A Safer Management of Ammonia
Seshu Dharmavaram discusses his research into anhydrous ammonia and how better management of it c...
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Careers in Chemical Engineering: Safely Delivering Industrial Gases
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Caroline Smither tells Yasmin Ali about her work helpin...
Chemical Looping Diversity: Biofuels, Power, CCS and Chemicals
Adam Duckett and Amanda Jasi speak to engineers who are developing a variety of chemical looping ...
A Virtuous Circle: Chemical Looping has Solid Potential for Optimising Processes
Ben Anthony and Paul Fennell explore the advantages of chemical looping and call on governments t...
A Short History of Unintended Consequences
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Rules of Thumb: Vent condenser with Non-condensables
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Are You Ready for Digital?
The new digital age in our workplace isn’t coming, it’s already here, says Craig Smith
Separation Anxiety
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicompon...
Continuing in a Crisis
Robert Walker explains the lessons he learned in successfully enabling critical gas supplies to c...
CO2 as a commodity, not waste: turning emissions into cost-competitive chemicals
Etosha Cave, Co-founder of clean technology company Opus 12, speaks about the company's process f...
Overcoming oxygen supply issues
Patients made severely ill may have difficulty breathing and require treatment with machines such...
New narrative needed for CCS
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industrie...
Waste to jet fuels project set for take off
Velocys is a company that has developed technology to convert feedstocks such as household waste ...
Capturing CO2 with C-Capture
C-Capture started as a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK i...
AM: Keeping it Clean
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
Uses of Hydrogen in Industry
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
Do The Bump (Test)
The importance of regular testing of portable gas detectors
Air Separation: Cryogenic or Not?
Separating air into oxygen and nitrogen using non-cryogenic and cryogenic processes
Securing a Safe Future for Gas
Hydrogen: a way to provide safe, sustainable and clean energy to satisfy rising demand and meet ...
Carl von Linde and William Hampson – Cool inventions
Beer has a lot to answer for, and not just beer bellies. Beer is also to blame for some key techn...
News
Fertiliser producer’s plan to shut UK’s largest ammonia plant triggers agriculture and food security concerns
CF FERTILISERS UK (CF) has proposed the permanent closure of the ammonia plant at its Billingham ...
ExxonMobil and Equinor award FEED contracts for low carbon hydrogen projects
EXXONMOBIL has awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Technip Energies for...
Plans to shut UK ammonia plant spark new CO2 supply concerns
CF FERTILISERS UK (CF) has announced plans to halt ammonia production at its Billingham complex d...
CO2 supply agreement reached as chemicals sector suffers climbing costs
UK industry has reached an updated agreement to ensure supplies of CO2 keep flowing as a trade gr...
HyNet secures new hydrogen customers
MAJOR producers of food, ceramics, glass, paper and cars – including PepsiCo and Jaguar Land Rove...
UK CO2 users agree short-term price fix to keep gas flowing
INDUSTRIAL gas users in the UK have struck a short-term deal on the prices they pay for CO2 to ke...
Carbon Clean captures CO2 from Tata Steel blast furnace
CARBON Clean has installed a carbon capture plant at a blast furnace owned by Tata Steel in India.
UK Government props up industry to prevent CO2 shortage
THE UK Government has been forced to step in and pay for industry to keep producing CO2 after a r...
Successful UK trial blends hydrogen in gas network
HYDEPLOY has announced the first successful UK trial of blending hydrogen into the gas network.
Linde signs green hydrogen deal with semiconductor company
LINDE has signed an agreement to supply green hydrogen to semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Tec...
Partnership to convert landfill waste into hydrogen for transport
RENEWABLE fuels company Raven SR has entered into an agreement with a Republic Services sanitary ...
Chemical engineers collaborate for ‘cookie-cutter’ oxygen units
THREE chemical engineers at different universities around the world are collaborating to develop ...
Large-scale green fuels hub planned for Western Australia
AN international consortium has announced plans to build a large-scale green fuels project in Wes...
Sarawak set for first methanol plant in 2023
MALAYSIA’s state of Sarawak is pressing ahead with the construction of its first methanol plant, ...
Air Products acquires full ownership of China gasification joint venture
AIR Products has announced that it has acquired the remaining 50% stake in a gasification joint v...
Equinor and Engie announce hydrogen partnership
EQUINOR and Engie have announced a partnership for the development of low-carbon hydrogen.
Australia plans network of hydrogen clusters
A NETWORK of hydrogen technology clusters is to be established across Australia with the aim of c...
Monolith Materials to build carbon-free ammonia plant
CLEAN technology company Monolith Materials plans to build a large-scale carbon-free ammonia plan...
Air Liquide buys world’s largest oxygen operation
AIR LIQUIDE is buying the world’s largest oxygen production site – from Sasol in South Africa – a...
Air Products and Thyssenkrupp sign agreement for green hydrogen production
AIR Products and Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers have signed a strategic cooperation agreeme...
CRI successfully demonstrates chemical storage with renewable methanol
CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has successfully shown that its renewable methanol can be us...
New catalyst for creating syngas from waste CO2
A CATALYST produced via flame spray pyrolysis can be used to turn waste CO2 into syngas for use i...
Air Liquide signs contract with South Korean steel producer
AIR Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a contract to build an air separation unit for ...
UK Government announces new Emissions Trading System
THE UK Government has unveiled its UK Emissions Trading System (ETS) for a carbon trading market ...
Norwegian carbon capture research hub extends operations
NORWAY’S carbon capture research hub, Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), has been given government...
Teesside industry evolves its CCS pitch and pushes plans to host net zero cluster
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
New funding announced for UK decarbonisation projects
THE UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded around £90m (...
JV will proceed with world-scale anhydrous ammonia plant
GULF Coast Ammonia (GCA), owned by a joint venture (JV) of Starwood Energy and Mabanaft, has reac...
‘Artificial leaf’ for carbon neutral syngas production
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas p...
Cheap catalyst for hydrogen production shows commercial-scale promise
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
Using CO2 and “green” energy to produce specialty chemicals
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
Novel process recovers high-value products from natural gas
LINDE has developed a novel process to recover high-value products, including helium, from natura...
Velocys signs CCUS agreement for its US biomass-to-fuel plant
RENEWABLE fuels company Velocys has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) to ca...
Malaysian students awarded new IChemE SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineer...
Construction begins on Australian hydrogen pilot project
CONSTRUCTION has begun on a pilot project in Victoria, Australia, which will convert brown coal t...
New reactor can produce pure stream of hydrogen
A CHEMICAL reactor has been designed that can produce hydrogen as a pure product stream.
Linde to invest US$1.4bn in Exxon Singapore supply deal
LINDE is investing US$1.4bn to expand its gasification complex at Jurong Island in Singapore as p...
ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat announce carbon capture partnership
EXXONMOBIL and Global Thermostat have signed a joint development agreement to advance carbon capt...
UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant
THE UK Government has announced funding for nine carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) ...
New report assesses gas-to-hydrogen transition
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
Aker Solutions to provide carbon capture technology to waste-to-energy plant
AKER Solutions has signed an agreement with Twence to supply modular carbon capture technology to...
ArcelorMittal to launch project to use hydrogen in steel production
THIS year steel and mining company ArcelorMittal is to launch a project in Hamburg, Germany that ...
UK government needs clear strategy to deploy CCUS
A CROSS-PARTY report from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has criti...
Sunfire and Salzgitter to build world’s most powerful steam electrolysis plant
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire, the Salzgitter Group, and their international partners are to build t...
Turning CO2 into solid carbon for storage
A NEW carbon capture process has been developed that turns carbon dioxide gas into solid carbon t...
Nouryon reduces emissions by increasing its bio-steam supply
NOURYON plans to reduce its CO2 emissions at its salt production site at Hengelo in the Netherlan...
New carbon capture technology granted funding for further development
THE Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and Carbon CCS-US, the US subsidiary of Carbon Clean Solutions...
World’s first commercial full-chain CCUS project announced for Teesside
THE Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a strategic partnership with six oil and ...
Chemical gas leak causes deadly explosive chain reaction
CHEMCHINA has released a statement stating that a blast which killed 23 and injured 22 was caused...
Amsterdam considers green electrolysis plant
NOURYON, Tata Steel, and the Port of Amsterdam are collaborating on a feasibility study for a gre...
Producing hydrogen from plastic waste
A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.
Fluor to test carbon capture technology at Norwegian facility
FLUOR has signed an agreement to test its carbon capture processes at the Technology Centre Mongs...
An improved methane to syngas catalyst
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved...
Trump administration scraps methane emission laws
THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the ...
Air Products to build a coal-to-syngas facility for Jiutai New Material
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
CCS could fuel the fizz in UK lager
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
Linde-Praxair merger in doubt following regulator demands
A MERGER to create the world’s largest industrial gases firm is in doubt after anti-trust authori...
Linde sells American businesses for Praxair merger
LINDE has agreed to sell its industrial gas businesses in North and South America for US$3.3bn as...
CO2 shortage sparks concerns over food and drinks supplies
BEER, fizzy drinks, and poultry supplies are at risk of disruption in the UK following a shortage...
Solar reactor uses storage to produce fuel day and night
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
Air Products buys Shell’s coal gasification business
AIR PRODUCTS has agreed a deal to buy Shell’s coal gasification technology business and its paten...
World’s largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant inaugurated
THE WORLD’S largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant has been inaugurated in Germany, and has ...
Molten metal for clean hydrogen
MOLTEN metal could be used for a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly alternative to produce H2...
Mystery ruthenium-106 cloud over Europe
ROSATOM, the Russian state nuclear company, has denied that a radioactive cloud of ruthenium-106 ...
First kerosene made from solar syngas
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
Natural gas emissions threaten EU carbon budget
METHANE emissions from natural gas have been underestimated by governments, and the “bridging fue...
Functionalising waste methane in remote locations
A NOVEL electrochemical process to convert methane into methanol precursors could reduce the need...
