AI: Educating the Educators
The Chemeca conference in Australia had more questions than answers on how AI should best be harn...
The Chemeca conference in Australia had more questions than answers on how AI should best be harn...
Pippa Corbett takes a closer look at the potential of heat networks, recent market transformation...
Using the petrochemicals industry, Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how a complexity-based approach...
Nitrous oxide emissions from water resource recovery facilities have long been under-estimated sa...
Engineers from Severn Trent and AtkinsRealis explain how applying novel process engineering tec...
An excellent introduction to a topic that is quickly becoming a field of its own, says Yasmin Ali
David Martyn looks back at TCE’s recent series of distillation articles and asks whether chemical...
Are the individual, societal, and global challenges we face complex or complicated, and do you un...
Fulcrum BioEnergy shut down its flagship waste-to-fuel plant in May. Alex Howard looks at the imp...
CPI is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Graeme Cruickshank looks at how the technology innovatio...
Aniqah Majid talks to industry experts about the state of CCUS in the UK and finds out why econom...
As Climeworks starts up the world’s largest direct air capture plant, Adam Duckett looks at the e...
An easy-to-read meander through energy and its issues, Yasmin Ali touches on many of the key tech...
Process engineer Adam Ward is modelling DAC at Imperial College London. He explains his research ...
Amanda Jasi speaks to the innovators developing direct air capture technologies hoping to be next...
An introduction to direct air capture
Madoc Sheehan says it is vital that future chemical engineers understand and build knowledge of t...
US biotechnology company MycoWorks makes fashion eco-friendly with its patented Fine Mycelium tec...
A flagbearer for biotech companies looking to replace petroleum-based chemicals with plant-based ...
MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are...
To mark Earth Day’s focus on slashing plastic production, Amanda Jasi speaks to David Gardner and...
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to J...
With the food system threatening to crumble under the weight of a growing population, Chris Chuck...
Palm oil's impact and benefits in numbers
Adam Duckett interviews researchers working to optimise the palm oil sector
Despite its thermodynamic disadvantages, global energy technology specialist Thomas Brewer believ...
Requiring temperatures into the hundreds of degrees to work, solid catalysts prove incredibly ene...
With fresh water in limited supply, ensuring water security is a global challenge demanding urgen...
Decarbonisation must be the end goal for industry but getting there can sometimes be a source of ...
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers using nanotechnology to help preserve, replenish and analyse soil
In his penultimate feature on achieving net zero, David Simmonds considers the structure of the e...
Designed to withstand decades of strong winds and harsh weather conditions, wind turbine blades a...
Tom Baxter looks at how focusing on fluid efficiency can maximise cost savings while also reducin...
Duncan Barker got in touch to share a prize-winning essay that he discovered his late father Andy...
The limited lifespans of wind turbines and solar panels mean many of the vital materials involved...
In the final part of our series on fusion energy, Mirjana Damjanovic and Lewis Simmons highlight ...
Adam Duckett on engineers and readers predicting and shaping the future
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
In the latest in her series highlighting the breadth of career opportunities in chemical engineer...
Lisa Julian is a regional representative for New Zealand in IChemE Congress. Here, she explains t...
Tom Baxter’s TCE article “Home Hydrogen: Is it Safe?” generated a lot of interest from the chemen...
Our reliance on gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel shows little sign of declining despite the push to...
David Simmonds looks at who we need to deliver our energy transition, from the local technician t...
Widely recognised for the part they play in keeping things clean, surfactants act as a key compon...
The semiconductor industry has long been reliant on PFAS but that could be set to change thanks t...
Benaiah Anabaraonye discusses the Danish Offshore Technology Centre’s role in developing and acce...
Coolbrook CEO Joonas Rauramo charts the path to fully electrified steam cracking, a game-changing...
David Simmonds explores the picnic basket of our energy transition, our increasing dependency on ...
Stuart Prescott addresses the strengths and weaknesses of generative AI in an education setting
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation ...
John McDermid considers the ethical implications of using AI in a chemical engineering setting
ESCAPE-33 attendee Tom Cowley provides his key takeaways from the IChemE-hosted panel discussion ...
David Simmonds has called for more choice for domestic customers when it comes to clean transport...
With decarbonisation on the agenda worldwide, engineers are looking for new ways to use hydrogen ...
Izak Nieuwoudt reviews the hybrid schemes that can help process engineers reduce the energy use o...
David Simmonds argues that there is no one-size-fits-all energy efficient solution to heating our...
David Simmonds discusses the need to accelerate flexibility when it comes to cleaner transport op...
Steve Reece of Nuclear Waste Services on the challenges of developing a geological disposal facility
Amanda Jasi talks to Eugene Chen, Sanat Kumar, and Tomislav Rovis about the crosslinking solution...
Adam Duckett on our plastic plight and the efforts of engineers
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers exploring novel routes to greener plastics
The push for fewer emissions and greater profitability are driving the development of more effici...
David Simmonds opens a new series on net zero asking: what can engineers do to help secure public...
Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary dis...
Adam Duckett on the rise of artificial intelligence
Amanda Jasi and Kerry Hebden talk to companies developing technologies to capture CO2 from the ocean
Tod McGreevy and Ramin Lakani discuss the shifting dynamics of oil, gas and biofuels used for tr...
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportu...
Adam Duckett and Amanda Jasi speak to engineers who are developing a variety of chemical looping ...
Ben Anthony and Paul Fennell explore the advantages of chemical looping and call on governments t...
Adam Duckett on the calls for rapid investment in technology
Jason Hallett on why forming spin-out companies became routine, and how he hopes to help others c...
Amanda Jasi looks at projects that are compressing air to store energy
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers who are developing novel batteries for military and environmen...
Adam Duckett speaks to flow battery innovators about the history of the technology and what’s to ...
More chemical engineers are needed in industrial policy, says Chris McDonald
Kerry Hebden speaks to innovators piloting green steel production in Sweden, and a second team wo...
Adam Duckett on new opportunities
Amanda Jasi speaks to technology developers working to use electrolysis to reduce emissions from ...
Martin Pitt reflects on the history of the waste industry, including his own experiences
Amanda Jasi reports from the official opening of the chemical engineering programme at Southampto...
Tracey Shelley says engineering contractors need stability to execute climate change solutions
Adam Duckett recaps an inspirational year
As IChemE wraps up its Centenary year, Adam Duckett looks to the important contributions needed next
David Simmonds suggests three ways that could help next year's COP28 deliver real results
As attention turns to the coming COP27 climate conference, David Simmonds looks at where some of ...
Adam Duckett on the need to go around in the right circles
Adam Duckett shares the major talking points from the latest centenary webinar
Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of...
Kerry Hebden talks to the researchers and companies aiming for greener concrete processes
Pablo Brito-Parada and colleagues discuss how SOSO technology could provide the paradigm shift ne...
Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers working to realise novel chemical upcycling methods
Zeb Ahmed discusses the growing demand for sustainable built assets
Efstratios Pistikopoulos and Yuhe Tian; ISBN: 9780323855877; Elsevier; 2022; US$190
Adam Duckett on low-water marks and engineering highly-complex systems
Dominic Foo and Raymond Tan ISBN: 9781032242811; CRC Press; 2021; £59.99
Amanda Jasi reports on a project that aims to introduce circular symbiotic arrangements between i...
With clean water scarcity a major problem, Kerry Hebden looks at unconventional options for obtai...
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralis...
A panel of experts speaking at IChemE’s Centenary webinar urged attendees to think and work toget...
Joan Cordiner discusses the world of professional ethics
Paul Stevenson discusses options for remediation of PFAS contamination
Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science
Adam Duckett speaks to Steven Fitzgibbon about natural hazard risk reduction
Kit Oung; ISBN: 9781637421819; Business Expert Press; 2022; US$17.99
Kathryn Richardson talks about her role as Area Environment Manager at the Environment Agency in ...
In the face of rising pressure, are there any alternatives to imposing a UK windfall tax on the o...
Amanda Jasi speaks to pioneering chemical engineer Robert Langer about his successes and offers a...
Amanda Jasi speaks to Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold about how chemical engineering can help h...
Nyssa Nair, Steven Pratt, Paul Lant and Bronwyn Laycock explain the use of bacteria to produce bi...
Amanda Doyle speaks to Teague Egan and Amit Patwardhan of clean technology company EnergyX about ...
Emma Houchell talks about her role at Air Products, helping develop technology for the burgeoning...
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Trish Melton looks at IChemE’s new Sustainability Hub for members
Marc Allen provides an update on the work IChemE is doing to deliver on its net zero commitment
Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainabl...
Adam Duckett on sustainability urgency and optimism
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
At-a-glance information on what's in the first of our centenary theme specials
William Hawker discusses his role in commercialising low cost, low emissions processes for produc...
Rod Robinson reviews the techniques available for monitoring methane emissions
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
David Hobson talks about his role in recycling and consulting on developing processes for the cir...
Adam Duckett on the frustrations and relative successes of COP26
IChemE participated in three events at the climate summit
Andrew Jamieson updates on how IChemE is ensuring that there are systems and resources available ...
Amanda Doyle reports from the COP26 climate change summit
Negotiations lead to new commitments on climate action
Ivan McCormack discusses his role in the recycling sector, developing a chemical process to clos...
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
Bing Xu, Umit Bititci, Melissa Marques, Mengfei Jiang, and Jin Xuan discuss challenges and motiva...
Adam Duckett on the need for action on decarbonisation
Brett Longstaffe talks about his role in engineering novel reactors
Amrit Chandan talks about his focus on growing and scaling his company's advanced lithium battery...
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Tom Baxter asks five questions about the UK Government's new Hydrogen Strategy.
Adam Duckett on the missing elements of the UK’s hydrogen strategy
Alfonso Rodriguez and Charlie Espinosa explain innovations to map and remove mercury contaminatio...
We need to think more like chess players, says Tommy Isaac
Amanda Doyle explains why the energy transition must be fair for workers in high carbon industries
Mine closure is not just an environmental issue, say Anna Littleboy, Guy Boggs and Glen Corder
In the fourth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to so...
The importance of materials efficiency in the fight against the climate crisis
Tom Baxter argues against using blue hydrogen to produce electricity
Andrew Hopkins and Deanna Kemp; ISBN: 9781922509048; Wolters Kluwer; 2021; US$65
Adam Duckett on setting boundaries
New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett
Humbul Suleman and colleagues explain how refinements to a decades-old technology can provide cle...
James Colley offers sound advice on careers transition when you need to switch sectors
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the technologi...
Tommy Isaac compares heat pumps and boilers, and which is most suited for decarbonisation
Dieter Helm; ISBN: 9780008404468; William Collins; 2020; £20
In the second of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribut...
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainabilty Special Interest Group discuss the technologie...
Mike Kelland and Greg Rau talk to Amanda Doyle about their clean-tech goals
Lars Krause and Michael Carus discuss crediting the value of bio- and CO2-based and recycled mate...
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down th...
Liza Forbes, Kym Runge, Mike Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench and Luke Vollert discuss a froth-free flot...
In the first in a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute...
Adam Duckett on the US President’s climate push and jobs plan
Industry will be forced to adapt, says Paul Hodges
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of IChemE’s Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the futur...
Last year, IChemE’s President Stephen Richardson took the unusual step of writing to India’s Prim...
James Close, John Barker and Georges Melhem use a case study to explain the importance of underst...
An analysis of the increasing pressure faced by the recycled plastic supply chain in Western Europe
Geoff Gill reviews how the accident played out, and the huge engineering challenges involved in m...
The Fukushima disaster in numbers
Zsuzsanna Gyenes makes the case for the much-maligned energy source
Can net zero housing help the UK meet targets? Tom Baxter does the math
Jim Petrie and Jenni Case celebrate a centenary of chemical engineering
A chemical engineer working for the UK Government introduces two online net zero calculators that...
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process ...
Saul Griffith with Sam Calisch and Laura Fraser; ISBN: N/A; Publisher: N/A; 2020; Free
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
An alternative view for how the UK can achieve net zero for housing and other users, without the ...
Mercedes Maroto-Valer discusses how the chemical industry can contribute to post-pandemic net zero
Malaysia has much to do, say Kok Siew Ng and Eleni Iacovidou
Adam Duckett on IChemE’s green commitments
Without an effective UK carbon tax, decision-makers cannot make the business case for carbon capt...
A positive look at what has been and what can be achieved to reduce our carbon footprint
HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality
A review of the safety implications of a wider use of hydrogen, and the efforts under way to addr...
Opportunities from crisis
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
How decisions on hydrogen’s role in energy systems might be made; industry collaboration and long...
Tom Baxter explains why slowing down is better for the planet
Grant Wellwood calls for manufacturers to include environmental impact labels on their products
Amanda Doyle looks at how the crisis of coronavirus is impacting the pressing need to go green
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
How can the oil majors best measure energy transition and routes to net zero?
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
How we choose to learn can determine whether we will repeat similar situations, says Gabor Posta
Claudia Flavell-While looks at learned society priorities
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
Andrew Perry looks at the challenges of tackling global carbon emissions, and asks when the worl...
Adam Duckett says Australia's bushfires should be a wake-up call for change
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonst...
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into meth...
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Using chemical recycling to tackle the problem of plastics waste
Elena Demou explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
Raymond Tan and Dominic Foo explain how pinch analysis techniques can be used to optimise decarbo...
Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as vali...
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Kevin Wheeler explains bunding’s vital role and offers a practical summary of issues to consider ...
Merck's free-to-all method for product sustainability scoring
Ruby Ray and Fabio Ruggeri describe an innovative process to produce substitute natural gas – a s...
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy
Tom Baxter shares more options for chemical engineers to boost energy efficiencies
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
Conclusions from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s summit on future waste science policy.
C-Capture started as a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK i...
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Dyllon Randall explains how bio-bricks can be grown from human urine
Solving a serious environmental problem on a maleic anhydride plant
How electrolytic hydrogen can help power our future
David Simmonds explains the challenges of pursuing major projects sustainably
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without...
Other methods of producing hydrogen, not from natural gas
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for ...
Producing hydrogen with carbon capture via the Low Carbon Hydrogen (LCH) process
Teaching artisanal gold miners to go mercury-free using a century-old technique.
THE cheap, abundant and seemingly limitless energy supply of the 20th Century driven by fossil fu...
It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing ...
How a team of process engineers turned waste calcium hydroxide into valuable animal feed
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
The potential of algae to recover valuable resources from waste could transform the traditional w...
Adam Duckett on the need for strong government intervention
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian ...
The one challenge that engineers of all stripes need to deal with is material selection.
There is a new player in the wastewater process sector, re-writing the rules of the game
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
On click-bait and the debate around fracking
Mag Sim of Pure Earth takes us inside the collaborative effort that cleaned up a polluted industr...
As testing begins in Texas, Allam shares his thoughts on building emissions-free natural gas plan...
What are the likely effects in the immediate and long term?
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
A look into public awareness and acceptance of carbon capture and utilisation
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
How chemical engineering developed in Nigeria
Hydrogen: a way to provide safe, sustainable and clean energy to satisfy rising demand and meet ...
Expert observations of demolition dangers and how to avoid them
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150...
Mobilising chemical engineering resources to mitigate drought
Chemical engineers: start answering climate change questions now
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
THE appointment this week of a new head of decommissioning at the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) ...
THE Scottish government’s recent announcement on fracking was no surprise. No amount of evidence-...
Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions th...
Neil Clark ventures inside University of Nottingham’s new green chemicals hub
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
Trude Sundset, CEO of Gassnova and a chemical engineer by training, tells Helen Tunnicliffe why c...
Carbon capture and storage costs money, so why bother? On the CCS Safari, Helen Tunnicliffe found...
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
With water accessibility increasingly under threat, technology leads the mining industry's effort...
From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley
FRENCH utilities giant Veolia has struck a deal to develop Africa’s largest seawater desalination...
Mark Apsey, Duncan Lugton, M Iqbal Essa, and members of the TCE Reader Feedback Panel update read...
REDUCING the UK’s lengthy grid connection backlog is a key focus of a government initiative to bo...
USING smaller electric car batteries and stripping materials out of old wind turbines for use in ...
THE MAERSK shipping family are funding a new company producing fossil-free plastics from green me...
Why IChemE’s Member Engagement Committee offers a world of opportunities
BIFFA and waste-to-energy (WtE) firm Encyclis have secured local planning approval to build a car...
PLANS to build the UK’s first coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed by the High Court.
ENGINEERS in the UK can bid for fellowships worth up to £3m (US$3.9m) to help scale up climate te...
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland will cease refinery operations in the second quarter of 2025 wit...
THE UK government has agreed to give a £500m (US$651m) grant to Tata Steel to build an electric a...
THOSE LEGO bricks you buy for your children (or sometimes yourself) are on their way to becoming ...
ENGINEERS have declared that their attempts to produce fossil-free steel have been successful and...
NORWEGIAN oil major Equinor has given the greenlight for one of its supply vessels to become the ...
LIVESTOCK and fish could soon be eating protein made from CO2 and hydrogen thanks to the launch o...
Mark Apsey and Duncan Lugton talk policy and what to expect from Hazards 34
CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling sy...
ANOCHROME LTD, a company that provides electroplating and coatings, has said it is the source of ...
THE AMOUNT of carbon embedded in construction materials could soon become much easier to spot tha...
WOODSIDE is buying a low-carbon ammonia plant in the US for US$2.35bn as it looks to expand into ...
ENGINEERS at the University of Surrey are investigating how phosphorous can be filtered from huma...
Members have their say on recent topics
HONEYWELL has agreed to acquire Air Products’ liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and ...
TATA STEEL UK has begun decommissioning blast furnace 5 in Port Talbot, Wales. The closure, descr...
SHELL has announced that its subsidiary, Shell Nederland Raffinaderij, will “temporarily pause” c...
“I WANT the stuff I work on to make an impact. That’s everything I think engineering should be.”
A US$30m centre for sustainable protein has been launched at Imperial College London as engineers...
SELLAFIELD, which processes the UK’s nuclear waste, has pleaded guilty to all criminal charges re...
TEAM Breaking Bonds, a group of Year 11 students from King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, ...
THE impact of burning fossil fuels should be taken into account when approving energy development...
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a lar...
ENGINEERS have warned that the UK economy is at risk unless the next government commits to a long...
HONEYWELL is promising to reduce emissions intensity from olefin production by up to 50% with its...
ICHEME has drawn on its new technical challenge report to set out a vision for how the next gover...
IMMEDIATE action to bolster maintenance of the sewage system and sensors to allow real-time monit...
HYDROGEN, critical minerals, batteries, and low-carbon fuels are set to benefit from a multi-bill...
TECHNOLOGY developer BaroMar has appointed Jacobs to develop the preliminary design for its large...
THE world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant – Mammoth – has started operations in Iceland ...
THE UK has shelved plans to trial using hydrogen to heat homes at town-scale until after 2026. Th...
OIL AND GAS company Shell is set to sell off all its petrochemical and refinery assets in Singapo...
MINING giants BHP, Vale, and their joint-venture Samarco have proposed a R$127bn (US$25.1bn) sett...
THE UK has introduced new rules allowing oil and gas firms and wind farm operators to share sites...
YOUNG chemical engineers were given the chance to solve real-world problems with systems thinking...
PFAS polluters have been targeted by new legislation introduced by the US labelling two widely us...
THE US has given the greenlight for Enterprise Products Partners to begin construction on a deepw...
MURA TECHNOLOGY, the firm behind a plastics recycling demonstration plant that’s under constructi...
THE LONG-AWAITED US standard for PFAS in drinking water has been met with a lukewarm response fro...
3M will pay US public water companies up to US$12.5bn to tackle PFAS, after a district court gave...
DOW and Procter & Gamble (P&G) are jointly developing a new process to recover near-virgin qualit...
A PILOT plant that recovers metals from mining waste has started operations in Brazil, as develop...
THE UK’s Cranfield University will spearhead a £69m (US$87m) research and development hub to demo...
IN A BID to accelerate electrification of industry, energy company Iberdrola will invest €41bn (U...
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) projects that could help optimise renewables and increase industrial...
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for ...
SWEDISH conglomerate SSAB and ExxonMobil are among the companies selected by the US to deliver va...
NET ZERO TEESSIDE POWER and the Northern Endurance Partnership have announced engineering, procur...
COSTAIN has created the first digital record of all the above and below ground assets in the Tees...
THE UK’s current carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) strategy is overpromising and failing ...
WELL-DESIGNED green regulation can help the UK deliver on its net zero commitments, while also dr...
WATER expert Tom Stephenson says it is vital that water companies target the worst polluting rele...
XPRIZE has launched a five-year competition aimed at improving large-scale clean water access.
RESEARCHERS working to combat plastic pollution, improve metals circularity, and develop novel fo...
The UK government is leaving the “outdated” and controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an int...
NEW ZEALAND has banned the use of PFAS in cosmetic products from the end of 2026 to protect consu...
THE UK Space Agency has announced millions in funding for work aimed at prolonging the life of sa...
Obituary of Isuru Udugama, a senior lecturer at The University of Auckland and prolific academic ...
THE UK North Sea Transition Authority’s award of 24 oil and gas licences in the 33rd licensing ro...
A BRAZILIAN federal judge has ordered mining majors BHP and Vale, along with their joint venture ...
SCOTTISHPOWER has unveiled £5.4bn (US$6.8bn) worth of contract opportunities covering the next te...
A PROJECT to heat homes with sewer water and the UK’s largest high-temperature water source heat ...
SHELL has agreed to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary, The Shell Petroleum Development Company...
Obituary of Winston Mellowes, an expert in the technology of sugar cane processing, Professor Eme...
XAMPLA, a company specialising in natural, biodegradable materials, has been awarded the Innovate...
THE UK government’s CCUS Vision is a “blueprint to deliver a world-leading UK carbon capture indu...
THE UK government will not be proceeding with a controversial hydrogen trial in Redcar. Northern ...
COUNTRIES have agreed at the COP28 climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels and tr...
ICHEME has produced a programme with ITN showing the roles that chemical and process engineers pl...
EXXONMOBIL’s plan to become a leading lithium producer moved a step closer with the first phase o...
THE White House has announced up to US$3.5bn in funding to strengthen domestic battery manufactur...
INTERNATIONAL energy company Equinor has partnered with Captura to develop the direct ocean captu...
A WHITE paper released by global chemical initiative Together for Sustainability (TfS) has i...
A BATTERY that uses a water-soluble binding composite to make it easy to recycle, and solar techn...
“IT SIMPLY won’t do what the prime minister claims,” said Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, after th...
A CONSORTIUM led by Siemens Energy has successfully operated a gas turbine with 100% renewable en...
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hun...
TO CELEBRATE and promote sustainability, students at Heriot-Watt University are leading a series ...
TWO contractors are under observation in hospital after they were exposed to contaminated liquid ...
Nigel Hirst on the merits of mentoring; Allyson Woodford previews Chemeca 2023 and readers respon...
WELSH WATER has admitted to spilling untreated sewage at dozens of treatment plants for years. Da...
APPLICATIONS have opened for the Australian government’s A$2bn (US$1.3bn) Hydrogen Headstart prog...
ENGINEERS working on a process to produce zero-emission cement as a byproduct of recycling steel ...
EXXONMOBIL has placed a US$60bn bet on US shale oil with the purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources.
ANHYDROUS ammonia released from a tanker during a traffic incident in Teutopolis, US, is believed...
“STANDARDS need to be followed for this very well-known risk,” stressed IChemE Safety Centre dire...
GREENPEACE UK climate campaigner Phillip Evans accused the UK government of making a “reckless de...
FOURTEEN companies have been awarded 21 licences by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in ...
WORLEY has been awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for what is said to be c...
A GREENER and more easily recycled lithium-ion battery, a microbial fuel cell for cleaning water ...
ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded...
CALIFORNIA is suing “Big Oil” for more than 50 years of “deception, cover-up, and damage” that ha...
HAVING failed to heed warnings that its offshore wind budget in the latest Contracts for Differen...
THE UK government has announced changes to planning policy in England that it says will allow ons...
YESTERDAY scientists and engineers at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham site, in Oxfordshir...
UNITED UTILITIES, a water and wastewater services provider, has been fined £800,000 (US$1m) for i...
OXY LOW CARBON VENTURES, a wholly owned subsidiary of international energy company Occidental, wi...
FUTRAHEAT, an industrial heat pump startup, has received £689,000 (US$871,000) from national fund...
LOW-CARBON industries such as hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear, need to promote careers outr...
A NEW £118m (US$150m) research centre at Imperial College London will work to transform mineral e...
NUADA, which is developing a MOF-based carbon capture process, has received £3.4m (US$4.3m) inves...
UK-BASED fusion energy company Tokamak Energy and Japanese-headquartered Sumitomo Corporation hav...
ONNU, which transforms biomass into valuable biochar that acts as a carbon sink, has announced pl...
IN WHAT they believe to be a world first, Scottish researchers are exploring whether it is feasib...
EXXONMOBIL has agreed to acquire Denbury, a developer of carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) ...
NUCLEAR developer Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) UK, part of a US-based company, has selec...
IN A historic moment for the UK’s growing electric vehicle (EV) industry, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)...
MAGNOX, which is responsible for the safe and secure cleanup of 12 nuclear sites across the UK, h...
BASF has opened a research facility in the US to help understand how plastics disintegrate and bi...
JOHNSON MATTHEY is licensing its butanediol (BDO) process technology for a new plastics plant in ...
AN exhibition called Engineers opened today at the Science Museum in London dedicated to world-ch...
AN UNKOWN number of decommissioned gas wells at Santos’s Legendre gas field off the coast of West...
RIO Tinto has completed the full transition of heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable di...
LYONDELLBASELL, Technip Energies, and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have signed a memorandum...
OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator has launched a formal investigation into power company Drax to d...
AS THE UK ramps up its net zero efforts, a report commissioned by EngineeringUK finds that demand...
WITH industry forced to apologise for dumping untreated sewage into rivers, changes upstream incl...
CEMENT and lime producers in the UK have formed a carbon capture and storage cluster – the Peak C...
CARBON Clean has awarded KBR a contract for the detailed design of a carbon capture plant for Ors...
ORSTED has announced major carbon capture and storage deals, having won a 20-year contract under ...
ICHEME has partnered with ITN Business to produce a news-style programme called Engineering a Sus...
DRAX has announced the official end of coal-fired generation at its North Yorkshire, UK power sta...
ENGINEERINGUK has published a webinar exploring how environmental sustainability can inspire youn...
ORSTED, a renewable energy company, and energy storage developer Highview Power have signed a mem...
CLOTHING retailer Primark has launched its first product range designed to be reused or recycled,...
SULZER is building a new research centre for its separation technologies in Singapore as it seeks...
JAPAN and the US have signed a critical minerals agreement targeted at strengthening and diversif...
AUSTRALIA has passed legal reforms that set a hard cap on industrial emissions and require new ga...
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of...
LABELLED as a strategy that will “scale up affordable, clean, homegrown power” while building “th...
A CLEAN-UP operation is under way after about 200 bbls of reservoir fluid, including oil, leaked ...
IN WHAT is described as a major step forward in protecting public health, the US Environmental Pr...
A CONTROVERSIAL Alaskan oil and gas project has been given final approval by the Biden Administra...
THE UK government has pledged to invest up to £20bn (US$24.2bn) from its spring budget to support...
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) is calling for expressions of interest to deliver a new versio...
ON 7 March, two coal power plant units operated for six hours to supply additional power to the U...
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
BASF has announced that it is taking additional cost cutting measures in Europe, primarily at its...
A SIGNIFICANT overhaul by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will see the Department for Business, Ene...
FUNDING from the UK and Scottish governments is supporting a new £4.7m (US$5.7m) research facilit...
CLEANTECH for UK, a coalition representing more than £6bn (US$7.2bn) in funds has launched. The i...
SCIENTISTS have developed a system that can produce green hydrogen directly from seawater without...
NOVEL carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storag...
IN ITS 10th year, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to four engineers wh...
SOLVAY said it will open a new unit at a chemicals plant in Italy that will halve the carbon foot...
THE UK government has been criticised for dismissing recommendations to support chemical recyclin...
THE UK and Scottish governments have jointly announced two new green freeports in Inverness and t...
UNIVERSITY of Surrey and UK-based washing technology group, Xeros Technology, have teamed up to a...
A REFORM to Australia’s climate safeguard mechanism means that more than 200 of the country’s hea...
INNOVATE UK and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have jointly launc...
FRIENDS of the Earth has filed a legal challenge in the UK’s High Court against the government’s ...
US manufacturing firm 3M has said it will stop making and using PFAS, a group of over 4700 indust...
RESEARCHERS at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have a...
THE UK Government has launched a new programme backed by £1.5m (US$1.9m) to support the use of ar...
THE UK Government has approved the first coal mine in 30 years, despite widespread climate concer...
TOTALENERGIES and Air Liquide have partnered to produce and valorise renewable, low-carbon hydrog...
PACKAGING solutions made from seaweed, and rocks that lock away CO2 are just two of this year’s E...
ESSAR Oil UK, which produces 16% of the UK’s transport fuels, plans to build a £360m (US$430m) ca...
ICHEME member Ali Abbas, one of Australia’s leading chemical engineers, has been announced as Aus...
TEESSIDE, UK will host the UK’s first large-scale lithium refinery, and possibly the largest elec...
THE University of Southampton, UK, Solent Local Enterprise Partnership, and ExxonMobil have teame...
THE UK’s Energy Systems Catapult has warned there are “inconsistencies” in carbon accounting that...
INEOS, co-funded by the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF), will conduct a fe...
INEOS and Plastic Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding for a 100,000 t/y facility in ...
A CARBON-ZERO aggregate made from waste materials and by-products for use in construction, a curt...
LIBERTY Steel UK, the nation’s third largest steel manufacturer, has successfully completed trial...
PROCESS technology company LanzaTech has successfully engineered biocatalysts to directly produce...
NEW UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has signalled that he will reinstate the moratorium on fracking...
CARBONCAPTURE, which deploys direct air capture (DAC) systems, and carbon storage developer Front...
EXXONMOBIL and CF Industries have teamed up to capture and permanently store up to 2m t/y of CO2 ...
UNITED Utilities and its partner, 3D mortar printing company ChangeMaker3D (CM3D), have successfu...
COORSTEK Membrane Sciences is working with independent European research organisation SINTEF to s...
ACCORDING to Sweden's coastguard, there are a total of four leaks from the twin Nord Stream gas p...
IN A BID to structurally transform its energy system, while ending its dependency on Russian foss...
CARBON Tracker and Global Energy Monitor have launched The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, a pub...
BASF, SABIC and Linde have begun electrifying a steam cracker at the huge Ludwigshafen chemicals ...
AFTER the departure of Russian troops from the site, radioactive waste processing and disposal ac...
A TEAM of multinational researchers has developed a novel method for breaking down environmentall...
ROCKWELL Automation and the University of Melbourne will work together to help manufacturing and ...
THE UK Government has shortlisted 20 projects for the next phase of its carbon capture, use, and ...
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, a b...
THE UK is set to host a new US$195m rare earth processing hub that Pensana is building at the Sal...
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
CHEMICAL engineers at Brunel University London are developing a pilot plant to strip CO2 from sea...
THE UK Government has given planning consent to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, ov...
A NEW report lays out the key challenges facing engineers in the next 10–15 years, and makes reco...
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
THE UK has established a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre in Nottingham to help the country ...
FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to p...
BP HAS been accused of dumping industrial waste in a marine-protected area off west Shetland, rep...
THE Queensland Government has given the green light to stage three of the New Hope Group’s open-c...
A NEW open data platform has been launched for companies to map their global supply chains to imp...
ENGINEERS have received funding to scale up a technology that produces sustainable alternatives t...
THE UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that the country is not on track to achieve its “amb...
ENERGY major BP has agreed to acquire a 40.5% stake in and operate the Asian Renewable Energy Hub...
BY 2030, Shell aims to increase its supply of UK oil and gas demand to 15% while reducing emissio...
CARBON dioxide removal firm C-Capture has announced the launch of a national project that capture...
Carbon recycling specialist LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, says it has found a way to pro...
ENGINEERING group Jacobs has designed and built a remotely-operated robot to collect debris at th...
G7 NATIONS have announced a commitment to achieving “predominantly decarbonised electricity secto...
BP and Linde plan to advance a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will ...
A TEAM of school students who designed a solar water sterilisation system has won this year’s Dav...
€100m (US$107m) is needed for repairs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the Russian ...
AUSTRALIA’S oil and gas trade group has said the country should develop new fields to boost energ...
THE World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and sustainability consultancy Eng...
SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully shown that X-ray scanning ...
THE UK Government has put energy at the centre of its legislative agenda as it announced a series...
BP has signed an agreement to purchase naphtha produced from a plant being built in Teesside, UK ...
A NOVEL reactor that neutralises methane emissions produced in coal mines will be trialled by Sou...
OIL major BP has plans to invest £18bn (US$22.5bn) in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030, ...
CEMEX has invested in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, which has developed technology that uses cli...
CHEMICAL engineers are investigating how the UK could increase its use of hydrogen and alternativ...
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
ONE year after announcing its 2050 net zero target, BASF has outlined plans to continue its progr...
IN its latest report, the IPCC has warned that emissions must peak by 2025 and halve by 2030 if t...
FLUOR has won the contract to engineer a chemical recycling demonstration plant for Itero in the ...
ONE HUNDRED and seventy-five nations have agreed to create a global treaty to end plastics pollut...
THE IPCC has said that human-caused climate change is already resulting in detrimental effects on...
RESEARCHERS at Monash University, Australia have discovered a method for producing green ammonia ...
BP has acquired 30% of Green Biofuels (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable ...
INEOS is inviting major engineering design contractors to tender for the next stage of the design...
A NEW method has been developed to remove neodymium from electronic waste using cellulose, which ...
VEOLIA is building its first electric vehicle battery recycling facility in the UK, with the capa...
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) has launched a new reverse water gas shift technology called HyCOgen to prod...
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is calling for the Government to support a national rem...
WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent quer...
PHILLIPS 66 will supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to British Airways (BA), under a new supp...
AS PART of its “gas-led recovery”, the Australian Government has released the first full National...
The European Commission (EC) has selected seven large-scale clean-tech projects for funding that ...
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) is quitting its battery materials business after concluding the costs are to...
PLASTIC ENERGY has partnered with engineering services firm Axens to license its plastics recycli...
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SHELL and energy technology company Baker Hughes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) ...
Today, on Science and Innovation Day at COP26, global coalitions of businesses, nations, and scie...
NOVALITH Technologies has raised A$2.5m (US$3.4m) of seed funding that will finance build-out and...
ONE-OFF investment in wet processors for simple, practical improvements could lower environmental...
SABIC is investing £850m (US$1.16bn) to restart its hydrocarbon cracker in Wilton, Teesside, UK, ...
SANTOS and joint-venture partner Beach Energy have announced a final investment decision on the A...
SOLVAY has announced its plans for achieving carbon neutrality before 2050, building on 2030 targ...
CARBON Clean, an industrial carbon capture company, has launched what it says is the world’s smal...
THE UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released its annual Emissions Gap Report, saying that cur...
AN alliance of experts from across the water sector, including from IChemE, has issued a call to ...
SCOTTISH researchers are exploring a new bio-based process for more environmentally-friendly and ...
TECHNOLOGIES for agricultural waste conversion and green hydrogen production have been recognised...
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, throug...
REPSOL and Versalis have joined the Cracker of the Future consortium, which is working to develop...
AS both companies work to accelerate to a net zero emissions world, Shell has now added BASF’s So...
THE Australian Government has announced initiatives to encourage carbon capture, use, and storage...
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has outlined six spending priorities for the UK gov...
PRINCE William has announced 15 finalists for the inaugural year of The Earthshot Prize, each of ...
Obituary of John Bridgwater, former IChemE president
ENERGY companies Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), BP, and Masdar have signed strategic par...
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commerc...
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and ...
WIND power company Siemens Gamesa has launched a “world first”, recyclable wind turbine blade for...
A SHORTAGE of chemicals used to treat wastewater in the UK has led the Environment Agency to rela...
A REPORT published by the Scottish Government, has recommended areas for research collaboration b...
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) now has a wider remit that includes funding CCS an...
THE Court of Appeals, the most senior court in England and Wales, has ruled to allow proceedings ...
THE frequency and intensity of extreme weather events associated with human-caused climate change...
THE UK’s glass industry has said it faces a challenging road ahead in meeting net zero targets, a...
SIEMENS has started construction of an 8.75 MW “green” hydrogen plant in Germany, that is expecte...
THE partners in the UK’s Acorn CCS project have signed three new memorandums of understanding (Mo...
TOTALENERGIES and Veolia have teamed up to accelerate the development of microalgae cultivation u...
SHELL has started operations at what it claims is Europe’s largest polymer electrolyte membrane (...
JOHNSON MATTHEY has announced targets to heavily focus its sales and R&D spend in line with UN Su...
DESPITE historic climate commitments, the UK Government has been too slow to follow these with de...
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has entered into an agreement with General Fusion, that will see t...
SCHLUMBERGER New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) have entered a collaborative...
THE University of Nottingham, UK has received £1.3m (US$1.8m) for a project to develop a novel, l...
AIR Products has announced a multibillion-dollar plan for a “landmark”, world-scale net-zero hydr...
THE controversial Keystone XL pipeline has been formally scrapped, ending a decades-long struggle...
THE Australian Government has announced six winners of a A$50m (US$38.7m) carbon capture fund. Th...
AIR Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a contract with Zeeland Refinery for a carbon c...
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have wo...
EXPERTS have begun modelling how oil might spill from a cargo ship that caught fire off the coast...
A POLLEN-BASED sponge has been developed as a more environmentally friendly way of soaking up oil...
IN A landmark ruling, the Netherlands’ District Court of The Hague has ordered international ener...
BP and building materials company CEMEX have partnered to accelerate progress of CEMEX’s ambition...
A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim i...
UNILEVER, Croda and Crown Paints have joined a taskforce convened by the Royal Society of Chemist...
RESEARCHERS in Canada and the UK have developed a coating for commercially-available sponges that...
AUSTRALIA’s budget for this fiscal year will see it invest A$539.2m (US$416.6m) in hydrogen and c...
A BIOREFINING process that converts wet waste – including food waste and wastewater sludge – into...
THE Japanese Government will allow TEPCO to discharge treated wastewater stored at the Fukushima ...
ENERGY companies Equinor and SSE Thermal have unveiled plans to jointly develop two projects incl...
ICHEME has paid tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his time as Royal Patron of ...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contami...
COVESTRO has begun to pilot a chemical process to recycle the foam from used mattresses. If succe...
FONTERRA – New Zealand’s huge dairy cooperative – has come out in support of plans to end coal us...
6 May will see the first round of a new £40m (US$55.2m) collaborative competition expected to enc...
Organics Group, Severn Trent, and researchers at Coventry University, UK, are collaborating to co...
THE second UNESCO Engineering Report, Engineering for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the ...
SABIC and BP are working together to produce recycled plastics at the Gelsenkirchen chemical comp...
CONCERNS have been raised over a stockpile of hazardous waste at Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point aluminiu...
THE Australian Government has opened the A$50m (US$38.5m) Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage Develo...
WASTE-to-fuel company Fulcrum BioEnergy, along with Essar Oil UK and its subsidiary Stanlow Termi...
RIO Tinto has launched a sustainability label that will ensure transparency and traceability for ...
EXXONMOBIL has created a new business unit to commercialise its low-carbon portfolio, which it is...
OIL and gas major Shell has set out a strategy for achieving net zero energy transformation by 20...
A NEWLY-discovered bacterium strain could be used to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from sewage ...
A DUTCH appeals court has ruled that Shell is responsible for the consequences of oil spills in t...
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans for US$160m of federal funding aimed at dec...
A COMPETITION has been launched in England and Wales to seek innovative responses to challenges i...
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order for the country to rejoin the Paris Agreemen...
Project partners Equinor, OGE, and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have completed their joint feasibili...
AN inexpensive, non-toxic method has been developed to recover silver and palladium from industri...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient p...
REFINERY owner Essar Oil UK and Progressive Energy, a project development and implementation comp...
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and ...
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
PETRONAS has said it aspires to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, becoming the latest oil and g...
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
RECENT funding, announced as part of the UK’s ten-point plan for an industrial revolution, will h...
SANTOS’ controversial A$3.6bn (US$2.64bn) Narrabri gas project has received environmental approva...
SHELL Catalysts & Technologies, which licenses technologies and brings capabilities to market, ha...
A PROCESS being developed by researchers in the UK and India to convert medical waste – such as P...
UK PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has announced £12bn (US$15.87bn) in funding for a ten-point plan ...
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
A FIRE which broke out at a gas well in India, in June, has now been “doused completely”, accord...
US OIL and gas majors are lagging behind European rivals as companies seek to transition towards ...
TAKING a step to achieving a fusion power plant, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) £55m ...
SOLVAY has started up its second dedicated plant for manufacture of sustainable bio-based solvent...
LYONDELLBASELL has released its 2020 Sustainability Report in which it sets the target of produci...
THE European Commission has unveiled its new chemicals strategy which aims to make chemicals prod...
PRINCE William has launched the Earthshot Prize, which offers £50m (US$65m) in funding for soluti...
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
CEMEX has signed an agreement with carbon capture tech company Carbon Clean that will see them jo...
BP and Microsoft are working together to advance their net zero ambitions and the digital transfo...
SANTOS has received “phased” and strictly conditioned approval from the independent planning comm...
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new stat...
THE UK Government has published its response to a 2019 consultation on business models for carbon...
THE UK Government has launched a review into how it will license the offshore oil and gas industr...
HITACHI has announced that its UK subsidiary will cease development of its 5.8 GW UK nuclear proj...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US have received just over US$800,000 ...
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving a...
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed new membrane technology that could reduce carbon emi...
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks ...
SPANISH energy company Repsol has produced the national market’s first batch of aviation biofuel....
BASF will release data on the carbon footprints of its entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 p...
AIR LIQUIDE is buying the world’s largest oxygen production site – from Sasol in South Africa – a...
SABIC’S polycarbonate facility in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scal...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
AS technology company Apple seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, 71 of its suppliers have ...
OIL and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a target to reduce the collective average car...
EVONIK has developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM) that could contribute to commercial re...
TECHNOLGY developer Avantium has awarded Worley the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract ...
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has publish...
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
NORILSK Nickel has been fined US$2.1bn by Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor for the ...
HYDROGEN technology company Hazer’s commercial demonstration project – which will produce low-emi...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environm...
AUSTRALIA’S New South Wales government has backed Santos’ A$3.6bn (US$2.54bn) Narrabri gas develo...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have criticised the Climate Action Plan released by Minerals Council Australia ...
GLENCORE is a step closer to having a new A$1.5bn (US$1.05bn) open-cut coal mine approved by Aust...
DOW has set a target to be carbon neutral by 2050 and that all the packaging its chemicals produc...
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
HIGHVIEW Power, a cryogenic energy storage company, has received £10m (US$12.3m) from the UK Gove...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Shell have agreed to jointly accelerate technology to electrify...
RENEWI, Nordsol, and Shell have signed an agreement to build a plant to produce bio-based liquid ...
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a four-year, multimillion-pound framework agree...
GLOBAL engineering and consultancy company Wood has pledged to set a science-based target to redu...
AUSTRIAN technology company Krajete has announced the successful testing of a filtration system t...
FOUR heat network projects have been awarded almost £25m (US$31.6m) of funding, in the third roun...
AROUND 21,000 t of diesel has leaked into a Russian river near Norilsk, which is inside the Arcti...
DOXA Plast, a stretch film manufacturing company, is commercialising a family of bio-based high p...
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could ...
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of te...
MICHELIN and Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) are planning to join forces to develop Enviro’s...
FORTUM Oslo Varme’s Klemetsrud site in Oslo, Norway, has successfully validated carbon capture te...
AUSTRALIAN company Hunter Energy is to refire Redbank Power Station, a 151 MW coal plant in New S...
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net...
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
ICHEME members are working with representatives of the wider engineering discipline to advise the...
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
RESEACHERS at the University of Southampton, UK have developed photocatalytic microreactors that ...
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
SYNTHETIC biology will develop over the next decade from creating niche, environmentally friendly...
NET-ZERO goals and policies are needed to allow hydrogen to help address hard-to-abate greenhouse...
THADDEUS Anim-Somuah has been recognised by media outlet Forbes as one of its 30 people under the...
ONE hundred and one environmental and public health organisations have sent a letter to the US Go...
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
SINGAPOREAN and Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, have signed a memorandum of understandi...
WATER UK has announced that it will develop plans to achieve net zero emissions across the water ...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced temporary policy that will allow non-c...
NOURYON and Ineos Nitriles have started construction of new facilities in Germany that will produ...
ENERGY and services company ENGIE is to supply ‘green gas’ to Heathrow Airport, the major interna...
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
RESEARCHERS have presented a new view of chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineering, which sees t...
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US have discovered a green process which can quickly and cheaply ...
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
MINING giant Vale is to begin disposing of the mine tailings from the fatal collapse of one of it...
IN A report to mark its launch, the Hydrogen Taskforce – which involves energy majors Shell and B...
ACCORDING to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2020, published on 20 February, global demand for LNG is to doub...
EQUINOR has pulled out of controversial plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bi...
UK Research and Innovation has appointed Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IChemE Fellow and Professor at He...
CARBON capture technology company Carbon Clean Solutions (CCSL) has announced the completion of a...
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selec...
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
THE governments of Australia and New South Wales (NSW) have reached a A$2bn (US$1.34bn) energy ag...
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
WORLD Engineering Day for Sustainable Development will be celebrated on 4 March every year as a U...
THE oil and gas industry needs to “step up” climate change efforts, says the International Energy...
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale has launched a pilot project for the environmental recovery of the ar...
TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Instit...
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factor...
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited milk processing company Synlait for a tour ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas p...
SPAIN’S oil and gas firm Repsol has outlined plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovati...
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and rever...
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
THE UK Government is investing £18m (US$23m) in a partnership with industry led by Rolls Royce to...
HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be...
ENERGY efficiency can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but with efficiency improvements slow...
DRAX has strengthened its biomass sustainability policy and appointed an Independent Advisory Boa...
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Vietnamese industrial zone developer DEEP C Industrial Zones ha...
MANDY LESTER, Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the 2019 Karen Burt Award for her commitment to...
NOURYON has produced the first ethylene amines products at its demonstration plant in Stenungsund...
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
BREWING company Carlsberg has announced investment in a state-of-the-art water recycling plant th...
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process usi...
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
ENAPTER, which manufactures modular hydrogen electrolysers, has unveiled a new serial fabrication...
OIL and gas companies Shell and BP have joined the Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS...
WHITEHAVEN Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal producer, expects to survive a range of low...
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lit...
A FIRE broke out at a Lubrizol chemicals factory in Rouen, France, in the early hours of 26 Septe...
EXXONMOBIL will invest £140m (US$173m) in its ethylene plant in Fife, UK, over the next two years...
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
RESEARCHERS at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam (IASS) have concluded th...
OIL and gas companies have approved US$50bn of investment since 2018 in major projects that under...
BP is selling its entire Alaska business to energy company Hilcorp for US$5.6bn, including its sh...
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
NESTE is investing US$1.4bn in an expansion to its Singapore renewable fuels refinery.
CHEVRON’S US$54bn Gorgon LNG project has started operation of one of the world’s largest carbon c...
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
BP and agricultural trader Bunge have announced a joint venture to produce biofuels and bioenergy...
CONSTRUCTION has begun on a pilot project in Victoria, Australia, which will convert brown coal t...
GREEN Biologics (GBL), a biobased chemical firm headquartered in the UK, has announced that it wi...
CUADRILLA plans to frack a second well in Lancashire, UK, before its planning permission expires ...
LED by the World Economic Forum (WEF), chemical companies are to collaborate to reduce the chemic...
Liquid Gas UK (formerly UKLPG) has launched its new vision, which sets a goal for the liquid petr...
A plant-based alternative to polystyrene foam has been developed that has better insulation prope...
THE All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Bioethanol has released a report saying that...
SAUDI manufacturing company SABIC has launched its sustainability roadmap aligned to the UN Susta...
LEADING specialty chemicals company Perstorp is investigating the potential production of recycle...
BP HAS warned of a “worrying vicious cycle” of energy use in its new global energy report, as ext...
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to pro...
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
NUCLEAR industry representatives from across the supply chain have issued a manifesto outlining s...
THE UK Government has announced funding for nine carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) ...
FOUR countries have blocked an EU proposal which aims to set a net zero emissions target for the ...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced a new energy rule that will extend th...
EQUINOR and its partners are to release datasets from the Sleipner field, the world’s first offsh...
USING a temperature-dependent solvent to desalinate water with high concentrations of dissolved s...
BASF has developed a climate-friendly process for methanol production, which if implemented could...
BASF and Lutianhua have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a pilot plant for synthesis...
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for ...
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
SUSTAINABLE aviation fuel supplier (SAF) SkyNRG will develop Europe’s first dedicated waste-to-fu...
DRAX, Equinor, and National Grid Ventures have signed an MoU to investigate construction of a lar...
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the UK will legislate to reduce CO2 emissions to...
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
CO2CRC, an Australian carbon capture and storage (CCS) research organisation, has announced a A$4...
THE UK Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, has come under criticism for claiming that adopting a strateg...
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for carbon capture and storage has issued a call for evi...
LYNAS and Blue Line have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint venture (JV) to d...
WABASH Valley Resources (WVR) has closed an investment from Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)...
THE infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is set to shutdown due to government inaction.
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the world is at risk of a steep decline in ...
PRODUCING useful chemicals from carbon dioxide via electrolysis typically has a high energy consu...
RESEARCHERS have developed a new process for producing the biofuel isobutanol more economically.
HEIDELBERGCEMENT has set targets to reduce its emissions in line with the Paris Agreement climate...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer ...
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
THE World Bank has launched a multi-donor fund, the Climate-Smart Mining Facility. The fund is th...
ADDING rubber to bioplastic to make it less brittle has led to the development of a new type of b...
A Swedish consortium is to begin construction on a pilot plant that will use biofuel to achieve f...
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
THREE European ports have submitted an application to the European Commission for a project to co...
AKER Solutions has signed an agreement with Twence to supply modular carbon capture technology to...
THE UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said the country could feasibly emit no emissions ...
A CROSS-PARTY report from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has criti...
MEMBERS of Parliament speaking at an event to showcase clean energy have noted that in the wake o...
A CARBON-NEGATIVE form of concrete has won an inaugural prize that recognises the potential of us...
OCCIDENTAL Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub has said she wants the international oil firm to become car...
A PROCESS for converting algae to biofuel has been developed that is significantly less energy-in...
THE Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has formed a new CCUS Advisory...
ON 25 March the death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant rose to 78, report...
ON 22 March Vale raised the alert level of its Sul Superior Dam of the Gongo Soco mine located in...
A NEW carbon capture process has been developed that turns carbon dioxide gas into solid carbon t...
THE death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has now reached 47, reports st...
BP has reduced its oil and gas exploration activities and could keep some of its resources in the...
NOURYON and Gasunie have agreed to supply ‘green’ hydrogen to BioMCN for renewable methanol produ...
BP HAS agreed to a resolution from investors to disclose how its greenhouse gas reduction and fut...
THE UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years has been given the go ahead by Cumbria County Council, ...
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
RESEARCHERS at North Carolina State University (NCSU), US have developed a technique that adds ba...
DANISH engineering firm Haldor Topsøe is selling a 30% stake in its business to Singapore state i...
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
WESTERN Indian state Maharashtra, is to relocate a planned Saudi Aramco refinery due to protest b...
A NEW process has been developed that uses supercritical water to transform polypropylene plastic...
ENGINEERS at MIT, US have proposed a method that could use desalination waste to produce useful c...
THE European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) has released a report identi...
NOURYON plans to reduce its CO2 emissions at its salt production site at Hengelo in the Netherlan...
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for t...
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
TWO weeks after the collapse of a Vale tailings dam 157 people have been confirmed dead, 134 of w...
AFTER the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil, 99 people have been reported dead...
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Waterloo, Canada, have created a novel advanced ultramicroporous...
ICHEME has launched an energy and resource efficiency guide which outlines how engineers and orga...
NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and...
BASF has outlined four R&D activities that will allow the company to achieve CO2-neutral growth u...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to change the way ...
A SET of rules for enacting the Paris Agreement to limit climate change was agreed by 196 countri...
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The ...
THE UK government has announced the launch of a £60m (US$76m) innovation fund to accelerate the d...
SHELL has given in to pressure from investors to commit to specific goals in limiting climate cha...
THE UK government has unveiled an action plan for developing carbon, capture, utilisation and sto...
THE Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a strategic partnership with six oil and ...
COVESTRO’s carbon dioxide-based polyols have been used to produce synthetic sports flooring. The ...
ALBEMARLE, the global specialty chemicals company, has signed an exclusivity agreement with Miner...
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydro...
DRAX, the energy company, has started commissioning of its innovative bioenergy with carbon captu...
A REPORT by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that biomass has a role to play in a l...
Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News r...
ENGINEERING was the focus of celebration today at a first-of-a-kind national service held at Lond...
TWELVE research groups from seven countries have developed a sustainable method for producing bio...
ICHEME has supported the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in publishing research identifying h...
RENEWABLE fuels and chemicals producer Neste has signed an agreement to provide sustainable raw m...
A REPORT has outlined how the cement and concrete industry can reduce its CO2 emissions by 95% by...
NUSCALE has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in a bid to ...
TOSHIBA has announced that it will withdraw from a construction project that had planned to build...
A EUROPEAN project is researching how to use the carbon dioxide produced during steelmaking to ma...
MEMBERS of the European Parliament have called on the EU to improve its climate change commitment...
A CATALYST has been developed that almost eliminates carbon dioxide emissions in the Fischer-Trop...
NOURYON, Tata Steel, and the Port of Amsterdam are collaborating on a feasibility study for a gre...
THE UK is set to see a 50% rise in biomethane plants operating by 2020, with as much as £400m (US...
A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit t...
FRACKING is set to restart in the UK today after a High Court judge dismissed a last-minute legal...
FLUOR has signed an agreement to test its carbon capture processes at the Technology Centre Mongs...
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
FULCRUM BioEnergy has announced that it will convert municipal solid waste into biojet fuel using...
CUADRILLA, the natural resource company, has been granted government approval for fracking at a s...
EXXONMOBIL, Chevron, and Occidental Petroleum have joined the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGC...
THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the ...
SHELL has said it will reduce methane leaks by installing new equipment at its operations, as the...
THE chair of IChemE’s Malaysia board, Christina Phang, has met with the country’s new energy mini...
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have discovered a method that makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their ta...
NORWAY could become the first country to directly connect an offshore wind farm to oil and gas pl...
L-METHIONINE is an amino acid that is typically produced using toxic hydrogen cyanide. Researcher...
CLIMEWORKS has raised CHF30.5m (US$30.8m) to further industrialise its technology which directly ...
LEADING engineering experts in nuclear energy and sustainability will deliver keynote speeches at...
The US Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water resource management, has announced that it wil...
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a report discussing how to make urani...
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
NORWAY’s ministry of petroleum and energy has announced that it will fund FEED studies on CO2 cap...
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
CRISP packets, chocolate wrappers, and blister packets for pills are all extremely difficult to r...
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
ARKEMA, its CEO and the manager of the plant in Texas that caught fire after Hurricane Harvey bat...
NESTE, a producer of renewable diesel, is developing ways to turn liquified plastic waste into a ...
A NEW technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells improves their efficiency and solves pre...
THYSSENKRUPP has launched industrial-scale water electrolysis technology to make hydrogen product...
CUADRILLA has been granted permission to begin fracking in the UK’s first onshore horizontal shal...
THE carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) cost challenge taskforce has released a report settin...
A substance in trees that is usually discarded by paper manufacturers has been used to create adh...
WASTEWATER from oil and gas facilities can be spread on roads for dust suppression or de-icing, b...
A REPORT by the Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) has discovered widespread use of the ba...
A NEW method has been developed for drug production that avoids the use of expensive precious met...
RESEARCHERS have developed a new polymerisation process involving a light-activated catalyst that...
CHEVRON expects to start its carbon capture and storage project for the Gorgon liquified natural ...
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
CANADIAN company Carbon Engineering has announced that it can capture carbon from the air for les...
EUROPE has proposed a law banning or restricting single-use plastics, the UN has released a polic...
THE world’s first full-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant, which can store excess energ...
BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that the UK government will take a £5bn ($US6.7bn) st...
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
The first solar-powered desalination plant in South Africa will convert sea water into fresh water.
DRAX Power Station in Yorkshire, UK, will pilot Europe’s first bioenergy carbon capture and stora...
EXXONMOBIL has announced plans to cut methane emissions by 15% and reduce flaring by 25% by 2020.
AN Environmental Agency report has warned that leaking pipes, water wastage, population growth, a...
NEW technology has been developed that will convert palm oil waste into building materials and bi...
NORWAY’S efforts to develop a full-chain CCS demonstration project have been boosted by governmen...
ALUMINIUM producers Alcoa and Rio Tinto have announced a new joint venture, called Elysis, which ...
Northern Gas Networks (NGN) and hydrogen technology specialist ITM Power have completed a feasibi...
DUPONT and ADM have announced the opening of a pilot plant in that will be the world’s first prod...
HSE has warned the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators that they must do more to tackle hydrocarb...
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
TEN finalists have been announced in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE which is incentivising companies...
AN EXPERIMENT to study a plastic-eating bacterium accidentally created a mutant enzyme that degra...
THE AUSTRALIAN government has entered into a partnership with Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries t...
VIVERGO, the UK’s largest bioethanol plant, has reopened after a four-month shutdown period. Howe...
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that no future permits will be awarded fo...
A FUEL cell has been developed that can store and transport hydrogen using formic acid so that th...
SAUDI ARABIA and Japan’s Softbank have agreed to build the world’s largest solar power project, w...
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Har...
AKZONOBEL has joined a partnership in Sweden that seeks to use excess renewable power to produce ...
AN ENERGY efficient separation method for propylene and propane has been developed using metal-or...
THE UK’s gas and electricity operator, National Grid, has set out its long-term goals in its repo...
A BREAKTHROUGH has been made in the manufacturing of carbon nanotube membranes which will lead to...
A GRAPHENE-BASED carrier system for delivering micronutrients to crops increases the efficiency o...
A METAL-FREE and recyclable catalyst has been developed for synthesising complex esters which cou...
FUSION power – the clean energy technology wryly said to always be 30 years from reality – could ...
AN ANALYSIS by climate science website Carbon Brief has shown that the UK's carbon dioxide emissi...
ICHEME has backed calls for the UK to remain within the EU’s chemicals regulation (REACH) despite...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
AN ENERGY trial at Keele University, UK, will assess the feasibility of adding hydrogen to the ga...
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
A FACILITY that will convert non-recyclable wastes into biofuels and chemicals for industrial use...
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
MICROBES that use oil as a food source offer the only way to degrade oil after a spill, however a...
BP has released its annual Energy Outlook report, which suggests a significant increase in the us...
THE Singapore budget has revealed that companies emitting more than 25,000 t/y of greenhouse gase...
A REPORT has evaluated the potential of negative emission technologies (NETs) in the context of m...
A RESEARCHER at the University of Bath, UK, has been awarded a grant to develop the photocatalysi...
A research and development grant worth almost £900,000 (US$1.3m) has been awarded to a consortium...
ENGINEERS at the University of Maryland have developed a way to make wood more than ten times str...
THE Future Climate-Engineering Solutions (FC-ES) project, of which IChemE is a member, has releas...
Green Lizard Technologies (GLT) will use dimethyl carbonate and unpurified waste glycerol for env...
INEOS has restarted the UK’s Forties Pipeline after the closure of a valve forced a shutdown of t...
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
A CATALYST composed of nickel and iron has been developed that will make the production of hydrog...
THE University of Edinburgh has launched the world’s first open online course about CCS and is of...
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL in Wales, UK, has been awarded £6.5m (US$9.1m) in funding by the ...
SHELL and ITM Power have announced a plan to build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plan...
SHALE gas is one of the least sustainable options for producing electricity, according to a new s...
COMPUTER technology giant Dell has partnered with Texas recycling company Wistron GreenTech and a...
THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) has signed an agreement to become the world’s first whol...
AN oil tanker that had been ablaze since it collided with a freight ship in the East China Sea on...
THE UK government has launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment and reduce “avoidable” p...
GLOBAL solar energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approva...
NEW YORK CITY has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel ...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed a nanoparticle catalyst that converts hazardou...
AN oil tanker is on fire and at risk of exploding after colliding with a freight ship off the eas...
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration has revealed a plan to open almost all US offshore waters...
ENGINEERS at Ohio State University, US, are developing a chemical looping process which can creat...
THE UK’S recycling industry says it may not be able to cope with an increase in plastic waste, as...
A BILL banning new fossil fuel exploration licences in France immediately and all fossil fuel ext...
INNOVATIVE UK biofuel company Celtic Renewables is to build its first commercial demonstration pl...
WORLD BANK GROUP president Jim Yong Kim has announced that the organisation will no longer financ...
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
AFTER dealing a huge budget blow to its full-chain CCS project, the Norwegian government has anno...
THE US military plans to go green – as it announces plans to fund the development of “spy plants”...
A NEW model in the production of biofuels and chemicals by metabolic engineering could be enabled...
THE WORLD’S largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant has been inaugurated in Germany, and has ...
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
BACTERIAL cells that work as a “tape recorder”, by recording environmental interactions and time-...
ETHYLENE has been produced from an integrated artificial photosynthetic device for the first time...
EIGHT global energy majors have committed to reducing methane emissions from their natural gas as...
MOLTEN metal could be used for a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly alternative to produce H2...
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
ROSATOM, the Russian state nuclear company, has denied that a radioactive cloud of ruthenium-106 ...
RESEARCHERS in Sweden have published new analysis of the Chernobyl disaster which suggests that t...
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of Surrey, UK have developed a cost-effective ‘supercatalyst...
ENGINEERS at MIT, US, have developed a chemical composite that can store heat from the sun during...
THE Global CCS Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to meeting the Paris...
POROUS wood from trees like poplar and pine could be used for an efficient, biodegradable water p...
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
THE Solar Impulse Foundation has established a new alliance, which plans to find 1,000 profitabl...
THE half-life of nuclear fission products could be reduced from hundreds of thousands of years to...
SPEAKERS at an IChemE-hosted event at the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, ha...
BIO-SOLAR panels have been printed to resemble wallpaper, and could lead to new types of electric...
METHANE emissions from natural gas have been underestimated by governments, and the “bridging fue...
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed...
NUTRIENTS, energy and water will be safely recovered from the faeces and urine of up to 1,000 peo...
THE OIL AND GAS CLIMATE INITIATIVE (OGCI) has selected the first three low carbon projects to ben...
MUCH of the heat loss from buildings is through the windows, but researchers in Sweden have devel...
THE Norwegian government has, in its 2018 budget, proposed cutting the funding for its flagship f...
COOLING tower water could be reused and recycled ten or more times by using a new silica-removing...
A NOVEL electrochemical process to convert methane into methanol precursors could reduce the need...
A NEW proposal from the Australian government seeks to remove renewable energy subsidies and prom...
COVESTRO is leading a consortium of 14 European partners from seven countries in a new project to...
A NEW report from engineering major Arup says that organic waste such as that from bananas, potat...
THE UK government has outlined a raft of plans for low-carbon investment, setting out how £2.5bn ...
CLIMEWORKS has opened a new plant in collaboration with Reykjavik Energy in Iceland to capture CO...
RESEARCHERS have reported a “major breakthrough” in reforming CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and c...
A CCS network on the UK east coast could boost the national economy by £163bn (US$210bn) by 2060 ...
THE SCOTTISH government has announced an effective ban on fracking activities, following “overwhe...
STATOIL, Shell and Total have signed a partnership to further develop CO2 storage on the Norwegia...
AMERICA’S power markets could move away from renewables and natural gas towards coal and nuclear,...
RESEARCHERS have piloted a process to turn a waste stream from olive oil manufacture into biofuel...
A SUPERHYDROPHILIC filter has been shown to remove 90% of hydrocarbons, bacteria, and particulate...
A PILOT facility in Finland has successfully trialled an environmentally-friendly process to recy...
A COMPOSTABLE biomaterial made of derivatives from lobster shells and wood could sustainably repl...
A GIANT “fatberg” made of congealed insoluble matter will be converted into 10,000 L of biodiesel...
A VAPOUR cloud formed over the Port of Hull, UK, after a leak of hydrochloric acid from a tank, a...
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically b...
THE Acorn CCS project, a full-chain CCS project in northeast Scotland, UK, has been awarded £100,...
A THORIUM molten salt reactor (TMSR) experiment – the world’s first in over 45 years – has been s...
RISK MANAGEMENT firm DNV GL predicts that global energy demand will peak in 2025 and plateau afte...
All nine chemical containers have ignited at the flooded Arkema plant in Crosby, outside Houston,...
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from...
INDUSTRY in the Northwest of England should pioneer the use of hydrogen fuel, according to an amb...
BLUE light has been used by researchers to create an interpenetrating polymeric network (IPN) in ...
A GASTRONOMIC delight in Asia could be making its way to the western world, thanks to a new proce...
WESSEX WATER and the University of Bath, UK, are trialling the use of algae farms to reduce the n...
A STANFORD University study suggests that ageing oilfields can demand more energy even while petr...
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often l...
SUCCESSFULLY understanding the unique, non-enzymatic digestion of wood by a fungus has been descr...
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, ac...
BATTERY technology in the UK received a boost today, as the government announced £246m (US$321m) ...
A WORLD-first study of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made has shown that 8.3 ...
A NEW form of graphene aerogel, inspired by the structure of a plant stem, is exceptionally stron...
SEEKING to raise awareness of the promise of hydrogen fuel, a converted racing boat equipped to p...
A BIOMASS pre-treatment technique could make biofuels cheaper, safer and up to 172% faster to pro...
BIOFUELS should be made from waste and byproducts, not food crops, if their carbon emissions redu...
IRELAND has passed a private member’s bill that bans onshore hydraulic fracturing, making it the ...
HYDROGEL fibres similar to spider silk have been spun at room temperature, and researchers say it...
SOUTH AUSTRALIA has called Elon Musk on a bet he made in March, and has challenged the billionair...
PROCESS developers are celebrating a roadtrip fuelled by whisky waste.
IN a blow to clean coal development, the Kemper County power plant in the US has been forced to a...
DICHLOROMETHANE, an unregulated chemical known to deplete the ozone layer, could delay the recove...
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
SBI BIOENERGY has granted exclusive development and licensing rights for its drop-in biofuels tec...
FRANCE plans to pass a law later this year to stop granting licences for oil and gas exploration ...
GREEN chemicals are a focus of a new £200m (US$253m) investment announced by the UK’s University ...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
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