Energy Transitions
Tod McGreevy and Ramin Lakani discuss the shifting dynamics of oil, gas and biofuels used for tr...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 1: Introduction - Your Greener Prospects
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportu...
Chemical Looping Diversity: Biofuels, Power, CCS and Chemicals
Adam Duckett and Amanda Jasi speak to engineers who are developing a variety of chemical looping ...
A Virtuous Circle: Chemical Looping has Solid Potential for Optimising Processes
Ben Anthony and Paul Fennell explore the advantages of chemical looping and call on governments t...
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Adam Duckett on the calls for rapid investment in technology
Our Research Focus: Spinning out, going green
Jason Hallett on why forming spin-out companies became routine, and how he hopes to help others c...
Air Storage: Weatherproofing Renewables- Reliant Grids
Amanda Jasi looks at projects that are compressing air to store energy
A Short History of Unintended Consequences
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Biobatteries: Harnessing the Power of Nature
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers who are developing novel batteries for military and environmen...
Flow Batteries: Chemicals Operations that Promise Grid-Scale Storage
Adam Duckett speaks to flow battery innovators about the history of the technology and what’s to ...
Engineers: Raise Your Voice
More chemical engineers are needed in industrial policy, says Chris McDonald
Iron Plan: Working Towards Emissions-Free Reduction
Kerry Hebden speaks to innovators piloting green steel production in Sweden, and a second team wo...
New Year, New Opportunities
Adam Duckett on new opportunities
Electrochemistry for greener steel
Amanda Jasi speaks to technology developers working to use electrolysis to reduce emissions from ...
A Wasted Life
Martin Pitt reflects on the history of the waste industry, including his own experiences
Southampton University: “We’re shaping the future”
Amanda Jasi reports from the official opening of the chemical engineering programme at Southampto...
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: A Tricky Client called Planet Earth
Tracey Shelley says engineering contractors need stability to execute climate change solutions
Reflect and Project
Adam Duckett recaps an inspirational year
Question Time: Celebrate, Communicate, Inspire
As IChemE wraps up its Centenary year, Adam Duckett looks to the important contributions needed next
COP27: Three Things I Would Revisit for COP28
David Simmonds suggests three ways that could help next year's COP28 deliver real results
Fast Followers: Speeding up the Global Energy Transition
As attention turns to the coming COP27 climate conference, David Simmonds looks at where some of ...
We Must Go Round in the Right Circles
Adam Duckett on the need to go around in the right circles
Question Time: Materials
Adam Duckett shares the major talking points from the latest centenary webinar
Materials: Making a Positive Difference
Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of...
Materials: Decarbonising Cement
Kerry Hebden talks to the researchers and companies aiming for greener concrete processes
Materials: Switch on/Switch off
Pablo Brito-Parada and colleagues discuss how SOSO technology could provide the paradigm shift ne...
Back to the Future!
Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before
Materials: Upcycling – Making Plastic Waste Valuable
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers working to realise novel chemical upcycling methods
Health: What’s the Formula for Sustainability in Pharma?
Zeb Ahmed discusses the growing demand for sustainable built assets
Book Review: Synthesis and Operability Strategies for Computer-Aided Modular Process Intensification
Efstratios Pistikopoulos and Yuhe Tian; ISBN: 9780323855877; Elsevier; 2022; US$190
Troubled Waters and Systems Thinking
Adam Duckett on low-water marks and engineering highly-complex systems
Book Review: Process Integration Approaches to Planning Carbon Management Networks
Dominic Foo and Raymond Tan ISBN: 9781032242811; CRC Press; 2021; £59.99
Food & Water: Using Water Smarter
Amanda Jasi reports on a project that aims to introduce circular symbiotic arrangements between i...
Food & Water: Water from Unconventional Resources
With clean water scarcity a major problem, Kerry Hebden looks at unconventional options for obtai...
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralis...
Question Time: Built Environment & Transport
A panel of experts speaking at IChemE’s Centenary webinar urged attendees to think and work toget...
Ethics Series: A Circle of Trust
Joan Cordiner discusses the world of professional ethics
Bidding Farewell to the Forever Chemicals
Paul Stevenson discusses options for remediation of PFAS contamination
Ethics Series - For the People: By the People
Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science
Safety: Protecting Plants Against the Environment
Adam Duckett speaks to Steven Fitzgibbon about natural hazard risk reduction
Book Review: People, Planet, Profit: Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Businesses
Kit Oung; ISBN: 9781637421819; Business Expert Press; 2022; US$17.99
Building a Sustainable Future
Kathryn Richardson talks about her role as Area Environment Manager at the Environment Agency in ...
A No to Windfalls and a Yes to Win-Wins
In the face of rising pressure, are there any alternatives to imposing a UK windfall tax on the o...
Dreaming Big and Changing the World Through Chemical Engineering
Amanda Jasi speaks to pioneering chemical engineer Robert Langer about his successes and offers a...
A Cleaner, Greener Future: ‘We are Key, and we are Responsible’
Amanda Jasi speaks to Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold about how chemical engineering can help h...
Bioplastics Promise
Nyssa Nair, Steven Pratt, Paul Lant and Bronwyn Laycock explain the use of bacteria to produce bi...
Brine to batteries: lithium extraction technology that’s sustainable and efficient
Amanda Doyle speaks to Teague Egan and Amit Patwardhan of clean technology company EnergyX about ...
The Hydrogen Economy Needs You
Emma Houchell talks about her role at Air Products, helping develop technology for the burgeoning...
Precision Fermentation: A green route for protein production
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Cow-Free: A possible future for dairy
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
The Sustainability Hub: Why? What? Who? & How?
Trish Melton looks at IChemE’s new Sustainability Hub for members
IChemE and Net Zero
Marc Allen provides an update on the work IChemE is doing to deliver on its net zero commitment
Sustainable Business Decisions
Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainabl...
Sustainable Action
Adam Duckett on sustainability urgency and optimism
Question Time: Sustainability
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
Centenary Themes: Sustainability
At-a-glance information on what's in the first of our centenary theme specials
Pure Processing for Battery Tech
William Hawker discusses his role in commercialising low cost, low emissions processes for produc...
Monitoring Methane – Meeting the Methane Pledge
Rod Robinson reviews the techniques available for monitoring methane emissions
Nitrate: An Emerging Solution
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
Recycling Needs You
David Hobson talks about his role in recycling and consulting on developing processes for the cir...
Poised Precariously
Adam Duckett on the frustrations and relative successes of COP26
IChemE at COP26
IChemE participated in three events at the climate summit
IChemE and Climate Change: Support for Chemical Engineering
Andrew Jamieson updates on how IChemE is ensuring that there are systems and resources available ...
COP26: Discussing the Future
Amanda Doyle reports from the COP26 climate change summit
COP26: The Glasgow Climate Pact
Negotiations lead to new commitments on climate action
Closing the Plastics Loop
Ivan McCormack discusses his role in the recycling sector, developing a chemical process to clos...
Future Fit
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
Towards a Circular Chemical Economy: Stakeholders’ Perspectives
Bing Xu, Umit Bititci, Melissa Marques, Mengfei Jiang, and Jin Xuan discuss challenges and motiva...
Overcoming Inertia
Adam Duckett on the need for action on decarbonisation
The Nuclear Option
Brett Longstaffe talks about his role in engineering novel reactors
Power Hungry
Amrit Chandan talks about his focus on growing and scaling his company's advanced lithium battery...
A Change of Clothes
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Five Questions for Kwasi Kwarteng about the UK's Hydrogen Strategy
Tom Baxter asks five questions about the UK Government's new Hydrogen Strategy.
The Signpost to Sustainability
Adam Duckett on the missing elements of the UK’s hydrogen strategy
Trapping a Slippery Foe
Alfonso Rodriguez and Charlie Espinosa explain innovations to map and remove mercury contaminatio...
The Engineer’s Gambit
We need to think more like chess players, says Tommy Isaac
Achieving a Just Transition
Amanda Doyle explains why the energy transition must be fair for workers in high carbon industries
Happy Endings
Mine closure is not just an environmental issue, say Anna Littleboy, Guy Boggs and Glen Corder
The Middlewich Job (the Pump Preservation Society)
In the fourth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to so...
Materials Utilisation
The importance of materials efficiency in the fight against the climate crisis
Tangled up in Blue
Tom Baxter argues against using blue hydrogen to produce electricity
Book Review: Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform
Andrew Hopkins and Deanna Kemp; ISBN: 9781922509048; Wolters Kluwer; 2021; US$65
Re-staking the boundaries
Adam Duckett on setting boundaries
Remaining Relevant in a Changing World
New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett
Catapulting the Hydrogen Economy: Catalytic Membrane Reactors
Humbul Suleman and colleagues explain how refinements to a decades-old technology can provide cle...
Time to Transfer?
James Colley offers sound advice on careers transition when you need to switch sectors
Decarbonisation of End Uses
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the technologi...
Heat Pumps, Boilers, and Decarbonisation
Tommy Isaac compares heat pumps and boilers, and which is most suited for decarbonisation
Book Review: Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
Dieter Helm; ISBN: 9780008404468; William Collins; 2020; £20
Pollution Protection for the People
In the second of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribut...
Zero-Carbon Electricity
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainabilty Special Interest Group discuss the technologie...
Producing Hydrogen While Storing CO2 in the Oceans
Mike Kelland and Greg Rau talk to Amanda Doyle about their clean-tech goals
The Chemical Industry’s Balancing Act
Lars Krause and Michael Carus discuss crediting the value of bio- and CO2-based and recycled mate...
From Wastewater to Resource
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down th...
Reducing the Daily Grind
Liza Forbes, Kym Runge, Mike Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench and Luke Vollert discuss a froth-free flot...
A Low-Temperature Heat Highway to Zero Carbon
In the first in a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute...
Action Plans
Adam Duckett on the US President’s climate push and jobs plan
Transforming Supply Chains
Industry will be forced to adapt, says Paul Hodges
Taking Aim
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of IChemE’s Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the futur...
How Can We Help Address the Harmful, Enduring Legacy of Bhopal?
Last year, IChemE’s President Stephen Richardson took the unusual step of writing to India’s Prim...
Deconstructing Runaway Reactions Using Dynamic Modelling
James Close, John Barker and Georges Melhem use a case study to explain the importance of underst...
Challenges for recycled polymers in Europe
An analysis of the increasing pressure faced by the recycled plastic supply chain in Western Europe
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Then and Now
Geoff Gill reviews how the accident played out, and the huge engineering challenges involved in m...
Fukushima in Numbers
The Fukushima disaster in numbers
Let's Talk Nuclear
Zsuzsanna Gyenes makes the case for the much-maligned energy source
The Net Zero House
Can net zero housing help the UK meet targets? Tom Baxter does the math
ChemEng: 100 Years at Cape Town
Jim Petrie and Jenni Case celebrate a centenary of chemical engineering
Calculating a Path to Net Zero
A chemical engineer working for the UK Government introduces two online net zero calculators that...
IChemE Sets Out Stance on Climate Change
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process ...
Book Review: Rewiring America
Saul Griffith with Sam Calisch and Laura Fraser; ISBN: N/A; Publisher: N/A; 2020; Free
A Circular Economy for Plastics
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
Net Zero: Alternatives to Hydrogen
An alternative view for how the UK can achieve net zero for housing and other users, without the ...
Decarbonisation Versus Profits
Mercedes Maroto-Valer discusses how the chemical industry can contribute to post-pandemic net zero
Malaysia Versus Waste
Malaysia has much to do, say Kok Siew Ng and Eleni Iacovidou
Green Commitments
Adam Duckett on IChemE’s green commitments
CCS: Costing the Earth?
Without an effective UK carbon tax, decision-makers cannot make the business case for carbon capt...
Decarbonising Electricity
A positive look at what has been and what can be achieved to reduce our carbon footprint
HyNet: Demonstrating an Integrated Hydrogen Economy
HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality
Hydrogen: Informing a Safe Decision to Achieve Net Zero
A review of the safety implications of a wider use of hydrogen, and the efforts under way to addr...
Kickstarting the Cycle
Opportunities from crisis
H2 and NH3 – the Perfect Marriage in a Carbon-free Society
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
Palm Oil: Better with Enzymes
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
Hydrogen: Making the Case through Life Cycle Analysis
How decisions on hydrogen’s role in energy systems might be made; industry collaboration and long...
Energy Saviours: Part 4
Tom Baxter explains why slowing down is better for the planet
Time for Change
Grant Wellwood calls for manufacturers to include environmental impact labels on their products
A Balancing Act: Covid-19 and the Climate
Amanda Doyle looks at how the crisis of coronavirus is impacting the pressing need to go green
After the spill: an introduction to the series
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
Misleading Metrics?
How can the oil majors best measure energy transition and routes to net zero?
Deepwater Horizon: As it Happened
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
Cross-industry Learning from High Hazard Sectors
How we choose to learn can determine whether we will repeat similar situations, says Gabor Posta
Addressing the Grand Challenges
Claudia Flavell-While looks at learned society priorities
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...
A wake-up call for change
Adam Duckett says Australia's bushfires should be a wake-up call for change
Triumph Out of Adversity
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonst...
Just Add Water
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Curbing Carbon Emissions with Green Methanol
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into meth...
Hot Water
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
The Grandest Challenges
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Plastics: Towards a Circular Economy
Using chemical recycling to tackle the problem of plastics waste
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...
Step by Step
Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as vali...
Dry Run
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Keep it All In: How to Bund with Confidence
Kevin Wheeler explains bunding’s vital role and offers a practical summary of issues to consider ...
12 Steps to a Green Chemicals Score
Merck's free-to-all method for product sustainability scoring
The Next Best Thing
Ruby Ray and Fabio Ruggeri describe an innovative process to produce substitute natural gas – a s...
Automatic for the People
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Digging Deeper
Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy
Energy Saviours: Part 3
Tom Baxter shares more options for chemical engineers to boost energy efficiencies
Separations under Control
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
What to do About Waste?
Conclusions from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s summit on future waste science policy.
Capturing CO2 with C-Capture
C-Capture started as a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK i...
Stripping Ammonia in Anaerobic Digesters
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Uses of Hydrogen in Industry
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
Snapshot: Royal Mail stamp of approval for engineering excellence
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Answering the Call of Nature
Dyllon Randall explains how bio-bricks can be grown from human urine
The Problem Solver
Solving a serious environmental problem on a maleic anhydride plant
Making Fuel from Water
How electrolytic hydrogen can help power our future
Keeping it Local
David Simmonds explains the challenges of pursuing major projects sustainably
Testing the Metal
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
UN report calls for urgent action to tackle chemical pollution
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without...
Clean Hydrogen: Part 2
Other methods of producing hydrogen, not from natural gas
Valve Safety & the Environment
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
BioSNG: Fuelling the Future with Trash
Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas
No More Lost Light Gases
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for ...
Clean Hydrogen. Part 1: Hydrogen from Natural Gas Through Cost Effective CO2 Capture
Producing hydrogen with carbon capture via the Low Carbon Hydrogen (LCH) process
Mercury Falling
Teaching artisanal gold miners to go mercury-free using a century-old technique.
Why Hydrogen?
THE cheap, abundant and seemingly limitless energy supply of the 20th Century driven by fossil fu...
Worth its Weight
It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing ...
Process Hengineering, You Say?
How a team of process engineers turned waste calcium hydroxide into valuable animal feed
Carbon Capture and Storage: Are We There Yet?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
From Slime to Sublime
The potential of algae to recover valuable resources from waste could transform the traditional w...
Governments Must Pull Levers
Adam Duckett on the need for strong government intervention
Developing Policies: What Can We Do?
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian ...
Creating a Sustainable Future – The Role of Material Selection
The one challenge that engineers of all stripes need to deal with is material selection.
Nereda: Redefining Effluent Treatment
There is a new player in the wastewater process sector, re-writing the rules of the game
Pet Projects
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Scottish Government Encourages Plastics Production
On click-bait and the debate around fracking
Industrial Aftermath: Project Ends Toxic Pesticide Legacy
Mag Sim of Pure Earth takes us inside the collaborative effort that cleaned up a polluted industr...
Process pioneer: Rodney Allam discusses the development of his CCS technology
As testing begins in Texas, Allam shares his thoughts on building emissions-free natural gas plan...
Brexit: The Impact on Energy and Climate Change
What are the likely effects in the immediate and long term?
Friendly Foams
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
The Privilege of Being First
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
Has Carbon Utilisation Captured its Audience?
A look into public awareness and acceptance of carbon capture and utilisation
Making a Dent in the Water Crisis
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
Landfill vs Skyfill
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
Shale Gas: Friend or Foe?
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
On the Level
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
A Battery Olympics
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
Lego makes plants from plants
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
Rubbish Roads
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
Applying Chemistry
How chemical engineering developed in Nigeria
Securing a Safe Future for Gas
Hydrogen: a way to provide safe, sustainable and clean energy to satisfy rising demand and meet ...
Demolition Man
Expert observations of demolition dangers and how to avoid them
South Australia to host world-scale solar thermal plant
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150...
A South African Challenge
Mobilising chemical engineering resources to mitigate drought
Get Ready
Chemical engineers: start answering climate change questions now
A Greener Future for IChemE
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
Buses Full of Beans
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Solar-Powered Water Purification Wins Top Prize
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Something in the water
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
An urgent request: new decommissioning head must bring fresh-thinking to wrong-headed plans
THE appointment this week of a new head of decommissioning at the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) ...
Scotland’s Fracking Ban – Politics Trumps Expert Advice
THE Scottish government’s recent announcement on fracking was no surprise. No amount of evidence-...
Carbon Capture or Kettle Smart?
Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions th...
A Beacon for Biotech
Neil Clark ventures inside University of Nottingham’s new green chemicals hub
Surviving the storm
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
Gassnova’s Trude Sundset on the importance of CCS
Trude Sundset, CEO of Gassnova and a chemical engineer by training, tells Helen Tunnicliffe why c...
CCS: Why bother?
Carbon capture and storage costs money, so why bother? On the CCS Safari, Helen Tunnicliffe found...
Ambition Made Real
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
CCS: Carbon Capture and Strategy
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
Turning Ocean Trash into Cash
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
Smarter Water Technologies
With water accessibility increasingly under threat, technology leads the mining industry's effort...
Thomas Midgley – A troubled legacy
From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley
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NXplorers: Equipping young chemical engineers to build a sustainable world
YOUNG chemical engineers were given the chance to solve real-world problems with systems thinking...
US polluters will pay for PFAS contamination cleanup following EPA ruling
PFAS polluters have been targeted by new legislation introduced by the US labelling two widely us...
US approves Texas offshore oil port despite environmental outcry
THE US has given the greenlight for Enterprise Products Partners to begin construction on a deepw...
Mura and Ghent Uni join forces to extend recycling process to other problem plastics
MURA TECHNOLOGY, the firm behind a plastics recycling demonstration plant that’s under constructi...
US environmentalists call for ‘total ban’ on PFAS usage in response to new standard
THE LONG-AWAITED US standard for PFAS in drinking water has been met with a lukewarm response fro...
3M to pay water companies up to US$12.5bn over PFAS contamination
3M will pay US public water companies up to US$12.5bn to tackle PFAS, after a district court gave...
Dow and P&G partner to create polyethylene recycling technology
DOW and Procter & Gamble (P&G) are jointly developing a new process to recover near-virgin qualit...
Boston Metals’ electrified process starts extracting valuable metals from mining slag
A PILOT plant that recovers metals from mining waste has started operations in Brazil, as develop...
Cranfield awarded £69m for R&D hub to demonstrate hydrogen in aviation
THE UK’s Cranfield University will spearhead a £69m (US$87m) research and development hub to demo...
Iberdrola provides €41bn boost to electrification
IN A BID to accelerate electrification of industry, energy company Iberdrola will invest €41bn (U...
UK awards AI projects £1.73m to help decarbonise energy and transport
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) projects that could help optimise renewables and increase industrial...
IChemE Matters – April 2024
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for ...
SSAB and Exxon among project partners in US$6bn US decarbonisation scheme
SWEDISH conglomerate SSAB and ExxonMobil are among the companies selected by the US to deliver va...
Joint ventures announce £4bn in contracts for the UK’s East Coast Cluster
NET ZERO TEESSIDE POWER and the Northern Endurance Partnership have announced engineering, procur...
Costain claims world-first as it completes FEED for Teesside elements of the East Coast CCUS Cluster
COSTAIN has created the first digital record of all the above and below ground assets in the Tees...
UK CCUS strategy ‘outdated’ for current industry use
THE UK’s current carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) strategy is overpromising and failing ...
Regulators urged to embrace systems thinking to deliver on net zero
WELL-DESIGNED green regulation can help the UK deliver on its net zero commitments, while also dr...
Water companies’ £180m sewerage investment must target ‘those responsible for the largest polluting flows’
WATER expert Tom Stephenson says it is vital that water companies target the worst polluting rele...
Water scarcity competition offers US$119m incentive to rethink desalination
XPRIZE has launched a five-year competition aimed at improving large-scale clean water access.
UKRI pumps in £100m to transform engineering biology projects
RESEARCHERS working to combat plastic pollution, improve metals circularity, and develop novel fo...
UK quits ‘climate-wrecking’ Energy Charter Treaty after efforts to modernise it fail
The UK government is leaving the “outdated” and controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an int...
New Zealand bans PFAS in cosmetics
NEW ZEALAND has banned the use of PFAS in cosmetic products from the end of 2026 to protect consu...
UK Space Agency announces £3.5m funding to make satellites more sustainable
THE UK Space Agency has announced millions in funding for work aimed at prolonging the life of sa...
Isuru Udugama, 1990-2023
Obituary of Isuru Udugama, a senior lecturer at The University of Auckland and prolific academic ...
Award of 24 UK oil and gas licences labelled “grossly irresponsible”
THE UK North Sea Transition Authority’s award of 24 oil and gas licences in the 33rd licensing ro...
BHP and Vale ordered to pay US$9.6bn in damages over fatal Samarco dam collapse
A BRAZILIAN federal judge has ordered mining majors BHP and Vale, along with their joint venture ...
ScottishPower plans £5.4bn investment in green UK energy infrastructure
SCOTTISHPOWER has unveiled £5.4bn (US$6.8bn) worth of contract opportunities covering the next te...
UK government awards £80m in funding for greener heat projects
A PROJECT to heat homes with sewer water and the UK’s largest high-temperature water source heat ...
Shell sells Nigerian onshore oil business in deal worth US$2.4bn
SHELL has agreed to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary, The Shell Petroleum Development Company...
Winston Mellowes, 1941-2023
Obituary of Winston Mellowes, an expert in the technology of sugar cane processing, Professor Eme...
Xampla and 2M awarded Innovate grant to scale up production of biodegradable materials
XAMPLA, a company specialising in natural, biodegradable materials, has been awarded the Innovate...
UK publishes a “blueprint” for becoming a carbon capture leader
THE UK government’s CCUS Vision is a “blueprint to deliver a world-leading UK carbon capture indu...
UK’s Redcar ‘hydrogen village’ trial cancelled due to insufficient feedstock supply
THE UK government will not be proceeding with a controversial hydrogen trial in Redcar. Northern ...
COP28 deal: a starting gun fired for the end of fossil fuels?
COUNTRIES have agreed at the COP28 climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels and tr...
IChemE and ITN launch “Engineering a Sustainable World” programme
ICHEME has produced a programme with ITN showing the roles that chemical and process engineers pl...
ExxonMobil starts drilling at prolific lithium resource site as it targets energy transition leadership
EXXONMOBIL’s plan to become a leading lithium producer moved a step closer with the first phase o...
US unveils up to US$3.5bn funding to expand domestic battery manufacturing
THE White House has announced up to US$3.5bn in funding to strengthen domestic battery manufactur...
Equinor and Captura partner to scale up direct ocean capture
INTERNATIONAL energy company Equinor has partnered with Captura to develop the direct ocean captu...
TfS white paper explores new approaches to counting carbon in chemical sector
A WHITE paper released by global chemical initiative Together for Sustainability (TfS) has i...
Solar-powered dryers and greener electric car batteries among £1m Earthshot winners
A BATTERY that uses a water-soluble binding composite to make it easy to recycle, and solar techn...
King’s speech draws fire from environmentalists as oil and gas claims branded “distraction tactics”
“IT SIMPLY won’t do what the prime minister claims,” said Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, after th...
Consortium successfully operates gas turbine with 100% renewable hydrogen
A CONSORTIUM led by Siemens Energy has successfully operated a gas turbine with 100% renewable en...
BASF commercially produces metal-organic frameworks for CO2 capture in world first
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hun...
Heriot-Watt students launch Global Sustainability Week ahead of COP28
TO CELEBRATE and promote sustainability, students at Heriot-Watt University are leading a series ...
Two workers at Fukushima nuclear site hospitalised after being splashed with contaminated fluid
TWO contractors are under observation in hospital after they were exposed to contaminated liquid ...
IChemE Matters – November 2023
Nigel Hirst on the merits of mentoring; Allyson Woodford previews Chemeca 2023 and readers respon...
Welsh Water admits illegally spilling sewage at dozens of treatment plants for years
WELSH WATER has admitted to spilling untreated sewage at dozens of treatment plants for years. Da...
Applications open for Australia’s A$2bn green hydrogen scale-up programme
APPLICATIONS have opened for the Australian government’s A$2bn (US$1.3bn) Hydrogen Headstart prog...
Engineers successfully trial single process to produce zero emissions steel and cement
ENGINEERS working on a process to produce zero-emission cement as a byproduct of recycling steel ...
ExxonMobil gambles US$60bn on shale oil buyout
EXXONMOBIL has placed a US$60bn bet on US shale oil with the purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources.
US ammonia tanker spill kills five, injures seven
ANHYDROUS ammonia released from a tanker during a traffic incident in Teutopolis, US, is believed...
Lightning strike destroys biogas tanks at Severn Trent food waste recycling facility
“STANDARDS need to be followed for this very well-known risk,” stressed IChemE Safety Centre dire...
Greenpeace brands UK government ‘reckless’ as the North Sea Transition Authority greenlights Rosebank oil and gas project
GREENPEACE UK climate campaigner Phillip Evans accused the UK government of making a “reckless de...
UK’s first 21 carbon storage licences handed out by North Sea Transition Authority
FOURTEEN companies have been awarded 21 licences by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in ...
Worley awarded FEED work for huge Queensland renewable hydrogen project
WORLEY has been awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for what is said to be c...
Prince William unveils third class of Earthshot Prize finalists leading the way in climate change solutions
A GREENER and more easily recycled lithium-ion battery, a microbial fuel cell for cleaning water ...
Adisa Azapagic awarded IChemE’s Davis Medal
ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded...
California sues ‘Big Oil’ for decades of cover-up and deception surrounding climate change
CALIFORNIA is suing “Big Oil” for more than 50 years of “deception, cover-up, and damage” that ha...
UK clean energy auction fails to secure offshore wind bids as government accused of ‘complacency and incompetence’
HAVING failed to heed warnings that its offshore wind budget in the latest Contracts for Differen...
Industry doubts new planning measures for England effectively lift de facto ban on onshore wind
THE UK government has announced changes to planning policy in England that it says will allow ons...
Final deuterium-tritium tests begin at the UK-based Joint European Torus fusion facility
YESTERDAY scientists and engineers at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham site, in Oxfordshir...
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 i...
Occidental agrees to acquire direct air capture developer Carbon Engineering
OXY LOW CARBON VENTURES, a wholly owned subsidiary of international energy company Occidental, wi...
Futraheat seeks UK industrial partner to host £1m heat pump trial following funding boost
FUTRAHEAT, an industrial heat pump startup, has received £689,000 (US$871,000) from national fund...
Low-carbon industries must inspire young recruits and support worker transitions to fill the UK green skills gap
LOW-CARBON industries such as hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear, need to promote careers outr...
Imperial to lead £118m green minerals research centre
A NEW £118m (US$150m) research centre at Imperial College London will work to transform mineral e...
MOF capture firm secures £3.4m funding for UK CCS pilot
NUADA, which is developing a MOF-based carbon capture process, has received £3.4m (US$4.3m) inves...
Tokamak Energy partners up to accelerate commercialisation of fusion energy
UK-BASED fusion energy company Tokamak Energy and Japanese-headquartered Sumitomo Corporation hav...
Greentech company announces first of 16 pyrolysis hubs that will form the UK’s biggest carbon removal initiative
ONNU, which transforms biomass into valuable biochar that acts as a carbon sink, has announced pl...
Scottish researchers explore novel PET recycling approach to produce pharmaceuticals
IN WHAT they believe to be a world first, Scottish researchers are exploring whether it is feasib...
ExxonMobil acquires huge US CO2 pipeline and oil and gas operations through US$4.9bn Denbury purchase
EXXONMOBIL has agreed to acquire Denbury, a developer of carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) ...
Jacobs selected to support Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation to develop a UK demonstrator
NUCLEAR developer Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) UK, part of a US-based company, has selec...
Tata Group invests £4bn to build battery gigafactory in the UK
IN A historic moment for the UK’s growing electric vehicle (EV) industry, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)...
Magnox awards multiple suppliers under £485m contact as it continues with its UK nuclear decommissioning programme
MAGNOX, which is responsible for the safe and secure cleanup of 12 nuclear sites across the UK, h...
BASF opens centre to research microplastics and biodegradation
BASF has opened a research facility in the US to help understand how plastics disintegrate and bi...
Johnson Matthey licenses technology for largest-of-its-kind biodegradable plastics plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY is licensing its butanediol (BDO) process technology for a new plastics plant in ...
A new gallery celebrating engineers opens at the Science Museum
AN exhibition called Engineers opened today at the Science Museum in London dedicated to world-ch...
Abandoned Santos gas wells off Western Australia coast leaking for a decade, environmental documents reveal
AN UNKOWN number of decommissioned gas wells at Santos’s Legendre gas field off the coast of West...
Rio Tinto completes transition of heavy machinery to renewable diesel at US California borax site
RIO Tinto has completed the full transition of heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable di...
LyondellBasell, Technip Energies, and Chevron Philips Chemical to demo electric steam cracking furnace technology
LYONDELLBASELL, Technip Energies, and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have signed a memorandum...
Drax faced with UK biomass sustainability investigation and US pollution notice as Selby plant CCS consultation launches
OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator has launched a formal investigation into power company Drax to d...
Report shows growing demand for engineers, and ‘green engineering’
AS THE UK ramps up its net zero efforts, a report commissioned by EngineeringUK finds that demand...
Engineering options that can prevent sewer overflows
WITH industry forced to apologise for dumping untreated sewage into rivers, changes upstream incl...
Peak Cluster: UK lime and cement producers join forces to capture 3m t/y of emissions
CEMENT and lime producers in the UK have formed a carbon capture and storage cluster – the Peak C...
Carbon Clean awards KBR design contract for Orsted’s e-methanol project
CARBON Clean has awarded KBR a contract for the detailed design of a carbon capture plant for Ors...
Orsted awarded first Danish CCUS subsidy tender and signs major carbon removal offtake contract
ORSTED has announced major carbon capture and storage deals, having won a 20-year contract under ...
IChemE partners with ITN on Engineering a Sustainable World programme
ICHEME has partnered with ITN Business to produce a news-style programme called Engineering a Sus...
Coal-fired power at Drax comes to an end
DRAX has announced the official end of coal-fired generation at its North Yorkshire, UK power sta...
Earth Day: EngineeringUK publishes webinar to encourage young people into engineering through sustainability
ENGINEERINGUK has published a webinar exploring how environmental sustainability can inspire youn...
Orsted and Highview Power investigate co-locating energy storage with offshore wind
ORSTED, a renewable energy company, and energy storage developer Highview Power have signed a mem...
Primark launches its first circular clothing range
CLOTHING retailer Primark has launched its first product range designed to be reused or recycled,...
Sulzer builds separation technology R&D centre in Singapore
SULZER is building a new research centre for its separation technologies in Singapore as it seeks...
Japan and the US to collaborate on critical minerals
JAPAN and the US have signed a critical minerals agreement targeted at strengthening and diversif...
Australia sets new limits on heavy industry in push for decarbonisation
AUSTRALIA has passed legal reforms that set a hard cap on industrial emissions and require new ga...
A century of chemical engineering at UCL
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of...
A green washout? Critics lambast the UK government’s Powering up Britain strategy as lacking ambition
LABELLED as a strategy that will “scale up affordable, clean, homegrown power” while building “th...
Major incident declared in UK’s Poole Harbour following oil leak
A CLEAN-UP operation is under way after about 200 bbls of reservoir fluid, including oil, leaked ...
US moves to restrict PFAS chemicals in drinking water
IN WHAT is described as a major step forward in protecting public health, the US Environmental Pr...
US government approves huge Alaska oil and gas development
A CONTROVERSIAL Alaskan oil and gas project has been given final approval by the Biden Administra...
UK spring budget includes launch of nuclear support body and up to £20bn for CCUS
THE UK government has pledged to invest up to £20bn (US$24.2bn) from its spring budget to support...
UKWIR calls for help in creating GHG accounting tool for water industry
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) is calling for expressions of interest to deliver a new versio...
UK calls on coal to avoid supply shortfall
ON 7 March, two coal power plant units operated for six hours to supply additional power to the U...
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
BASF announces 2,600 jobs losses as it cuts costs in Europe
BASF has announced that it is taking additional cost cutting measures in Europe, primarily at its...
New energy and net zero department created as BEIS dissolved
A SIGNIFICANT overhaul by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will see the Department for Business, Ene...
Governments support ‘dry lab’ for developing next-gen batteries
FUNDING from the UK and Scottish governments is supporting a new £4.7m (US$5.7m) research facilit...
Cleantech initiative seeks to ‘supercharge’ UK innovation
CLEANTECH for UK, a coalition representing more than £6bn (US$7.2bn) in funds has launched. The i...
Scientists produce green hydrogen from seawater
SCIENTISTS have developed a system that can produce green hydrogen directly from seawater without...
1,300 times more novel CDR needed to meet climate targets
NOVEL carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storag...
Engineers awarded QEPrize for advancing solar PV technology
IN ITS 10th year, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to four engineers wh...
Solvay will use rice husks for greener tyre chemicals
SOLVAY said it will open a new unit at a chemicals plant in Italy that will halve the carbon foot...
UK government fails to support technology that could be key to combatting plastic waste
THE UK government has been criticised for dismissing recommendations to support chemical recyclin...
Governments announce £52m for green freeports in Scotland
THE UK and Scottish governments have jointly announced two new green freeports in Inverness and t...
Chemical engineers explore upcycling microfibres released from washing clothes
UNIVERSITY of Surrey and UK-based washing technology group, Xeros Technology, have teamed up to a...
Australia’s biggest polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year from July
A REFORM to Australia’s climate safeguard mechanism means that more than 200 of the country’s hea...
Competition launched to advance low-emission foods
INNOVATE UK and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have jointly launc...
UK’s first coal mine for 30 years faces legal challenge
FRIENDS of the Earth has filed a legal challenge in the UK’s High Court against the government’s ...
3M pledges to stop making and using “forever chemicals” by 2025
US manufacturing firm 3M has said it will stop making and using PFAS, a group of over 4700 indust...
US announces ‘major’ fusion breakthrough
RESEARCHERS at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have a...
UK to fund AI emissions reduction projects
THE UK Government has launched a new programme backed by £1.5m (US$1.9m) to support the use of ar...
UK coal mine approval: ‘I don’t understand why we’re doing this,’ says CCC Chair
THE UK Government has approved the first coal mine in 30 years, despite widespread climate concer...
Partnership to produce hydrogen for sustainable aviation
TOTALENERGIES and Air Liquide have partnered to produce and valorise renewable, low-carbon hydrog...
Earthshot Prize Winners 2022
PACKAGING solutions made from seaweed, and rocks that lock away CO2 are just two of this year’s E...
Essar Oil UK invests £360m in CCS at Stanlow
ESSAR Oil UK, which produces 16% of the UK’s transport fuels, plans to build a £360m (US$430m) ca...
IChemE member is Australia’s first Chief Circular Engineer
ICHEME member Ali Abbas, one of Australia’s leading chemical engineers, has been announced as Aus...
Teesside to support growing EV batteries market
TEESSIDE, UK will host the UK’s first large-scale lithium refinery, and possibly the largest elec...
New Solent Cluster to reduce emissions and produce hydrogen
THE University of Southampton, UK, Solent Local Enterprise Partnership, and ExxonMobil have teame...
Government warned that muddied carbon accounting will slow industrial decarbonisation
THE UK’s Energy Systems Catapult has warned there are “inconsistencies” in carbon accounting that...
Study investigates energy efficiencies to reduce emissions at Ineos Grangemouth
INEOS, co-funded by the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF), will conduct a fe...
Plastics recycling partners plan 100,000 t/y facility
INEOS and Plastic Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding for a 100,000 t/y facility in ...
Prince William announces Earthshot Prize finalists
A CARBON-ZERO aggregate made from waste materials and by-products for use in construction, a curt...
Steelmaker successfully trials e-coke that could reduce emissions by up to 30%
LIBERTY Steel UK, the nation’s third largest steel manufacturer, has successfully completed trial...
LanzaTech produces ethylene directly from CO2
PROCESS technology company LanzaTech has successfully engineered biocatalysts to directly produce...
UK Government to reverse recent decision to lift fracking ban
NEW UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has signalled that he will reinstate the moratorium on fracking...
US partners plan 5m t/y DACCS project
CARBONCAPTURE, which deploys direct air capture (DAC) systems, and carbon storage developer Front...
Exxon and CF Industries partner on large-scale CCS project
EXXONMOBIL and CF Industries have teamed up to capture and permanently store up to 2m t/y of CO2 ...
Partners successfully test UK’s first 3D-printed concrete water chamber
UNITED Utilities and its partner, 3D mortar printing company ChangeMaker3D (CM3D), have successfu...
Partners scale up technology for achieving hydrogen production and capture carbon in one step
COORSTEK Membrane Sciences is working with independent European research organisation SINTEF to s...
Sweden reports a fourth Nord gas leak
ACCORDING to Sweden's coastguard, there are a total of four leaks from the twin Nord Stream gas p...
European Commission to spend €8bn on hydrogen projects
IN A BID to structurally transform its energy system, while ending its dependency on Russian foss...
Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is launched
CARBON Tracker and Global Energy Monitor have launched The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, a pub...
Electrification of steam cracking: BASF demo set to operate in 2023
BASF, SABIC and Linde have begun electrifying a steam cracker at the huge Ludwigshafen chemicals ...
Waste processing and disposal resumes at Chernobyl
AFTER the departure of Russian troops from the site, radioactive waste processing and disposal ac...
New ‘forever chemical’ elimination method ‘might be the start of something practically interesting’
A TEAM of multinational researchers has developed a novel method for breaking down environmentall...
Australian collaboration targets decarbonisation through digitalisation
ROCKWELL Automation and the University of Melbourne will work together to help manufacturing and ...
UK shortlists 20 projects for CCUS clusters
THE UK Government has shortlisted 20 projects for the next phase of its carbon capture, use, and ...
US climate deal signed into law
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, a b...
UK set to host rare earths processing hub in push for cleantech security
THE UK is set to host a new US$195m rare earth processing hub that Pensana is building at the Sal...
Charles Darwin University will install hydrogen system to collaborate with industry
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
Engineers will suck CO2 from the ocean
CHEMICAL engineers at Brunel University London are developing a pilot plant to strip CO2 from sea...
UK overturns planning advice and approves Sizewell C nuclear plant
THE UK Government has given planning consent to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, ov...
How research can help tackle engineering challenges
A NEW report lays out the key challenges facing engineers in the next 10–15 years, and makes reco...
Imperial College and BASF strengthen partnership that seeks innovative chemicals development
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
UK sets up centre to advise on critical minerals, amid warnings of supply risks
THE UK has established a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre in Nottingham to help the country ...
Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster
FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to p...
BP accused of dumping waste in protected marine environment
BP HAS been accused of dumping industrial waste in a marine-protected area off west Shetland, rep...
New Acland coalmine gets approval for expansion
THE Queensland Government has given the green light to stage three of the New Hope Group’s open-c...
New data hub invites companies to map global supply chains
A NEW open data platform has been launched for companies to map their global supply chains to imp...
Plant-based alternative to plastic microbeads set for scaleup
ENGINEERS have received funding to scale up a technology that produces sustainable alternatives t...
UK not on track for net zero, says the Climate Change Committee
THE UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that the country is not on track to achieve its “amb...
BP acquires stake in major green hydrogen and renewables hub
ENERGY major BP has agreed to acquire a 40.5% stake in and operate the Asian Renewable Energy Hub...
Shell invests to accelerate UK energy transition
BY 2030, Shell aims to increase its supply of UK oil and gas demand to 15% while reducing emissio...
C-Capture to demonstrate new carbon capture solvents
CARBON dioxide removal firm C-Capture has announced the launch of a national project that capture...
LanzaTech transforms captured carbon into plastic
Carbon recycling specialist LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, says it has found a way to pro...
Jacobs builds robot to sample Fukushima radioactive debris
ENGINEERING group Jacobs has designed and built a remotely-operated robot to collect debris at th...
G7 nations make first coal phase out commitment
G7 NATIONS have announced a commitment to achieving “predominantly decarbonised electricity secto...
US CCS project to capture up to 15m t/y of CO2
BP and Linde plan to advance a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will ...
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 Dav...
€100m needed for Chernobyl invasion repairs
€100m (US$107m) is needed for repairs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the Russian ...
Australia trade group says security fears should prompt fresh oil development
AUSTRALIA’S oil and gas trade group has said the country should develop new fields to boost energ...
WBCSD and Engie join forces to develop industrial decarbonisation principles
THE World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and sustainability consultancy Eng...
UKAEA shows X-rays could support safe, reliable fusion power
SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully shown that X-ray scanning ...
UK sets out measures to boost hydrogen and CCS
THE UK Government has put energy at the centre of its legislative agenda as it announced a series...
BP agrees to buy naphtha from Teesside circular plastics plant
BP has signed an agreement to purchase naphtha produced from a plant being built in Teesside, UK ...
Aussie reactor trial seeks to coax coal miners to capture methane
A NOVEL reactor that neutralises methane emissions produced in coal mines will be trialled by Sou...
BP to invest £18bn to support UK energy security
OIL major BP has plans to invest £18bn (US$22.5bn) in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030, ...
Cemex invests in lower carbon cement technology
CEMEX has invested in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, which has developed technology that uses cli...
Chemical engineers lead efforts to unblock UK hydrogen use
CHEMICAL engineers are investigating how the UK could increase its use of hydrogen and alternativ...
UK first: Cornish Lithium trials direct extraction of key battery metal from geothermal waters
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
BASF outlines plans to continue net zero progress
ONE year after announcing its 2050 net zero target, BASF has outlined plans to continue its progr...
Now or never: emissions need to peak by 2025 says IPCC
IN its latest report, the IPCC has warned that emissions must peak by 2025 and halve by 2030 if t...
Fluor will engineer Itero’s chemicals recycling process
FLUOR has won the contract to engineer a chemical recycling demonstration plant for Itero in the ...
175 countries commit to create historic global plastics treaty
ONE HUNDRED and seventy-five nations have agreed to create a global treaty to end plastics pollut...
IPCC calls for stronger adaptation to worsening climate hazards
THE IPCC has said that human-caused climate change is already resulting in detrimental effects on...
Novel method for green ammonia production
RESEARCHERS at Monash University, Australia have discovered a method for producing green ammonia ...
BP acquires 30% of UK biofuels company
BP has acquired 30% of Green Biofuels (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable ...
Ineos plans low-carbon hydrogen plant
INEOS is inviting major engineering design contractors to tender for the next stage of the design...
Sustainable method for recovering neodymium from electronic waste
A NEW method has been developed to remove neodymium from electronic waste using cellulose, which ...
Veolia announces its first UK battery recycling plant
VEOLIA is building its first electric vehicle battery recycling facility in the UK, with the capa...
Johnson Matthey targets greener aviation demand with new reverse water gas shift technology
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) has launched a new reverse water gas shift technology called HyCOgen to prod...
RSC calls for action to reuse huge volumes of leftover paint
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is calling for the Government to support a national rem...
Farewell to 2021, and what to read while we’re away
WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent quer...
British Airways to use UK-made SAF
PHILLIPS 66 will supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to British Airways (BA), under a new supp...
Australian gas plan ‘locks in devastating global heating’
AS PART of its “gas-led recovery”, the Australian Government has released the first full National...
European Commission selects large-scale projects for funding
The European Commission (EC) has selected seven large-scale clean-tech projects for funding that ...
Johnson Matthey will exit battery materials
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) is quitting its battery materials business after concluding the costs are to...
Plastic Energy and Axens join forces to license circular plastics processes
PLASTIC ENERGY has partnered with engineering services firm Axens to license its plastics recycli...
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Students awarded first US$5m from Elon Musk’s carbon removal prize
23 student-led teams have won the first US$5m portion of the US$100m carbon removal prize launche...
Partnership to accelerate net zero energy transition
SHELL and energy technology company Baker Hughes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) ...
New initiatives support global climate efforts
Today, on Science and Innovation Day at COP26, global coalitions of businesses, nations, and scie...
A$2.5m to fund pilot for greener lithium extraction
NOVALITH Technologies has raised A$2.5m (US$3.4m) of seed funding that will finance build-out and...
Simple changes for environmental and cost benefits in textiles
ONE-OFF investment in wet processors for simple, practical improvements could lower environmental...
Sabic invests £850m in UK cracker restart and conversion
SABIC is investing £850m (US$1.16bn) to restart its hydrocarbon cracker in Wilton, Teesside, UK, ...
Partners announce FID for Moomba CCS
SANTOS and joint-venture partner Beach Energy have announced a final investment decision on the A...
Solvay announces plans for carbon neutrality by 2050
SOLVAY has announced its plans for achieving carbon neutrality before 2050, building on 2030 targ...
World’s ‘smallest’ carbon capture technology launched
CARBON Clean, an industrial carbon capture company, has launched what it says is the world’s smal...
World still on track for 2.7C of warming, UN report warns
THE UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released its annual Emissions Gap Report, saying that cur...
Water experts issue call to action on climate
AN alliance of experts from across the water sector, including from IChemE, has issued a call to ...
Research could see fish waste used for nylon production
SCOTTISH researchers are exploring a new bio-based process for more environmentally-friendly and ...
Inaugural Earthshot winners announced
TECHNOLOGIES for agricultural waste conversion and green hydrogen production have been recognised...
Dow plans zero emissions ethylene complex
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, throug...
New partners join industrial initiative to electrify EU crackers
REPSOL and Versalis have joined the Cracker of the Future consortium, which is working to develop...
Shell to use BASF adsorption technology for CCS
AS both companies work to accelerate to a net zero emissions world, Shell has now added BASF’s So...
Australia announces carbon capture initiatives
THE Australian Government has announced initiatives to encourage carbon capture, use, and storage...
Engineers issue six demands for government spending
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has outlined six spending priorities for the UK gov...
Finalists announced for inaugural Earthshot Prize
PRINCE William has announced 15 finalists for the inaugural year of The Earthshot Prize, each of ...
John Bridgwater, 1938–2021
Obituary of John Bridgwater, former IChemE president
Clean energy partnership supports UK and UAE goals
ENERGY companies Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), BP, and Masdar have signed strategic par...
Partnership to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commerc...
Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and ...
Siemens launches recyclable wind turbine blades
WIND power company Siemens Gamesa has launched a “world first”, recyclable wind turbine blade for...
UK regulator relaxes effluent rules as water treatment firms begin running out of chemicals
A SHORTAGE of chemicals used to treat wastewater in the UK has led the Environment Agency to rela...
Report facilitates Franco-Scottish collaboration in floating wind and hydrogen
A REPORT published by the Scottish Government, has recommended areas for research collaboration b...
Australia expands role of renewables funding agency to support CCS, hydrogen and greener metals
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) now has a wider remit that includes funding CCS an...
Claimants to appeal fatal Samarco disaster ruling in UK court
THE Court of Appeals, the most senior court in England and Wales, has ruled to allow proceedings ...
IPCC climate change report signals ‘code red for humanity’
THE frequency and intensity of extreme weather events associated with human-caused climate change...
Glass industry sketches process technology route for reaching net zero
THE UK’s glass industry has said it faces a challenging road ahead in meeting net zero targets, a...
Siemens starts construction on German 'green' hydrogen plant
SIEMENS has started construction of an 8.75 MW “green” hydrogen plant in Germany, that is expecte...
Acorn CCS partners sign MoUs for carbon capture
THE partners in the UK’s Acorn CCS project have signed three new memorandums of understanding (Mo...
Partners to accelerate biofuels production cycle
TOTALENERGIES and Veolia have teamed up to accelerate the development of microalgae cultivation u...
Shell starts up Europe’s largest PEM ‘green’ hydrogen electrolyser
SHELL has started operations at what it claims is Europe’s largest polymer electrolyte membrane (...
Johnson Matthey set targets to lower waste and improve safety on journey to net zero
JOHNSON MATTHEY has announced targets to heavily focus its sales and R&D spend in line with UN Su...
CCC says UK policy is failing climate action
DESPITE historic climate commitments, the UK Government has been too slow to follow these with de...
UKAEA to host first-of-its-kind fusion project
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has entered into an agreement with General Fusion, that will see t...
Partners collaborate for sustainable lithium production
SCHLUMBERGER New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) have entered a collaborative...
Researchers receive £1.3m to develop low-carbon energy storage for buildings
THE University of Nottingham, UK has received £1.3m (US$1.8m) for a project to develop a novel, l...
Air Products to build world-scale hydrogen energy complex
AIR Products has announced a multibillion-dollar plan for a “landmark”, world-scale net-zero hydr...
Controversial Keystone XL pipeline formally terminated
THE controversial Keystone XL pipeline has been formally scrapped, ending a decades-long struggle...
Australia announces winners of carbon capture fund
THE Australian Government has announced six winners of a A$50m (US$38.7m) carbon capture fund. Th...
CO2 capture to reduce Netherlands refinery emissions by 90%
AIR Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a contract with Zeeland Refinery for a carbon c...
Student team’s potato mask wins inaugural John Davidson competition
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have wo...
Oil spill preparations underway for stricken ship off Sri Lanka
EXPERTS have begun modelling how oil might spill from a cargo ship that caught fire off the coast...
Using a sponge made of pollen to soak up oil from contaminated water
A POLLEN-BASED sponge has been developed as a more environmentally friendly way of soaking up oil...
Landmark court ruling will see Shell reduce emissions by 45% by 2030
IN A landmark ruling, the Netherlands’ District Court of The Hague has ordered international ener...
BP and CEMEX partner for net-zero cement
BP and building materials company CEMEX have partnered to accelerate progress of CEMEX’s ambition...
First carbon capture laundry product on the market
A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim i...
Industry joins RSC taskforce to chart a greener path for PLFs
UNILEVER, Croda and Crown Paints have joined a taskforce convened by the Royal Society of Chemist...
Novel sponge tech collects oil in ultra-cold waters
RESEARCHERS in Canada and the UK have developed a coating for commercially-available sponges that...
Australia to invest A$539m in carbon capture and hydrogen projects
AUSTRALIA’s budget for this fiscal year will see it invest A$539.2m (US$416.6m) in hydrogen and c...
Turning food waste into aviation fuel
A BIOREFINING process that converts wet waste – including food waste and wastewater sludge – into...
TEPCO to flush Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific
THE Japanese Government will allow TEPCO to discharge treated wastewater stored at the Fukushima ...
Energy partners to develop claimed world-first decarbonisation projects
ENERGY companies Equinor and SSE Thermal have unveiled plans to jointly develop two projects incl...
IChemE pays tribute to Royal Patron Prince Philip
ICHEME has paid tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his time as Royal Patron of ...
Wastewater leak causes concern for Florida marine life
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contami...
Covestro pilots chemicals recycling process to close loop on used mattress foam
COVESTRO has begun to pilot a chemical process to recycle the foam from used mattresses. If succe...
Fonterra supports NZ industry switch from coal – but outlines significant challenges
FONTERRA – New Zealand’s huge dairy cooperative – has come out in support of plans to end coal us...
£40m water challenge to launch in May
6 May will see the first round of a new £40m (US$55.2m) collaborative competition expected to enc...
Partners to convert waste sewage into hydrogen
Organics Group, Severn Trent, and researchers at Coventry University, UK, are collaborating to co...
UNESCO report highlights importance of engineering for sustainability goals
THE second UNESCO Engineering Report, Engineering for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the ...
SABIC and BP join forces on circular plastics
SABIC and BP are working together to produce recycled plastics at the Gelsenkirchen chemical comp...
Concerns over stockpile of hazardous waste at New Zealand aluminium smelter
CONCERNS have been raised over a stockpile of hazardous waste at Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point aluminiu...
Australia invests A$50m in carbon capture projects
THE Australian Government has opened the A$50m (US$38.5m) Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage Develo...
Partners to develop waste-to-fuel plant by 2025
WASTE-to-fuel company Fulcrum BioEnergy, along with Essar Oil UK and its subsidiary Stanlow Termi...
Rio Tinto launches sustainability label for aluminium industry
RIO Tinto has launched a sustainability label that will ensure transparency and traceability for ...
ExxonMobil creates low-carbon business
EXXONMOBIL has created a new business unit to commercialise its low-carbon portfolio, which it is...
Shell lays out net-zero strategy
OIL and gas major Shell has set out a strategy for achieving net zero energy transformation by 20...
New bacterium can improve wastewater treatment
A NEWLY-discovered bacterium strain could be used to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from sewage ...
Court finds Shell liable for Nigerian oil spills
A DUTCH appeals court has ruled that Shell is responsible for the consequences of oil spills in t...
US announces US$160m funding for hydrogen technologies
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans for US$160m of federal funding aimed at dec...
Competition launched to encourage innovative ideas in water industry
A COMPETITION has been launched in England and Wales to seek innovative responses to challenges i...
US rejoins Paris Agreement
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order for the country to rejoin the Paris Agreemen...
Hydrogen for steel completes feasibility study
Project partners Equinor, OGE, and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have completed their joint feasibili...
Recovering precious metals from industrial waste
AN inexpensive, non-toxic method has been developed to recover silver and palladium from industri...
Novel process for cost-effective biofuel recovery
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient p...
Partnership to develop UK’s first low carbon production hub
REFINERY owner Essar Oil UK and Progressive Energy, a project development and implementation comp...
Partners to develop and commercialise polysaccharide technology
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and ...
Neste acquires stake in plastics recycling company
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
Petronas aspires to be net zero by 2050
PETRONAS has said it aspires to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, becoming the latest oil and g...
Plastic Energy’s push to close loop on plastics wins top IChemE Award
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
UK funding to help SMR programme advance
RECENT funding, announced as part of the UK’s ten-point plan for an industrial revolution, will h...
Narrabri project receives environmental approval
SANTOS’ controversial A$3.6bn (US$2.64bn) Narrabri gas project has received environmental approva...
Shell launches ‘blue’ hydrogen technology
SHELL Catalysts & Technologies, which licenses technologies and brings capabilities to market, ha...
Project to convert medical waste into hydrogen fuel gets funding from Welsh Government
A PROCESS being developed by researchers in the UK and India to convert medical waste – such as P...
UK to invest £12bn for a ‘green industrial revolution’
UK PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has announced £12bn (US$15.87bn) in funding for a ten-point plan ...
Linde and Siemens partner to help decarbonise the petrochemicals sector
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
Fire at Indian gas well extinguished after five months
A FIRE which broke out at a gas well in India, in June, has now been “doused completely”, accord...
US oil and gas lagging in efforts to achieve net zero, says Carbon Tracker
US OIL and gas majors are lagging behind European rivals as companies seek to transition towards ...
UKAEA’s £55m device successfully takes a step closer to fusion power
TAKING a step to achieving a fusion power plant, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) £55m ...
Solvay opens second plant for bio-based solvent in Brazil
SOLVAY has started up its second dedicated plant for manufacture of sustainable bio-based solvent...
LyondellBasell sets ambitious plastics sustainability target
LYONDELLBASELL has released its 2020 Sustainability Report in which it sets the target of produci...
EU introduces new chemicals strategy
THE European Commission has unveiled its new chemicals strategy which aims to make chemicals prod...
Prince William launches £50m Earthshot Prize for environmental solutions
PRINCE William has launched the Earthshot Prize, which offers £50m (US$65m) in funding for soluti...
Pilot project to convert waste into construction material
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
Affordable carbon capture for the cement industry
CEMEX has signed an agreement with carbon capture tech company Carbon Clean that will see them jo...
BP and Microsoft join forces on Industry 4.0 and clean energy
BP and Microsoft are working together to advance their net zero ambitions and the digital transfo...
Controversial Narrabri gas project gets ‘green light’ from NSW development authority
SANTOS has received “phased” and strictly conditioned approval from the independent planning comm...
New cracker furnaces to reduce Shell’s emissions in the Netherlands
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new stat...
Government publishes response to CCUS business model consultation
THE UK Government has published its response to a 2019 consultation on business models for carbon...
UK will review how to license North Sea production while achieving net zero emissions
THE UK Government has launched a review into how it will license the offshore oil and gas industr...
Hitachi withdraws from UK nuclear project
HITACHI has announced that its UK subsidiary will cease development of its 5.8 GW UK nuclear proj...
Researchers to develop carbon-negative power plant
RESEARCHERS at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US have received just over US$800,000 ...
Hunterston B begins operating after two-year shutdown
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving a...
Novel membrane for crude oil fractionation
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed new membrane technology that could reduce carbon emi...
Unilever invests €1bn to develop sustainable cleaning products
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks ...
Repsol produces Spain's first batch of aviation biofuel
SPANISH energy company Repsol has produced the national market’s first batch of aviation biofuel....
BASF will publish carbon footprints for 45,000 products
BASF will release data on the carbon footprints of its entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 p...
Air Liquide buys world’s largest oxygen operation
AIR LIQUIDE is buying the world’s largest oxygen production site – from Sasol in South Africa – a...
SABIC chemical plant will be 100% solar-powered
SABIC’S polycarbonate facility in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scal...
Developing sulfur polymers
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
Suppliers commit to achieving 100% renewable Apple production
AS technology company Apple seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, 71 of its suppliers have ...
OGCI to reduce carbon intensity by 2025
OIL and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a target to reduce the collective average car...
Evonik develops novel membrane for hydrogen production
EVONIK has developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM) that could contribute to commercial re...
Worley awarded FEED for bio-based plastic intermediate plant
TECHNOLGY developer Avantium has awarded Worley the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract ...
International group publishes safety guidelines for mining waste storage
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has publish...
Atkins awarded contract for nuclear project
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
Norilsk Nickel fined US$2.1bn for Arctic oil spill
NORILSK Nickel has been fined US$2.1bn by Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor for the ...
Australian-first hydrogen project completes funding
HYDROGEN technology company Hazer’s commercial demonstration project – which will produce low-emi...
EPA takes a step to exempt ‘forever chemical’ release
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environm...
NSW gives greenlight to Santos’ controversial coal seam gas project
AUSTRALIA’S New South Wales government has backed Santos’ A$3.6bn (US$2.54bn) Narrabri gas develo...
Environmentalists slam Australian mining advocate’s climate action plan
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have criticised the Climate Action Plan released by Minerals Council Australia ...
Glencore faces criticism as it pushes ahead with new coal mine
GLENCORE is a step closer to having a new A$1.5bn (US$1.05bn) open-cut coal mine approved by Aust...
Dow aims to be carbon neutral by 2050
DOW has set a target to be carbon neutral by 2050 and that all the packaging its chemicals produc...
Partnership to develop environmental decision-making platform for the fashion industry
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
UK Government awards £10m grant for first commercial cryogenic energy storage facility
HIGHVIEW Power, a cryogenic energy storage company, has received £10m (US$12.3m) from the UK Gove...
Dow and Shell to jointly develop ‘e-cracker’ technology
MATERIALS science company Dow and Shell have agreed to jointly accelerate technology to electrify...
Partnership to build bio-LNG plant
RENEWI, Nordsol, and Shell have signed an agreement to build a plant to produce bio-based liquid ...
UKAEA signs framework agreement to develop fusion energy
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a four-year, multimillion-pound framework agree...
Wood commits to reducing its GHG emissions
GLOBAL engineering and consultancy company Wood has pledged to set a science-based target to redu...
NOx capture system proves successful in trials
AUSTRIAN technology company Krajete has announced the successful testing of a filtration system t...
UK heat network projects awarded £25m
FOUR heat network projects have been awarded almost £25m (US$31.6m) of funding, in the third roun...
Oil tank collapse likely caused by melting permafrost
AROUND 21,000 t of diesel has leaked into a Russian river near Norilsk, which is inside the Arcti...
Stretch film manufacturer commercialises sustainable alternative
DOXA Plast, a stretch film manufacturing company, is commercialising a family of bio-based high p...
Covestro funds professorship to advance electrochemistry research
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could ...
Consortium develops power to methanol demonstration project
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
Australia looks to deploy A$2bn emissions reduction fund
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of te...
Partnership aims to develop tyre recycling technology
MICHELIN and Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) are planning to join forces to develop Enviro’s...
CCS pilot phase successfully completed on Norwegian waste-to-energy plant
FORTUM Oslo Varme’s Klemetsrud site in Oslo, Norway, has successfully validated carbon capture te...
Energy company to use biomass to refire one of Australia’s top emitting coal power plants
AUSTRALIAN company Hunter Energy is to refire Redbank Power Station, a 151 MW coal plant in New S...
UK funds projects vying to develop net zero industrial clusters
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net...
UK Government warned against plastic lobbyist efforts during the coronavirus crisis
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
IChemE members join group advising government on net zero plans
ICHEME members are working with representatives of the wider engineering discipline to advise the...
US$130trn investment needed for carbon neutrality by 2060
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
Photocatalytic microreactors for ‘green’ hydrogen
RESEACHERS at the University of Southampton, UK have developed photocatalytic microreactors that ...
Partners plan plant to recycle plastics into high-purity feedstock
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
Japanese consortium to study CCU
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
Synthetic biology touted for specialty chemicals production
SYNTHETIC biology will develop over the next decade from creating niche, environmentally friendly...
Policies essential for hydrogen to reduce global emissions, says BNEF
NET-ZERO goals and policies are needed to allow hydrogen to help address hard-to-abate greenhouse...
Anim-Somuah recognised by Forbes
THADDEUS Anim-Somuah has been recognised by media outlet Forbes as one of its 30 people under the...
Organisations call for halt to US mining and drilling decisions, due to coronavirus
ONE hundred and one environmental and public health organisations have sent a letter to the US Go...
Turning CO2 into carbon black
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
First aerogels made using rubber
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
Companies sign MoU to study hydrogen for Singapore’s energy future
SINGAPOREAN and Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, have signed a memorandum of understandi...
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 ...
US EPA relaxes policy, citing coronavirus pandemic
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced temporary policy that will allow non-c...
Nouryon and Ineos Nitriles start work on new chelates plants
NOURYON and Ineos Nitriles have started construction of new facilities in Germany that will produ...
ENGIE to supply Heathrow Airport with ‘green gas’
ENERGY and services company ENGIE is to supply ‘green gas’ to Heathrow Airport, the major interna...
ExxonMobil releases model methane emissions regulatory framework
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
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...
Teesside industry evolves its CCS pitch and pushes plans to host net zero cluster
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
Green process converts almost any carbon source into graphene
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US have discovered a green process which can quickly and cheaply ...
UK confirms £800m for carbon capture clusters
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
Vale to begin disposing of mining waste from fatal Brazil dam collapse
MINING giant Vale is to begin disposing of the mine tailings from the fatal collapse of one of it...
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...
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...
Carbon capture company receives US$16m investment
CARBON capture technology company Carbon Clean Solutions (CCSL) has announced the completion of a...
Judge accepts fatal dam collapse charges
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
BASF and JenaBatteries cooperate to develop innovative power storage technology
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
Evonik and LIKAT achieve carbonylation breakthrough
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
MOF captures and converts NO2 into useful product
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selec...
Drax and Econic partner to produce plastic using waste CO2
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
A$2bn agreement to support Australia’s energy transition
THE governments of Australia and New South Wales (NSW) have reached a A$2bn (US$1.34bn) energy ag...
16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
World Engineering Day set for 4 March
WORLD Engineering Day for Sustainable Development will be celebrated on 4 March every year as a U...
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...
Vale launches project to recover area affected by fatal dam collapse
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale has launched a pilot project for the environmental recovery of the ar...
LSC member quits over climate change concerns
TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Instit...
Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factor...
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...
NZ PM visits milk processing plant to see novel boiler and launch tree-planting scheme
NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited milk processing company Synlait for a tour ...
‘Artificial leaf’ for carbon neutral syngas production
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas p...
Repsol outlines net zero 2050 target
SPAIN’S oil and gas firm Repsol has outlined plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.
US$1.32m to accelerate waste-reduction innovation and research
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovati...
Novel material for reversible SO2 capture
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and rever...
Communication troubles are holding back UK biotech
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
UK Government match-funds small modular nuclear reactors
THE UK Government is investing £18m (US$23m) in a partnership with industry led by Rolls Royce to...
Highview Power to build Europe’s largest battery storage system
HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be...
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...
Drax raises biomass sustainability standards
DRAX has strengthened its biomass sustainability policy and appointed an Independent Advisory Boa...
Cheap catalyst for hydrogen production shows commercial-scale promise
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
Partners build Vietnam’s first ‘plastic road’
MATERIALS science company Dow and Vietnamese industrial zone developer DEEP C Industrial Zones ha...
IChemE Member Mandy Lester wins 2019 Karen Burt Award
MANDY LESTER, Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the 2019 Karen Burt Award for her commitment to...
Nouryon demonstrates new process for ethylene amine production
NOURYON has produced the first ethylene amines products at its demonstration plant in Stenungsund...
Using CO2 and “green” energy to produce specialty chemicals
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
Carlsberg to halve water usage at Danish brewery
BREWING company Carlsberg has announced investment in a state-of-the-art water recycling plant th...
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 ...
100+ partners commit to the Circular Plastics Alliance
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
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,...
Enapter unveils hydrogen electrolyser manufacturing facility
ENAPTER, which manufactures modular hydrogen electrolysers, has unveiled a new serial fabrication...
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...
Removing pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
Recycling EV batteries
ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lit...
Fire breaks out at a French chemicals plant
A FIRE broke out at a Lubrizol chemicals factory in Rouen, France, in the early hours of 26 Septe...
Exxon commits £140m investment in Fife plant
EXXONMOBIL will invest £140m (US$173m) in its ethylene plant in Fife, UK, over the next two years...
Behold the Plastic Age: synthetic fibres found in fossil record
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
BP on continuous hunt for methane leaks
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
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...
BP sells Alaska business to Hilcorp for US$5.6bn
BP is selling its entire Alaska business to energy company Hilcorp for US$5.6bn, including its sh...
BHP announces US$400m Climate Investment Program
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
Neste expands Singapore biofuels refinery
NESTE is investing US$1.4bn in an expansion to its Singapore renewable fuels refinery.
Gorgon CCS plant starts up after two-year delay
CHEVRON’S US$54bn Gorgon LNG project has started operation of one of the world’s largest carbon c...
ExxonMobil plant explosion injures 37
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
BP and Bunge form joint venture to produce biofuels
BP and agricultural trader Bunge have announced a joint venture to produce biofuels and bioenergy...
Construction begins on Australian hydrogen pilot project
CONSTRUCTION has begun on a pilot project in Victoria, Australia, which will convert brown coal t...
Green Biologics closes biochemicals plant in US
GREEN Biologics (GBL), a biobased chemical firm headquartered in the UK, has announced that it wi...
Cuadrilla to start fracking second well
CUADRILLA plans to frack a second well in Lancashire, UK, before its planning permission expires ...
Advancing low-carbon technologies together
LED by the World Economic Forum (WEF), chemical companies are to collaborate to reduce the chemic...
LPG industry aims for 100% transition to bioLNG by 2040
Liquid Gas UK (formerly UKLPG) has launched its new vision, which sets a goal for the liquid petr...
Environmentally friendly alternative to polystyrene foam
A plant-based alternative to polystyrene foam has been developed that has better insulation prope...
UK Government criticised for lack of progress implementing biofuels
THE All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Bioethanol has released a report saying that...
New SABIC sustainability roadmap aligns with UN SDGs
SAUDI manufacturing company SABIC has launched its sustainability roadmap aligned to the UN Susta...
Perstorp investigates sustainable methanol production
LEADING specialty chemicals company Perstorp is investigating the potential production of recycle...
BP warns that world is on unsustainable path
BP HAS warned of a “worrying vicious cycle” of energy use in its new global energy report, as ext...
BP invests US$30m in alternative protein production startup
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to pro...
Avantium commercialising PEF production
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
Nuclear industry calls on European policy makers to work together towards net zero emissions
NUCLEAR industry representatives from across the supply chain have issued a manifesto outlining s...
UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant
THE UK Government has announced funding for nine carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) ...
EU fails to agree a net zero emissions target for 2050
FOUR countries have blocked an EU proposal which aims to set a net zero emissions target for the ...
EPA’s new energy plan gives boost to coal-fired plants
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced a new energy rule that will extend th...
Sleipner partnership to release CO2 storage datasets
EQUINOR and its partners are to release datasets from the Sleipner field, the world’s first offsh...
New approach for desalinating hypersaline brines
USING a temperature-dependent solvent to desalinate water with high concentrations of dissolved s...
BASF develops climate-friendly methanol production process
BASF has developed a climate-friendly process for methanol production, which if implemented could...
BASF and Lutianhua sign agreement to build dimethyl ether pilot plant
BASF and Lutianhua have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a pilot plant for synthesis...
Researchers achieve commercially attractive carbon capture with a MOF
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for ...
New report assesses gas-to-hydrogen transition
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
Producing sustainable aviation fuel in the Netherlands
SUSTAINABLE aviation fuel supplier (SAF) SkyNRG will develop Europe’s first dedicated waste-to-fu...
Partners sign MoU for CCUS and hydrogen production in the Humber
DRAX, Equinor, and National Grid Ventures have signed an MoU to investigate construction of a lar...
UK sets target for net zero emissions by 2050
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the UK will legislate to reduce CO2 emissions to...
New plastic can be recycled repeatedly
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
Third phase of Australian CCS project given go-ahead
CO2CRC, an Australian carbon capture and storage (CCS) research organisation, has announced a A$4...
UK Chancellor criticised for trying to change decarbonisation targets
THE UK Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, has come under criticism for claiming that adopting a strateg...
Call for evidence on CCS ahead of UK spending review
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for carbon capture and storage has issued a call for evi...
JV to supply US with rare earths separation capacity
LYNAS and Blue Line have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint venture (JV) to d...
Wabash Valley Resources closes investment for CCS project
WABASH Valley Resources (WVR) has closed an investment from Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)...
Exelon to shut down Three Mile Island
THE infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is set to shutdown due to government inaction.
IEA report finds the world is at risk of a steep decline in nuclear power
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the world is at risk of a steep decline in ...
Reducing the energy required to produce greener chemicals
PRODUCING useful chemicals from carbon dioxide via electrolysis typically has a high energy consu...
New process improves efficiency of isobutanol production
RESEARCHERS have developed a new process for producing the biofuel isobutanol more economically.
HeidelbergCement sets Paris-aligned emissions targets
HEIDELBERGCEMENT has set targets to reduce its emissions in line with the Paris Agreement climate...
Novel epoxide synthesis
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer ...
Cattle feed and dye membranes win MIT water prize
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
World Bank launches first-ever mining fund
THE World Bank has launched a multi-donor fund, the Climate-Smart Mining Facility. The fund is th...
A tougher bioplastic for food packaging
ADDING rubber to bioplastic to make it less brittle has led to the development of a new type of b...
Swedish consortium to build fossil-free iron pellet pilot plant
A Swedish consortium is to begin construction on a pilot plant that will use biofuel to achieve f...
A novel EOR surfactant
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
European ports project to store 10m t CO2 in the North Sea
THREE European ports have submitted an application to the European Commission for a project to co...
Aker Solutions to provide carbon capture technology to waste-to-energy plant
AKER Solutions has signed an agreement with Twence to supply modular carbon capture technology to...
Zero emissions by 2050: government’s climate experts urge action
THE UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said the country could feasibly emit no emissions ...
UK government needs clear strategy to deploy CCUS
A CROSS-PARTY report from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has criti...
MPs call for government support on hydrogen and CCS
MEMBERS of Parliament speaking at an event to showcase clean energy have noted that in the wake o...
Carbon-negative concrete wins inaugural CCUS prize
A CARBON-NEGATIVE form of concrete has won an inaugural prize that recognises the potential of us...
CEO wants Occidental to become carbon neutral
OCCIDENTAL Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub has said she wants the international oil firm to become car...
New process speeds up the production of biofuel from microorganisms
A PROCESS for converting algae to biofuel has been developed that is significantly less energy-in...
UK launches new CCUS Advisory Group
THE Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has formed a new CCUS Advisory...
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, report...
Brazil dam in critical alert
ON 22 March Vale raised the alert level of its Sul Superior Dam of the Gongo Soco mine located in...
Turning CO2 into solid carbon for storage
A NEW carbon capture process has been developed that turns carbon dioxide gas into solid carbon t...
Update: 47 dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
THE death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has now reached 47, reports st...
BP says it could keep some oil and gas resources in the ground
BP has reduced its oil and gas exploration activities and could keep some of its resources in the...
Nouryon and Gasunie to supply ‘green’ hydrogen for methanol production
NOURYON and Gasunie have agreed to supply ‘green’ hydrogen to BioMCN for renewable methanol produ...
BP agrees to disclose how its strategies align with the Paris Agreement
BP HAS agreed to a resolution from investors to disclose how its greenhouse gas reduction and fut...
Warnings new UK coal mine undermines green ambitions
THE UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years has been given the go ahead by Cumbria County Council, ...
Shell plans to becomes world’s largest power firm
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
Stabilising coal ash ponds using ‘biocement’
RESEARCHERS at North Carolina State University (NCSU), US have developed a technique that adds ba...
Catalyst firm Haldor Topsøe sells 30% stake to Temasek
DANISH engineering firm Haldor Topsøe is selling a 30% stake in its business to Singapore state i...
Chemical engineers quiz MPs on science funding and single-use plastic
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
India to move planned refinery
WESTERN Indian state Maharashtra, is to relocate a planned Saudi Aramco refinery due to protest b...
A new process for converting plastic waste to fuel
A NEW process has been developed that uses supercritical water to transform polypropylene plastic...
Creating useful products from desalination waste
ENGINEERS at MIT, US have proposed a method that could use desalination waste to produce useful c...
Report identifies challenges towards a plastics circular economy
THE European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) has released a report identi...
Nouryon reduces emissions by increasing its bio-steam supply
NOURYON plans to reduce its CO2 emissions at its salt production site at Hengelo in the Netherlan...
Texas set for world’s greenest refinery
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
Improved process for making plastics from sulfur
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for t...
GPS pioneers win prestigious QEPrize
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
Update: 157 confirmed dead after dam breach in Brazil
TWO weeks after the collapse of a Vale tailings dam 157 people have been confirmed dead, 134 of w...
Update: Number killed in Brazil dam breach reaches 99
AFTER the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil, 99 people have been reported dead...
Fatal dam breach in Brazil leaves hundreds missing
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
Novel powder could cut CO2 emissions
RESEARCHERS at the University of Waterloo, Canada, have created a novel advanced ultramicroporous...
IChemE launches energy and resource efficiency guide
ICHEME has launched an energy and resource efficiency guide which outlines how engineers and orga...
New alliance combatting environmental plastic waste
NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and...
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 u...
Trump administration says mercury regulations not appropriate or necessary
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to change the way ...
Negotiators agree on rulebook for Paris Agreement at United Nations meeting
A SET of rules for enacting the Paris Agreement to limit climate change was agreed by 196 countri...
Scepticism over the UK bioeconomy strategy
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The ...
UK government announces £60m in funding for sustainable packaging
THE UK government has announced the launch of a £60m (US$76m) innovation fund to accelerate the d...
Shell commits to stricter targets on cutting emissions
SHELL has given in to pressure from investors to commit to specific goals in limiting climate cha...
UK moving forward with CCUS plans
THE UK government has unveiled an action plan for developing carbon, capture, utilisation and sto...
World’s first commercial full-chain CCUS project announced for Teesside
THE Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a strategic partnership with six oil and ...
The next step for CO2-based plastics
COVESTRO’s carbon dioxide-based polyols have been used to produce synthetic sports flooring. The ...
Albemarle signs agreement for lithium mining JV
ALBEMARLE, the global specialty chemicals company, has signed an exclusivity agreement with Miner...
Engineers publish £22bn blueprint for UK to take global lead on hydrogen heating
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydro...
Drax starts commissioning Europe’s first BECCS pilot plant
DRAX, the energy company, has started commissioning of its innovative bioenergy with carbon captu...
Report assesses the role of biomass in meeting climate change targets in the UK
A REPORT by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that biomass has a role to play in a l...
Impossible to clean Husky oil spill
Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News r...
Westminster Abbey hosts engineering celebration
ENGINEERING was the focus of celebration today at a first-of-a-kind national service held at Lond...
Mobile plant produces fuel from waste wood
TWELVE research groups from seven countries have developed a sustainable method for producing bio...
Protecting future energy infrastructure from natural hazards
ICHEME has supported the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in publishing research identifying h...
Neste and Clariant sign deal for sustainable chemicals production
RENEWABLE fuels and chemicals producer Neste has signed an agreement to provide sustainable raw m...
Report outlines path to significantly reducing emissions from cement industry
A REPORT has outlined how the cement and concrete industry can reduce its CO2 emissions by 95% by...
NuScale partners with Ontario Power Generation to bring small nuclear reactors to Canada
NUSCALE has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in a bid to ...
Toshiba withdraws from planned UK nuclear plant
TOSHIBA has announced that it will withdraw from a construction project that had planned to build...
Recycling carbon dioxide in steel production
A EUROPEAN project is researching how to use the carbon dioxide produced during steelmaking to ma...
European Parliament calls for tougher stance on emissions
MEMBERS of the European Parliament have called on the EU to improve its climate change commitment...
New catalyst reduces carbon dioxide emissions in coal-to-liquids process
A CATALYST has been developed that almost eliminates carbon dioxide emissions in the Fischer-Trop...
Amsterdam considers green electrolysis plant
NOURYON, Tata Steel, and the Port of Amsterdam are collaborating on a feasibility study for a gre...
UK set to see surge in biomethane plants
THE UK is set to see a 50% rise in biomethane plants operating by 2020, with as much as £400m (US...
Producing hydrogen from plastic waste
A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.
Smaller cheaper plants: Exxon and BASF tout improved gas-treating solvent
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
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 t...
UK fracking set to resume today after seven-year break
FRACKING is set to restart in the UK today after a High Court judge dismissed a last-minute legal...
Fluor to test carbon capture technology at Norwegian facility
FLUOR has signed an agreement to test its carbon capture processes at the Technology Centre Mongs...
UN climate experts warn society must make unparalleled shift
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold wins Nobel Prize
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
New US plant will convert household waste into fuel
FULCRUM BioEnergy has announced that it will convert municipal solid waste into biojet fuel using...
Second Cuadrilla approval for onshore fracking
CUADRILLA, the natural resource company, has been granted government approval for fracking at a s...
Three US oil majors commit to climate change action
EXXONMOBIL, Chevron, and Occidental Petroleum have joined the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGC...
Trump administration scraps methane emission laws
THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the ...
Shell sets methane reduction target
SHELL has said it will reduce methane leaks by installing new equipment at its operations, as the...
IChemE chair meets Malaysian minster to promote expert input
THE chair of IChemE’s Malaysia board, Christina Phang, has met with the country’s new energy mini...
Joint report calls for immediate action to remove greenhouse gases
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
Big little droplets
RESEARCHERS at MIT have discovered a method that makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their ta...
Equinor floats plan to power oil platforms with wind
NORWAY could become the first country to directly connect an offshore wind farm to oil and gas pl...
Green amino acid production incorporates carbon dioxide
L-METHIONINE is an amino acid that is typically produced using toxic hydrogen cyanide. Researcher...
Climeworks raises funds to expand direct air capture business
CLIMEWORKS has raised CHF30.5m (US$30.8m) to further industrialise its technology which directly ...
Nuclear energy and sustainability experts heading to Manchester
LEADING engineering experts in nuclear energy and sustainability will deliver keynote speeches at...
US invests in water treatment research projects
The US Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water resource management, has announced that it wil...
Drax: Stepping closer to coal-free
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
Uranium: Under the sea
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
High temperature nuclear reactors could make uranium extraction energy neutral
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a report discussing how to make urani...
‘Green’ high-tech dye synthesis
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
Carbon capture studies to go ahead at Norwegian waste incineration plant
NORWAY’s ministry of petroleum and energy has announced that it will fund FEED studies on CO2 cap...
CCS could fuel the fizz in UK lager
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
New technique for recycling multi-layer packaging
CRISP packets, chocolate wrappers, and blister packets for pills are all extremely difficult to r...
New packaging: cheap and slippery
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
Arkema and employees indicted for toxic cloud
ARKEMA, its CEO and the manager of the plant in Texas that caught fire after Hurricane Harvey bat...
Neste aims to turn plastic waste into fuel
NESTE, a producer of renewable diesel, is developing ways to turn liquified plastic waste into a ...
Spray coating solar cells improves efficiency
A NEW technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells improves their efficiency and solves pre...
Thyssenkrupp develops new industrial-scale water electrolysis units to produce green hydrogen
THYSSENKRUPP has launched industrial-scale water electrolysis technology to make hydrogen product...
Onshore fracking given go ahead in UK
CUADRILLA has been granted permission to begin fracking in the UK’s first onshore horizontal shal...
CCUS report urges UK government to act now
THE carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) cost challenge taskforce has released a report settin...
Turning wood waste into adhesives
A substance in trees that is usually discarded by paper manufacturers has been used to create adh...
Oil and gas wastewater spread on roads releases harmful toxins
WASTEWATER from oil and gas facilities can be spread on roads for dust suppression or de-icing, b...
Chinese insulation production thought to be source of rise in ozone-damaging chemical
A REPORT by the Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) has discovered widespread use of the ba...
Epilepsy drug created from greener catalytic process
A NEW method has been developed for drug production that avoids the use of expensive precious met...
New process for creating biodegradable polyesters
RESEARCHERS have developed a new polymerisation process involving a light-activated catalyst that...
Chevron’s delayed CCS project due to begin this year
CHEVRON expects to start its carbon capture and storage project for the Gorgon liquified natural ...
Green ammonia project set for launch in UK today
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
Cutting the cost of carbon capture
CANADIAN company Carbon Engineering has announced that it can capture carbon from the air for les...
Stemming the flow of plastic waste
EUROPE has proposed a law banning or restricting single-use plastics, the UN has released a polic...
World’s first liquid air storage plant opens
THE world’s first full-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant, which can store excess energ...
UK government considers investment in new nuclear power plant in Wales
BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that the UK government will take a £5bn ($US6.7bn) st...
Top ten bio-based chemicals for UK economic growth
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
First solar-powered desalination plant for South Africa
The first solar-powered desalination plant in South Africa will convert sea water into fresh water.
Drax will host Europe’s first bioenergy CCS project
DRAX Power Station in Yorkshire, UK, will pilot Europe’s first bioenergy carbon capture and stora...
ExxonMobil sets methane reduction targets
EXXONMOBIL has announced plans to cut methane emissions by 15% and reduce flaring by 25% by 2020.
Report warns of significant water shortages for England by 2050
AN Environmental Agency report has warned that leaking pipes, water wastage, population growth, a...
Reducing the environmental impact of palm oil production
NEW technology has been developed that will convert palm oil waste into building materials and bi...
Norway outlines funding for full-chain CCS demonstration project
NORWAY’S efforts to develop a full-chain CCS demonstration project have been boosted by governmen...
New aluminium smelting process will cut carbon emissions
ALUMINIUM producers Alcoa and Rio Tinto have announced a new joint venture, called Elysis, which ...
Hydrogen produced from surplus renewable energy could be injected into UK gas grid
Northern Gas Networks (NGN) and hydrogen technology specialist ITM Power have completed a feasibi...
DuPont and ADM launch bioplastic pilot plant
DUPONT and ADM have announced the opening of a pilot plant in that will be the world’s first prod...
Offshore industry has come “perilously close to disaster”, warns HSE
HSE has warned the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators that they must do more to tackle hydrocarb...
Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
Finalists announced for carbon capture XPRIZE
TEN finalists have been announced in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE which is incentivising companies...
Engineered enzyme digests plastic
AN EXPERIMENT to study a plastic-eating bacterium accidentally created a mutant enzyme that degra...
Australian coal-to-hydrogen plant will fuel Japan’s green economy
THE AUSTRALIAN government has entered into a partnership with Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries t...
Reopening of UK bioethanol plant could lead to decarbonisation of transport
VIVERGO, the UK’s largest bioethanol plant, has reopened after a four-month shutdown period. Howe...
New Zealand bans future offshore oil and gas exploration
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that no future permits will be awarded fo...
Formic acid-based fuel cell developed for hydrogen storage
A FUEL cell has been developed that can store and transport hydrogen using formic acid so that th...
200 GW: Saudi Arabia plans world’s largest solar development
SAUDI ARABIA and Japan’s Softbank have agreed to build the world’s largest solar power project, w...
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...
Chemical companies review lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Har...
AkzoNobel joins Swedish green hydrogen partnership
AKZONOBEL has joined a partnership in Sweden that seeks to use excess renewable power to produce ...
New MOF membrane cuts energy use for petrochemical industry
AN ENERGY efficient separation method for propylene and propane has been developed using metal-or...
National Grid report says gas can decarbonise heat, transport, and industry
THE UK’s gas and electricity operator, National Grid, has set out its long-term goals in its repo...
Carbon nanotubes could make carbon-zero fuels cheaper than fossil fuels
A BREAKTHROUGH has been made in the manufacturing of carbon nanotube membranes which will lead to...
Graphene as a carrier for fertiliser micronutrients
A GRAPHENE-BASED carrier system for delivering micronutrients to crops increases the efficiency o...
Metal-free catalyst for ester synthesis
A METAL-FREE and recyclable catalyst has been developed for synthesising complex esters which cou...
Nuclear fusion is 15 years away from reality, say MIT engineers
FUSION power – the clean energy technology wryly said to always be 30 years from reality – could ...
UK carbon dioxide emissions fall to same level as 1890
AN ANALYSIS by climate science website Carbon Brief has shown that the UK's carbon dioxide emissi...
UK must remain within REACH as it exits EU
ICHEME has backed calls for the UK to remain within the EU’s chemicals regulation (REACH) despite...
Exxon’s algae biofuel venture enters new phase, targeting 10,000 bbl/d
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
Trialling hydrogen in the UK gas network
AN ENERGY trial at Keele University, UK, will assess the feasibility of adding hydrogen to the ga...
Green LEGO gets greener
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
Europe's first waste-to-chemistry facility provides solution for non-recyclable plastics
A FACILITY that will convert non-recyclable wastes into biofuels and chemicals for industrial use...
Solar reactor uses storage to produce fuel day and night
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
Can oil-eating microbes clean up spills in the Arctic?
MICROBES that use oil as a food source offer the only way to degrade oil after a spill, however a...
BP’s crystal ball suggests oil demand plateau and electric car increase
BP has released its annual Energy Outlook report, which suggests a significant increase in the us...
Singapore to introduce carbon tax from 2019
THE Singapore budget has revealed that companies emitting more than 25,000 t/y of greenhouse gase...
Paris Agreement targets can’t be reached with negative emission technologies
A REPORT has evaluated the potential of negative emission technologies (NETs) in the context of m...
Developing a safe and efficient method for the removal of micropollutants from water
A RESEARCHER at the University of Bath, UK, has been awarded a grant to develop the photocatalysi...
Innovation grant awarded for development of low-cost carbon capture technology
A research and development grant worth almost £900,000 (US$1.3m) has been awarded to a consortium...
New densified wood is as strong as steel
ENGINEERS at the University of Maryland have developed a way to make wood more than ten times str...
Climate alliance seeks more engineering institutions
THE Future Climate-Engineering Solutions (FC-ES) project, of which IChemE is a member, has releas...
Green glycidol pilot plant in the UK
Green Lizard Technologies (GLT) will use dimethyl carbonate and unpurified waste glycerol for env...
Ineos restarts Forties system after unexpected shutdown
INEOS has restarted the UK’s Forties Pipeline after the closure of a valve forced a shutdown of t...
Green steel process given go ahead for testing at pilot scale
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
ExxonMobil expects to pump out majority of its oil, even in a low-carbon future
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
New catalyst for hydrogen production
A CATALYST composed of nickel and iron has been developed that will make the production of hydrog...
Edinburgh launches world-first free online course on CCS
THE University of Edinburgh has launched the world’s first open online course about CCS and is of...
Bread alert: chemical engineers reveal worst sandwiches for the climate
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
UK council gets £6.5m funding for mine water energy scheme
BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL in Wales, UK, has been awarded £6.5m (US$9.1m) in funding by the ...
Shell and ITM to build world’s largest electrolysis plant
SHELL and ITM Power have announced a plan to build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plan...
Shale gas ruled one of the least sustainable options for power
SHALE gas is one of the least sustainable options for producing electricity, according to a new s...
Dell turns e-waste gold into jewellery and new boards
COMPUTER technology giant Dell has partnered with Texas recycling company Wistron GreenTech and a...
UNSW signs deal to become world’s first solar university
THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) has signed an agreement to become the world’s first whol...
Burning oil tanker sinks off China
AN oil tanker that had been ablaze since it collided with a freight ship in the East China Sea on...
UK launches 25-year plastic waste plan
THE UK government has launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment and reduce “avoidable” p...
Aurora solar thermal plant approved in South Australia
GLOBAL solar energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approva...
New York City sues five oil majors over climate change
NEW YORK CITY has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel ...
Catalyst turns nitrate pollution into water and N2
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed a nanoparticle catalyst that converts hazardou...
Huge oil tanker ablaze off China
AN oil tanker is on fire and at risk of exploding after colliding with a freight ship off the eas...
Trump proposes opening most US waters to drilling
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration has revealed a plan to open almost all US offshore waters...
Improved chemical looping process for greener fossil fuels
ENGINEERS at Ohio State University, US, are developing a chemical looping process which can creat...
UK plastic recycling crisis expected
THE UK’S recycling industry says it may not be able to cope with an increase in plastic waste, as...
French bill banning fossil fuel exploration passes in parliament
A BILL banning new fossil fuel exploration licences in France immediately and all fossil fuel ext...
Celtic Renewables to build whisky biofuels plant
INNOVATIVE UK biofuel company Celtic Renewables is to build its first commercial demonstration pl...
World Bank to stop lending to oil and gas
WORLD BANK GROUP president Jim Yong Kim has announced that the organisation will no longer financ...
Warwickshire to host £80m UK battery research centre
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
Norway offers some help to CCS projects
AFTER dealing a huge budget blow to its full-chain CCS project, the Norwegian government has anno...
Preparing for a turf war
THE US military plans to go green – as it announces plans to fund the development of “spy plants”...
One-step metabolic engineering
A NEW model in the production of biofuels and chemicals by metabolic engineering could be enabled...
World’s largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant inaugurated
THE WORLD’S largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant has been inaugurated in Germany, and has ...
Government outlines plan to make UK world’s most innovative nation
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
A new whey to drink
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
A microbial ‘tape recorder’
BACTERIAL cells that work as a “tape recorder”, by recording environmental interactions and time-...
Ethylene from artificial photosynthesis
ETHYLENE has been produced from an integrated artificial photosynthetic device for the first time...
Energy majors commit to reducing methane emissions
EIGHT global energy majors have committed to reducing methane emissions from their natural gas as...
Molten metal for clean hydrogen
MOLTEN metal could be used for a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly alternative to produce H2...
Bioengineering opportunities and risks
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
Mystery ruthenium-106 cloud over Europe
ROSATOM, the Russian state nuclear company, has denied that a radioactive cloud of ruthenium-106 ...
New theory could re-write Chernobyl history
RESEARCHERS in Sweden have published new analysis of the Chernobyl disaster which suggests that t...
Cost-effective ‘supercatalyst’ recycles CO2 and CH4
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of Surrey, UK have developed a cost-effective ‘supercatalyst...
Stored heat from the sun can provide energy on demand
ENGINEERS at MIT, US, have developed a chemical composite that can store heat from the sun during...
Global Status of CCS report warns ‘more to be done’
THE Global CCS Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to meeting the Paris...
Wood improves solar steam generation
POROUS wood from trees like poplar and pine could be used for an efficient, biodegradable water p...
First kerosene made from solar syngas
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
Solar Impulse wants 1,000 climate change solutions
THE Solar Impulse Foundation has established a new alliance, which plans to find 1,000 profitabl...
Cutting long-lived nuclear waste
THE half-life of nuclear fission products could be reduced from hundreds of thousands of years to...
COP23: Evidence-based climate change solutions needed
SPEAKERS at an IChemE-hosted event at the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, ha...
Living solar panel printed on paper
BIO-SOLAR panels have been printed to resemble wallpaper, and could lead to new types of electric...
Natural gas emissions threaten EU carbon budget
METHANE emissions from natural gas have been underestimated by governments, and the “bridging fue...
NUS, NTU and ExxonMobil set up Singapore Energy Centre
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed...
Putting human waste to good use
NUTRIENTS, energy and water will be safely recovered from the faeces and urine of up to 1,000 peo...
OGCI selects first three green investment projects
THE OIL AND GAS CLIMATE INITIATIVE (OGCI) has selected the first three low carbon projects to ben...
Novel coating turns windows into radiators
MUCH of the heat loss from buildings is through the windows, but researchers in Sweden have devel...
Norway cuts budget for full-chain CCS project by 94%
THE Norwegian government has, in its 2018 budget, proposed cutting the funding for its flagship f...
Removing silica from power plant water
COOLING tower water could be reused and recycled ten or more times by using a new silica-removing...
Functionalising waste methane in remote locations
A NOVEL electrochemical process to convert methane into methanol precursors could reduce the need...
Australia to set new national energy policy
A NEW proposal from the Australian government seeks to remove renewable energy subsidies and prom...
14 partners join CO2-to-plastic consortium
COVESTRO is leading a consortium of 14 European partners from seven countries in a new project to...
Arup: Organic waste could be used in construction
A NEW report from engineering major Arup says that organic waste such as that from bananas, potat...
UK sets out green growth plans
THE UK government has outlined a raft of plans for low-carbon investment, setting out how £2.5bn ...
Climeworks opens direct air capture plant in Iceland
CLIMEWORKS has opened a new plant in collaboration with Reykjavik Energy in Iceland to capture CO...
Plasma synthesis turns CO2 and CH4 into fuels and chemicals
RESEARCHERS have reported a “major breakthrough” in reforming CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and c...
East coast CCS could be worth £163bn to UK economy
A CCS network on the UK east coast could boost the national economy by £163bn (US$210bn) by 2060 ...
Fracking banned in Scotland “indefinitely”
THE SCOTTISH government has announced an effective ban on fracking activities, following “overwhe...
Statoil, Shell and Total in Norwegian CCS partnership
STATOIL, Shell and Total have signed a partnership to further develop CO2 storage on the Norwegia...
Key US coal and nuclear announcements
AMERICA’S power markets could move away from renewables and natural gas towards coal and nuclear,...
An olive branch for a circular economy
RESEARCHERS have piloted a process to turn a waste stream from olive oil manufacture into biofuel...
Filtering fracking water for reuse
A SUPERHYDROPHILIC filter has been shown to remove 90% of hydrocarbons, bacteria, and particulate...
A fashionable process
A PILOT facility in Finland has successfully trialled an environmentally-friendly process to recy...
Surf and turf: replacing plastic laminates
A COMPOSTABLE biomaterial made of derivatives from lobster shells and wood could sustainably repl...
Biodiesel: The tip of the fatberg
A GIANT “fatberg” made of congealed insoluble matter will be converted into 10,000 L of biodiesel...
Major hydrochloric acid leak in Hull
A VAPOUR cloud formed over the Port of Hull, UK, after a leak of hydrochloric acid from a tank, a...
Caterpillars might not break down plastic after all
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically b...
Acorn CCS gets £100,000 Scottish government funding
THE Acorn CCS project, a full-chain CCS project in northeast Scotland, UK, has been awarded £100,...
Thorium nuclear research boost
A THORIUM molten salt reactor (TMSR) experiment – the world’s first in over 45 years – has been s...
DNV GL: Energy demand will plateau in 2030
RISK MANAGEMENT firm DNV GL predicts that global energy demand will peak in 2025 and plateau afte...
Arkema sets fire to remaining chemicals stocks at flooded site
All nine chemical containers have ignited at the flooded Arkema plant in Crosby, outside Houston,...
Cyborg bacteria make chemicals from sunlight
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from...
Call for UK industry to pioneer hydrogen use
INDUSTRY in the Northwest of England should pioneer the use of hydrogen fuel, according to an amb...
Giving green polymers the blue light
BLUE light has been used by researchers to create an interpenetrating polymeric network (IPN) in ...
Jellyfish and prawn cocktail
A GASTRONOMIC delight in Asia could be making its way to the western world, thanks to a new proce...
Wessex Water and Bath trial algae treatment
WESSEX WATER and the University of Bath, UK, are trialling the use of algae farms to reduce the n...
Produce less, pollute more
A STANFORD University study suggests that ageing oilfields can demand more energy even while petr...
Turning dirty foil into useful catalysts
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often l...
Wood digestion without enzymes
SUCCESSFULLY understanding the unique, non-enzymatic digestion of wood by a fungus has been descr...
Bismuth could replace lead in solar cells
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, ac...
UK battery technology funding announced
BATTERY technology in the UK received a boost today, as the government announced £246m (US$321m) ...
First global plastics analysis
A WORLD-first study of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made has shown that 8.3 ...
Very strong plant-inspired graphene aerogel
A NEW form of graphene aerogel, inspired by the structure of a plant stem, is exceptionally stron...
Hydrogen-powered boat begins six-year journey
SEEKING to raise awareness of the promise of hydrogen fuel, a converted racing boat equipped to p...
Cutting biofuel production time
A BIOMASS pre-treatment technique could make biofuels cheaper, safer and up to 172% faster to pro...
RAEng report calls for waste-based biofuels
BIOFUELS should be made from waste and byproducts, not food crops, if their carbon emissions redu...
Ireland bans onshore fracking
IRELAND has passed a private member’s bill that bans onshore hydraulic fracturing, making it the ...
Spinning webs sustainably
HYDROGEL fibres similar to spider silk have been spun at room temperature, and researchers say it...
South Australia calls Musk on storage bet
SOUTH AUSTRALIA has called Elon Musk on a bet he made in March, and has challenged the billionair...
Roadtrip fuelled on whisky waste
PROCESS developers are celebrating a roadtrip fuelled by whisky waste.
Kemper clean coal opts for gas instead
IN a blow to clean coal development, the Kemper County power plant in the US has been forced to a...
Dichloromethane may slow ozone recovery
DICHLOROMETHANE, an unregulated chemical known to deplete the ozone layer, could delay the recove...
IChemE’s PSEP impact factor up 40%
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
Shell partners SBI for drop-in biofuels
SBI BIOENERGY has granted exclusive development and licensing rights for its drop-in biofuels tec...
France to ban oil exploration
FRANCE plans to pass a law later this year to stop granting licences for oil and gas exploration ...
Notts Uni to reprogramme chemicals production
GREEN chemicals are a focus of a new £200m (US$253m) investment announced by the UK’s University ...
Exxon and partner double algae oil output
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
