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358 issues since she first helped produce The Chemical Engineer magazine, Alex Revell recounts ju...
Features
How Your Magazine is Made: Paper and Ink
Aniqah Majid goes back to basics to learn how the paper and ink used for TCE is produced
Milestone Issues
Adam Duckett reflects on TCE’s milestone issue
What You've Been Saying about The Chemical Engineer
Ahead of the 1,000th issue we asked members of the TCE Reader Feedback Panel to share their perso...
The Design Process: Front End Engineering Design
In the second in a series of articles aimed at giving new graduates a better understanding of the...
How Your Magazine is Made: Printing
To capture the key stages of how your copy of TCE is manufactured, Adam Duckett hot-footed it to ...
Flixborough 50 Years On: Stirring Memories and Sharing Memories
Paul Okey visits the Flixborough 1974 Exhibition with his dad to discover the stories behind the ...
The Chemical Engineer: A Retrospective
Jamie Cleaver journeys through the life of TCE, exploring its contribution to our technical chall...
Volunteer Spotlight: Eleni Routoula AMIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
The Design Process: From Concept to Heat and Mass Balance
Tom Baxter kicks off a four-part series giving new graduates a better understanding of how the de...
The Engineering Mindset Part 1: Complex or Complicated
Are the individual, societal, and global challenges we face complex or complicated, and do you un...
Practical Process Control Part 16: Feedforward Control – Part 2
In the second of a two-parter, Myke King shows how to apply feedforward control
Calling All Students
Adam Duckett throws it open to readers to shape TCE
Flixborough 50 Years On: Application of Inherent Safety Principles to Plant Design
Steven Murphy and Graham Ackroyd look at how applying Trevor Kletz’s concept of inherent safety a...
Flixborough 50 Years On: Remembering Flixborough by Someone Who Wasn’t Alive in 1974
In the engineering industry, it is often asked if major incidents could ever happen again. Early-...
‘Nobody got Fired for Buying IBM’ – But Many Should Have!
In the first in a series of viewpoints from Nigel Hirst, the IChemE past president says bigger is...
Using open-source tech and ChatGPT to create virtual analysers of chemical dosage
A new online dashboard of chemical concentrations for an offshore oil production facility used op...
Why we are Wrong to Overlook the Cinderella of Hazard Studies
Britest’s Rob Peeling argues that despite its reputation as a dowdy workhorse, Hazard Study One i...
Degree Apprenticeships: A Working Pathway for Students and Employers
Deborah Darnell catches up with an employer, university, and recent apprentice to discuss the b...
The Loch Ness Monster and Plant Safety
Martin Pitt recalls his time spotting monsters, and warns that just because they are hard to spot...
Focusing on the Future
Adam Duckett is reassured by the early signals from the new UK government as parliament welcomes ...
Flixborough 50 Years On: How Management of Change Failures Contributed to the Disaster
Richard Mundy reflects on the Court of Inquiry’s findings relating to what we now call management...
Volunteer Spotlight: Maria Papathanasiou AMIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Flixborough 50 Years On: Safety is a Team Sport
A massive gap that wasn’t filled, key players in the wrong positions and no one taking overall re...
Making Innovation Pay in a Sustainable Way
CPI is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Graeme Cruickshank looks at how the technology innovatio...
Advice to future Frank Morton committees from Swansea 2024
Frank Morton 2024, Swansea co-chairs Charlotte Todd and James Rees – both event first-timers – sh...
IChemE Matters: Elevating Member Engagement – the Next Level
Andrea Hosey reflects on the achievements of the inaugural Member Engagement Committee and highli...
Carbon Capture – is it Worth it?
Aniqah Majid talks to industry experts about the state of CCUS in the UK and finds out why econom...
Flixborough 50 Years On: Legislation has been Transformed, Organisations not so much
Trish Kerin speaks to safety consultant Andrew Hopkins to find out how the safety culture at Flix...
IChemE Matters: 'The Profession's View of the Profession'
Alexandra Meldrum introduces IChemE’s member-consulted report, “Engineering a Sustainable World –...
Practical Process Control Part 14: Pressure Compensated Temperatures
Myke King shows how to pressure compensate distillation column tray temperature controllers
Book Review: Power Up – An Engineer’s Adventures into Sustainable Energy
An easy-to-read meander through energy and its issues, Yasmin Ali touches on many of the key tech...
Devoting Energy to Energy Efficiency: The Role of an Energy Lead in Process Industry
The appointment of an energy lead at a dss+ downstream oil and gas client significantly improved ...
Flixborough 50 Years On: Lessons for Managers and Engineers Today
Robin Turney says the lessons learned from the disaster are still as relevant now as they were in...
Reducing Emissions from Upstream Oil and Gas
From the reservoir rock that contains the hydrocarbons to the downstream refinery gate, Tom Bax...
Unlocking New Opportunities for Seamless Instrument Integration in Chemical Applications
ABB's David Bowers looks at how new technologies, including cloud computing, edge computing, and ...
Stop! Impostor Syndrome
Many of us feel impostor syndrome at some point in our careers. To help generate more understandi...
Practical Process Control Part 13: Signal Conditioning
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Successful Placements
Industrial placements offer huge opportunities for both students and employers. Student George W...
Why we Need to Engage with Primary School Children – and How to do it Effectively
Joy Parvin has 32 years of working in primary schools’ outreach under her belt. She reflects on w...
Sharing the Burden of Impostor Syndrome
Adam Duckett on why it’s good to talk about impostor syndrome
Bringing Biomass to the Masses
A flagbearer for biotech companies looking to replace petroleum-based chemicals with plant-based ...
Keep Calm and Dry Tea: Designing an ATEX-Compliant Tea Leaf Dryer
Tea may be renowned for its soothing qualities, but tea leaves have the potential to cause catast...
Volunteer Spotlight: Hugh Paterson
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Blyth Decision Means UK’s Industrial Reboot Loses Another Site of National Importance
Northumberland County Council today approved plans to put a data centre on a site previously earm...
Microplastics Explainer
MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are...
Let’s Go Round Again: Closing the Loop on Problem Plastics
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to J...
Our Research Focus: Going with the Flow Chemistry
Christian Holtze and Klaus Hellgardt on how the newly established IConIC consortium is aiming to ...
Volunteer Spotlight: Laura Malhi CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Beware the Banana
Adam Duckett gets two of his five-a-day while asking for more systems thinking from politicians o...
Practical Process Control Part 12: Filters
Myke King explains filters and the benefit of moving away from the standard technique
Internet of Things: A New Era for Biomanufacturing?
Duygu Dikicioglu and Lidia Borgosz explore the opportunities and challenges that will determine...
A Working Definition
Adam Duckett on what actually constitutes a chemical engineer
Become Natech Savvy
Aimee Russell highlights the issues you probably haven’t thought about when it comes to extreme w...
Better Safe Than Sorry (Whatever Safe Is)
Trevor J Hughes on why reducing risk will only come from engineers challenging cringeworthy ‘ma...
Adapting Hazard Studies for Extreme Weather
The original HAZOP methodology developed by ICI has been expanded over time. Mike McKay and Georg...
IChemE Matters: Chemical engineering research – A guide to making a difference
Have you ever stopped to consider the real-world impact you could make as a chemical engineering ...
IChemE Matters: Introducing IChemE’s Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability
IChemE are launching a trio of awards to showcase how young engineers are supporting the Institut...
Process Safety Leadership Site Visits
Performed well, leadership visits play a vital role in supporting a positive safety culture at a ...
IChemE Matters: Chartered members earn more, survey shows
Chartered members significantly outearn their non-chartered peers according to the findings fro...
Practical Process Control Part 11: Controlling Steam Drum Level
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Customer Viewpoint: IChemE Forms of Contract
IChemE’s The Blue Book provides a standard reference point for the engineering, procurement, and ...
Rules of Thumb: Distillation
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 ru...
Navigating IR35 in the Engineering Sector
Matt Tyler, IR35 consultancy manager at Kingsbridge, sheds light on the evolving attitudes toward...
Capturing Science to Capture Attention
MIT photographer Felice Frankel talks to Adam Duckett about her new guide to help engineers bette...
A Taste of Industry before Uni
Susan Ojo tells Adam Duckett about how her industrial placement is benefiting her studies
Practical Process Control Part 10: Designing Level Controllers on a Distillation Column
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Vendor Viewpoint: Unlocking Constrained Projects for a Greener Future
Decarbonisation must be the end goal for industry but getting there can sometimes be a source of ...
Book Review: Valued at Work
Lauren Neal; ISBN: 9781788604680; Practical Inspiration Publishing; 2023; £14.99 (paperback)
Soil Survivor: Using Nanotech for Regenerative Agriculture
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers using nanotechnology to help preserve, replenish and analyse soil
Volunteer Spotlight: Adriana Vargas-Colwill CEng MIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Process Consulting and the Problem with AI-fed ‘Experts’
Grant Wellwood provides tips on how to discern between superficial knowledge and a deep understan...
Scaling Up Experience
Adam Duckett on how we can inspire chemical engineers of the future
IChemE Matters: Nominations sought for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress
With the start of the 2024 election cycle nearly upon us, we will soon be seeking nominations for...
Book Review: Chemical Engineering Process Simulation, 2nd Edition
Dominic Foo; ISBN: 9780323901680; Elsevier; €122.08; 2022
Understanding Flammable Gases: Composition and Safety
Hazardous environment consultancy Armadex highlights the importance of safety data sheets (SDSs) ...
Making Wind Power More Sustainable
Designed to withstand decades of strong winds and harsh weather conditions, wind turbine blades a...
Tackling the Project Management Crisis
Loss of manufacturing has led to a lack of practical hands-on experience for young engineers. Joh...
Book Review: Navigating the Engineering Organization: A New Engineer’s Guide
Robert M Santer; ISBN: 9781032102511; CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group; £34.39; 2023
Rules of Thumb: Centrifugal Pump Efficiency
Tom Baxter looks at how focusing on fluid efficiency can maximise cost savings while also reducin...
Life After End of Life
The limited lifespans of wind turbines and solar panels mean many of the vital materials involved...
Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
Christmas Past: A Historical Christmas Stocking
Martin Pitt reminisces on Christmases past, and brings with him a sackful of facts and figures
Practical Process Control Part 9: Resolving Potential Level Control Problems
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
My Job at Stanlow in 2023
Andy Barker’s award-winning essay on life at the Stanlow refinery in 2023, written 50 years previ...
Precise Liquid Flow Measurement to Optimise Your Batching System
Neil Hannay outlines the key considerations when specifying a suitable flow meter for the design ...
IChemE Congress: Giving IChemE Members a Voice on the Issues that Matter
Lisa Julian is a regional representative for New Zealand in IChemE Congress. Here, she explains t...
Book Review: The Chemical Code
Fiona Erskine; ISBN: 978086154203; Point Blank, an imprint of Oneworld; £9.99; 2023
Rules of Thumb: Scale-up
In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 6: Safety Implications from New Technologies
Roger Stokes and Michael Moosemiller outline the safety issues associated with conventional disti...
Volunteer Spotlight: Steve Flynn CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Taking a Look Back at Control: Part 2
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, concluding with electr...
Vendor Viewpoint: How RotoDynamic Technology enables clean olefin production
Coolbrook CEO Joonas Rauramo charts the path to fully electrified steam cracking, a game-changing...
Book Review: Engineers Making A Difference
Shini Somara; ISBN: 9781804660270; What on Earth Books; £16.99; 2023
Volunteer Spotlight: Ashfaq Palejwala CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Students, educators, and generative AI in peaceful coexistence
Stuart Prescott addresses the strengths and weaknesses of generative AI in an education setting
Unpacking the Hype Around AI
Stuart Prescott provides some background to the emergence of AI as we kick off our look at how ge...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation ...
Taking a Look Back at Control: Part 1
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, kicking off with mecha...
Ethics and AI: Concepts and Relevance for Chemical Engineers
John McDermid considers the ethical implications of using AI in a chemical engineering setting
Engineering Net Zero Part 4: Giving Industry and Transport Operators a Choice
David Simmonds has called for more choice for domestic customers when it comes to clean transport...
A Valuable Experience
Adam Duckett on the value of graduate placements
Volunteer Spotlight: Clare Sheppard
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Pulse Sensors for Flow Measurement Devices and Applications
Neil Hannay explains how to understand flow meter sensor and pulse output types for efficient sys...
When Measurement is Money
Derek Scott explains how to ensure the robustness of systems that determine the income and tax bi...
Practical Process Control Part 7: Parameters for Designing Liquid Level Controllers
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Could YOU be a Charity Trustee?
Trusteeship can help chemical engineers advance their careers and give to a cause they love, says...
Our Research Focus: Converting a Problem into a Solution
James Young asks chemical engineers if they’re ready to realise the potential in creating feedsto...
Power of Placements
Laura Grindey, Ethan Lynch and Dom Tsang from the IChemE National Early Careers Committee discu...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 4: Hybrid Schemes and Analysis
Izak Nieuwoudt reviews the hybrid schemes that can help process engineers reduce the energy use o...
Nuclear Waste Disposal: The Defining Chemical Engineering Challenge of Our Time?
Steve Reece of Nuclear Waste Services on the challenges of developing a geological disposal facility
Make the move to New Zealand or Australia with Beca
Are you considering moving to New Zealand or Australia? Discover how the consultancy Beca can help
Practical Process Control Part 6: Derivative Action
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Plastic Recycling: A Crosslinking Approach for Managing Mixed Waste
Amanda Jasi talks to Eugene Chen, Sanat Kumar, and Tomislav Rovis about the crosslinking solution...
Rules of Thumb: Bulk Material Sampling
In the latest instalment of this practical series, Eric Maynard highlights five considerations ...
Waste Away
Adam Duckett on our plastic plight and the efforts of engineers
New Form of Contract for EPCM Services: Blue Book
John Challenger explains why IChemE has launched this completely new and unique form of contract
A Safer Management of Ammonia
Seshu Dharmavaram discusses his research into anhydrous ammonia and how better management of it c...
Plastic Feedstocks: From Plants and Emissions
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers exploring novel routes to greener plastics
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 3: Improvements Through the Use of Novel Mass Transfer Internals
The push for fewer emissions and greater profitability are driving the development of more effici...
Engineering Net Zero Part 1: Communicating a Plan
David Simmonds opens a new series on net zero asking: what can engineers do to help secure public...
How Digitalisation Drives Resource Efficiency for the Chemicals Industry
Anahita Khanlari says digitalisation can help boost efficiencies with minimal investment
INWED 2023: Alexandra Meldrum on Being Curious and Building a Portfolio Career
For INWED 2023, Alexandra Meldrum offers insights on building an engineering career that makes a ...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 2: Improvements Through the Use of Dividing Wall Columns
Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary dis...
The Rise of AI
Adam Duckett on the rise of artificial intelligence
IChemE Global Awards 2023
Matt Stalker offers some useful tips to anyone planning an awards entry this year
The Right Balance: Women in Engineering
Orla Douds, Anousha Khan, Martyna Cepaite and Jessica Pidgeon share their experiences of gender b...
Practical Process Control Part 5: The I-PD Algorithm
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 1: Introduction - Your Greener Prospects
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportu...
Practical Process Control Part 4: Tuning a PID Controller
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Our Research Focus: Securing the future of water
Kariappa Karumbaiah explains how Hydroxsys hopes to place innovative membrane technology at the...
Brewing Up a Storm: The Origins of Biotechnology Part 2
In this two-part contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt focus...
Wastewater Treatment: When Renting Might be the Better Option
Plant operators are increasingly looking at ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of the...
The Chemical & Process Engineering Expo, CHEMUK, returns this May
The UK trade show for process, control, and plant engineers returns on 10 and 11 May and is free ...
Chemical Looping Diversity: Biofuels, Power, CCS and Chemicals
Adam Duckett and Amanda Jasi speak to engineers who are developing a variety of chemical looping ...
Brewing Up a Storm: The Origins of Biotechnology Part 1
In this contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt turns his focu...
Practical Process Control Part 3: PID Algorithm Versions
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
A Virtuous Circle: Chemical Looping has Solid Potential for Optimising Processes
Ben Anthony and Paul Fennell explore the advantages of chemical looping and call on governments t...
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Adam Duckett on the calls for rapid investment in technology
Book Review: Recycling of Plastics
Norbert Niessner; ISBN: 9781569908563; Hanser Publications; 2022; US$249.99
Our Research Focus: Converting batch production to continuous processing
Nikolay Cherkasov explains how complex compounds for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals can be pro...
Book Review: Petroleum Refining: Design and Applications Handbook
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 9781119794868; Wiley-Scrivener; 2022; eBook US$236; Print $295
Trust: The Safety Silver Bullet
Human factors expert W Ian Hamilton reflects on the process of fixing trust in order to fix safet...
Watts in Store?
Adam Duckett on the promise of energy storage technologies
Our Research Focus: Spinning out, going green
Jason Hallett on why forming spin-out companies became routine, and how he hopes to help others c...
Virtual Reality: Levelling Up Process Safety Training
Process safety engineer Martin Wardrope looks closely at how virtual reality is being used to dev...
Air Storage: Weatherproofing Renewables- Reliant Grids
Amanda Jasi looks at projects that are compressing air to store energy
A Short History of Unintended Consequences
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Cutting Through the Noise of Green Hydrogen Projects
Alex Howard and Jonathan Upton offer criteria for determining which projects are likely to succeed
Biobatteries: Harnessing the Power of Nature
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers who are developing novel batteries for military and environmen...
Flow Batteries: Chemicals Operations that Promise Grid-Scale Storage
Adam Duckett speaks to flow battery innovators about the history of the technology and what’s to ...
The Benefits of a PhD: An Academic's Perspective
In the second part of this series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to V...
Engineers: Raise Your Voice
More chemical engineers are needed in industrial policy, says Chris McDonald
Iron Plan: Working Towards Emissions-Free Reduction
Kerry Hebden speaks to innovators piloting green steel production in Sweden, and a second team wo...
New Year, New Opportunities
Adam Duckett on new opportunities
Imprinted!
Grant Wellwood says soft sensors offer process engineers intriguing new ways to monitor and bolst...
Electrochemistry for greener steel
Amanda Jasi speaks to technology developers working to use electrolysis to reduce emissions from ...
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: How to Source Expertise
Grant Wellwood offers up a method for selecting how you source subject matter experts
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: A Tricky Client called Planet Earth
Tracey Shelley says engineering contractors need stability to execute climate change solutions
Pore Performance: One 3D-printing firm's ambition to re-engineer membranes
Adam Duckett interviews Tom Pugh and Andrew Walker about Evove’s push to improve separations
The Benefits of a PhD: An Industry Perspective
In the first of a series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to Claire Nna...
Sellafield Digital Twin Project Clinches Top IChemE Award
Adam Duckett reports from this year’s Awards ceremony
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: Forms of Contract – 50 Years and Still Going Strong
John Challenger recounts the development of IChemE’s Forms of Contract and trails the launch of a...
Question Time: Celebrate, Communicate, Inspire
As IChemE wraps up its Centenary year, Adam Duckett looks to the important contributions needed next
The Breakfast Club
Early innovations from the food and drinks industry have done much to influence other industries ...
Safe Flow Meter Installation and Flow Monitoring in Hazardous Environments
Neil Hannay offers some practical advice
The Davidson Symposium 2022
Celebrating a pioneer and looking to the future
Question Time: Materials
Adam Duckett shares the major talking points from the latest centenary webinar
Digital Twins in the Chemical Process Industries
Joanne Tanner and Colin Newbery discuss the hype and the hope for digital twins
Rules of Thumb: Heat Exchanger Selection
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Health: What’s the Formula for Sustainability in Pharma?
Zeb Ahmed discusses the growing demand for sustainable built assets
Mind the Gap
Mo Zandi, Jarka Glassey and Brent Young discuss the emergence of Chemical Engineering Education 4.0
Book Review: Synthesis and Operability Strategies for Computer-Aided Modular Process Intensification
Efstratios Pistikopoulos and Yuhe Tian; ISBN: 9780323855877; Elsevier; 2022; US$190
Small APC, Big Benefits
British Sugar’s James Caws and consultant Howard Boder explain how small-scale advanced process c...
What I Wish I knew as an Undergraduate
Laura Grindey, Paul Jenkinson and Sameen Barabhuiya of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee ...
It shouldn’t happen to a pressure transmitter
Pressure transmitters are frequently exposed to conditions that can prematurely destroy or compro...
Visions of Biopharma
David Gemmell looks at possible biopharmaceutical facilities of the future
Flowmeters: Making the Right Choice
Flowmeters are essential measurement devices across industry and considering all the parameters a...
Troubled Waters and Systems Thinking
Adam Duckett on low-water marks and engineering highly-complex systems
Book Review: Process Integration Approaches to Planning Carbon Management Networks
Dominic Foo and Raymond Tan ISBN: 9781032242811; CRC Press; 2021; £59.99
Rules of Thumb: Pressure Drop Due to Friction
Stephen Hall offers practical tips on calculating pressure loss due to friction.
Question Time: Food & Water
IN the sixth webinar of IChemE’s Centenary series, experts discuss how chemical engineering can ...
Food & Water: Using Water Smarter
Amanda Jasi reports on a project that aims to introduce circular symbiotic arrangements between i...
Food & Water: Water from Unconventional Resources
With clean water scarcity a major problem, Kerry Hebden looks at unconventional options for obtai...
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralis...
Question Time: Built Environment & Transport
A panel of experts speaking at IChemE’s Centenary webinar urged attendees to think and work toget...
Built Environment: A Plant-Based Alternative
What if autonomous vehicles could safely transport containers of raw materials around our product...
100 Years? Piece of Cake
Séamus Higgins and Ellie Cooke look at a century’s evolution of food and processes, in the form o...
Ethics Series: A Circle of Trust
Joan Cordiner discusses the world of professional ethics
The Story of Oil 1822–1922
Martin Pitt continues to look at the history of chemical engineering and IChemE
Ethics Series - For the People: By the People
Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science
Viral Safety Challenges in Bioprocessing
David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing
Safety: My Five Lessons from Five Decades of Engineering
Tom Baxter shares safety lessons learned from across his career
Safety: Protecting Plants Against the Environment
Adam Duckett speaks to Steven Fitzgibbon about natural hazard risk reduction
Safety: Chemical Accident Investigation
The UK needs its own ‘Chemical Safety Board’, says Keith Plumb
Book Review: People, Planet, Profit: Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Businesses
Kit Oung; ISBN: 9781637421819; Business Expert Press; 2022; US$17.99
Question Time: Safety
Experts gathered to discuss new safety challenges for a sustainable era. Kerry Hebden reports
Safety: Digitalising Process Safety
Helen Kilbride and Krisshala Sinanan discuss the benefits and challenges
Rules of Thumb: Flammable Liquids: Open or Closed?
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Energy: Using Hydrogen for Glass
Andrew Keeley and Mike Haden talk about decarbonising the glass manufacturing process using hydro...
Energy: Bringing Nuclear Back
Andrew Kadak reviews innovations for nuclear
Energy: Coal to Nuclear
Amanda Doyle speaks to Adrian La Porta about replacing coal-fired boilers with nuclear reactors
Energy: Hydrogen from offshore wind
Amanda Doyle speaks to Widya Wahyuni about using wind to power seawater electrolysis
Rules of Thumb: Radar Level Measurement
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Ethics Series: Educating Ethical Chemical Engineers
David Shallcross and Allyson Woodford discuss challenges and methods to teach ethics, using real-...
Centenary Themes: Energy
At-a-glance information on what's in the fourth of our centenary theme specials
Pee, Purple, Potions & Pills
Martin Pitt looks at the origins of the pharmaceutical industry
The Future of Biopharma
David Gemmell discusses the evolution of continuous and intensified bioprocessing
Transition Mettle
Adam Duckett on the varied opportunities for energy transition
Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing: An Evolving Industry
David Gemmell discusses how chemical engineers play their part in modern-day biopharma
Diversity: Where has it Gone?
Reflections from Uchenna Onwuamaegbu, Jamie Hoar, Heather Williams and IChemE’s National Early Ca...
Made in Space
Andrew Bacon talks to Adam Duckett about plans to launch feedstocks into space, and bring them ba...
Dreaming Big and Changing the World Through Chemical Engineering
Amanda Jasi speaks to pioneering chemical engineer Robert Langer about his successes and offers a...
Process Engineering for the Final Frontier
Kathryn Hadler tells Amanda Jasi about the exciting prospect of extracting and processing resourc...
A Cleaner, Greener Future: ‘We are Key, and we are Responsible’
Amanda Jasi speaks to Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold about how chemical engineering can help h...
Rules of Thumb: Pneumatic Conveying
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
From Junk to Fuel: Addressing the Space Debris Challenge
Amanda Jasi talks to Gary Calnan about his company’s work on developing a forge for recycling was...
Question Time: Social Experience
Chemical engineers gather to discuss how the profession can help shape a better future
Ethics Series: Did you sleep well?
Speaking the truth when others don’t want to hear has to be part of our DNA as engineers, says Da...
Centenary Themes: Social Experience
At-a-glance information on what's in the third of our centenary theme specials
Book Review: Natural Polymers-Based Green Adsorbents for Water Treatment
Editor: Susheel Kalia; ISBN: 9780128205419; Elsevier; 2021; €152.60
Ethics Series Introduction: Ethics and the Chemical Engineer
David Bogle and Raffaella Ocone introduce a new series of articles urging chemical engineers to ‘...
Rules of Thumb: Vapour Pressure and Viscosity Equations
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Fears over Future Shocks
Adam Duckett on the reverberating shocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Put on Your 3D Glasses
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over...
Improve the Accuracy of Your Formulations
Discover how smart balances coupled with database storage can boost process and product development
The Explosive Foundation of IChemE
With IChemE’s Centenary celebrations under way, Martin Pitt explores the chemical engineers who i...
Precision Fermentation: A green route for protein production
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Rules of Thumb: Safety Considerations for Pumps
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Safety Critical Task Analysis
Andrew Livingston, Shaista Bibi and Conor Crowley provide practical advice on this key risk manag...
Delta Force
Trish Kerin explains the power of using Delta HAZOP, a new method for revalidating previous HAZOPs
Cow-Free: A possible future for dairy
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Clean Steam: Greener distillation processes
Brian Williamson and Chris Jackson talk to Adam Duckett about zero emission closed-loop steam
Sustainable Business Decisions
Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainabl...
Question Time: Sustainability
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
An Introduction to Safety is my Job
Members of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention SIG introduce a series that showcases the roles in p...
Experts concerned about hydrogen plans form independent advisory group
A COALITION of volunteer engineers, concerned about the misapplication of hydrogen, have formed a...
Nitrate: An Emerging Solution
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
Rules of Thumb: Vent condenser with Non-condensables
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
The Bomb in Your Pocket?
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
The Right Approach to Digitalisation
Iwona Kandpal reports on support for SMEs as they increase their use of digital tech
Poised Precariously
Adam Duckett on the frustrations and relative successes of COP26
IChemE at COP26
IChemE participated in three events at the climate summit
Are You Ready for Digital?
The new digital age in our workplace isn’t coming, it’s already here, says Craig Smith
The Muon: A Particle that Punches above its Weight
Peter Walmsley explains the role of muon tomography in waste management at the Sellafield site
We Are the Universal Engineers
Rosey Deverall talks about her roles in nuclear safety and decommissioning
A Trusted Advisor
In the sixth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to s...
IChemE and Climate Change: Support for Chemical Engineering
Andrew Jamieson updates on how IChemE is ensuring that there are systems and resources available ...
COP26: Discussing the Future
Amanda Doyle reports from the COP26 climate change summit
COP26: The Glasgow Climate Pact
Negotiations lead to new commitments on climate action
Separation Anxiety
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicompon...
COMAaaaargH! COMAH Reports Gone Wrong
How to avoid some common pitfalls in the production and use of a COMAH report; from Robert McGreg...
Cloud Computing and Chemical Engineering
Joanne Tanner and Tobias Cleaver-Ross discuss the benefits and challenges of cloud computing and ...
Controlling Your Maintenance Turnaround Scope, from Kick-Off to Closeout
Gordon Lawrence discusses the need to keep scope to a manageable size and avoid excessive scope g...
Book Review: Petroleum Refining Design and Applications Handbook Volume 2
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 978111947641; Wiley-Scrivener; 2021; US$295
Overcoming Inertia
Adam Duckett on the need for action on decarbonisation
Handle with Care
Low temperature embrittlement is a common, but poorly understood hazard. Paul Denham looks at pre...
Are You Best in Class at Process Safety Management?
Jack Wishart discusses how benchmarking can be used to measure and drive improvements in process ...
Microwave Processing – Beyond Food
Sam Kingman, Chris Dodds, Adam Buttress and Daniel Groszek discuss new technology that offers a h...
The Nuclear Option
Brett Longstaffe talks about his role in engineering novel reactors
Rules of Thumb: Jet Mixing
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Oil and Gas Workers Have Their Say on the Just Transition
Amanda Doyle analyses a survey of oil and gas workers to reveal their thoughts on how the energy ...
Fight corrosion with simulation
CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the ...
Optimising Safety for the Renewable Energy Sector
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
Webinar: Deliver your project on time and in budget – secure treated water
ON 6 October, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss the practical advantages of using...
Time for Change
Adam Duckett on the UK energy crisis and opportunities for change
Small but Mighty
Noor Al-Rifai and Rene Holm look at the use of nanosuspensions as long-acting injectables
Book Review: Chemical and Process Plant Commissioning Handbook 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Plant System Equipment Installation and Commissioning
Martin Killcross; ISBN: 9780128240496; Butterworth-Heinemann; 2021; £99
Rules of Thumb: Load Cells
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Turnaround Kick-Off
Gordon Lawrence explains how to get your maintenance turnaround off on the right foot
A Life in Lithium
The future of energy needs chemical engineers, and lots of them, say Jacob Brown, Titi Oliyide, L...
A Change of Clothes
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Five Questions for Kwasi Kwarteng about the UK's Hydrogen Strategy
Tom Baxter asks five questions about the UK Government's new Hydrogen Strategy.
The Signpost to Sustainability
Adam Duckett on the missing elements of the UK’s hydrogen strategy
Making (Anti)sense of Oligonucleotide Manufacturing
Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines
Rules of Thumb: Affinity Laws
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Achieving a Just Transition
Amanda Doyle explains why the energy transition must be fair for workers in high carbon industries
Happy Endings
Mine closure is not just an environmental issue, say Anna Littleboy, Guy Boggs and Glen Corder
The Middlewich Job (the Pump Preservation Society)
In the fourth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to so...
Improving Cost Estimating for Maintenance Turnarounds
We must do better, says Gordon Lawrence
Rules of Thumb: Time to Drain a Tank
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Giving a Client Value: Whatever That Is
John Downer explains how teams can understand and provide value to projects for clients
Time to Transfer?
James Colley offers sound advice on careers transition when you need to switch sectors
Continuing in a Crisis
Robert Walker explains the lessons he learned in successfully enabling critical gas supplies to c...
Research Bias
Raffaella Ocone and Nina Baker seek out the stories of chemical engineering’s female forerunners
Industrial Cyber Attacks on the Rise
Adam Duckett discusses the rising threat of cyber attacks
Rules of Thumb: Orifices
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Men as Allies
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Digital Risk Management: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
Joanne Tanner and Tristan Hunter introduce a new member-led series on digitalisation, and in this...
Making Sure Risks are ALARP
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise explain why it’s so important to consider real-world situations in ris...
Solving Problems at Scale
Jane Cutler talks to Adam Duckett about her inspirations and quest for skills
Set in Stone
Amanda Doyle speaks to Rahul Shendure about innovations for lower-emissions cement and storing CO...
Warm Up Acts
Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating
Documenting Your Turnaround Estimate
Gordon Lawrence discusses the value of a basis of estimate document for a maintenance turnaround ...
Producing Hydrogen While Storing CO2 in the Oceans
Mike Kelland and Greg Rau talk to Amanda Doyle about their clean-tech goals
The Chemical Industry’s Balancing Act
Lars Krause and Michael Carus discuss crediting the value of bio- and CO2-based and recycled mate...
From Wastewater to Resource
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down th...
Rules of Thumb: Solids Transfer - Bins & Silos
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Book Review: Analysis and Design of Membrane Process: A Systems Approach
Mingheng Li; ISBN: 9780735421813; AIP Publishing; 2020; US$135
Reducing the Daily Grind
Liza Forbes, Kym Runge, Mike Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench and Luke Vollert discuss a froth-free flot...
Action Plans
Adam Duckett on the US President’s climate push and jobs plan
Transforming Supply Chains
Industry will be forced to adapt, says Paul Hodges
Taking Aim
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of IChemE’s Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the futur...
Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
Turnaround Scope Optimisation
Gordon Lawrence discusses the importance of prescriptive scope criteria in a turnaround premise d...
Patents and The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ed Round discusses what the patent landscape reveals about the future of manufacturing
Rules of Thumb: Process Control Valves
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Book Review: Trevor Kletz Compendium: His Process Safety Wisdom Updated for a New Generation
Andy Brazier, David Edwards, Fiona Macleod, Craig Skinner, Ivan Vince; ISBN: 9780128194478; Elsev...
What Safety Studies Have You Got on Your Menu?
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise introduce a series looking at ALARP
Safety by Design: Making Bigger, Better
Joe Willmot shares the methodologies and data required to achieve a robust and safe scaleup from ...
New EU Safety Data Sheet Requirements
Aidan Bushell explains changes for Dust Explosions (Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/878)
Developing a Justification for a DCS Migration
Why modern distributed control systems are increasingly important
Rules of Thumb: Flow Parameters
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
LOPA Versus Covid
Ali Mokhber, Christopher Ross, and Pablo Garcia-Trinanes describe how layers of protection analys...
Book Review: Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care
Clive Lloyd; ISBN: 9780367509538; CRC Press; 2020; US$64.95 (Hardback), US$20.65 (ebook)
Describe, Diagnose, Predict and Prescribe – make it Data not Drugs!
Researchers and industry have developed a guide to data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing
Book Review: Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography: Principles and Practical Applications
Oliver Jones; ISBN: 978-981-15-6189-4; Springer Singapore; 2020; US$59.99 (softcover)
Handle with Care
Nikodem Siwek explains how to get the most from your pH measurement devices
Rules of Thumb: Pump and System Curves
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Solids Flow: Prevent the Problem
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
The Pharmaceutical Industry: Engineering Frustrations
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineer...
ChemEng: 100 Years at Cape Town
Jim Petrie and Jenni Case celebrate a centenary of chemical engineering
Oils & Fats: Essential Engineering
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
Webinar: Robust Design Optimisation of a Multistage Compressor for Surge Avoidance
ON 13 January, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how simulation software can be u...
Accelerating Innovation with DOE
JMP invites engineers to explore an alternative way of experimenting that can increase your effec...
Engineering Pharma
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutica...
IChemE Sets Out Stance on Climate Change
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process ...
Rules of Thumb: Chromatography Systems
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Looping the Loop
Digitalisation and automation are great for control loop optimisation - but we still need humans,...
New Nuclear
Ian Scott discusses the development of the waste-burning stable salt reactor (SSR)
A Virtual Meeting at 10 Downing Street
Tom White, IChemE Trustee and CEO of C-Capture, presses Boris Johnson for support on scaleup
Book Review: Rewiring America
Saul Griffith with Sam Calisch and Laura Fraser; ISBN: N/A; Publisher: N/A; 2020; Free
Systems Engineering and Chemical Engineering Design
Rob Kirkpatrick explains teaching of soft skills
Brexit: Thomas Swan urges businesses to get ready for 1 January
CHEMICALS manufacturer Thomas Swan is urging businesses to act now to be ready for new trading ru...
Webinar: Improving Vacuum Distillation Profitability
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to...
Digital Therapeutics
How far has the technology come, asks Parminder Bansal
Accentuate the Positive
How we can learn important safety lessons from success as well as failure
Carbon Capture: But Not as We Know It
Rotating packed beds can play a part in making carbon capture smaller and cheaper
Rules of Thumb: Control Valve Lift
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Money Matters
Why process industry economics should be taught in undergrad chemical engineering
Gainful Employment, by Design
Zainuddin Manan describes routes to increasing graduates’ employability
Ensuring the Safety of Food
Tony Hasting looks at the options for quality assurance
Webinar: The Digital Transformation of Process Engineering
ON 28 October, The Chemical Engineer is hosting a webinar to discuss the digital transformation o...
Harnessing sunlight to convert CO2 to fuels
Amanda Doyle speaks to Solistra Co-founder Alexandra Tavasoli about the company's process that us...
Rules of Thumb: Tanks and Vessels
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Moving the Dial to Decarbonise
David Wong and colleagues discuss how the world’s aluminium smelters could enable the rapid uptak...
Experiences Work
John Wilson explains why undergraduate placements are so important
Book Review: A Guide to Hazard Identification Methods, Second Edition
Frank Crawley; ISBN: 9780128195437 (paperback); Elsevier; 2020; £117.30
All the Dominoes Fall
A long-term moral perspective to process safety is needed, says Marc Reid
A Clean Bill of Health
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
Webinar: the importance of design of experiments within chemical engineering
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is a...
Design Fire Fighting
What do you do when you unexpectedly lose a crucial piece of your refinery complex? Shahidan Lail...
Energy Saviours: Part 5
Tom Baxter looks at the parasitic load challenge of CCS
A Circular Economy for Plastics
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
Chem Plants Dream of Electric Bleeps
Simon Jagers and Gerben Gooijers show how you can raise plant reliability using current and volt...
Solids Flow: Piece by Piece
Everything is interdependent, say Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray
Brewing Up Energy
Constantine Tsounis, Bijil Subhash, and Khushal Polepalle chart their journey from undergrad desi...
Decarbonisation Versus Profits
Mercedes Maroto-Valer discusses how the chemical industry can contribute to post-pandemic net zero
Turning Points for IX
John Bewsey describes a new ion exchange process for cleaning up acid mines and brackish water
Book Review: Transcendence
Gaia Vince; ISBN: 9780241281116; Allen Lane; 2019; £20
Malaysia Versus Waste
Malaysia has much to do, say Kok Siew Ng and Eleni Iacovidou
How Chemicals Companies Can Drive Operational Resilience with the Digital Twin
Paige Marie Morse explains how companies have been using digital technologies to adapt to the cor...
HyNet: Demonstrating an Integrated Hydrogen Economy
HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality
H2 and NH3 – the Perfect Marriage in a Carbon-free Society
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
Helping Hands in the Health Crisis
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
Bulk Solids Flow: Know What you’re Dealing With
A look at what should go into a proper Basis of Design document for a solids handling system
All You Can Eat
What contribution do chemical engineers make in ensuring our food is safe?
Using wood waste to produce biochemicals: green chemistry for a green future
Amanda Doyle speaks to Florence Gschwend, CEO and Co-founder of Lixea, about the company's new pr...
A Project to Develop and Protect
Matthew Duchars and John Challenger describe the plans to design and build a facility that the UK...
Energy Saviours: Part 4
Tom Baxter explains why slowing down is better for the planet
Chemical Plants: Surviving the Coronavirus Storm
Joan Cordiner looks at how operations have adapted to the pandemic
The Heat is On
Keith Plumb explains the importance of design of pressure relief systems for stirred tank vessels
Time for Change
Grant Wellwood calls for manufacturers to include environmental impact labels on their products
Teaming up for Vaccines
CPI discusses the importance of bringing an engineering mindset to collaborate with biologists on...
A Balancing Act: Covid-19 and the Climate
Amanda Doyle looks at how the crisis of coronavirus is impacting the pressing need to go green
After the spill: an introduction to the series
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
After the spill: research for safer offshore operations
A decade on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, James Pettigrew discusses the efforts to bring t...
H21: The Story So Far
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
Getting the Measure of Temperature
Jonathan Pearce explains how new techniques can improve process efficiency
The Lowdown on Blowdown
Chris Best addresses the role blowdown systems play in plant design and why they are essential in...
Stopping the Flow
Rory Stanley explains developments in line blinding systems for total isolation
Accelerating Innovation
JMP discusses how to encourage organisations to take a new approach to innovation
Solid States
You may not be able to control the world, but you can control the flow of your bulk solids, says ...
Waste Not Want Not
Vanda Jones discusses how you can cut your compressed air energy consumption
Book Review: Graphene – Important Results and Applications
George Wypych; ISBN: 978-1-927885-51-2; ChemTec Publishing; 2019; US$350
Novel Meat for a New Age
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Pyrolysis Gets Personal
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
The Carbon Collision Course
Andrew Perry looks at the challenges of tackling global carbon emissions, and asks when the worl...
Book Review: Petroleum Refining, Design and Applications Handbook
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 9781118233696; Wiley-Scrivener; 2018; eBook £200.99; Hardcover, £223.00
On the Road to Digital
Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations,...
Packing a Punch
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Monitoring in Mining
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based techn...
Triumph Out of Adversity
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonst...
Just Add Water
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Net Zero and Safety
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie...
Curbing Carbon Emissions with Green Methanol
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into meth...
Delta HAZOP: Revalidation and Focus on Major Accident Hazards
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the U...
Bulk Solids Handling: Perspective on a Professional Blind Spot
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids...
Hot Water
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
Changing Rooms
Best practice on specifying, designing, commissioning and operating control rooms
New narrative needed for CCS
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industrie...
The Grandest Challenges
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Book Review: Organising for Safety; How Structure Creates Culture
Andrew Hopkins AFIChemE; ISBN: 9781925894158; Wolters Kluwer; 2019; £57.22
Step by Step
Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as vali...
Dry Run
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Design by Modelling
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale oper...
A Flawless Start
Demystifying the art of successful commissioning
Powering the future: the lithium battery that doesn’t get thrown away
Amanda Doyle speaks to Amrit Chandan, CEO of Aceleron, about the company’s battery pack design wh...
Hot Topic
Keith Plumb gives an overview of batch heat transfer
The Next Best Thing
Ruby Ray and Fabio Ruggeri describe an innovative process to produce substitute natural gas – a s...
Automatic for the People
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Digging Deeper
Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy
Book review: The Dyes – Scotland’s dyestuff pioneers and a century of chemical manufacturing in Grangemouth
John Blackie; ISBN: 978-1-9993700-0-8; Dyes Publishing; 2019; £15
Future Advances in Process Automation
Andrew Ogden-Swift reviews the pressing challenges
How engineers are key to addressing societal challenges in Australia – Chemeca 2019
Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel and Orica's Belinda Grealy speak to Rachael Fraser about ...
Where Next for AI in Drug Discovery?
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
Energy Saviours: Part 3
Tom Baxter shares more options for chemical engineers to boost energy efficiencies
Strategy 2024
IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to t...
Separations under Control
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
Go With the Flow
Gordon Varney and Lydia Gaunt explain how to select pumps in the water, wastewater and sewage in...
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...
DigiTwin: Moving closer to autonomous management
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), D...
AM: Keeping it Clean
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
Stripping Ammonia in Anaerobic Digesters
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Uses of Hydrogen in Industry
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
Finding your Level
A guide to selecting level measurement systems, from Alan Hunt
Back to the Future
Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy cha...
First Steps
Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system
First shipment from Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility
The first shipment of liquified natural gas (LNG) has sailed from Shell’s Prelude floating LNG (F...
IChemE Members recognised with RAEng Major Project Award 2019
TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engine...
Stressed British Steel Must Not be Allowed to Fail
Adam Duckett says Government must stand strong with British Steel
Snapshot: Royal Mail stamp of approval for engineering excellence
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Hydrogen Transport
Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk
Take it Apart; Put it Back Together
How do you dismantle a chemical plant for re-erection at the other side of the world? Richard Van...
A Clean Bill of Health
James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs
Keeping it Local
David Simmonds explains the challenges of pursuing major projects sustainably
Transforming Asset Maintenance
Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says M...
Are Your Preventive Maintenance Routines Effective?
Michael Dixey and Pete Hibbs outline ways to optimise preventive maintenance routines
Turning up the Heat on Compressed Air Measurement
David Bowers explains how to keep compressed air use under control
Ditch the Bag Filters
Barry Perlmutter explains automated clarification technologies
Testing the Metal
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
UN report calls for urgent action to tackle chemical pollution
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without...
Valve Safety & the Environment
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
BioSNG: Fuelling the Future with Trash
Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas
No More Lost Light Gases
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for ...
Clean Hydrogen. Part 1: Hydrogen from Natural Gas Through Cost Effective CO2 Capture
Producing hydrogen with carbon capture via the Low Carbon Hydrogen (LCH) process
Lean Forward
We should sell Lean Manufacturing to the food industry, says Ian Madden
Why Hydrogen?
THE cheap, abundant and seemingly limitless energy supply of the 20th Century driven by fossil fu...
Quick Thinking
Why is it that the introduction of innovative process technologies appears to be so slow in the p...
Wanted: More Efficient Heat Exchange
Imagine if heat exchange of process fluids in an industrial setting was as simple as boiling a ju...
Energy Saviours: Part 2
As a follow up to the feature “Energy Saviours” (issue 927, September 2018), this article explore...
Little Wonder
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
Worth its Weight
It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing ...
Add it Up
Process simulation software has become almost universal in the chemical engineering sector, and m...
Switching off
Why operators turn advanced controls off (and how to prevent them from doing so)
Waste-to-BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
2018 – The Year of Engineering
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
Producing Graphene at Scale
The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale
Enhanced Cybersecurity Improves Plant Productivity?
It is crucial that organisations do not allow cybersecurity and operational digitisation projects...
Filtration – The Forgotten Process
Filtration is often overlooked during the development of new processes, but at what cost?
Carbon Capture and Storage: Are We There Yet?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
From Slime to Sublime
The potential of algae to recover valuable resources from waste could transform the traditional w...
Joining Forces
Starting a learned society chain reaction
Screen Test
Are today’s methods of grading and selecting our graduate chemengers lacking?
Developing Policies: What Can We Do?
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian ...
Creating a Sustainable Future – The Role of Material Selection
The one challenge that engineers of all stripes need to deal with is material selection.
Bioprocessing insights on getting the most from your data
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
Where Are They Now?
Class of ’82: a chemical engineering cohort study
Roads Less Travelled
Improving the employability of chemical engineers
The Rum Diary
Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia
Nereda: Redefining Effluent Treatment
There is a new player in the wastewater process sector, re-writing the rules of the game
Add It Up!
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Practically Speaking – Flow Control
Back to basics on theory and equipment
2-in-1 Overfill Prevention
One radar level gauge can provide two separate and independent layers of protection
Pet Projects
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Applying chemical engineering in the construction industry
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process ...
Diverter Valves: No Longer Just for Special Applications
Why we should give more thought to these versatile, durable valves
Pump Action
Tips for selecting a pumping system for chemical treatment and comparing different dosing systems
Data is Best
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
The Long View on Longford
20 years on from Australia’s infamous gas explosion, what have we learned, and what should we do ...
Sadara: Lessons Learned
How to stay on budget with large, complex projects
Energy Saviours
Ways for operations and design engineers to boost efficiencies
Industrial Aftermath: Project Ends Toxic Pesticide Legacy
Mag Sim of Pure Earth takes us inside the collaborative effort that cleaned up a polluted industr...
Thinking Outside the Block
Can novel uses of blockchain technology in the chemical and process industries justify its cost?
How to Build a Self-Healing Plant
A future where plants will monitor, diagnose potential issues, and even schedule a fix is not far...
Using Bow Ties to Classify Barriers
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
Get more from your data, increase yields and reduce costs
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
Under One Roof
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
Hands On
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
Brownfield and Beyond
Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur
Lessons in Safety
Effective communication a key theme as experts gather to discuss safety
Millennials Teach Baby Boomers a Lesson
How reverse mentoring is bridging the generational skills gap while encouraging fresh thinking
Fighting the Fight
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Friendly Foams
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
The Privilege of Being First
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
Landfill vs Skyfill
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
Shale Gas: Friend or Foe?
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
On the Level
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
A Battery Olympics
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
No Operation is an Island
Adam Duckett discusses siloed operations
Jack Welch – No Engineers in the Boardroom
Claudia Flavell-While charts the rise of business giant (and chemical engineer) Jack Welch
Beyond ALARP
Why considered, informed, respectful dialogue is needed
Rubbish Roads
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
Applying Chemistry
How chemical engineering developed in Nigeria
Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Growing the digital plant
Technology transfer: how digital trends in the consumer market might benefit process plant operat...
Demolition Man
Expert observations of demolition dangers and how to avoid them
South Australia to host world-scale solar thermal plant
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150...
Get Nimble
Adam Duckett says it is time to get nimble and experiment
Reality Check
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
A South African Challenge
Mobilising chemical engineering resources to mitigate drought
Get Ready
Chemical engineers: start answering climate change questions now
Industry X.0 – The Next Stage
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
Coming Soon…
The promise of AI for industrial automation
Cosmetics Industry: Making More of Ancient Methodologies
Ancient methodologies, such as fermentation and cold pressing, are finding new uses in natural co...
Biorefining and Integrated Bioresource Engineering
FBP journal – a new avenue for the research
A Greener Future for IChemE
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
Ditch the Deluge
An argument for using insulation rather than fixed firewater deluge to protect bulk LPG storage t...
The Big Vision
Next-generation batch technologies drive productivity and profitability
Buses Full of Beans
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Solar-Powered Water Purification Wins Top Prize
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Interreg FCE – Funding Cross-Channel Collaboration
Funding up for grabs for Anglo-French projects
What to do About Creeping Change
A new hazard identification methodology can identify creeping changes, potentially averting catas...
Capturing Ionic Winds
STUNNING 3D images that show the effect of electric fields on ionic winds flowing from a flame co...
Something in the water
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
Looking to the future
What should we do to prevent the next process safety catastophe?
An urgent request: new decommissioning head must bring fresh-thinking to wrong-headed plans
THE appointment this week of a new head of decommissioning at the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) ...
Scotland’s Fracking Ban – Politics Trumps Expert Advice
THE Scottish government’s recent announcement on fracking was no surprise. No amount of evidence-...
A Sneak Peak at Air Products’ Graduate Recruitment Process
Insights on how a major employer of engineers handles its graduate recruitment process.
Carbon Capture or Kettle Smart?
Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions th...
How to Limit Amine Systems Failures
A review of incident trends reveals ways to reduce risks to production
Surviving the storm
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
The ‘Watermelon’ Effect: Does a green dashboard mean a healthy facility?
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ sugg...
Cyber Security in the Asian Process Industry
Every production process has inherent risks. Cyber criminality is now one of these risks.
Technology Sharing
Why we must harness the power of horizontal innovation in the formulation sector
The Rise and Evolution of the Connected Worker
Connected technologies offer the potential to achieve a step change for industrial markets akin t...
Equipped to Innovate
Rethinking the PhD – and your perceptions
Better by Design
Quality by design must be viewed as an opportunity, not as a regulatory burden
Adding Value to Gold
Scotland’s first ever commercial goldmine proves that precious metals can be worth more than thei...
Digital Pioneers
Evonik's chief digital officer discusses his expectations for digitalisation at the specialty che...
Usher in a New Age
Adam Duckett on ushering in a new era
Peering into the Future
A crystal ball view of the chemical process industry
The Next Big Thing
The next big breakthrough in chemical process technology will only be achieved by adopting a rigo...
News
Maersk investment group funding €1.5bn plant making fossil-free plastics from methanol
THE MAERSK shipping family are funding a new company producing fossil-free plastics from green me...
UK invests £22bn in CCS clusters and hydrogen projects
THE UK is investing almost £22bn (US$28.8bn) in carbon capture and storage and hydrogen projects ...
Australia’s coal mine expansions ‘disastrous’ say environmental bodies
ENVIRONMENTAL and economic bodies have condemned the Australian government’s decision to approve ...
Microsoft strike US$3bn deal to source AI power from retired nuclear plant
MICROSOFT has struck a 20-year deal worth US$3bn with American energy company Constellation to so...
‘Poignant day for the British Steel industry’ as Port Talbot’s last blast furnace closes
TATA Steel’s last blast furnace at Port Talbot will cease operations this afternoon, marking the ...
IChemE Matters – October 2024
Why IChemE’s Member Engagement Committee offers a world of opportunities
EU investing €1bn in AI factories in race for innovation
THE EU is investing €1bn (US$1.1bn) to set up so-called AI Factories that will use the bloc’s sup...
New UK coal mine blocked by High Court
PLANS to build the UK’s first coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed by the High Court.
Grangemouth refining to stop next year with 400 jobs lost
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland will cease refinery operations in the second quarter of 2025 wit...
£500m for Port Talbot electric arc furnace, with 2,500 jobs still set to go
THE UK government has agreed to give a £500m (US$651m) grant to Tata Steel to build an electric a...
Lego building for a greener future as it increases sustainable feedstocks
THOSE LEGO bricks you buy for your children (or sometimes yourself) are on their way to becoming ...
Sweden’s green steel pilot project a success with commercialisation now underway
ENGINEERS have declared that their attempts to produce fossil-free steel have been successful and...
Equinor to use world’s first ammonia-powered supply ship
NORWEGIAN oil major Equinor has given the greenlight for one of its supply vessels to become the ...
Linde will supply clean hydrogen to Dow’s ‘world-first’ net zero ethylene cracker
LINDE will build a US$2bn facility that will supply clean hydrogen to Dow’s ethylene cracking pla...
UK government must do more to avert worrying outlook for UK chemicals sector, think tank warns
TENS of thousands of jobs in the UK chemical sector are at risk due to lagging decarbonisation po...
IChemE Matters – September 2024
Mark Apsey and Duncan Lugton talk policy and what to expect from Hazards 34
Essar plans for Stanlow refinery to run solely on hydrogen
STANLOW refinery could operate solely on hydrogen in the near future as Essar moves ahead with de...
Mitsubishi to invest £250m doubling plastic output at Saltend site
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL is investing £250m (US$328m) to double production of packaging plastic at its...
Arch and CONSOL merge to create US$5.2bn global coal giant
NORTH AMERICAN coal companies Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy are combining in an all-stock merg...
UNSW Sydney launches decarbonisation institute to support industry and government net zero plans
AUSTRALIA’s University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) has launched a new institute dedicated to...
A shot of whisky and some chemical feedstocks please
WHISKY waste could provide high-value feedstocks such as lactic acid for the pharmaceuticals and ...
Chinese nuclear reactor completes world-first passive cooling test
CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling sy...
Rio Tinto agrees state support for one of Australia’s largest smelters as Queensland ramps up renewables
OPERATION of the Boyne aluminium smelter in Queensland could be protected until at least 2040 und...
Essar to buy Thornton Science Park from Chester Uni
ESSAR is buying Thornton Science Park from the University of Chester as part of plans to create a...
Shell signs off on Phase 2 of Australia’s Surat Gas Project
SHELL is investing in the second phase of its Surat Gas Project in Queensland, Australia as it pu...
Costain wins multimillion-pound FEED contract for Teesside hydrogen pipeline network
COSTAIN has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by bp for a new hydro...
US to label cleaner construction materials to accelerate use of greener glass, concrete, and steel
THE AMOUNT of carbon embedded in construction materials could soon become much easier to spot tha...
Woodside agrees US$2.35bn deal for OCI clean ammonia plant
WOODSIDE is buying a low-carbon ammonia plant in the US for US$2.35bn as it looks to expand into ...
Australia should avoid small nuclear reactors until 2040s, engineers warn
ENGINEERS have warned that if Australia is to reverse years of opposition to nuclear power and be...
Veolia sells sulfuric acid regen business for US$620m
VEOLIA has sold its North American sulfuric acid regeneration business to private equity group Am...
US industry risking lives due to lack of remote isolation equipment, CSB warns
US CHEMICAL facilities are putting lives at risk by failing to heed lessons learned from loss of ...
Offshore wind the winner in UK’s record-breaking £1.5bn renewable energy auction
FUNDING for the UK government’s next renewable energy auction has skyrocketed to £1.5bn (US$1.9bn...
Australia invests US$42m in CCS projects tackling hard-to-abate industries
THE AUSTRALIAN government has awarded A$65m (US$42m) worth of grants to carbon capture projects u...
EU refuses call by auditor to update its "unrealistic" hydrogen targets
EFFORTS by the EU to establish a hydrogen market to decarbonise heavy industry have been criticis...
Taking the P out of pee
ENGINEERS at the University of Surrey are investigating how phosphorous can be filtered from huma...
UK outlines plans for state-run energy firm, with engineer picked to run it
THE UK government has unveiled plans for its state energy firm Great British Energy, putting engi...
£70m for engineers to design and build advanced nuclear fuel plants
THE UK government is offering £70m (US$90m) for engineers to design and build plants needed to ma...
Woodside to become ‘global LNG powerhouse’ with US$900m Tellurian acquisition
AUSTRALIAN energy company Woodside aims to become a ‘global LNG powerhouse’ following its agreem...
US EPA to fund US$4.5bn worth of emission reduction projects
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) has announced grants worth more than US$4.5bn for clima...
UK MP and chemical engineer Chris McDonald keen to unite the worlds of engineering and politics
CHRIS MCDONALD, an IChemE Fellow and new member of the UK parliament, has been appointed an assis...
Honeywell promise to maximise gigafactory efficiency with automation software
HONEYWELL has launched Battery Manufacturing Excellence Platform (Battery MXP), an artificial int...
Shell, bp, and TotalEnergies invest in ADNOC’s major Abu Dhabi LNG project
Energy majors Shell, bp, and TotalEnergies have signed agreements with state-owned Abu Dhabi Nati...
Honeywell agrees US$1.8bn acquisition of Air Products’ LNG technology and equipment business
HONEYWELL has agreed to acquire Air Products’ liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and ...
Unions hold on to hope as Tata Steel begins decommissioning Port Talbot blast furnace
TATA STEEL UK has begun decommissioning blast furnace 5 in Port Talbot, Wales. The closure, descr...
Carlsberg will buy Britvic for £3.3bn
CARLSBERG has agreed to buy UK drinks manufacturer Britvic for £3.3bn (US$4.2bn) as it pushes ahe...
AI-guided evolution, lower-carbon carpets and plastic recycling win out at IChemE’s inaugural Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability
“I WANT the stuff I work on to make an impact. That’s everything I think engineering should be.”
Bezos funds US$30m sustainable protein lab as Imperial engineers seek to revolutionise food production
A US$30m centre for sustainable protein has been launched at Imperial College London as engineers...
Britvic rejects £3.1bn bid from Carlsberg
UK DRINKS manufacturer Britvic has turned down a £3.1bn (US$3.9bn) takeover bid from Danish brewe...
Oxford spinout to build sustainable aviation fuel demonstration plant in Yorkshire
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD spinout OXCCU has selected px Group’s Saltend Chemicals Park in East Yorkshi...
Sellafield pleads guilty to cybersecurity failures
SELLAFIELD, which processes the UK’s nuclear waste, has pleaded guilty to all criminal charges re...
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Usi...
Landmark ruling could put UK fossil fuel projects at risk
THE impact of burning fossil fuels should be taken into account when approving energy development...
Energy stored as liquefied air: £300m investment triggers construction of UK’s first commercial-scale plant
HIGHVIEW POWER has received £300m (US$379m) in funding to build the UK’s first commercial-scale l...
UK’s Teesside University launches scholarships to support female engineers ahead of INWED
TEESSIDE University in the UK has today launched three £8,000 (US$10,108) scholarships to support...
Wood completes FEED for major Saudi Aramco CCS hub
WOOD has completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the first phase of Saudi Aramc...
CO2 leaks: engineers join forces to understand the threat posed by greater use of CCS
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a lar...
Royal Society of Chemistry calls for a chemicals agency to overhaul ‘broken’ UK regulatory system
AHEAD of the UK’s 4 July general election, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is urging the nex...
Engineers warn next UK government must commit to industrial strategy to secure UK economy
ENGINEERS have warned that the UK economy is at risk unless the next government commits to a long...
Novel Honeywell technology reduces emissions from light olefins production
HONEYWELL is promising to reduce emissions intensity from olefin production by up to 50% with its...
Jacobs selected to support UK National Nuclear Laboratory’s high-temperature gas-cooled reactor
THE UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has selected Jacobs to help develop novel high-tempera...
Rolls-Royce SMR announces facility to manufacture and test nuclear technology modules
ROLLS-ROYCE SMR has started work on a £15m (US$19.2m) project to manufacture and test prototype m...
DuPont to cleave off electronics and water businesses
CHEMICALS and science-based product company DuPont has announced plans to split from its electron...
ConocoPhillips to acquire Marathon Oil in US$17.1bn deal
CONOCOPHILLIPS has agreed to acquire exploration and production company Marathon Oil in an all-st...
IChemE Matters – June 2024
Nigel Hirst looks back on his year as president
Shell and bp sell South Africa’s largest refinery two years after closure
SHELL Downstream South Africa (SDSA) and bp Southern Africa (bpSA) have agreed to sell each of th...
Government calls for stakeholder views on changes to UK REACH
CHEMICAL businesses, downstream chemical users, and other stakeholders are being called to consul...
UK selects Wylfa as preferred site for third nuclear power station
THE UK government has selected Wylfa in Anglesey as its preferred site for the nation’s third lar...
UK seeks to attract 40,000 nuclear recruits with skills plan
THE UK’s National Nuclear Strategic Plan for Skills has launched, outlining how government, indus...
Engineers urge UK action on sewage to guard against sickness outbreaks
IMMEDIATE action to bolster maintenance of the sewage system and sensors to allow real-time monit...
Chevron to end 55-year North Sea presence with Clair field sale
CHEVRON has decided to market its 19.4% stake in the Clair field, one of the UK’s largest hydroca...
Australia’s commits A$22.7bn to green energy and production in latest federal budget
HYDROGEN, critical minerals, batteries, and low-carbon fuels are set to benefit from a multi-bill...
Jacobs chosen to design underwater energy storage pilot
TECHNOLOGY developer BaroMar has appointed Jacobs to develop the preliminary design for its large...
Hunt for industry partners begins as UK seeks to build prototype nuclear fusion plant
A COMPETITION is being launched later this month to find the industry partners that will build th...
Anglo American plans to cleave off coal, platinum, and diamonds after rejecting fresh £34bn offer from BHP
ANGLO AMERICAN has announced plans to break up the company, including getting rid of its coking c...
Mammoth undertaking: Climeworks starts up world’s largest direct air capture plant
THE world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant – Mammoth – has started operations in Iceland ...
UK shelves hydrogen town trial
THE UK has shelved plans to trial using hydrogen to heat homes at town-scale until after 2026. Th...
UK to rival Russia with £196m advanced nuclear fuels plant at Urenco site in Cheshire
THE UK government is awarding £196m (US$244m) to Urenco to build a uranium enrichment facility in...
BHP, Vale, and Samarco propose US$25.1bn settlement for fatal 2015 dam collapse
MINING giants BHP, Vale, and their joint-venture Samarco have proposed a R$127bn (US$25.1bn) sett...
UK allows wind farms and oil producers to overlap in North Sea
THE UK has introduced new rules allowing oil and gas firms and wind farm operators to share sites...
Sumitomo Chemical cutting 10% of workforce to stem bleeding from record US$2bn losses
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL will slash 4,000 jobs and restructure its business to “stop the bleeding” of it...
Thyssenkrupp sells stake to Czech billionaire in green steel reprogramme
GERMAN engineering conglomerate Thyssenkrupp saw its share price rise more than 10% after announc...
Fight for Port Talbot steel jobs ‘is not over’ say unions despite Tata Steel final decision
UNIONS have promised strike action after Tata Steel rejected their plan to keep one blast furnace...
Update: Anglo American rejects £31bn BHP offer, saying it significantly undervalues the firm
ANGLO AMERICAN has rejected a £31bn (US$38.7bn) takeover offer from its mining rival BHP, saying ...
Ithaca Energy acquires Eni’s UK business in £750m deal
ITHACA Energy is acquiring the majority of Eni’s upstream assets in the UK. The deal will make It...
IChemE Matters – May 2024
Nigel Hirst on IChemE partnerships, including the latest link-up with ITN Business plus what insp...
World-first electric steam cracker demo starts operations in push to slash emissions by 90%
BASF, SABIC and Linde have started operating a demonstration plant to prove that electrically hea...
ExxonMobil to shut down French steam cracker and cut 677 jobs
ENERGY costs continue to pummel the European oil and gas market, with ExxonMobil announcing plans...
Coal-to-nuclear could add US$275m to local communities, US report finds
CONVERTING the US’ ageing coal-powered plants to nuclear could drive economic growth and preserve...
Australian minerals and hydrogen research gets A$59m funding boost
A FLOATING device that uses sunlight to produce hydrogen from wastewater and a leaching process a...
Wizz and poo: airline signs US$1bn deal to buy jet fuel made from human waste
YOUR flight abroad could one day be powered by human waste after a UK company announced plans to ...
Johnson Matthey and bp license process to make jet fuel from farm waste at US$4bn plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) and bp have licensed their Fischer-Tropsch process to a huge new US$4bn US p...
Enginuity calls for UK engineering and manufacturing stakeholders to help close skills gaps
UK ENGINEERING and manufacturing skills charity Enginuity says employers, training providers, and...
X-energy and Cavendish given £3m to assess Hartlepool ‘gumball’ nuclear reactor
X-ENERGY and Cavendish Nuclear have been awarded £3.34m (US$4.24m) by the UK government to assess...
3M to pay water companies up to US$12.5bn over PFAS contamination
3M will pay US public water companies up to US$12.5bn to tackle PFAS, after a district court gave...
Researchers design ‘highly selective’ catalyst that turns CO2 into green fuel
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed a copper-based material that can turn CO2 into metha...
UK announces £16.6m funding to bolster semiconductor innovation for green technologies
THE UK’s semiconductor industry is set to benefit from a £16.6m (US$21m) cash injection that will...
Dow and P&G partner to create polyethylene recycling technology
DOW and Procter & Gamble (P&G) are jointly developing a new process to recover near-virgin qualit...
enfinium partners with Hitachi Zosen Inova for UK’s first waste-to-energy carbon capture pilot plant
WASTE-TO-ENERGY company enfinium has selected Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install a carbon captu...
Boston Metals’ electrified process starts extracting valuable metals from mining slag
A PILOT plant that recovers metals from mining waste has started operations in Brazil, as develop...
Cranfield awarded £69m for R&D hub to demonstrate hydrogen in aviation
THE UK’s Cranfield University will spearhead a £69m (US$87m) research and development hub to demo...
Iberdrola provides €41bn boost to electrification
IN A BID to accelerate electrification of industry, energy company Iberdrola will invest €41bn (U...
UK awards AI projects £1.73m to help decarbonise energy and transport
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) projects that could help optimise renewables and increase industrial...
IChemE Matters – April 2024
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for ...
AstraZeneca to buy next-gen cancer therapy company for US$2.4bn
ASTRAZENECA is set to acquire Canadian cancer therapy firm Fusion Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth...
SSAB and Exxon among project partners in US$6bn US decarbonisation scheme
SWEDISH conglomerate SSAB and ExxonMobil are among the companies selected by the US to deliver va...
Joint ventures announce £4bn in contracts for the UK’s East Coast Cluster
NET ZERO TEESSIDE POWER and the Northern Endurance Partnership have announced engineering, procur...
Costain claims world-first as it completes FEED for Teesside elements of the East Coast CCUS Cluster
COSTAIN has created the first digital record of all the above and below ground assets in the Tees...
UK’s Hynet carbon capture pipeline given the greenlight
A PIPELINE that will transport industrial CO2 for storage beneath Liverpool Bay has been approved...
UK ammonia cracking plant takes first steps in push towards hydrogen economy
AN AMMONIA cracking system has started operations at the Tyseley Energy Park in the UK, as develo...
Unilever cutting 7,500 jobs and splitting off ice cream division
BEN & JERRY’S and Marmite owner Unilever is set to split off its ice cream division and axe 7,500...
Ineos proposes closure of Grangemouth ethanol plant
INEOS is looking to close its ethanol plant at the Grangemouth petrochemicals complex in the UK a...
Tata Steel to close Port Talbot coke ovens over ‘worsened’ condition
TATA STEEL’S beleaguered Port Talbot steelworks in Wales has suffered a further operational blow ...
Scottish biotech firms to benefit from £847,000 investment
BIO-BASED manufacturing companies in Scotland are set to reap the benefits of an £847,000 (US$1.1...
Regulators urged to embrace systems thinking to deliver on net zero
WELL-DESIGNED green regulation can help the UK deliver on its net zero commitments, while also dr...
Greenlight for construction of world’s first fusion power plant
FUSION energy startup Longview Fusion Energy Systems has officially contracted EPC firm Fluor to ...
Sarawak signs deal with Gentari to build hydrogen production hub
MALAYSIA’S Sarawak state is gearing up to develop a world-scale hydrogen production hub following...
UK government’s energy market reforms overshadowed by call to build new gas power stations
ENGINEERS are pushing the UK government to do more to support CCUS and hydrogen following its hig...
Water companies’ £180m sewerage investment must target ‘those responsible for the largest polluting flows’
WATER expert Tom Stephenson says it is vital that water companies target the worst polluting rele...
NatPower plans to deliver £10bn worth of battery storage projects to the UK
RENEWABLES project developer NatPower has promised to invest £10bn (US$12.8bn) to deliver the UK’...
ExxonMobil arbitration could stop US$53bn Chevron/Hess merger
EXXONMOBIL has filed for arbitration in a bid to stop Chevron from getting Hess’s 30% stake in th...
Mondi agrees £5bn deal for DS Smith in bid to create packaging heavyweight
MONDI has agreed to buy rival DS Smith for £5.1bn (US$6.5bn) in a deal which will create one of t...
Evonik to slash 2,000 jobs in cost-cutting overhaul
GERMAN chemical company Evonik plans to cut 2,000 jobs worldwide after it reported a net loss of ...
Industry and skills groups react coolly to government budget
THE UK’s spring budget has received a mixed reaction from engineering and manufacturing groups, a...
Aluminium producer Alcoa agrees US$2.2bn deal to acquire Alumina
Alcoa is set to secure its position as one of the world’s largest alumina and bauxite producers w...
UKRI pumps in £100m to transform engineering biology projects
RESEARCHERS working to combat plastic pollution, improve metals circularity, and develop novel fo...
Further job losses expected as BASF announces more cost cutting at its Ludwigshafen site
BASF has announced further measures to cut costs at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany. It aims to ...
Southern Water fined £330,000 after stream pollution killed 2,000 fish
A UK court has fined Southern Water £330,000 (US$416,748) for a raw sewage leak in July 2019 that...
IChemE Matters – March 2024
Nigel Hirst on launching initiatives; Tracey Donaldson calls for book ideas and Dianne Watson int...
Industry makes urgent call for investment ‘reboot’ to support European Green Deal
EUROPEAN industry has presented the Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal, an urgent...
Electric avenue: researchers use electric fields to catalyse chemical reactions
WHAT if you could one day catalyse your industrial reactions with electric fields rather than the...
Australia funds A$14m cleantech support centre
AUSTRALIA is funding a A$14m (US$9.2m) centre that will help companies manufacture and adopt rene...
Covestro turns to nature to divert aniline production away from fossil feedstocks
A PROCESS that uses genetically modified microorganisms to make a chemical used in insulating foa...
UK quits ‘climate-wrecking’ Energy Charter Treaty after efforts to modernise it fail
The UK government is leaving the “outdated” and controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an int...
QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical break ground on US$6bn Ras Laffan petrochemical complex
OWNERS QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have started construction on a US$6bn p...
New Zealand bans PFAS in cosmetics
NEW ZEALAND has banned the use of PFAS in cosmetic products from the end of 2026 to protect consu...
BHP, Rio Tinto, and BlueScope partner to decarbonise Australian steelmaking with electric melter pilot
AUSTRALIAN iron ore majors BHP and Rio Tinto have partnered with a leading steelmaker in the coun...
Hayward welcomed as new chair of NEPIC
Dai Hayward has been appointed chair of the North East of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC).
Diamondback Energy and Endeavor Energy Resources merge to form leading Permian oil and gas producer
OIL AND GAS company Diamondback Energy and Endeavor Energy Resources, an exploration and producti...
Small nuclear reactors could power Teesside chemicals industry
A DEAL has been struck to build a fleet of four small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Teesside...
JET’s swansong experiments break fusion record
THE final experiments at the UK’s JET fusion power plant have produced a world record for energy ...
NDA calls together group-wide researchers to discuss decommissioning innovations
THE UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will host a first-of-its-kind meeting in Sheffield lat...
Woodside and Santos merger talks collapse
AUSTRALIA’S Santos and Woodside have ended merger talks, ruling out their creation of a unified U...
Wind turbine pioneers Stiesdal and Garrad win 2024 QEPrize
HENRIK STIESDAL and Andrew Garrad have been awarded the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineerin...
Drax plans carbon removal business as auditor airs biomass sustainability concerns
DRAX is launching a new business focused on building power plants that burn biomass, capture the ...
ReElement Technologies partners with Afrivolt to develop Africa’s battery ecosystem
METALS refining and recycling company ReElement Technologies has signed a memorandum of understan...
Edinburgh and Glasgow universities unite for climate research
UNIVERSITIES in Scotland have formed a new collaborative research partnership to address the clim...
Award of 24 UK oil and gas licences labelled “grossly irresponsible”
THE UK North Sea Transition Authority’s award of 24 oil and gas licences in the 33rd licensing ro...
Lhyfe and Source Galileo partner to bolster green hydrogen in the UK and Ireland
LHYFE, a green hydrogen producer and supplier, has partnered with renewable energy developer Sour...
UK government awards £80m in funding for greener heat projects
A PROJECT to heat homes with sewer water and the UK’s largest high-temperature water source heat ...
Hinkley Point C could go £28bn over budget as EDF predicts further delays
EDF SAYS its Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant could be delayed to as late as 2031, with costs ...
Shell sells Nigerian onshore oil business in deal worth US$2.4bn
SHELL has agreed to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary, The Shell Petroleum Development Company...
Tata Steel puts 2,800 jobs at risk with Port Talbot blast furnace closures
INDIAN-OWNED Tata Steel has confirmed plans to close two of the UK’s few remaining blast furnaces...
Stanlow refinery hydrogen plans given greenlight
PLANS for large-scale blue hydrogen production at the Stanlow refinery in northwest England have ...
Training and materials choices blamed for fatal Texas blast
POOR materials selection and staff training failures contributed to an explosion and fire at a KM...
Xampla and 2M awarded Innovate grant to scale up production of biodegradable materials
XAMPLA, a company specialising in natural, biodegradable materials, has been awarded the Innovate...
Chesapeake set to become largest player in upstream US gas supply after acquiring Southwestern
AMERICAN exploration and production company Chesapeake has agreed to buy Southwestern Energy in a...
UK declares biggest nuclear revival in 70 years with plans for new reactors and fuel production
THE UK government wants to build a new large-scale nuclear plant and will invest £310m (US$394m) ...
BP wins approval to convert Kwinana into a biorefinery
BP has been granted approval to produce biofuels as its former Kwinana refining site in Australia.
Alcoa set to end 60 years of production at Kwinana alumina refinery, impacting 1,000 workers
ALUMINIUM producer Alcoa will fully curtail production at its 2.2m t/y alumina refinery in the Kw...
Australia selects six projects to kickstart green hydrogen industry
AUSTRALIA has shortlisted six large-scale electrolysis projects under a A$2bn (US$1.34bn) scheme ...
ExxonMobil to build CCS pilot plant using carbonate fuel cell technology
ESSO Nederland, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, plans to build a pilot carbon capture plant at its Ro...
All-UK partnership to deliver landmark commercial scale direct lithium extraction plant
THREE companies from the north of England – Northern Lithium, Evove, and Sheers – have signed an ...
Sumitomo Chemical CO2-to-methanol pilot plant now operational
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL has completed the construction of a pilot facility which uses CO2 generated fro...
Coolbrook successfully cracks naphtha in its electric steam cracking pilot plant
COOLBROOK has successfully demonstrated electric steam cracking of naphtha in its large-scale pil...
Shell to sell stake in German Schwedt refinery to UK's Prax Group
SHELL has agreed to sell its 37.5% stake in the PCK Schwedt oil refinery, one of the largest crud...
Goodbye 2023, and what to read while we’re away
AS WE put the lids on our pens, close our notebooks, and say goodbye until 2 January, we thought ...
US Steel to be bought by Japan's Nippon in US$15bn deal
NIPPON, the fourth-largest steelmaker in the world, has agreed to buy US Steel for US$14.9bn. The...
UK publishes a “blueprint” for becoming a carbon capture leader
THE UK government’s CCUS Vision is a “blueprint to deliver a world-leading UK carbon capture indu...
Safety issues to the fore at IChemE-hosted roundtable on battery energy storage systems
SAFETY concerns surrounding lithium-ion batteries dominated a recent IChemE-hosted roundtable dis...
UK government announces £400m hydrogen support measures
THE UK government has announced support for 11 commercial green hydrogen projects which will see ...
UK’s Redcar ‘hydrogen village’ trial cancelled due to insufficient feedstock supply
THE UK government will not be proceeding with a controversial hydrogen trial in Redcar. Northern ...
IChemE Matters – December 2023/January 2024
Nigel Hirst, Trish Kerin and Alexandra Meldrum have their say on the issues affecting IChemE members
Hazards conference: energies and skills impacts come into sharp focus
Safety professionals urged to consider transition, natech, and non-technical skills
COP28 deal: a starting gun fired for the end of fossil fuels?
COUNTRIES have agreed at the COP28 climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels and tr...
UK government publishes battery strategy
THE UK government’s ambition to have a globally competitive battery supply chain by 2030 has been...
Engineering employers must support neurodivergent people to make sector more inclusive, report says
A REPORT published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) says that there is an u...
Octopus Energy launches £3bn offshore wind fund with Tokyo Gas
OCTOPUS ENERGY has launched its first dedicated offshore wind fund aimed at boosting energy secur...
European Commission proposes EU-UK tariff delays on electric vehicles as it announces €3bn for battery manufacturing
MANUFACTURERS on both sides of the Channel are urging the EU to adopt a proposal from the Europea...
UK government lays out national vision for engineering biology industry
THE UK government has said it will invest £2bn (US$2.5bn) over the next ten years in engineering ...
ExxonMobil starts drilling at prolific lithium resource site as it targets energy transition leadership
EXXONMOBIL’s plan to become a leading lithium producer moved a step closer with the first phase o...
Air Liquide wins contract for Teesside waste-to-jet-fuel plant
AIR LIQUIDE has been awarded a contract to help build a £1.5bn (US$1.9bn) plant in Teesside, UK t...
Oxford’s rapid Covid test wins top prize at IChemE Awards
THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process ...
Sweden’s Northvolt hails sodium battery breakthrough
NORTHVOLT says it has made a breakthrough in the development of sodium-ion batteries that could h...
NuScale cancels first planned SMR nuclear project due to lack of interest
NUSCALE has cancelled the first project for its pioneering small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) te...
EU lawmakers adopt position on Net-Zero Industry Act
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT has adopted its position on the proposed Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), wh...
Grangemouth set to cease refining operations as ‘major questions’ asked
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland could cease operations in 2025 and become a fuel import terminal...
UK government announces £4.5bn funding among package of measures to bolster manufacturing
The UK government has announced £4.5bn (US$5.6bn) in funding for the nation’s “world-leading” cle...
University of Birmingham launches EvoPhase, an AI-powered design approach for industrial processing equipment
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham Enterprise has launched EvoPhase, AI-led technology that optimises the d...
EDF awards Jacobs and Costain contracts for support across its UK nuclear fleet
JACOBS and Costain have each been awarded two-year contracts to support energy provider EDF’s act...
Rolls-Royce, Topsoe, and ULC-Energy strike agreement to investigate nuclear-enabled hydrogen production
ULC-ENERGY has signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce and Topsoe to collaborate on nuclear-powered ...
US unveils up to US$3.5bn funding to expand domestic battery manufacturing
THE White House has announced up to US$3.5bn in funding to strengthen domestic battery manufactur...
Chemical spill injures five at Western Australian alumina refinery
TWO PEOPLE were hospitalised, and three others also injured, after a spill of caustic solution at...
Equinor and Captura partner to scale up direct ocean capture
INTERNATIONAL energy company Equinor has partnered with Captura to develop the direct ocean captu...
Birmingham precious metal experts to work together in 3D printing
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham researchers are teaming up with Cooksongold Additive Manufacturing to de...
TfS white paper explores new approaches to counting carbon in chemical sector
A WHITE paper released by global chemical initiative Together for Sustainability (TfS) has i...
‘Ambitious’ plan seeks to address worrying decline in engineering-related apprenticeships
LORD KNIGHT and Lord Willetts, supported by EngineeringUK, have launched an “ambitious” five-poin...
King’s speech draws fire from environmentalists as oil and gas claims branded “distraction tactics”
“IT SIMPLY won’t do what the prime minister claims,” said Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, after th...
Mura Technology’s flagship advanced plastics recycling plant opens in Teesside
MURA Technology’s first site, ReNew ELP, which turns 'unrecyclable' plastics that would usually b...
Consortium successfully operates gas turbine with 100% renewable hydrogen
A CONSORTIUM led by Siemens Energy has successfully operated a gas turbine with 100% renewable en...
New supercomputers will put the UK 'first in the queue' when it comes to R&D and managing AI risks
UK INDUSTRIAL researchers have been promised a boon on the fringes of the Bletchley AI Summit tha...
BASF commercially produces metal-organic frameworks for CO2 capture in world first
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hun...
Magnox rebrands to Nuclear Restoration Services as its decommissioning portfolio expands
Magnox has become Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) ahead of taking ownership of closing EDF nuc...
Plastics Europe launches ‘radical’ €235bn roadmap for industry sustainability
PLASTICS EUROPE has revealed a “radical plan” to completely redesign the European plastics sector...
Petronas Chemicals Group to build Asia’s 'largest advanced chemical recycling plant'
PETRONAS CHEMICALS GROUP (PCG) has unveiled plans to build what it claims to be Asia’s largest ad...
Amgen buys Horizon Therapeutics for US$27.8bn
US BIOTECH company Amgen has completed its US$27.8bn acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics after a ...
Chevron to buy Hess in US$53bn all-stock deal
AMERICAN oil giant Chevron is buying oil and gas producer Hess in an all-stock deal worth US$53bn...
IChemE Matters – November 2023
Nigel Hirst on the merits of mentoring; Allyson Woodford previews Chemeca 2023 and readers respon...
UK government unveils £650m fusion programme as JET moves towards decommissioning
THE UK government has announced the £650m (US$789.9m) Fusion Futures Programme, part of its strat...
Lanxess to cut 870 jobs amid German chemical industry downturn
GERMAN speciality chemicals group Lanxess plans to cut 870 jobs worldwide. The firm has blamed a ...
Applications open for Australia’s A$2bn green hydrogen scale-up programme
APPLICATIONS have opened for the Australian government’s A$2bn (US$1.3bn) Hydrogen Headstart prog...
US awards US$7bn for seven hydrogen hubs to boost clean energy economy
THE BIDEN administration has announced that seven hydrogen hub proposals are to receive US$7bn in...
Engineers successfully trial single process to produce zero emissions steel and cement
ENGINEERS working on a process to produce zero-emission cement as a byproduct of recycling steel ...
New novel use of glycerol helps make renewable hydrogen and propane fuel gases
GLYCEROL, a naturally occurring alcohol made from the hydrolysis of fats and oils, is being used ...
FluRefin technology wins impact award
A CARBON capture technology developed at the University of Sheffield by IChemE member Peter Styri...
ExxonMobil gambles US$60bn on shale oil buyout
EXXONMOBIL has placed a US$60bn bet on US shale oil with the purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources.
UK universities to partner in Global Centers for researching net zero innovations
A COLLABORATION involving partners in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, will see a string of UK ...
John Griffiths, 1939-2023
Obituary of John Griffiths, who was awarded IChemE's Hebden Medal for his work in the field of ga...
Lightning strike destroys biogas tanks at Severn Trent food waste recycling facility
“STANDARDS need to be followed for this very well-known risk,” stressed IChemE Safety Centre dire...
Coolbrook primed for industry use after RotoDynamic Heater pilot tests reach over 1,000°C
COOLBROOK has successfully completed the first phase of largescale pilot testing for its RotoDyna...
EDF consortium awarded almost £400,000 as UK government announces hydrogen fuel switching funding
BAY HYDROGEN HUB has received £399,376 (US$487,381) in additional funding from the UK government ...
IChemE Matters – October 2023
Nigel Hirst and Keith Plumb have their say on the issues affecting IChemE members
UK’s first 21 carbon storage licences handed out by North Sea Transition Authority
FOURTEEN companies have been awarded 21 licences by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in ...
Molycop to cease steel-making operations at Waratah, leading to 250 job losses
Almost half the 540-strong workforce at Molycop’s steel manufacturing plant in Newcastle, New Sou...
Worley awarded FEED work for huge Queensland renewable hydrogen project
WORLEY has been awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for what is said to be c...
UK government suffer angry backlash from industry over plan to delay climate pledges
RISHI SUNAK’s series of policy changes surrounding the UK government’s approach to net zero has d...
UK government announces £5.5m for a Medical Manufacturing Skills Centre of Excellence
TO SUSTAIN and grow the UK life sciences sector’s more than 280,000-strong workforce, the governm...
Adisa Azapagic awarded IChemE’s Davis Medal
ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded...
California sues ‘Big Oil’ for decades of cover-up and deception surrounding climate change
CALIFORNIA is suing “Big Oil” for more than 50 years of “deception, cover-up, and damage” that ha...
UK lithium boost as engineers use membranes to extract lithium from brine
ENGINEERS have piloted a process that uses membranes to produce battery grade lithium carbonate f...
Tata Steel secures £500m in government “green” aid but job losses still feared
TATA STEEL has secured £500m (US$619m) in backing from the UK government to decarbonise its Welsh...
UK-Japan partnership funds nuclear research to support waste management at Sellafield and Fukushima sites
RESEARCH projects led by the universities of Strathclyde and Sheffield in the UK are receiving a ...
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners to team up with Swansea University on CO2 upcycling research
COCA-COLA Europacific Partners (CCEP) is teaming up with Swansea University to work on cutting-ed...
Plastic Energy commissions new chemical recycling pilot plant at Loughborough University
CHEMICAL recycling firm Plastic Energy has commissioned a new pilot plant to further develop and ...
Petronas dominates 2023 IChemE Global Awards as full list of finalists revealed
MALAYSIAN energy group Petronas is in the running for more than ten IChemE Global Awards, accolad...
Sika announces funding award for new concrete-recycling technology that stores carbon
SPECIALITY chemicals company, Sika, has announced that its reCO2ver technology is now receiving t...
UK clean energy auction fails to secure offshore wind bids as government accused of ‘complacency and incompetence’
HAVING failed to heed warnings that its offshore wind budget in the latest Contracts for Differen...
Aquaporin partners with PUB to install its biomimetic membranes in NEWater facilities
WATER technology company Aquaporin has announced it is working with Singapore's National Water Ag...
Industry doubts new planning measures for England effectively lift de facto ban on onshore wind
THE UK government has announced changes to planning policy in England that it says will allow ons...
BP completes feasibility study for green hydrogen hub in Australia, and invests in Advanced Ionics
BP HAS completed a concept development phase study into its large-scale green hydrogen hub, H2Kwi...
Neste forms partnerships to collaborate on renewable PET production
NESTE, an oil company that also produces renewable fuels and other sustainable products, is partn...
Final deuterium-tritium tests begin at the UK-based Joint European Torus fusion facility
YESTERDAY scientists and engineers at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham site, in Oxfordshir...
United Utilities fined £800,000 for illegally removing water from the environment
UNITED UTILITIES, a water and wastewater services provider, has been fined £800,000 (US$1m) for i...
Occidental agrees to acquire direct air capture developer Carbon Engineering
OXY LOW CARBON VENTURES, a wholly owned subsidiary of international energy company Occidental, wi...
UK government announces a further £341m to speed up Sizewell C development
THE UK government has announced that it will provide an additional £341m (US$432m) to speed up pr...
Futraheat seeks UK industrial partner to host £1m heat pump trial following funding boost
FUTRAHEAT, an industrial heat pump startup, has received £689,000 (US$871,000) from national fund...
Carbon Capture Scotland to capture biogenic CO2 from Whyte & Mackay whisky distillery
CARBON CAPTURE SCOTLAND has teamed up with Scottish whisky makers Whyte & Mackay to capture the b...
German energy technology company Marvel Fusion partners with Colorado State University for US$150m laser facility
MARVEL FUSION, which is working to commercialise laser-based fusion energy technology, has partne...
Low-carbon industries must inspire young recruits and support worker transitions to fill the UK green skills gap
LOW-CARBON industries such as hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear, need to promote careers outr...
Frucor Suntory Queensland plant buys into green power
A NEW drinks manufacturing facility being built in Queensland, Australia will source all its elec...
MOF capture firm secures £3.4m funding for UK CCS pilot
NUADA, which is developing a MOF-based carbon capture process, has received £3.4m (US$4.3m) inves...
Tokamak Energy partners up to accelerate commercialisation of fusion energy
UK-BASED fusion energy company Tokamak Energy and Japanese-headquartered Sumitomo Corporation hav...
Greentech company announces first of 16 pyrolysis hubs that will form the UK’s biggest carbon removal initiative
ONNU, which transforms biomass into valuable biochar that acts as a carbon sink, has announced pl...
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 ...
Macquarie-led consortium acquires further 20% of UK gas transmission company
A CONSORTIUM led by Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is acquiring a further 20% in National Gas, ...
Planning for Carlton Power’s major £750m battery storage project in Manchester given green light
Planning permission for Carlton Power’s major £750m (US$953m) battery storage project that will s...
Denham and East Kimberley earmarked for green hydrogen facilities in Western Australia
WESTERN Australia’s push to become a major exporter of renewable hydrogen is rapidly gathering pa...
Rio Tinto and Giampaolo Group to partner on Matalco aluminium recycling venture
RIO TINTO and Giampaolo Group, one of North America's largest fully-integrated metal management b...
Heineken to pour £25m into low carbon heat system for Manchester brewery
HEINEKEN UK, the maker of Heineken, Birra Moretti, and Foster's, has said it will pour £25m (US$3...
Sunak to maximise oil and gas production despite backlash, and confirms two new CCUS clusters
THE UK government has unveiled plans for two new carbon capture, usage and storage (CCS) faciliti...
ExxonMobil acquires huge US CO2 pipeline and oil and gas operations through US$4.9bn Denbury purchase
EXXONMOBIL has agreed to acquire Denbury, a developer of carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) ...
UK government announces £170m boost for Sizewell C nuclear project
THE UK government has confirmed it will provide £170m (US$219m) in additional funding to speed up...
Jacobs selected to support Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation to develop a UK demonstrator
NUCLEAR developer Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) UK, part of a US-based company, has selec...
CSB releases final report on fatal 2020 explosion at Optima Belle
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has released its final report on the ...
RWE, Mitsui, and Port of Tilbury sign MoU on green hydrogen projects to decarbonise port operations
RWE, one of the UK’s largest power generators, along with global trading and investment company M...
Tata Group invests £4bn to build battery gigafactory in the UK
IN A historic moment for the UK’s growing electric vehicle (EV) industry, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)...
Imerys and British Lithium to develop UK’s largest lithium deposit while Norway’s Norge Mining makes major phosphate discovery
FRENCH multinational firm, Imerys, has teamed up with extraction company British Lithium to becom...
UK government declares a 'nuclear revival' as a public body launches to support industry and boost energy security
THE UK government has announced that the newly launched Great British Nuclear (GBN) will drive a ...
Centrica doubles Rough gas storage capacity and bolsters UK energy security
AFTER reopening its Rough gas storage facility last year, Centrica has almost doubled the site’s ...
Government rejects plans for Whitby 'hydrogen village' trial due to local opposition
WHITBY in Cheshire will no longer be considered as the location for the UK's first hydrogen villa...
Lhyfe announces funding award for another hydrogen first following inauguration of its offshore production pilot
RENEWABLE hydrogen producer Lhyfe and eight partners have been awarded a €20m (US$22.5m) grant by...
UK dye recycling startup recognised by the fashion industry while a demonstrator launches for textile circularity
DYERECYCLE, a startup of Imperial College London, UK working to recover and reuse dyes in the fas...
Transforming the workforce with digital technologies
Automation execs share thoughts on how to help workers adapt
Compact Syngas Solutions receives £4m in funding for carbon capture project
COMPACT SYNGAS SOLUTIONS (CSS) in Deeside, Wales, a company that turns waste wood and unrecyclabl...
TotalEnergies and Petronas to collaborate on solar project to decarbonise Australia’s Gladstone LNG
FRENCH oil and gas giant, TotalEnergies and Gentari Renewables, a subsidiary of Petronas, are tea...
GSK acquires biopharmaceutical company Bellus Health
GSK has completed the acquisition of Bellus Health, a Canada-based, late-stage biopharmaceutical ...
Magnox awards multiple suppliers under £485m contact as it continues with its UK nuclear decommissioning programme
MAGNOX, which is responsible for the safe and secure cleanup of 12 nuclear sites across the UK, h...
New Scottish R&D hub set to support manufacturing industry and catalyse economic growth
THE National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has opened a new, flagship facility designed...
BASF opens centre to research microplastics and biodegradation
BASF has opened a research facility in the US to help understand how plastics disintegrate and bi...
Australian miner Fortescue is building battery factory in UK
FORTESCUE is building a factory near Oxford, UK, that will produce batteries and electric powertr...
Seaweed heat storage material set for steelmaking trial
ENGINEERS at Swansea University, UK have developed a heat storage material made from seaweed that...
Johnson Matthey licenses technology for largest-of-its-kind biodegradable plastics plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY is licensing its butanediol (BDO) process technology for a new plastics plant in ...
Zheng congratulated by IChemE for insights into Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
ICHEME has congratulated Qingyuan Zheng for publishing a paper in Nature Catalysis based on resea...
Eden Project starts up UK’s first deep geothermal plant in nearly four decades
THE UK’s first new deep geothermal project to begin operations in 37 years has come online in Cor...
A new gallery celebrating engineers opens at the Science Museum
AN exhibition called Engineers opened today at the Science Museum in London dedicated to world-ch...
Shell draws criticism as it commits to oil and gas
SHELL’S new boss, Wael Sawan, has come under fire from environmental groups after revealing that ...
RWE appoints Technip and GE Gas Power to study combining CCGT with CCS
GERMAN multinational energy company RWE has selected Technip Energies and its partner GE Gas Powe...
UKAEA awards £6.8m to develop fusion technologies
THE United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded £6.8m (US$8.6m) in contracts to se...
UK government extends Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme to end of September
THE support provided to UK Horizon Europe applicants while the UK is in the process of associatin...
Abandoned Santos gas wells off Western Australia coast leaking for a decade, environmental documents reveal
AN UNKOWN number of decommissioned gas wells at Santos’s Legendre gas field off the coast of West...
Fusion industry heavyweights team up to advance fusion technology
Fusion industry heavyweights are teaming up to advance fusion technology in a bid to further clea...
LyondellBasell, Technip Energies, and Chevron Philips Chemical to demo electric steam cracking furnace technology
LYONDELLBASELL, Technip Energies, and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have signed a memorandum...
TotalEnergies and Tree Energy Solutions team up to develop a large-scale e-natural gas production unit in the US
FRENCH energy firm TotalEnergies and Tree Energy Solutions (TES), a Belgian energy start-up, are ...
Orsted and ESB to work together on Irish offshore wind portfolio
DANISH multinational energy company Orsted, and ESB, Ireland’s leading utility, have agreed to wo...
CNOOC commissions China’s first offshore CCS demo project
CHINESE oil and gas company CNOOC has announced that a carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstra...
Drax faced with UK biomass sustainability investigation and US pollution notice as Selby plant CCS consultation launches
OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator has launched a formal investigation into power company Drax to d...
BASF strengthens R&D capabilities with a more powerful supercomputer
BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany, which it says is the...
Neom Green Hydrogen Company’s ‘mega’ green hydrogen production facility secures US$8.4bn in investments
DUBBED the world’s largest by its founding partners, a “mega” green hydrogen production facility ...
Weardale Lithium and Watercycle Technologies produce lithium carbonate from geothermal brines in North East England
TAKING a step in developing a UK lithium supply chain, natural resources company Weardale Lithium...
Engineering options that can prevent sewer overflows
WITH industry forced to apologise for dumping untreated sewage into rivers, changes upstream incl...
The importance of engineers and not strangling AI
SIR PATRICK VALLANCE reflects on five years as the UK’s chief scientific advisor.
Peak Cluster: UK lime and cement producers join forces to capture 3m t/y of emissions
CEMENT and lime producers in the UK have formed a carbon capture and storage cluster – the Peak C...
Carbon Clean awards KBR design contract for Orsted’s e-methanol project
CARBON Clean has awarded KBR a contract for the detailed design of a carbon capture plant for Ors...
Orsted awarded first Danish CCUS subsidy tender and signs major carbon removal offtake contract
ORSTED has announced major carbon capture and storage deals, having won a 20-year contract under ...
Major US steel producer and the US’ Purdue University consider using SMRs
HAS the time of small modular reactors (SMRs) finally come? With reported benefits such as increa...
Consortium to develop floating nuclear power plants
SAMSUNG Heavy Industries (SHI), Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), and Seaborg Technologies have...
IChemE partners with ITN on Engineering a Sustainable World programme
ICHEME has partnered with ITN Business to produce a news-style programme called Engineering a Sus...
Recovering heat, capturing carbon and switching fuels: UK industry awarded funds to engineer out emissions
CHEMICAL companies and food manufacturers are among the latest firms to receive millions in UK go...
Jacobs set to split in two by cleaving off government services
ENGINEERING and consulting firm Jacobs is splitting into two firms by spinning off its government...
Australia offers industry A$2bn to scale up green hydrogen
AUSTRALIA’S government will give A$2bn ($US1.3bn) to industry to scale-up the production of green...
Chemical engineers helping to close the loop on electric car batteries
CHEMICAL engineers at Imperial College London are working with Altilium Metals to prove that elec...
Plugging the UK into Moroccan renewables: massive undersea cable link wins funding
A PROJECT planning to run undersea cables from Morocco to the UK to supply 8% of the country’s po...
Wood and Computer Modelling Group team up to advance carbon capture storage solutions
WOOD, the global engineering and consulting company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (Mo...
NCC advances UK-based composite cryogenic hydrogen programme with testing facility
THE National Composites Centre (NCC) has announced a UK-based test programme to assist the aerosp...
OCI Global and Petrofac partner to accelerate delivery of important green transport fuels
OCI Global, which produces and distributes ammonia, fertiliser, and methanol, has partnered with ...
IChemE and AIChE form hydrogen alliance
ICHEME and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) have agreed to work together to s...
New partnership seeks to get STEM professionals on a career break back into the industry
CHEMICALS giant Johnson Matthey has formed a new partnership with STEM Returners, an organisation...
APPEA backs Climate Change Authority report on carbon capture technology
THE Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) is backing carbon capture t...
Rockwell Automation teams up with Cornish Lithium to develop the firm’s demonstration plant
LITHIUM exploration within Cornwall, UK has received a boost after Rockwell Automation announced ...
Worker found dead after an explosion at a pharmaceuticals plant in Massachusetts, US
A WORKER has been killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a pharmaceutical plant in Newb...
Liddell, Australia’s oldest coal-fired power plant, shuts down
AFTER more than five decades of operation, Australia’s oldest coal-fired power plant, Liddell, ha...
UK's first industrial scale lithium-ion battery recycling plant to open
UK-based mining company Technology Minerals has said that its battery recycling business, Recyclu...
IChemE Safety Centre Director appointed chair of Major Hazards Advisory Committee
TRISH KERIN, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has been appointed chair of the Major Hazards ...
Major investment in Pilkington UK’s Merseyside sites to save 15,000 t/y of carbon emissions
GLASS manufacturer Pilkington UK is making a “multi-million-pound” investment in its Merseyside f...
Merck to acquire Prometheus Biosciences for US$10.8bn
MULTINATIONAL pharmaceutical company Merck will buy Prometheus Biosciences for about US$10.8bn, a...
Coal-fired power at Drax comes to an end
DRAX has announced the official end of coal-fired generation at its North Yorkshire, UK power sta...
UK battery projects awarded £30m in government funding
THREE cutting-edge businesses are set to benefit from a share of £30m (US$37m) in funding from th...
Mill owner accused of wilful violation of safety standards following worker’s death
THE US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has accused a mill owner of wilful vi...
BP starts 140,000 bbl/d platform in the US Gulf of Mexico
BP has started oil production at its new Argos platform in the US Gulf of Mexico. The 140,000 bbl...
Shell restarts North Sea Pierce field
SHELL has restarted operations at the Pierce field, following an upgrade to allow gas to be produ...
Renewables developer Amp Energy selected to lead South Australian hydrogen precinct
AMP Energy has signed an agreement to develop and build a 5 GW green hydrogen production facility...
Orsted and Highview Power investigate co-locating energy storage with offshore wind
ORSTED, a renewable energy company, and energy storage developer Highview Power have signed a mem...
BP joins Humberside’s Viking CCS project
BP has bought into Harbour Energy’s plans to develop the Viking CCS transportation and storage pr...
Primark launches its first circular clothing range
CLOTHING retailer Primark has launched its first product range designed to be reused or recycled,...
Heidelberg and Linde to build large-scale CCU facility
ONE OF the largest building materials companies in the world, Heidelberg Materials, has teamed up...
Industry and government should build on UK strengths to accelerate the hydrogen economy, urges UK hydrogen champion
INDUSTRY should work with government to create a wider hydrogen supply chain strategy that builds...
Ineos steps into Asia phenol with purchase of Mitsui’s Singapore plants
INEOS has bought Mitsui Chemicals’ phenol production plants in Singapore for US$330m.
Japan and the US to collaborate on critical minerals
JAPAN and the US have signed a critical minerals agreement targeted at strengthening and diversif...
Drax in talks with UK government after pausing BECCS investment
DRAX has paused its £2bn (US$2.48bn) investment programme in bioenergy with carbon capture and st...
BP awards KBR contract for global hydrogen project management
BP has named KBR the primary integrated project management contractor across its global hydrogen ...
Australia sets new limits on heavy industry in push for decarbonisation
AUSTRALIA has passed legal reforms that set a hard cap on industrial emissions and require new ga...
IChemE publishes cybersecurity fact files and urges chemical engineers to manage hacking risks against industry
ICHEME has launched a series of fact files to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity ...
A century of chemical engineering at UCL
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of...
Sempra greenlights Port Arthur LNG project
SEMPRA Infrastructure has given the financial greenlight for the development, construction, and o...
Birmingham Uni and Innospec join forces to develop safe and responsible chemicals
THE University of Birmingham has teamed up with chemical company Innospec to accelerate research ...
Altilium Metals to accelerate development of the UK’s largest EV battery recycling plant
PLANS for Teesside to host the UK’s largest EV battery recycling plant are underway following the...
A green washout? Critics lambast the UK government’s Powering up Britain strategy as lacking ambition
LABELLED as a strategy that will “scale up affordable, clean, homegrown power” while building “th...
MacFarlan Smith to close Annan API manufacturing facility
PHARMACEUTICAL company MacFarlan Smith has proposed the closure of its facility near Annan, UK, a...
Sabic to assess Coolbrook’s greener cracking technology
SABIC has agreed to assess Coolbrook’s turbomachine technology which is being piloted as a greene...
UK and Wales announce green freeports following approval of a Welsh-first offshore windfarm
THE UK and Welsh governments have jointly announced two new, green freeports backed by £52m (US$6...
Ofgem sets out proposals to transform UK energy system
THE UK’S energy regulator Ofgem has set out proposals to establish a "more decentralised, decarbo...
Aramco and Linde to develop novel ammonia cracking technology
ARAMCO and Linde Engineering have signed an agreement to jointly develop a new ammonia cracking t...
Funding boost for Geothermal Engineering promises heat and power from Cornish hot rocks
GEOTHERMAL Engineering has secured £15m (US$18.4m) in funding that will enable it to start produc...
US moves to restrict PFAS chemicals in drinking water
IN WHAT is described as a major step forward in protecting public health, the US Environmental Pr...
Japan to provide A$2.35bn for Australian hydrogen demonstration
AUSTRALIA will receive A$2.35bn (US$1.6bn) in funding from Japan to demonstrate a liquefied hydro...
NIA urges UK to be world leader in nuclear-derived synthetic fuels
A NEW report from the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) is urging the UK to take the lead in the...
EU launches net zero plan to rival US greentech incentives
THE EU has outlined its plans for scaling-up the manufacturing of crucial clean technologies as i...
IChemE joins bid to create Australian hydrogen research centre
ICHEME is joining a proposed Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) in Australia that would work to ex...
US government approves huge Alaska oil and gas development
A CONTROVERSIAL Alaskan oil and gas project has been given final approval by the Biden Administra...
UK spring budget includes launch of nuclear support body and up to £20bn for CCUS
THE UK government has pledged to invest up to £20bn (US$24.2bn) from its spring budget to support...
Ineos announces full chain CCS milestone as emissions are buried offshore
AN INEOS led consortium has for the first time, initiated a cross-border offshore CCS project whi...
UKWIR calls for help in creating GHG accounting tool for water industry
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) is calling for expressions of interest to deliver a new versio...
UK and Canada forge ties to strengthen critical minerals supplies
THE UK and Canada have agreed to cooperate on critical minerals including research to bolster the...
US aims to create semiconductor manufacturing clusters by 2030
THE US is planning to create at least two manufacturing clusters for leading-edge semiconductors ...
UK calls on coal to avoid supply shortfall
ON 7 March, two coal power plant units operated for six hours to supply additional power to the U...
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
Government announces new £370m Science and Technology Framework to boost UK innovation
THE UK government has announced a raft of measures to ‘cement the UK’s place as a science and tec...
BASF announces 2,600 jobs losses as it cuts costs in Europe
BASF has announced that it is taking additional cost cutting measures in Europe, primarily at its...
GeoPura secures £36m investment to scale its green hydrogen business
GEOPURA has secured £36m (US$43m) of investment from big players in industry, manufacturing and f...
Report: oxygen plant explosion in Bangladesh kills at least six
AT least six people have been killed and “several” injured in an oxygen plant explosion in south-...
Origin Energy may delay closing Eraring coal power station
ORIGIN Energy’s plans to close its Eraring coal power station seven years ahead of schedule, migh...
Orsted awards carbon capture contract for e-methanol project
ORSTED has awarded Carbon Clean the carbon capture equipment supply contract for its FlagshipONE ...
Energy Institute takes over BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy
PUBLISHED for more than 70 years by BP, the Statistical Review of World Energy will from this yea...
British Steel coke ovens closure threatens 260 jobs
BRITISH Steel has said it is closing the coking ovens at its Scunthorpe works, threatening 260 jo...
Search for survivors continues at fatal Chinese mine collapse site
A LARGE-scale rescue effort is ongoing after reports of an open-pit coal mine collapse in China, ...
Ineos enters US oil and gas production with US$1.4bn purchase
INEOS Energy is acquiring oil and gas assets in south Texas for US$1.4bn and becoming, for the fi...
Hinkley Point C costs could rise to over £32bn
ENERGY group EDF has said that the cost of building Hinkley Point C, a nuclear power station on t...
Cleantech initiative seeks to ‘supercharge’ UK innovation
CLEANTECH for UK, a coalition representing more than £6bn (US$7.2bn) in funds has launched. The i...
Chemical engineers work to create hydrogen from steel sludge
CHEMICAL engineers from Imperial College London have joined forces with the UK’s Materials Proces...
Ineos secures €3.5bn for its huge European chemicals investment
INEOS has raised €3.5bn (US$3.7bn) for the construction of a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgiu...
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...
BP dilutes climate plans with renewed investment in oil and gas
BP has dialled back its climate commitment, signalling it will increase investments in oil and ga...
Roger Kilburn appointed chair of NEPIC
ROGER KILBURN, a chemical engineer and Fellow of IChemE, has been appointed the chair of the UK’s...
£27m to boost the UK’s battery industry
THE Faraday Battery Challenge has awarded £27.6m (US$33.2m) in funding to support 17 firms workin...
UK partners to advance inertial confinement fusion
FOLLOWING the US’s major fusion breakthrough with inertial confinement technology, a UK partnersh...
NSTA creates CCS development team
THE North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has set up a dedicated carbon transportation and storag...
Emerson wins automation contract for Ras Laffan petchem complex
EMERSON has won the contract to supply automation and analytics technology for the US$6bn Ras Laf...
Solvay will use rice husks for greener tyre chemicals
SOLVAY said it will open a new unit at a chemicals plant in Italy that will halve the carbon foot...
UK government fails to support technology that could be key to combatting plastic waste
THE UK government has been criticised for dismissing recommendations to support chemical recyclin...
Ineos buys former BASF concrete chemicals business
INEOS is buying MBCC’s admixture business from Sika, acquiring manufacturing sites in the US, Can...
Dow and 3M cut thousands of jobs
3M and Dow have announced they are cutting thousands of roles from their global workforces in res...
Sweden discovers Europe’s largest rare earths deposit
SWEDEN’S state mining firm has discovered what could be Europe’s largest rare earths deposit, and...
Governments announce £52m for green freeports in Scotland
THE UK and Scottish governments have jointly announced two new green freeports in Inverness and t...
UAE to expand green energy projects in Europe and Africa
WITH plans to become a clean-energy powerhouse that will place the UAE at the forefront of the en...
UK to collaborate with Saudi Arabia on minerals, and UAE on green energy
The UK and Saudi Arabia have agreed to deepen collaboration and work together in areas including ...
Australia’s biggest polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year from July
A REFORM to Australia’s climate safeguard mechanism means that more than 200 of the country’s hea...
Equinor and RWE collaborate for large-scale clean hydrogen
ENERGY companies Equinor and RWE have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreeing to join...
Companies eye Britishvolt site in the wake of company collapse
UK battery firm Britishvolt has received interest from more than a dozen companies looking to buy...
UK’s first coal mine for 30 years faces legal challenge
FRIENDS of the Earth has filed a legal challenge in the UK’s High Court against the government’s ...
Baker Hughes to supply key technology for Malaysia’s first CCS project
ENERGY technology company Baker Hughes is working with Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMH...
Scotland’s “renewables powerhouse” ambitions: strategy seeks rush from oil and gas
THE Scottish government has set out its vision of becoming a renewables powerhouse in its Draft E...
BioNTech to fully acquire AI company InstaDeep
BIONTECH is fully acquiring artificial intelligence (AI) provider InstaDeep in a deal worth about...
CSB identifies six key safety issues that led to 2018 Superior refinery explosion
FAILURE to learn from a similar incident investigation released less than a year prior is among s...
UK grants planning approval for General Fusion demonstrator
A FUSION energy demonstration plant has been granted planning permission with construction at the...
New integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
FOCUSED on integrating technologies that capture and use CO2 in a closed loop carbon cycle, engin...
Inquiry launched into apprenticeship decline
WITH the UK battling an acute skills shortage, Former Labour and Conservative ministers Lord Knig...
Deal to save Britishvolt could see its valuation drop by 90%
UK BATTERY firm Britishvolt has said it is in talks with “a consortium of investors” about a sale...
Australia greenlights first offshore wind zone as push for renewables heats up
AUSTRALIA has taken its first step towards harnessing offshore wind by declaring the Bass Strait ...
SSE begins work with Siemens to integrate hydrogen production, storage and combustion
ENERGY firm SSE is developing plans to integrate hydrogen production, storage and power generatio...
Partners take FID on major Saudi petrochemical facility
SAUDI Aramco and TotalEnergies have taken a final investment decision (FID) to construct a huge p...
UK awards £32m to advance energy storage technologies
THE UK Government has awarded more than £32m (US$38.9) in funding to five projects across the cou...
Consortium develops £3.5m ammonia cracker
SIEMENS Energy is leading a consortium that is developing a £3.5m (US$4.3m) ammonia cracker proto...
UK coal mine approval: ‘I don’t understand why we’re doing this,’ says CCC Chair
THE UK Government has approved the first coal mine in 30 years, despite widespread climate concer...
Partnership to produce hydrogen for sustainable aviation
TOTALENERGIES and Air Liquide have partnered to produce and valorise renewable, low-carbon hydrog...
Consortiums investigate nuclear-powered hydrogen production
TWO projects by UK and US consortiums will investigate using nuclear-generated heat and electrici...
Steel coalition calls for emissions standard that ignores production process
A COALITION of steelmakers has called for a global process-agnostic emissions standard, warning t...
Zenobē begins construction on battery storage projects in Scotland
EV FLEET and battery storage firm Zenobē has started construction on three battery storage projec...
UK backs Sizewell C with £700m as it targets energy sovereignty
THE UK Government has announced the “historic” £700m (US$836.9m) backing of EDF’s Sizewell C nucl...
Essar Oil UK invests £360m in CCS at Stanlow
ESSAR Oil UK, which produces 16% of the UK’s transport fuels, plans to build a £360m (US$430m) ca...
Partnership will use nanobubbles to increase copper recovery
BASF has partnered with Moleaer, a nanobubble technology company, to combine novel technologies i...
Reports: Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build nuclear plant at Grangemouth refinery
INEOS is reportedly in talks with Rolls-Royce about using its small modular nuclear reactor (SMR)...
Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'
SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zer...
Teesside to support growing EV batteries market
TEESSIDE, UK will host the UK’s first large-scale lithium refinery, and possibly the largest elec...
Fire at Chinese plant kills 38
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Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award
SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in C...
New Solent Cluster to reduce emissions and produce hydrogen
THE University of Southampton, UK, Solent Local Enterprise Partnership, and ExxonMobil have teame...
Government warned that muddied carbon accounting will slow industrial decarbonisation
THE UK’s Energy Systems Catapult has warned there are “inconsistencies” in carbon accounting that...
UK Autumn statement offers boon to research but little news for industry
AMIDST tax rises and expenditure cutting amounting to around £50bn (US$60bn), funding for researc...
One reported dead after Petronas pipeline explosion
LOCAL news reports that one person is dead, and as many as three are injured, following an explos...
Analysis finds cause of major LNG exporter facility fire
A FIRE which resulted in the shutdown of major US LNG export facilities in June has been found to...
Study investigates energy efficiencies to reduce emissions at Ineos Grangemouth
INEOS, co-funded by the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF), will conduct a fe...
Plastics recycling partners plan 100,000 t/y facility
INEOS and Plastic Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding for a 100,000 t/y facility in ...
New online platform helps pinpoint GHG emission sources across the globe
HALF of the world’s 50 largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions across the world are oil and g...
Carbon-neutral Steelanol plant to start production within weeks
ARCELORMITTAL, BHP, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) have signed a funding ag...
Cracks found in feedwater pumps at Finland’s OL3 nuclear plant
CRACKS of a few centimetres have been identified in all four of the feedwater pumps of the Olkilu...
NSTA scraps Cessation of Production reports
IN A BID to cut red tape and save money, UK regulator North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has a...
LanzaTech produces ethylene directly from CO2
PROCESS technology company LanzaTech has successfully engineered biocatalysts to directly produce...
Rough facility resumes gas storage following significant engineering upgrades
THE Rough gas storage facility in the UK has returned to operations, increasing the country’s gas...
BP buys US biogas firm for US$4.1bn in push to go net zero
BP is buying US biogas producer Archaea Energy for US$4.1bn as part of its plans to reduce its re...
BASF to downsize in Europe as chemicals trade group warns the sector is at breaking point
BASF has said it must “permanently” cut costs at its European sites to protect the company from w...
US partners plan 5m t/y DACCS project
CARBONCAPTURE, which deploys direct air capture (DAC) systems, and carbon storage developer Front...
Rolls-Royce visits shortlist sites for first SMR component factory
ROLLS-Royce SMR is visiting locations across the UK that could host its first factory to manufact...
NZTC reveals winners of its 2022 Open Innovation Programme
NET ZERO Technology Centre (NZTC), a UK-based innovation firm, has revealed the 20 game-changing ...
ExxonMobil exits Russia after ‘expropriation’ of Sakhalin-1
EXXONMOBIL has safely exited Russia following the Government’s “expropriation” of Sakhalin-1, a m...
Final report into 2019 PES fire released
THE FINAL report into a massive fire and subsequent explosions that took place in June 2019 at th...
Shell awards EPC contract for Malaysian gas project
SHELL’s Malaysian business has awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contr...
UK funding body announces sustainable smart factory competition winners
NATIONAL funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced the winners of £13.7m (US...
Exxon and CF Industries partner on large-scale CCS project
EXXONMOBIL and CF Industries have teamed up to capture and permanently store up to 2m t/y of CO2 ...
Worley to help build UK’s first lithium refinery in Teesside
WORLEY has won a contract to help engineer the UK’s first lithium refinery as developers seek to ...
Nuclear and oil decommissioning sectors join forces
THE UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) ar...
UK picks Midlands to host prototype fusion reactor
THE site of a coal-fired power plant in Nottinghamshire is set to host the UK’s prototype nuclear...
Korean partners plan major export of ammonia from Australia
THREE of South Korea’s industrial conglomerates have joined forces to develop a supply chain to e...
Jacobs to support UK nuclear facility refurbishment
JACOBS has been awarded an estimated £10m (US$11.4) contract to act as a full lifecycle delivery ...
Partners successfully test UK’s first 3D-printed concrete water chamber
UNITED Utilities and its partner, 3D mortar printing company ChangeMaker3D (CM3D), have successfu...
UK Labour party to set up publicly-owned green energy company if elected
THE Labour party have in their annual meeting outlined plans for an industrial strategy, which in...
Report: Take whole systems approach to hydrogen economy
ENGINEERS have advised the UK Government that it must push for a rapid scaleup of low-carbon hydr...
Shell’s Prelude FLNG resumes operations following strikes
SHELL has resumed shipping LNG cargos from its massive Prelude floating LNG project following a s...
Explosion at BP refinery in the US kills two
TWO workers have died after sustaining injuries in a fire at a BP-operated refinery in Toledo, Oh...
Shell and Petronas agree to invest in Sarawak sour gas development
SHELL and Petronas have taken a final investment decision to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas pro...
Composites centre wants UK to lead on recycled carbon fibres
THE UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC) has set its sights on scaling up new industrial process...
Partners push digitalisation for processes
IMPERIAL College London and China’s Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) are ...
Prelude to restart following worker strike action
AFTER 76 days of strike action, oil major Shell and workers’ unions have come to an agreement tha...
Waste processing and disposal resumes at Chernobyl
AFTER the departure of Russian troops from the site, radioactive waste processing and disposal ac...
Short on sulfur: Is a potential resource crisis about to threaten food security and stifle green technology?
A NEW study by researchers at UCL suggests that supplies of sulfuric acid, a vital ingredient use...
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...
Worley appointed project manager for Stanlow hydrogen project
WORLEY has been awarded the project management services contract for Vertex Hydrogen’s low-carbon...
CATL to build second European battery plant in Hungary
CHINESE battery firm CATL plans to build a new 100 GWh battery plant covering an area of 221 ha i...
Round and round: Newcastle University and Wastefront team up to improve tyre recycling
NEWCASTLE University and rubber recycling firm Wastefront, will use a new UK tyre recycling plant...
Australian collaboration targets decarbonisation through digitalisation
ROCKWELL Automation and the University of Melbourne will work together to help manufacturing and ...
UK shortlists 20 projects for CCUS clusters
THE UK Government has shortlisted 20 projects for the next phase of its carbon capture, use, and ...
UK set to host rare earths processing hub in push for cleantech security
THE UK is set to host a new US$195m rare earth processing hub that Pensana is building at the Sal...
Dow goes nuclear: chemical firm will install reactors at US chemicals complex
DOW will install advanced nuclear reactors at one of its Gulf Coast sites to provide low carbon p...
Charles Darwin University will install hydrogen system to collaborate with industry
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
Wood wins contract to engineer Ineos’ huge European chemicals project
WOOD has won a contract worth more than US$100m to help engineer a chemicals facility in Belgium ...
UK gas storage capacity set to double amid concerns that supply shortages could force industry closures
CENTRICA has been given the green light to seek approval to resume gas storage operations at its ...
Engineers push to make zero emissions steel and cement from a single process
WHAT if it were possible to make cement as a byproduct of recycling steel – and power its product...
£3.8bn UK gigafactory receives funding
THE UK Government has committed funding towards a huge £3.8bn (US$4.5bn) battery manufacturing pl...
CPH2 licenses membrane-free electrolyser for use alongside solar power plants
CLEAN Power Hydrogen (CPH2) has signed a license agreement with solar power venture GHFG to build...
Ineos signs major petchem deals with Sinopec
GLOBAL chemicals firm Ineos has signed three back-to-back deals with Chinese chemical giant Sinop...
Hinkley Point B nuclear power station closes
FRENCH-owned EDF Energy has formally switched off Hinkley Point B’s second reactor, a nuclear pow...
UK joins forces with MIT spin-out to accelerate nuclear fusion
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has joined forces with Common Fusion Systems (CFS) of the US to sp...
KBR to design Carbon Clean CCS plant for Cemex
KBR has been awarded the FEED contract for a CCS project that Cemex plans to install at a cement ...
Johnson Matthey will invest £80m in hydrogen fuel cell factory
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) will invest £80m (US$96m) in expanding its site in Royston, UK to manufactur...
BASF approves investment in €10bn world-scale Chinese chemicals complex
BASF has approved the construction of the core of its €10bn (US$10bn) integrated chemicals site i...
Shell joins Qatar for major LNG expansion
SHELL has become the fifth energy firm to take a stake in Qatar’s project to expand its LNG outpu...
Shell to start building Netherlands’ new green hydrogen plant
SHELL has announced it has taken the final investment decision to build a new green hydrogen fac...
Imperial College and BASF strengthen partnership that seeks innovative chemicals development
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
UK sets up centre to advise on critical minerals, amid warnings of supply risks
THE UK has established a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre in Nottingham to help the country ...
Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster
FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to p...
BP accused of dumping waste in protected marine environment
BP HAS been accused of dumping industrial waste in a marine-protected area off west Shetland, rep...
New data hub invites companies to map global supply chains
A NEW open data platform has been launched for companies to map their global supply chains to imp...
Carlsberg fined £3m for fatal ammonia leak
CARLSBERG has been fined £3m (US$3.6m) after one contractor died and another was seriously injure...
Plant-based alternative to plastic microbeads set for scaleup
ENGINEERS have received funding to scale up a technology that produces sustainable alternatives t...
UK HFCA calls for action on nuclear-enabled hydrogen
Following a push by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to accelerate cleaner hydrogen ...
UK not on track for net zero, says the Climate Change Committee
THE UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that the country is not on track to achieve its “amb...
Largest industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant opens in UK
An industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant has been opened by Tata Chemicals Europe in No...
BP acquires stake in major green hydrogen and renewables hub
ENERGY major BP has agreed to acquire a 40.5% stake in and operate the Asian Renewable Energy Hub...
TotalEnergies and AEL invest in green hydrogen
TotalEnergies has signed a deal to acquire a 25% stake in Adani New Industries Limited (ANIL), to...
DAC partners announce global deployment approach
CCUS platform 1PointFive and technology company Carbon Engineering have announced a deployment ap...
Freeport LNG to remain offline until September
Freeport LNG, which shut down after a fire earlier this month, has announced that its Texas, US p...
Six people missing following blast at Chinese pesticide site
At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical fa...
Shell invests to accelerate UK energy transition
BY 2030, Shell aims to increase its supply of UK oil and gas demand to 15% while reducing emissio...
MPI receives funding for green steel hydrogen pilot project
The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) has announced it is leading a national project to demons...
Australia pays €555m over scrapped nuclear-sub programme
THE Australian Government has announced a €555m (US$579.9m) settlement with France’s majority sta...
Shutdown of US LNG exporter after fire raises supply concerns
ONE of the US’s largest LNG export facilities has shutdown after a fire, raising supply concerns ...
UK fertiliser producer proposes plant closure
CF FERTILISERS UK is proposing permanent closure of its Ince manufacturing facility, near Chester...
UK scrutinises Chinese acquisition of 'prized' semiconductor producer
THE UK Government is conducting a full national security assessment of a Chinese-owned subsidiary...
Jacobs builds robot to sample Fukushima radioactive debris
ENGINEERING group Jacobs has designed and built a remotely-operated robot to collect debris at th...
UK invests £31m to reduce reliance on fossil fuels
The UK Government has announced it is investing more than £31 m (US$38.9m) to help industry cut c...
Cemex opens new non-fossil fuelled facility in UK
CEMEX has officially opened its new Climafuel facility at its Rugby, UK cement plant. The plant, ...
Woodside completes merger with BHP Petroleum
WOODSIDE Energy has completed its merger with BHP’s oil and gas portfolio, creating a global ener...
Drax to trial innovative carbon capture technology
RENEWABLE energy firm Drax is working with the University of Nottingham, UK and Promethean Partic...
JV greenlights delayed gas project
SHELL and its joint-venture (JV) partner SGH Energy have taken a final investment decision (FID) ...
BP partners with Abu Dhabi energy firms to develop Teesside hydrogen plants
BP has joined forces with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the country’s renewable ...
Australian Government backs national hydrogen hubs
THE Australian Government has announced funding to support the rollout of eight hydrogen hubs as ...
Johnson Matthey shakes up business in wake of battery exit
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) has sold its battery materials business and will focus more on hydrogen tech...
GSK to buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) has announced it will buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, in a deal wo...
US CCS project to capture up to 15m t/y of CO2
BP and Linde plan to advance a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will ...
UK data hub to boost manufacturing
ULSTER University, UK is leading a new £50m (US$62.9m) data innovation hub and testbed expected t...
Teesside picked for first green fuels plant
TEESSIDE is set to host the first plant in the UK to produce a drop-in fuel called rDME that is p...
US will invest US$3.5bn in building hubs to suck CO2 from the air
THE US is investing US$3.5bn to create four large-scale direct air capture (DAC) hubs to remove C...
€100m needed for Chernobyl invasion repairs
€100m (US$107m) is needed for repairs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the Russian ...
Hinkley Point C costs rise again to £26bn
THE COST the UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has risen again, this time by £3bn (US$3....
Process developers awarded £44m to advance UK hydrogen economy
MEMBRANE reactors, chemical looping processes and thermochemical splitting of water by advanced n...
Australia trade group says security fears should prompt fresh oil development
AUSTRALIA’S oil and gas trade group has said the country should develop new fields to boost energ...
Australian universities join forces to commercialise clean tech
AUSTRALIA’S University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW) and University of Newcastle have received...
WBCSD and Engie join forces to develop industrial decarbonisation principles
THE World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and sustainability consultancy Eng...
UKAEA shows X-rays could support safe, reliable fusion power
SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully shown that X-ray scanning ...
Shell sells Russian retail and lubricants businesses
SHELL has signed an agreement to sell its Russian retail and lubricants businesses to Lukoil, one...
Final licensor selected for Australia’s only fully integrated urea production facility
NEURIZER has selected Stamicarbon to deliver the process design package for front-end engineering...
UK launches £120m nuclear fund
THE UK Government has launched a £120m (US$149.8m) fund to unlock and accelerate new nuclear tech...
Experts join forces to push hydrogen production from nuclear energy
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is developing a roadmap for the commercial producti...
UK sets out measures to boost hydrogen and CCS
THE UK Government has put energy at the centre of its legislative agenda as it announced a series...
BP agrees to buy naphtha from Teesside circular plastics plant
BP has signed an agreement to purchase naphtha produced from a plant being built in Teesside, UK ...
Aussie reactor trial seeks to coax coal miners to capture methane
A NOVEL reactor that neutralises methane emissions produced in coal mines will be trialled by Sou...
Ineos awards Técnicas Reunidas contract for massive European chemicals investment
INEOS has awarded Técnicas Reunidas a contract to engineer a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgiu...
Scottish trial tests hydrogen in gas pipelines
A TRIAL is underway at Ineos’s Grangemouth site to help determine how existing natural gas networ...
Mixed reaction as Government moves to shield heavy industry from spiralling energy costs
THE UK Government is extending a compensation scheme to help shield heavy industry from rising en...
BASF announces deadline for Russia exit
BASF has announced that it will wind down its remaining activities in Russia and Belarus by the b...
FLSmidth leads work to electrify calcination in bid to cut cement emissions
ENGINEERS are building a pilot plant to electrify production of a clinker replacement that would ...
BP to invest £18bn to support UK energy security
OIL major BP has plans to invest £18bn (US$22.5bn) in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030, ...
New £15m research facility to boost UK nuclear
CONSTRUCTION of a new £15m (US$18.9m) nuclear research facility is underway at Infinity Park Derb...
UK urged to takes systems approach to help decarbonise dispersed manufacturers
WITH dispersed industrial sites producing around half of UK industry emissions, an energy systems...
Cemex invests in lower carbon cement technology
CEMEX has invested in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, which has developed technology that uses cli...
IAEA steps in to make Chernobyl safe
NUCLEAR experts have arrived at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to help make it safe afte...
Ithaca Energy acquisition reawakens Cambo project plans
OIL and gas company Ithaca Energy is acquiring Siccar Point Energy in a deal worth up to US$1.46b...
Carbon Collect unveils first mechanical tree
CARBON Collect has unveiled its first “mechanical tree” for direct air capture at Arizona State U...
‘Concrete Chemicals’ consortium to produce sustainable aviation fuel
CEMEX, Sasol, and ENERTRAG have set up the Concrete Chemicals consortium to produce sustainable a...
Wood gets contract for green ammonia facility
WOOD has announced that it will provide conceptual engineering for a large-scale green hydrogen p...
RWE to invest €1.5bn in Irish renewables
RWE Ireland has announced plans to invest up to €1.5bn (US$1.6bn) in onshore wind, offshore wind,...
Shell and Uniper plan blue hydrogen facility in UK
SHELL and Uniper have signed an agreement for a blue hydrogen production facility in in North Lin...
Collaboration to advance ship-based carbon capture
AN international collaboration has been granted €3.4m (US$3.7m) in EU funding to accelerate the u...
Industrial-scale green hydrogen and ammonia facility planned in Queensland
ORICA and H2U have announced a strategic partnership to explore opportunities for an industrial-s...
ExxonMobil assesses carbon storage project off Australian coast
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it is assessing the possibility of a carbon capture and storage (CC...
UK first: Cornish Lithium trials direct extraction of key battery metal from geothermal waters
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
UK’s state-backed vaccine manufacturing centre sold
THE UK’s emergency vaccine manufacturing innovation centre (VMIC) has been sold to US manufacture...
Compressed air users urged to stop wasting energy
THE British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has launched a campaign to help companies cut their com...
BASF outlines plans to continue net zero progress
ONE year after announcing its 2050 net zero target, BASF has outlined plans to continue its progr...
Neste studies plastic waste processing facility
AS IT works to commercialise chemical recycling of plastic waste, Neste is conducting a feasibili...
UK Energy Security Strategy deemed ‘a missed opportunity’
THE UK Government has released its much-delayed Energy Security Strategy, which improves long-ter...
BP supports green skills hub to train Teessiders
BP is developing educational programmes with Redcar & Cleveland College that will train people fo...
Croda to expand UK lipids output for vaccine production
CRODA has been awarded £15.9m (US$20.8m) by the UK Government to increase the output of its plant...
Russia blames Ukraine for oil depot blaze
AN oil storage depot has been set on fire in a Russian city north of the Ukrainian border. The lo...
Attacks on Saudi facilities threaten energy security
AIRBORNE attacks on Saudi Aramco energy infrastructure demonstrate a threat to Saudi Arabia’s pro...
Huge floating LNG plant cleared to restart production
SHELL has been cleared to restart production at is major floating LNG facility Prelude.
‘Clear progress’ made since the North Sea Transition Deal
A YEAR after agreeing to the North Sea Transition Deal with the oil and gas sector, UK Government...
Partners enter carbon capture and utilisation collaboration
WOODSIDE, LanzaTech, and ReCarbon have announced that they are collaborating on a carbon capture ...
Solvay plans to split into two independent companies
SOLVAY has announced that it is reviewing plans to split into two independently-traded companies,...
Saudi Aramco to increase oil and gas production
AS part of its growth strategy, Saudi Aramco has announced that it will increase oil and gas prod...
Green investor partners with spinout for novel fluid flow characterisation technology
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered...