Practical Process Control Part 13: Signal Conditioning
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Features
Snapshot: Eco-Friendly Fashion
US biotechnology company MycoWorks makes fashion eco-friendly with its patented Fine Mycelium tec...
Bringing Biomass to the Masses
A flagbearer for biotech companies looking to replace petroleum-based chemicals with plant-based ...
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...
IChemE takes centre stage at the Process and Chemical Engineering Show this May
The ChemUK 2024 Expo will return on 15 and 16 May at the NEC in Birmingham. Running as part of th...
The Problem of Waste Plastic and Why Pyrolysis Oil Might Just Contain the Answer
For Earth Day, Aniqah Majid speaks to chemical engineer George Huber who is looking to simplify t...
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 ...
Book Review: Process Plant Design
Robin Smith; ISBN: 9781119689980; Wiley; 2023; US$72.00 (eBook); US$89.95 (print)
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...
Practical Process Control Part 11: Controlling Steam Drum Level
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
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...
Book Review: Chemical Engineering Process Simulation, 2nd Edition
Dominic Foo; ISBN: 9780323901680; Elsevier; €122.08; 2022
Tackling the Project Management Crisis
Loss of manufacturing has led to a lack of practical hands-on experience for young engineers. Joh...
Volunteer Spotlight: Cameron Langford AMIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Helping to Make Fusion Energy Sustainable
In the final part of our series on fusion energy, Mirjana Damjanovic and Lewis Simmons highlight ...
Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
Modelling with Excel Part 10: Test and Validate
Stephen Hall wraps up his series on how to use Excel for project engineering. Download the intera...
Practical Process Control Part 9: Resolving Potential Level Control Problems
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Precise Liquid Flow Measurement to Optimise Your Batching System
Neil Hannay outlines the key considerations when specifying a suitable flow meter for the design ...
Modelling with Excel Part 9: Digitising a Chart
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Rules of Thumb: Scale-up
In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale...
Life as an Early Career Engineer
The National Early Careers Committee (UK & Ireland and Malaysia) sheds some light on the challeng...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 6: Safety Implications from New Technologies
Roger Stokes and Michael Moosemiller outline the safety issues associated with conventional disti...
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...
The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Solving Them
Elaine Loving and Tom Stroud outline the scientific and technical challenges that must be met for...
The Future of Chemical Engineering in the Era of Generative AI
Jin Xuan and Thorin Daniel imagine a future when HAZOP sessions take hours not months, P&IDs are ...
AI’s Journey to Becoming the Best Process Safety Engineer in the Room
David Jamieson believes AI can revolutionise process safety, but says there is still some way to ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Digital-Twin Approach to Distillation Control Education
Isuru Udugama, Michael Taube, and Brent Young discuss the educational benefits of real-time indus...
Modelling with Excel Part 7: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 1
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
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
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...
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...
Modelling with Excel Part 6: Monte Carlo Simulations
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 2: Improvements Through the Use of Dividing Wall Columns
Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary dis...
The Rise of AI
Adam Duckett on the rise of artificial intelligence
CO2 Capture: Putting the Sea into CCS
Amanda Jasi and Kerry Hebden talk to companies developing technologies to capture CO2 from the ocean
The Role of Biofuels in Energy Transitions
Tod McGreevy and Ramin Lakani discuss the shifting dynamics of oil, gas and biofuels used for tr...
Modelling with Excel Part 5: Visualising Batch Processes with Gantt Charts
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
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...
Modelling with Excel Part 4: Batch Heating and Cooling
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Data Science and Digitalisation for Chemical Engineers
Matthew Proctor and Leo Chiang discuss how the proliferation of data and ways to use it is impact...
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...
Next-generation Predictive Tools for Multiphase Systems
Omar Matar explains how researchers are combining machine learning and physics-driven approaches ...
Modelling with Excel Part 3: Physical Properties
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
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
Growing Old, Fast
Kerry Hebden speaks to innovators who have developed processes to artificially age whisky
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...
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...
Air Storage: Weatherproofing Renewables- Reliant Grids
Amanda Jasi looks at projects that are compressing air to store energy
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 ...
Practical Process Control Part 2: Determining Process Dynamics
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Practical Process Control Part 1: Introduction
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
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...
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 ...
A Wasted Life
Martin Pitt reflects on the history of the waste industry, including his own experiences
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
Challenger: Home for Christmas
Mark Yates examines the engineering behind Apollo, and highlights the continuing importance of sc...
The Breakfast Club
Early innovations from the food and drinks industry have done much to influence other industries ...
The Davidson Symposium 2022
Celebrating a pioneer and looking to the future
Materials: Making a Positive Difference
Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of...
Materials: Decarbonising Cement
Kerry Hebden talks to the researchers and companies aiming for greener concrete processes
Materials: Switch on/Switch off
Pablo Brito-Parada and colleagues discuss how SOSO technology could provide the paradigm shift ne...
Back to the Future!
Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before
Materials: Upcycling – Making Plastic Waste Valuable
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers working to realise novel chemical upcycling methods
Question Time: Health
Experts discuss the role of chemical engineers in the future health system
Health: What’s the Formula for Sustainability in Pharma?
Zeb Ahmed discusses the growing demand for sustainable built assets
Book Review: Synthesis and Operability Strategies for Computer-Aided Modular Process Intensification
Efstratios Pistikopoulos and Yuhe Tian; ISBN: 9780323855877; Elsevier; 2022; US$190
Health: Taking nanopharmaceuticals from the lab to clinics
Amanda Jasi spoke to Camden Cutright and Nazende Günday-Türeli on the challenges involved in deve...
The £300 Industrial Secret that Changed the World
Martin Pitt looks at how acquiring gunpowder know-how shaped the world as we know it
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...
100 Years? Piece of Cake
Séamus Higgins and Ellie Cooke look at a century’s evolution of food and processes, in the form o...
Bidding Farewell to the Forever Chemicals
Paul Stevenson discusses options for remediation of PFAS contamination
Viral Safety Challenges in Bioprocessing
David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing
Question Time: Safety
Experts gathered to discuss new safety challenges for a sustainable era. Kerry Hebden reports
Continuous Improvement for the Process Industry
Ian Madden explains how to tell if continuous improvement is happening in your organisation
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: 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
Energy: How to Store It
Adam Duckett looks at promising energy storage options that could help balance the rise of renewa...
Centenary Themes: Energy
At-a-glance information on what's in the fourth of our centenary theme specials
The Future of Biopharma
David Gemmell discusses the evolution of continuous and intensified bioprocessing
Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing: An Evolving Industry
David Gemmell discusses how chemical engineers play their part in modern-day biopharma
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...
Chemical & Process Engineering Expo, CHEMUK 2022, returns this May
The CHEMUK 2022 EXPO returns on 11 and 12 May 2022 at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.
Bioplastics Promise
Nyssa Nair, Steven Pratt, Paul Lant and Bronwyn Laycock explain the use of bacteria to produce bi...
Rules of Thumb: Vapour Pressure and Viscosity Equations
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Book Review: Osmosis Engineering
Editors: Nidal Hilal, Ahmad Ismail, Mohamed Khayet Souhaimi, Daniel Johnson; ISBN: 9780128210161...
An Introduction to the Biopharmaceutical Industry
David Gemmell looks at key unit operations, and why chemical engineers are heavily involved in th...
Digitalisation for Pharma
Tony Margetts explains the industry’s challenges around connecting and collecting
Put on Your 3D Glasses
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over...
Brine to batteries: lithium extraction technology that’s sustainable and efficient
Amanda Doyle speaks to Teague Egan and Amit Patwardhan of clean technology company EnergyX about ...
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
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...
Experts concerned about hydrogen plans form independent advisory group
A COALITION of volunteer engineers, concerned about the misapplication of hydrogen, have formed a...
Pure Processing for Battery Tech
William Hawker discusses his role in commercialising low cost, low emissions processes for produc...
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
100 Centuries of Chemical Engineering
In a prelude to IChemE’s centenary celebrations, IChemE Fellow Martin Pitt charts the influence o...
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
Book Review: Process Safety Calculations Second Edition
Renato Benintendi; ISBN: 9780128235164; Elsevier; 2021; €190.75
Separation Anxiety
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicompon...
Measuring Up
Thomas Machin talks about his pride in developing and delivering novel process measurement techno...
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
Small but Mighty
Noor Al-Rifai and Rene Holm look at the use of nanosuspensions as long-acting injectables
A Life in Lithium
The future of energy needs chemical engineers, and lots of them, say Jacob Brown, Titi Oliyide, L...
Attractive Solutions
Alessandro Viola explains how magnets can filter out metal particle contamination in pharmaceutic...
A Change of Clothes
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Trapping a Slippery Foe
Alfonso Rodriguez and Charlie Espinosa explain innovations to map and remove mercury contaminatio...
Making (Anti)sense of Oligonucleotide Manufacturing
Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines
The Engineer’s Gambit
We need to think more like chess players, says Tommy Isaac
The Middlewich Job (the Pump Preservation Society)
In the fourth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to so...
Catapulting the Hydrogen Economy: Catalytic Membrane Reactors
Humbul Suleman and colleagues explain how refinements to a decades-old technology can provide cle...
Patents for Processes
Patents are not just for new processes. Changes to existing ones can also qualify for protection,...
A Lego Technic Cupcake Production Line
In the third of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute...
Process Patents: Are They Worth It?
What protection does a process patent provide? And how easy are they to enforce?
Set in Stone
Amanda Doyle speaks to Rahul Shendure about innovations for lower-emissions cement and storing CO...
Producing Hydrogen While Storing CO2 in the Oceans
Mike Kelland and Greg Rau talk to Amanda Doyle about their clean-tech goals
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...
Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
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 ...
Fly Me O2 The Moon
Mark Symes and Beth Lomax explain the thinking behind how to make oxygen on the Moon
Living Off the Land on Mars
Shrihari Sankarasubramanian, Pralay Gayen and Vijay K Ramani discuss work on methods to make fuel...
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)
Solids Flow: Prevent the Problem
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
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...
CO2 as a commodity, not waste: turning emissions into cost-competitive chemicals
Etosha Cave, Co-founder of clean technology company Opus 12, speaks about the company's process f...
Engineering Pharma
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutica...
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)
Webinar: Improving Vacuum Distillation Profitability
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to...
Carbon Capture: But Not as We Know It
Rotating packed beds can play a part in making carbon capture smaller and cheaper
Ensuring the Safety of Food
Tony Hasting looks at the options for quality assurance
Harnessing sunlight to convert CO2 to fuels
Amanda Doyle speaks to Solistra Co-founder Alexandra Tavasoli about the company's process that us...
Moving the Dial to Decarbonise
David Wong and colleagues discuss how the world’s aluminium smelters could enable the rapid uptak...
Quickly, More Vaccines
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capab...
A Clean Bill of Health
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
Success for Recipes
Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety
Energy Saviours: Part 5
Tom Baxter looks at the parasitic load challenge of CCS
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...
Malaysia Versus Waste
Malaysia has much to do, say Kok Siew Ng and Eleni Iacovidou
Deadly Oxygen?
Jimmy Hunter looks at the dark side of oxygen and how it can be a powerful workhorse in the chemi...
H2 and NH3 – the Perfect Marriage in a Carbon-free Society
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
PPE Challenge Accepted
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
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?
Palm Oil: Better with Enzymes
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
Book Review: Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering: Volume 2A: Particulate Systems and Particle Technology, 6th Ed
Raj P Chhabra and Basavaraj Gurappa; ISBN: 9780081010983 (Paperback); 9780081012208; (eBook; Butt...
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...
Managing vaccine manufacture scaleup
Withthe UK Government having announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare th...
The Heat is On
Keith Plumb explains the importance of design of pressure relief systems for stirred tank vessels
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...
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 ...
Making the Change
Barry Perlmutter advises on transitioning from batch to continuous
Pure and Simple
Miguel Johansson Finguerut describes his work on community water projects in central Mexico
Transforming Innovation for Startups
JMP discusses how Design of Experiments (DOE) can help startups bring new and better products to ...
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 ...
Packing a Punch
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Triumph Out of Adversity
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonst...
Just Add Water
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Curbing Carbon Emissions with Green Methanol
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into meth...
Hot Water
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
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...
12 Steps to a Green Chemicals Score
Merck's free-to-all method for product sustainability scoring
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...
Hydrogen: The Burning Question
Mike Menzies asks what effect does injected hydrogen have on furnace, flame and exhaust in natura...
Energy Saviours: Part 3
Tom Baxter shares more options for chemical engineers to boost energy efficiencies
Separations under Control
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
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 ...
Go Digital for Efficient Shift Handovers
How digital systems can make shift handover processes more efficient, and safer
Stripping Ammonia in Anaerobic Digesters
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
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
Snapshot: Royal Mail stamp of approval for engineering excellence
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Answering the Call of Nature
Dyllon Randall explains how bio-bricks can be grown from human urine
The Problem Solver
Solving a serious environmental problem on a maleic anhydride plant
Testing the Metal
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
Clean Hydrogen: Part 2
Other methods of producing hydrogen, not from natural gas
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 ...
Monodispersion at Scale
Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane tec...
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...
Better Together
Help shape open standards for simulation models to work seamlessly with each other
Producing Graphene at Scale
The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale
Process Hengineering, You Say?
How a team of process engineers turned waste calcium hydroxide into valuable animal feed
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...
Honey, I Shrunk the Antimicrobial Resistance
An engineer’s role in rejuvenating a naturally-inspired antimicrobial
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...
Chemical Engineering in the Kitchen
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
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
Ditch the Dirt
Hydroponic technology could help us sustainably meet growing food demand
Across the Scale
Adam Duckett introduces the promise of 3D printed reactors
Applying chemical engineering in the construction industry
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process ...
Acid in the Sea – or How I Missed My First Million
More tales of chemical engineering, from Jimmy Hunter
Process pioneer: Rodney Allam discusses the development of his CCS technology
As testing begins in Texas, Allam shares his thoughts on building emissions-free natural gas plan...
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...
Brownfield and Beyond
Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur
Law of the Jungle
A tale of survival in the South African aluminium sulfate market.
The Internet of Brewing
Developing a low-cost smartphone app to help craft beer breweries and homebrewers monitor and con...
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...
Making a Dent in the Water Crisis
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
Old-school Chemical Engineering
A look at chemical engineering in the 1950s, when chemical engineering was done at a more basic l...
Shale Gas: Friend or Foe?
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
Spiralling into Affordable Healthcare
New reactor promises continuous processing of biotherapeutics
A Battery Olympics
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
Air Separation: Cryogenic or Not?
Separating air into oxygen and nitrogen using non-cryogenic and cryogenic processes
Screening Heat Exchangers for High Pressure Differential Relief
An insight into the Energy Institute’s guidance on pressure relief in shell and tube heat exchang...
Rubbish Roads
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
Securing a Safe Future for Gas
Hydrogen: a way to provide safe, sustainable and clean energy to satisfy rising demand and meet ...
Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Biorefining and Integrated Bioresource Engineering
FBP journal – a new avenue for the research
Buses Full of Beans
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Little by Little
Creating scalable nanomaterials for industry
Solar-Powered Water Purification Wins Top Prize
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Increasing Ethylene Conversion and Plant Reliability
Effective use of control valves at critical points can increase conversion and reliability in ole...
Something in the water
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
Into the Future
Water and wastewater processes: the last (and next) 30 years
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...
Ambition Made Real
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
CCS: Carbon Capture and Strategy
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
How to Protect Equipment from Impurities in Ultra-high Purity Gas
Accuracy and quality control is of the utmost importance to laboratory analysts and process engin...
Turning Ocean Trash into Cash
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
Adding Value to Gold
Scotland’s first ever commercial goldmine proves that precious metals can be worth more than thei...
How to Sample Heat Transfer Fluids
A practical guide to taking a representative sample, and doing so safely.
Usher in a New Age
Adam Duckett on ushering in a new era
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch – Feed the World
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than t...
News
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...
Mura and Ghent Uni join forces to extend recycling process to other problem plastics
MURA TECHNOLOGY, the firm behind a plastics recycling demonstration plant that’s under constructi...
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...
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...
US-designed natural gas reactor heats up alternative propylene production
US RESEARCHERS have designed a reactor that produces propylene from natural gas, potentially prov...
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...
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...
Ineos proposes closure of Grangemouth ethanol plant
INEOS is looking to close its ethanol plant at the Grangemouth petrochemicals complex in the UK a...
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...
Greenlight for construction of world’s first fusion power plant
FUSION energy startup Longview Fusion Energy Systems has officially contracted EPC firm Fluor to ...
Type One Energy to build stellarator prototype with plans to commercialise fusion energy
A STELLARATOR fusion pilot plant has been earmarked for construction at a former coal-fired power...
Water scarcity competition offers US$119m incentive to rethink desalination
XPRIZE has launched a five-year competition aimed at improving large-scale clean water access.
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Winston Mellowes, 1941-2023
Obituary of Winston Mellowes, an expert in the technology of sugar cane processing, Professor Eme...
Heriot-Watt researchers make hydrogen from whisky wastewater
WASTEWATER from whisky distilleries could be used to produce hydrogen, saving precious freshwater...
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...
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...
IChemE Fellow Andrew Livingston awarded Honorary Professor title
ICHEME Fellow Andrew Livingston has been awarded an Honorary Professor title for his contribution...
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...
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 ...
Consortium successfully operates gas turbine with 100% renewable hydrogen
A CONSORTIUM led by Siemens Energy has successfully operated a gas turbine with 100% renewable en...
BASF commercially produces metal-organic frameworks for CO2 capture in world first
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hun...
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 ...
FluRefin technology wins impact award
A CARBON capture technology developed at the University of Sheffield by IChemE member Peter Styri...
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...
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...
Imperial to lead £118m green minerals research centre
A NEW £118m (US$150m) research centre at Imperial College London will work to transform mineral e...
MOF capture firm secures £3.4m funding for UK CCS pilot
NUADA, which is developing a MOF-based carbon capture process, has received £3.4m (US$4.3m) inves...
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 ...
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...
Alvin Nienow, 1937-2022
ALVIN NIENOW, a pioneer of biochemical engineering, has died aged 85.
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...
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...
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 ...
Sizewell C looks at capturing CO2 from the atmosphere using nuclear heat
SIZEWELL C, in the UK, is developing plans to demonstrate how heat from a nuclear plant could be ...
Sabic to assess Coolbrook’s greener cracking technology
SABIC has agreed to assess Coolbrook’s turbomachine technology which is being piloted as a greene...
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
Chemical engineers work to create hydrogen from steel sludge
CHEMICAL engineers from Imperial College London have joined forces with the UK’s Materials Proces...
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...
Chemical engineers explore upcycling microfibres released from washing clothes
UNIVERSITY of Surrey and UK-based washing technology group, Xeros Technology, have teamed up to a...
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...
Partnership will use nanobubbles to increase copper recovery
BASF has partnered with Moleaer, a nanobubble technology company, to combine novel technologies i...
Carbon-neutral Steelanol plant to start production within weeks
ARCELORMITTAL, BHP, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) have signed a funding ag...
TerraPower and SCS install test facility to advance molten chloride fast reactor
NUCLEAR reactor developer TerraPower, and US utility Southern Company have completed the installa...
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...
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 ...
Partners scale up technology for achieving hydrogen production and capture carbon in one step
COORSTEK Membrane Sciences is working with independent European research organisation SINTEF to s...
Electrification of steam cracking: BASF demo set to operate in 2023
BASF, SABIC and Linde have begun electrifying a steam cracker at the huge Ludwigshafen chemicals ...
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...
Green light given to Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project
OIL and gas producer Santos has said it is proceeding with the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Projec...
Partners push digitalisation for processes
IMPERIAL College London and China’s Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) are ...
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...
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...
Back in style: using enzymes to recycle PET from big brand clothing
FRENCH biotech firm Carbios has signed an agreement with On, Patagonia, Puma, and Salomon, to spe...
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...
Researchers produce jet fuel from sunlight, CO2 and water
RESEARCHERS at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, have successfully created a...
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...
Colin Ramshaw, 1936–2022
Considered by many to be the “Father of Process Intensification”, Colin Ramshaw leaves behind a l...
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...
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...
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...
Engineers will suck CO2 from the ocean
CHEMICAL engineers at Brunel University London are developing a pilot plant to strip CO2 from sea...
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 ...
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 ...
Curtin University to lead roadmap to decarbonise WA
CURTIN University’s School of Mines is leading the way in a campaign to decarbonise Western Austr...
Magnox reprocessing: The end of an era
As almost 60 years of reprocessing operations come to an end at Magnox, what’s next?
Ingenza awarded funding to develop carbon capture technology
BIOTECHNOLOGY company Ingenza is partnering with Johnson Matthey to produce formic acid from capt...
New technology extracts more lithium from mining waste
Scientists at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) together with Li...
Plant-based alternative to plastic microbeads set for scaleup
ENGINEERS have received funding to scale up a technology that produces sustainable alternatives t...
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...
Dow and Shell's ‘e-cracker’ technology now operational
A JOINT experiment by materials science company Dow and Shell to electrically heat steam cracker ...
C-Capture to demonstrate new carbon capture solvents
CARBON dioxide removal firm C-Capture has announced the launch of a national project that capture...
LanzaTech transforms captured carbon into plastic
Carbon recycling specialist LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, says it has found a way to pro...
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...
Process developers awarded £44m to advance UK hydrogen economy
MEMBRANE reactors, chemical looping processes and thermochemical splitting of water by advanced n...
Experts join forces to push hydrogen production from nuclear energy
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is developing a roadmap for the commercial producti...
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...
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 ...
‘Concrete Chemicals’ consortium to produce sustainable aviation fuel
CEMEX, Sasol, and ENERTRAG have set up the Concrete Chemicals consortium to produce sustainable a...
Veolia to produce biomethanol using pulp mill feedstock
VEOLIA has announced plans for a biorefinery in Finland that will produce biomethanol using feeds...
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 ...
Now or never: emissions need to peak by 2025 says IPCC
IN its latest report, the IPCC has warned that emissions must peak by 2025 and halve by 2030 if t...
Royal Mint plant will recover gold from electronics waste
THE UK’s Royal Mint is building a chemical plant that uses a room temperature process to recover ...
Fluor will engineer Itero’s chemicals recycling process
FLUOR has won the contract to engineer a chemical recycling demonstration plant for Itero in the ...
175 countries commit to create historic global plastics treaty
ONE HUNDRED and seventy-five nations have agreed to create a global treaty to end plastics pollut...
Shell provides CO2 capture technology to Humber Zero
TECHNOLOGY licensor Shell Catalysts and Technologies has announced it will provide the Humber Zer...
Turbocharging towards CO2-free cracking
ENGINEERS at Coolbrook and ABB have set their sights on replacing steam cracking technology with ...
New energy record is ‘resounding confirmation in global fusion quest’
FUSION researchers have achieved a record-breaking sustained burst of energy that they say is the...
Project for biomanufacturing with carbon capture gets £1.3m in funding
A PROJECT that aims to be the UK’s first-of-a-kind zero carbon loss biomanufacturing system has b...
Johnson Matthey partnership to close EV battery recycling loop
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) and material recycler European Metal Recycling (EMR) have signed a memorandu...
LG Chem to build plastic recycling facility in South Korea
LG CHEM has invested in Mura Technology’s plastic recycling process, and has also announced that ...
Johnson Matthey targets greener aviation demand with new reverse water gas shift technology
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) has launched a new reverse water gas shift technology called HyCOgen to prod...
Steel industry gathers to discuss sustainability
INDUSTRY workers and researchers from across the steel sector gathered for the virtual bi-annual ...
Grangemouth trial to advance plastics recycling
INEOS and its JV company Petroineos will work with recycling technology company Plastic Energy on...
Poll: Engineers warn sale of UK vaccine centre risks health security and industry innovation
ENGINEERS have hit out at the UK Government’s reported plans to sell off the country’s emergency ...
Farewell to 2021, and what to read while we’re away
WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent quer...
Shell invests in upgrader as it pivots towards circular chemicals at Singapore site
SHELL will build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit at its Pulau Bukom site in Singapore as part o...
Bill Gates’ nuclear company picks coal site for new nuclear plant
BILL GATES’ nuclear reactor company plans to build its first sodium fast reactor at the site of a...
ABSL agrees to develop five UK gasification plants to turn waste to fuel
ADVANCED BIOFUEL SOLUTIONS (ABSL) has signed an agreement with biofuels supplier Greenergy to con...
Plastic Energy and Axens join forces to license circular plastics processes
PLASTIC ENERGY has partnered with engineering services firm Axens to license its plastics recycli...
Students awarded first US$5m from Elon Musk’s carbon removal prize
23 student-led teams have won the first US$5m portion of the US$100m carbon removal prize launche...
A$2.5m to fund pilot for greener lithium extraction
NOVALITH Technologies has raised A$2.5m (US$3.4m) of seed funding that will finance build-out and...
CRI will build second Chinese plant to produce methanol from industrial emissions
CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has agreed to design a plant to produce methanol from captur...
Novel process could recycle PVDC
SOLVAY has shown that polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) has the potential to be recycled and is now ...
Clean TeQ Water wins top accolade at IChemE Awards
A WASTEWATER treatment process that uses bacteria immobilised in plastic lenses has been awarded ...
Capturing and converting CO2 simultaneously
RESEARCHERS have developed a new form of carbon capture technology which simultaneously captures ...
Research could see fish waste used for nylon production
SCOTTISH researchers are exploring a new bio-based process for more environmentally-friendly and ...
New partners join industrial initiative to electrify EU crackers
REPSOL and Versalis have joined the Cracker of the Future consortium, which is working to develop...
North-west industry calls for UK Government action to support green growth
INDUSTRY in north-west England has published a manifesto, calling on the UK Government to impleme...
Shell to use BASF adsorption technology for CCS
AS both companies work to accelerate to a net zero emissions world, Shell has now added BASF’s So...
John Bridgwater, 1938–2021
Obituary of John Bridgwater, former IChemE president
Carbon Clean captures CO2 from Tata Steel blast furnace
CARBON Clean has installed a carbon capture plant at a blast furnace owned by Tata Steel in India.
Shell to build biofuel facility in the Netherlands
SHELL plans to build an 820,000 t/y biofuels facility in the Netherlands, which it claims will be...
Partnership to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commerc...
Partnership to produce polypropylene from CO2
BIOTECHNOLOGY company LanzaTech and clean technology company Twelve – formerly Opus 12 – have joi...
ExxonMobil introduces renewable diesel process
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing has introduced ExxonMobil Renewable Diesel (EMRD) process tech...
Trial successfully produces glass using hydrogen power
A TRIAL has shown that a glass furnace can successfully be powered with hydrogen instead of natur...
Partnership to convert landfill waste into hydrogen for transport
RENEWABLE fuels company Raven SR has entered into an agreement with a Republic Services sanitary ...
Consortium to develop solid-state battery technology
SEVEN UK-based organisations including Johnson Matthey have signed a memorandum of understanding ...
Engineered yeast strain could revive interest in non-food bio-feedstocks
CHEMICAL engineers at MIT have genetically engineered yeast that are tolerant to toxic biorefinin...
New catalyst makes propylene production more efficient
A SINGLE-atom catalyst has been developed that that can lower the carbon footprint of propylene p...
Greener steel: Primetals successfully tests 100% hydrogen reduction process
PRIMETALS has successfully tested a pilot-scale process that promises several breakthroughs in th...
Glass industry sketches process technology route for reaching net zero
THE UK’s glass industry has said it faces a challenging road ahead in meeting net zero targets, a...
Partnership to capture and reuse CO2 in steel production
ARCELORMITTAL and Sekisui Chemical have entered a partnership to capture CO2 from the steelmaking...
John Ross Grace, 1943–2021
Obituary of John Grace, one of the leading chemical engineers in Canada, known worldwide for his ...
Rio Tinto studies using hydrogen to make greener alumina
RIO TINTO is investigating the technical implications of using hydrogen feedstock instead of natu...
UKAEA to host first-of-its-kind fusion project
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has entered into an agreement with General Fusion, that will see t...
Pilot project develops process to recycle single-use face masks
A COLLABORATION between research and industry is developing a closed loop process where single-us...
Partners collaborate for sustainable lithium production
SCHLUMBERGER New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) have entered a collaborative...
Waste-to-methanol facility to be constructed at Port of Amsterdam
GIDARA Energy has announced that it will construct an advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam tha...
Dairy pioneer Kevin Marshall honoured by the Queen
KEVIN Marshall has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the Queen, for his ...
Drax enters carbon capture deals to advance BECCS
DRAX has entered into carbon capture agreements with services company Bechtel, and industrial fir...
Cement major plans world’s first carbon-neutral production plant
HEIDELBERGCEMENT plans to retrofit its plant in Sweden to capture 1.8m t/y of CO2, and become wha...
Peel NRE plans second plastic-to-hydrogen facility in UK
PEEL NRE has announced plans to develop a waste plastic to hydrogen facility in West Dunbartonshi...
Aker Solutions wins contract to design E-fuel plant
AKER SOLUTIONS has won a contract to design a plant in Norway that will use renewable power, wate...
McDermott awarded contract for plastics recycling project
MCDERMOTT has announced that it has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract f...
Safer and more efficient alkylation process now at commercial scale
CHEVRON and Honeywell have started commercial operation of a new alkylation process using an ioni...
Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
New steel manufacturing process could lower emissions in car industry
ENGINEERS have developed a new method of steel manufacturing to produce strong, lightweight steel...
Turning food waste into aviation fuel
A BIOREFINING process that converts wet waste – including food waste and wastewater sludge – into...
Sanofi invests in new vaccine production facility in Singapore
SANOFI is investing €400m (US$479m) over five years to build a new vaccine production facility in...
Pilot plant will convert soybean waste into bioplastic
A FINNISH consortium is building a pilot plant to convert waste from soybean processing into comp...
BASF sets target for net zero emissions by 2050
BASF has raised its climate goals and now aims to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Covestro pilots chemicals recycling process to close loop on used mattress foam
COVESTRO has begun to pilot a chemical process to recycle the foam from used mattresses. If succe...
Partners to build world-first commercial recycling facility
WOOD and advanced recycling company ReNew ELP have partnered to build the world’s first commercia...
Eni starts production at new biorefinery
ENI’s new biomass treatment unit (BTU) has begun production at its site in Gela, Italy.
Plastic Energy joins forces with ExxonMobil on plastic waste
PLASTIC ENERGY has agreed another partnership with an industry heavyweight – this time ExxonMobil...
Greener chemicals: steam cracking could go electric by 2023
BASF, SABIC and Linde aim to construct a multi-megawatt plant to demonstrate that steam crackers ...
Novartis joins effort to produce CureVac vaccine for Covid-19
NOVARTIS has signed an agreement to manufacture CureVac’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate at its site ...
CEMEX receives funding to develop carbon capture in cement industry
CEMEX has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a pilot carbon c...
Velocys signs agreement for commercial-scale biomass-to-jet fuel in Japan
VELOCYS has signed a collaboration agreement with Toyo Engineering to produce renewable fuels in ...
Elon Musk puts up US$100m prize for carbon removal tech
TECH billionaire Elon Musk is launching a US$100m prize for innovators who can remove CO2 from th...
UK offers £40m for manufacturers to plan and deploy greener technologies
THE UK Government is offering £40m (US$56m) in funding for energy-intensive companies to conduct ...
New bacterium can improve wastewater treatment
A NEWLY-discovered bacterium strain could be used to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from sewage ...
What is causing AstraZeneca’s vaccine production woes?
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
UK Government aims to increase production of rapid Covid-19 tests
THE UK Government has commissioned PA Consulting to develop plans to scale up manufacturing of la...
Chevron invests in carbon capture startup
CHEVRON is investing in Blue Planet, a startup that captures CO2 and uses it to develop carbonate...
KBR secures recycling technology licence
KBR has signed an agreement with Mura Technology under which KBR will be an exclusive licencing p...
Shell withdraws from UK sustainable aviation fuels project
SHELL has withdrawn from a collaboration with Velocys and British Airways to develop the commerci...
Recovering precious metals from industrial waste
AN inexpensive, non-toxic method has been developed to recover silver and palladium from industri...
Novel process for cost-effective biofuel recovery
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient p...
Shell buys into waste-to-fuels plant in Québec
SHELL is taking a 40% stake in a Canadian plant that will use Enerkem’s processing technology to ...
Lowering emissions from ammonia production with electrolysis
A NEW method to produce ammonia via electrolysis can improve the process while also lowering emis...
Veolia opens new wood waste processing facility
VEOLIA has announced that it has expanded its wood recycling and processing capacity by 50,000 t/...
Neste acquires stake in plastics recycling company
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
Stories to read while we are away
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
IChemE awards engineers who 3D print reactors
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
Assessing the feasibility of carbon capture in the glass industry
C-CAPTURE has announced that it will work alongside glass manufacturer Pilkington to assess the p...
Suez agrees to explore CCS for energy-to-waste plants
SUEZ will explore developing a modular system to capture carbon dioxide from energy-to-waste plan...
Shell launches ‘blue’ hydrogen technology
SHELL Catalysts & Technologies, which licenses technologies and brings capabilities to market, ha...
Project to convert medical waste into hydrogen fuel gets funding from Welsh Government
A PROCESS being developed by researchers in the UK and India to convert medical waste – such as P...
Micropore Technologies partners with South Korean pharmaceutical company
MICROPORE Technologies has announced a licence agreement for its membrane technology with South K...
Swansea University and Tata Steel assess use of waste heat from steel industry
A PROJECT between Swansea University, UK, and Tata Steel will assess if a thermochemical heat sto...
Swedish refinery to convert to produce renewable fuels
PREEM’s refinery in Lysekil, Sweden, will be converted to produce renewable fuels.
Shell and Linde collaborate on low-carbon ethylene
SHELL and Linde have agreed to collaborate to commercialise low-carbon technology for the product...
Monolith Materials to build carbon-free ammonia plant
CLEAN technology company Monolith Materials plans to build a large-scale carbon-free ammonia plan...
Nuclear cogeneration pushed as solution for low carbon heat
COGENERATION of heat by new nuclear plants could help balance intermittent renewables and provide...
Partners plan membrane-free electrolyser production in Northern Ireland
CLEAN Power Hydrogen (CPH2) has formed a joint venture to manufacture its membrane-free electroly...
Engineers tell government how PPE could be reused in the UK
SERIOUS consideration should be given to decontaminating and reusing PPE to alleviate shortages a...
Pilot project to convert waste into construction material
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
Evonik and Siemens test plant to produce chemicals from carbon dioxide
EVONIK and Siemens have commissioned a pilot plant that uses microorganisms to convert water and ...
LyondellBasell starts up pilot plant to recycle plastics
LYONDELLBASELL has started operation of a new pilot plant for a pyrolysis process that it is deve...
Pale Blue Dot forms partnership to capture CO2 from air in the UK
PALE Blue Dot has signed an agreement with Carbon Engineering to work together on deploying direc...
Carbon Engineering signs agreement for commercial-scale direct air capture facility
Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and private equity firm Rusheen Capital Management have formed a developm...
BASF will publish carbon footprints for 45,000 products
BASF will release data on the carbon footprints of its entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 p...
Nouryon builds new hydroperoxide plant in China
NOURYON has announced that it will construct a hydroperoxide manufacturing facility at its site i...
CRI successfully demonstrates chemical storage with renewable methanol
CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has successfully shown that its renewable methanol can be us...
Ineos launches new healthcare business
INEOS has launched Ineos Hygienics as part of its pandemic response to produce hand gel and sanit...
New catalyst for creating syngas from waste CO2
A CATALYST produced via flame spray pyrolysis can be used to turn waste CO2 into syngas for use i...
Norway’s full-scale CCS project backed by European regulator
THE European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority has approved the Norwegian full...
Ineos Styrolution reports polystyrene can be successfully recycled
INEOS Styrolution has reported the final results of research project ResolVe, showing that waste ...
Clariant and Ineratec announce renewable fuels partnership
CLARIANT and Ineratec have entered a partnership to use Clariant’s catalysis experience to suppor...
EU calls for proposals for €1bn clean technology fund
THE EU Commission has launched a call for proposals for its €1bn (US$1.1bn) Innovation Fund for l...
Second carbon capture pilot to start at Drax
DRAX has announced that a new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot facility wi...
Two new large-scale CCUS facilities now in operation
THE Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) in Canada is now fully operational as carbon capture begins ...
NOx capture system proves successful in trials
AUSTRIAN technology company Krajete has announced the successful testing of a filtration system t...
Funding boost for waste-to-jet fuels plant
SUSTAINABLE fuels company Velocys has received further funding from the UK’s Department for Trans...
Producing ammonia with small-scale electrochemical reactors
A TEAM of MIT chemical engineers has developed an electrochemical process for producing ammonia t...
Shell and CNOOC expand petrochemicals complex in China
SHELL, CNOOC, and the Huizhou Government have announced a cooperation agreement to expand their p...
Consortium develops power to methanol demonstration project
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
Fluor awarded FEED contract for North Dakota carbon capture project
FLUOR has been awarded a FEED contract for Minnkota’s Project Tundra, a CCUS project in North Dak...
Partnership aims to develop tyre recycling technology
MICHELIN and Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) are planning to join forces to develop Enviro’s...
CCS pilot phase successfully completed on Norwegian waste-to-energy plant
FORTUM Oslo Varme’s Klemetsrud site in Oslo, Norway, has successfully validated carbon capture te...
Urgent call for members to donate unused PPE for testing
ICHEME is calling on members and their employers to donate any unused PPE they can spare to a vol...
Turning CO2 into carbon black
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
First aerogels made using rubber
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
UK water industry sets 2030 net zero target
WATER UK has announced that it will develop plans to achieve net zero emissions across the water ...
Ineos to produce hand sanitiser
INEOS has announced that it will start to make hand sanitiser and will build plants in the UK and...
Companies repurpose to produce hand sanitiser
IN the fight against the spread of coronavirus, chemical companies and distilleries are stepping ...
Green light given to UK plastic-to-hydrogen facility
THE UK’s first plastic-to-hydrogen facility has received planning consent at a site near Ellesmer...
Replacing petroleum with wood in chemicals production
AN interdisciplinary team of researchers has calculated how wood could replace petroleum in the c...
BASF joins forces to plan electric car battery recycling cluster
BASF, Fortum and Nornickel are planning a recycling centre in Finland that would recover metals f...
Manchester Uni students win IChemE prize for designing greener process
A TEAM of students from University of Manchester, UK, has won IChemE’s Macnab-Lacey Prize for the...
Coronavirus: the push to produce a vaccine
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
Partnership assesses viability of commercial-scale CCS facility in US
A JOINT study will assess the viability of a commercial-scale carbon capture facility at LafargeH...
Turning banana waste into food packaging
RESEARCHERS at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have developed a process to turn ban...
DuPont buys out UCD spinout OxyMem
DUPONT has bought out OxyMem, a wastewater technology company that was spun out of University Col...
UK’s landmark trial to heat buildings with hydrogen is fully operational
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
Steam cracking transforms waste plastic into new
A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which co...
Communication troubles are holding back UK biotech
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
Simple method improves membrane CO2 separation performance
AN international team of researchers has, for the first time, shown that the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
Producing cement using electrolysis
MIT scientists have developed a process to produce cement via electrolysis, which would lower the...
New lithium extraction process could revolutionise energy storage
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process usi...
Velocys signs CCUS agreement for its US biomass-to-fuel plant
RENEWABLE fuels company Velocys has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) to ca...
Potential new processing route for nickel
HUGH Morgan, owner of Comet Minerals, has announced a new process which could be used to extract ...
Rejigged rigs could kickstart North Sea CCS, study finds
USING North Sea oil rigs to generate power from methane and bury the resulting emissions would be...
Integrated power-to-liquid test facility produces first fuel
A container-based test facility has successfully produced synthetic fuel from renewable energy an...
Construction begins on Australian hydrogen pilot project
CONSTRUCTION has begun on a pilot project in Victoria, Australia, which will convert brown coal t...
Green Biologics closes biochemicals plant in US
GREEN Biologics (GBL), a biobased chemical firm headquartered in the UK, has announced that it wi...
New reactor can produce pure stream of hydrogen
A CHEMICAL reactor has been designed that can produce hydrogen as a pure product stream.
DuPont wins alkylation licence for grassroots China refinery
DUPONT Clean Technologies is licensing its alkylation technology to Shenghong Petrochemical for a...
Covestro partners with 3D printing pioneer to scale up production
COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon...
BP invests US$30m in alternative protein production startup
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to pro...
Protein-producing microbes to reduce CO2 emissions
DRAX is partnering with startup Deep Branch Biotechnology (DBB) on a new bioenergy carbon capture...
Petronas Chemicals looks to convert waste plastic into feedstock
PETRONAS Chemicals is investigating building a plant to turn plastic waste into virgin feedstock ...
A step towards closing the carbon loop
RESEARCHERS at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed a novel electrochemical pat...
ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat announce carbon capture partnership
EXXONMOBIL and Global Thermostat have signed a joint development agreement to advance carbon capt...
UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant
THE UK Government has announced funding for nine carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) ...
BASF develops climate-friendly methanol production process
BASF has developed a climate-friendly process for methanol production, which if implemented could...
Researchers achieve commercially attractive carbon capture with a MOF
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for ...
Producing sustainable aviation fuel in the Netherlands
SUSTAINABLE aviation fuel supplier (SAF) SkyNRG will develop Europe’s first dedicated waste-to-fu...
New plastic can be recycled repeatedly
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
European consortium launches CO2 capture demonstration project
A EUROPEAN consortium of 11 research and industry stakeholders has launched a project to demonstr...
A novel process for democratised fertiliser production
RESEARCHERS from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan have developed a bench-scale ammonia pro...
Covestro to transform process engineering workflow
PLASTICS company Covestro has signed a deal with industrial software company AVEVA, to help digi...
Reducing the energy required to produce greener chemicals
PRODUCING useful chemicals from carbon dioxide via electrolysis typically has a high energy consu...
New process improves efficiency of isobutanol production
RESEARCHERS have developed a new process for producing the biofuel isobutanol more economically.
Cattle feed and dye membranes win MIT water prize
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
Agfa-Gevaert wins Process Intensification Award
THE 2019 Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation has been awarded by the European...
A novel EOR surfactant
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
Consortium aims to bring world-first PET recycling technology to market
PEPSICO, Nestlé Waters, and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe have joined a consortium to help bri...
Aker Solutions to provide carbon capture technology to waste-to-energy plant
AKER Solutions has signed an agreement with Twence to supply modular carbon capture technology to...
ArcelorMittal to launch project to use hydrogen in steel production
THIS year steel and mining company ArcelorMittal is to launch a project in Hamburg, Germany that ...
Carbon-negative concrete wins inaugural CCUS prize
A CARBON-NEGATIVE form of concrete has won an inaugural prize that recognises the potential of us...
Sunfire and Salzgitter to build world’s most powerful steam electrolysis plant
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire, the Salzgitter Group, and their international partners are to build t...
Increasing the recycling rate of electric vehicle batteries
A PARTNERSHIP between Nordic clean energy company Fortum, and Finnish speciality recycling compan...
Removing oil from produced water
A PROCESS has been developed that can remove nearly all traces of oil in produced water.
New process speeds up the production of biofuel from microorganisms
A PROCESS for converting algae to biofuel has been developed that is significantly less energy-in...
BP joins effort to make paraxylene from biological sources
BP has formed a partnership with Virent and Johnson Matthey to commercialise a process that produ...
BASF opens new research centre
BASF has opened a new research centre for catalyst and process development.
Using AI to improve drug development
SCIENCE and technology company Merck is collaborating with Iktos to use Iktos’ artificial intelli...
Nouryon and Gasunie to supply ‘green’ hydrogen for methanol production
NOURYON and Gasunie have agreed to supply ‘green’ hydrogen to BioMCN for renewable methanol produ...
BASF and Linde team up to serve natural gas processes
BASF and The Linde Group’s Engineering Division have announced a collaboration to serve natural g...
Evonik sells methacrylates business for €3bn
EVONIK is selling its methacrylates business to private equity firm Advent International for €3bn...
A new process for converting plastic waste to fuel
A NEW process has been developed that uses supercritical water to transform polypropylene plastic...
Creating useful products from desalination waste
ENGINEERS at MIT, US have proposed a method that could use desalination waste to produce useful c...
An alternative CO2 capture process
SCIENTISTS at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US have developed ...
Nouryon reduces emissions by increasing its bio-steam supply
NOURYON plans to reduce its CO2 emissions at its salt production site at Hengelo in the Netherlan...
Producing ammonia with plasma
CHEMICAL engineers have produced ammonia from nitrogen and water using plasma, in a process that ...
Clariant partners with ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group
Clariant has partnered with ExxonMobil and the biofuel firm Renewable Energy Group (REG) to devel...
Producing synthetic gas with a single-step process
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire has successfully demonstrated a single-step process for producing syng...
New carbon capture technology granted funding for further development
THE Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and Carbon CCS-US, the US subsidiary of Carbon Clean Solutions...
IChemE launches energy and resource efficiency guide
ICHEME has launched an energy and resource efficiency guide which outlines how engineers and orga...
BASF announces four research projects for reducing CO2 emissions
BASF has outlined four R&D activities that will allow the company to achieve CO2-neutral growth u...
A catalyst for ‘greener’ hydrogen production
A RESEARCHER at the University of Delaware (UD), US has patented a process that could enable gree...
Novel method for creating sequence-defined polymers
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a new class of multifunctional sequence...
Coca-Cola Company to extend loan for novel PET recycling technology
THE Coca-Cola Company has announced an agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies, a start...
Engineers publish £22bn blueprint for UK to take global lead on hydrogen heating
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydro...
Mobile plant produces fuel from waste wood
TWELVE research groups from seven countries have developed a sustainable method for producing bio...
Air Products to buy General Electric’s gasification business
AIR Products has agreed to buy General Electric’s gasification business, which will expand Air Pr...
Report outlines path to significantly reducing emissions from cement industry
A REPORT has outlined how the cement and concrete industry can reduce its CO2 emissions by 95% by...
New catalyst reduces carbon dioxide emissions in coal-to-liquids process
A CATALYST has been developed that almost eliminates carbon dioxide emissions in the Fischer-Trop...
Queen of Perak presents IChemE Awards to outstanding young engineers
Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with tr...
Smaller cheaper plants: Exxon and BASF tout improved gas-treating solvent
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
Ineos picks McDermott for new PDH unit
INEOS has awarded McDermott a contract for the licence and engineering of a new propane dehydroge...
UN climate experts warn society must make unparalleled shift
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold wins Nobel Prize
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
New US plant will convert household waste into fuel
FULCRUM BioEnergy has announced that it will convert municipal solid waste into biojet fuel using...
UK steel industry gets £7m funding for alloy development
SWANSEA University, in partnership with Tata Steel and Warwick Manufacturing Group at the Univers...
New coal-to-chemistry plant in Inner Mongolia will use novel ethylene glycol technology
DOWNSTREAM producer Jiutai is planning a coal-to-chemistry plant in Inner Mongolia that will prod...
Joint report calls for immediate action to remove greenhouse gases
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
Pulling oil from water
ENGINEERS at Rice University, US, in conjunction with Shell Global Solutions, have developed magn...
Transforming medicines manufacturing
IN a collaboration between Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), and global p...
Nuvia wins contract for Dounreay Site Restoration Limited
NUVIA (UK) has won a multi-million-pound contract with Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) t...
Big little droplets
RESEARCHERS at MIT have discovered a method that makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their ta...
Climeworks raises funds to expand direct air capture business
CLIMEWORKS has raised CHF30.5m (US$30.8m) to further industrialise its technology which directly ...
Air Products to build a coal-to-syngas facility for Jiutai New Material
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
US invests in water treatment research projects
The US Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water resource management, has announced that it wil...
Drax: Stepping closer to coal-free
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
Uranium: Under the sea
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
High temperature nuclear reactors could make uranium extraction energy neutral
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a report discussing how to make urani...
‘Green’ high-tech dye synthesis
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
Carbon capture studies to go ahead at Norwegian waste incineration plant
NORWAY’s ministry of petroleum and energy has announced that it will fund FEED studies on CO2 cap...
Picky porous electrodes take out toxins
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, are developing a novel water treatment technology to selectiv...
CCS could fuel the fizz in UK lager
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
Novel smart drying technology
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
Neste aims to turn plastic waste into fuel
NESTE, a producer of renewable diesel, is developing ways to turn liquified plastic waste into a ...
Thyssenkrupp develops new industrial-scale water electrolysis units to produce green hydrogen
THYSSENKRUPP has launched industrial-scale water electrolysis technology to make hydrogen product...
CCUS report urges UK government to act now
THE carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) cost challenge taskforce has released a report settin...
Fine investment: coal miner and oil trader invest in novel coal-to-fuel developer
VITOL and Peabody Energy have invested US$20m in a firm that has developed technology that it say...
Green ammonia project set for launch in UK today
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
Reducing the environmental impact of palm oil production
NEW technology has been developed that will convert palm oil waste into building materials and bi...
That’s the spirit: chemical engineer develops flexible micro-distillery
A CHEMICAL engineer from the University of Queensland has created a new type of micro distillery ...
Norway outlines funding for full-chain CCS demonstration project
NORWAY’S efforts to develop a full-chain CCS demonstration project have been boosted by governmen...
Continuous crystallisation workflow enables high precision manufacturing of pharmaceuticals
A WORKFLOW has been developed that allows for high precision manufacturing of active pharmaceutic...
Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
Australian coal-to-hydrogen plant will fuel Japan’s green economy
THE AUSTRALIAN government has entered into a partnership with Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries t...
Motiva joins forces with UOP and TechnipFMC to fuel push into petrochemicals
MOTIVA ENTERPRISES has signed MoUs with UOP and TechnipFMC worth as much as US$10bn to explore us...
Unilever joins forces with Ioniqa to scale up breakthrough plastic waste recycling process
UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s larges...
Easter eggsperts: chemical engineers have chocolate eco-ratings licked
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
AkzoNobel joins Swedish green hydrogen partnership
AKZONOBEL has joined a partnership in Sweden that seeks to use excess renewable power to produce ...
Carbon nanotubes could make carbon-zero fuels cheaper than fossil fuels
A BREAKTHROUGH has been made in the manufacturing of carbon nanotube membranes which will lead to...
Siempelkamp develops new process for nuclear decontamination
A PROCESS for the chemical decontamination of nuclear reactor cooling systems has been developed ...
Exxon’s algae biofuel venture enters new phase, targeting 10,000 bbl/d
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
Shell shows scale of work underway at Geismar expansion
SHELL has released photos showing its progress building the world’s largest alpha olefins product...
Europe's first waste-to-chemistry facility provides solution for non-recyclable plastics
A FACILITY that will convert non-recyclable wastes into biofuels and chemicals for industrial use...
Solar reactor uses storage to produce fuel day and night
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
Innovation grant awarded for development of low-cost carbon capture technology
A research and development grant worth almost £900,000 (US$1.3m) has been awarded to a consortium...
Highly efficient ammonia synthesis with new catalyst
A CATALYST has been developed for synthesising ammonia that is around 100 times more efficient th...
New densified wood is as strong as steel
ENGINEERS at the University of Maryland have developed a way to make wood more than ten times str...
Green glycidol pilot plant in the UK
Green Lizard Technologies (GLT) will use dimethyl carbonate and unpurified waste glycerol for env...
DNV GL opens centre to catalyse 3D printing in oil and gas industry
DNV GL has set up an R&D centre in Singapore to accelerate the use of 3D-printed technology by th...
3D printing of living cells using in-air microfluidics
A TECHNIQUE has been developed that allows two fluids to be combined mid-air by using two jets of...
Green steel process given go ahead for testing at pilot scale
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
Using LEGO bricks for microfluidics
RESEARCHERS at MIT have simplified the process of creating microfluidics prototypes by building t...
Genomatica and Aquafil join forces to make bio-based nylon
GENOMATICA is working with nylon-maker Aquafil to produce one of its key feedstocks – caprolactam...
Saudi Aramco, CB&I and Chevron Lummus Global in new JDA
SAUDI ARAMCO, CB&I and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA...
Evonik and Siemens announce two-year plan to create 'technical photosynthesis'
EVONIK and Siemens are working together on a process to produce specialty chemicals from carbon d...
Sheffield plans continuous powder processing plant
THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, wh...
World’s largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant inaugurated
THE WORLD’S largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant has been inaugurated in Germany, and has ...
A new whey to drink
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
Molten metal for clean hydrogen
MOLTEN metal could be used for a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly alternative to produce H2...
New continuous cell therapy bioprocess
A COATING that allows the first ever continuous production of cells could remove a significant bo...
First kerosene made from solar syngas
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
Cutting long-lived nuclear waste
THE half-life of nuclear fission products could be reduced from hundreds of thousands of years to...
Locking plastic in concrete
ADDING plastic bottles to concrete could lead not only to lower carbon emissions, but improve str...
Keeping oil and water mixed for months
EMULSIONS that can stay stable for months have been created using a low-cost, low-energy process ...
EU launches €6m project to valorise jellyfish
A PROJECT seeking to explore turning jellyfish blooms into new products such as biofilters, ferti...
New magnesium process cuts energy use by 60%
A SPINOUT from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) has developed a process to extract...
Using AI to discover new processes
A MACHINE learning tool with the potential to search through millions of research papers to devel...
Acid ISR recovers uranium tenfold
A MINING company is seeking to switch from an alkaline to acidic method of uranium recovery in a ...
3D printing of catalysts
CHEMICALLY active catalysts have been 3D printed in a single step, which researchers say could al...
Putting human waste to good use
NUTRIENTS, energy and water will be safely recovered from the faeces and urine of up to 1,000 peo...
2D materials with ‘smallest possible’ holes sieve salt from seawater
RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have assembled me...
Rice solves mystery of asphaltene clearance in oil pipes
ASPHALTENE, the cholesterol of the oil industry, clogs pipelines and interrupts flow, but dispers...
Removing silica from power plant water
COOLING tower water could be reused and recycled ten or more times by using a new silica-removing...
14 partners join CO2-to-plastic consortium
COVESTRO is leading a consortium of 14 European partners from seven countries in a new project to...
Ceramic pump works at 1,400°C
A CERAMIC pump capable of transferring molten tin at temperatures of more than 1,400°C could lead...
First liquid MOF described, retains porosity
NOVEL research has demonstrated that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), commonly produced as fine p...
Evonik develops new process for MMA
EVONIK has developed a more efficient process to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA), a widely-used...
Plasma synthesis turns CO2 and CH4 into fuels and chemicals
RESEARCHERS have reported a “major breakthrough” in reforming CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and c...
EFCE honours individuals and team that developed 3D-printed reactor
THE European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has today announced the winners of a serie...
An olive branch for a circular economy
RESEARCHERS have piloted a process to turn a waste stream from olive oil manufacture into biofuel...
Open-access reaction optimisation
FREELY-available software which is hoped will provide an easy-to-use tool for automated reaction ...
A fashionable process
A PILOT facility in Finland has successfully trialled an environmentally-friendly process to recy...
Biodiesel: The tip of the fatberg
A GIANT “fatberg” made of congealed insoluble matter will be converted into 10,000 L of biodiesel...
Shott: UK chemical industry should focus on strengths
FORMER IChemE president Ian Shott says that the huge UK chemical industry must focus on its stren...
Process integration across sectors
THREE Humberside process industry giants are participating on a European industrial efficiency pr...
£1m project to field-test graphene water filters
UK-BASED G2O Water Technologies is to scale up production and field-test its patented graphene ox...
Chemical fire reported at Arkema Texas plant
ARKEMA has reported a chemical fire at its organic peroxide (OP) plant in Crosby, Texas, amid flo...
Chemical fire expected at flooded Texas plant
A CHEMICAL fire or explosion is expected within days at Arkema’s organic peroxide plant in Crosby...
US CSB safety warning after Hurricane Harvey
A SAFETY alert has been issued by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), ur...
Spraying electric rainbows
A SAFER, easier process to apply colour-changing conjugated polymer films to consumer goods such ...
Cyborg bacteria make chemicals from sunlight
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from...
Sadara JV commissions last plant
SAUDI-based Sadara Chemical Company has commissioned the last of 26 plants at its US$20bn petroch...
Making magic
BIOSYNTHESIS of psilocybin, the psychoactive drug found in so-called “magic mushrooms”, has been ...
Fighting ageing with AI
AS FAR as humans go, doctor-turned-investor Gregory Bailey is pretty good at spotting patterns an...
Call for UK industry to pioneer hydrogen use
INDUSTRY in the Northwest of England should pioneer the use of hydrogen fuel, according to an amb...
Light-activated catalyst turns CO2 to CO
RESEARCHERS at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have developed a “spongy” nickel-b...
BASF to set up 3D printing company
BASF is to establish a new group company to develop and expand 3D printing materials, systems, co...
Jellyfish and prawn cocktail
A GASTRONOMIC delight in Asia could be making its way to the western world, thanks to a new proce...
Making polysulfates and polysulfonates
RESEARCHERS using so-called “click chemistry” say they have developed a fast, easy way to make su...
New asymmetric synthesis method
A HIGHLY enantioselective method for the decarboxylative halogenation of carboxylic acids has bee...
Protein made using CO2 and electricity
RESEARCHERS in Finland have successfully produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricit...
Cutting biofuel production time
A BIOMASS pre-treatment technique could make biofuels cheaper, safer and up to 172% faster to pro...
Spinning webs sustainably
HYDROGEL fibres similar to spider silk have been spun at room temperature, and researchers say it...
Vattenfall plans gas power station H2 switch
VATTENFALL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Statoil and Gasunie to investigate conve...
Evonik and Sinopec partner on OSN
EVONIK and the SINOPEC Beijing Research Institute of the Chemical Industry (BRICI) have agreed to...
Method makes olefins under mild conditions
CHEMISTS in the US and South Korea have developed a technique to produce olefins, a vital chemica...
GTI will demo R-GAS gasification in China
GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (GTI) in the US will be partnering with China’s Yangquan Coal Industry G...
New MOF turns CO2 into methane
A NEW metal-organic framework developed at the University of Adelaide, Australia, can convert CO2...
Making polycarbonate from sugar and CO2
CHEMISTS at the University of Bath, UK, have developed a process to create polycarbonate plastic ...
Exxon and partner double algae oil output
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
