The Story of PTFE
Martin Pitt looks at the accidental discovery of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a versatile non-...
Features
Viewpoint: The Path to Cost-effective CO2 Utilisation
CO2-based alternatives to high-volume fossil-fuel commodities often fall foul of the so-called gr...
Viewpoint: Take the Guesswork out of Chemical Engineering
Tim Duignan looks at how AI accelerated simulation will transform chemical engineering, freeing c...
Glass In all its Glory: Part 2
Martin Pitt looks at the Industrial Age, which saw the mechanisation of glass manufacture, but al...
Dairy Diary
Process and chemical engineer Ramin Razmi charts his journey from research to industry in the dai...
AI: Educating the Educators
The Chemeca conference in Australia had more questions than answers on how AI should best be harn...
Glass In all its Glory: Part 1
We look through it and maybe overlook it, but glass is a vital 200m t/y material for the world to...
My Chemical Engineering Hero is: Dermot Manning
Roland Clift picks out IChemE fellow Manning, a key figure in the commercialisation of polyethyle...
The Challenges of Eliminating Nitrous Oxide from the Water Sector
Nitrous oxide emissions from water resource recovery facilities have long been under-estimated sa...
Wastewater Breakthrough
Engineers from Severn Trent and AtkinsRealis explain how applying novel process engineering tec...
CO2 to SAF: A one-step solution
Oxford spinout OXCCU has launched a demonstration plant at London Oxford Airport to trial its one...
Five minutes with… Health Researcher Hannah Leese
Adam Duckett speaks to the Nicklin Medal winner about needles and nominations, and discovers th...
Rare Metal Detecting
The conversion of rocks to metals is quintessential chemical engineering which created the techno...
Polarised Positions Cast Shadow Over Global Plastics Treaty
Adam Duckett speaks to lobbyists about what they want from a global agreement to end plastic poll...
Our Research Focus: 3D-printed Catalysts for Rocket Fuel
Could HTP thrusters finally take off? The New Zealand research partnership looking at an alternat...
Writing wrongs
Digitalisation progress in pharmaceutical manufacturing has been too slow. David Margetts looks a...
Microbes, Microwaves, and Mixes: Eco-friendly Plastics Solutions
Amanda Jasi speaks to innovators striving to improve plastics sustainability and reduce their env...
Making Innovation Pay in a Sustainable Way
CPI is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Graeme Cruickshank looks at how the technology innovatio...
Remembering Roger Brian Keey, a pioneer in drying technology and Chemeca Award winner
Roger Keey, a pioneer in drying science, died last year aged 89. Shusheng Pang, who went on to fo...
Carbon Capture – is it Worth it?
Aniqah Majid talks to industry experts about the state of CCUS in the UK and finds out why econom...
Mammoth Undertaking
As Climeworks starts up the world’s largest direct air capture plant, Adam Duckett looks at the e...
Predicting Direct Air Capture Performance, Come Rain or Shine
Process engineer Adam Ward is modelling DAC at Imperial College London. He explains his research ...
Air Apparents
Amanda Jasi speaks to the innovators developing direct air capture technologies hoping to be next...
Direct Air Capture: The State of Play and What’s to Come
An introduction to direct air capture
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 ...
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 3: Atoms for Peace
In 1953, Dwight D Eisenhower (1890–1969) began his US presidential term with a widely applauded “...
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...
The Science Behind Sustainability: Chemical Engineers Equipping Decision-Makers to Improve the Plastics Economy
To mark Earth Day’s focus on slashing plastic production, Amanda Jasi speaks to David Gardner and...
Let’s Go Round Again: Closing the Loop on Problem Plastics
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to J...
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 2: Building the Bomb
The story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build nuclear weapons is usually told about ph...
Volunteer Spotlight: Laura Malhi CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 1: Radioactivity
For just over 100 years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Marti...
Liquid Metal: a Catalyst for Change?
Requiring temperatures into the hundreds of degrees to work, solid catalysts prove incredibly ene...
Fresh Nanotech Solutions to a Freshwater Problem
With fresh water in limited supply, ensuring water security is a global challenge demanding urgen...
Capturing Science to Capture Attention
MIT photographer Felice Frankel talks to Adam Duckett about her new guide to help engineers bette...
Soil Survivor: Using Nanotech for Regenerative Agriculture
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers using nanotechnology to help preserve, replenish and analyse soil
Rocket Science: From the Mongols to the Moon and beyond
Rocket science is a famously difficult area, but it’s more than the physics of force and trajecto...
Imagining What Chemical Engineering Will Look Like in 50 Years
Duncan Barker got in touch to share a prize-winning essay that he discovered his late father Andy...
Back to the Future
Adam Duckett on engineers and readers predicting and shaping the future
Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
Christmas Past: A Historical Christmas Stocking
Martin Pitt reminisces on Christmases past, and brings with him a sackful of facts and figures
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...
Fuelling the World with Biomass
Our reliance on gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel shows little sign of declining despite the push to...
Cleaner Cleaners: Creating More Sustainable Surfactants
Widely recognised for the part they play in keeping things clean, surfactants act as a key compon...
Modelling with Excel Part 9: Digitising a Chart
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Power Plant: and How Chemical Engineers are Helping Make STEP a Reality
In part two of our series on fusion energy, Jack Acres highlights the core challenges of developi...
Current thinking: PFAS alternatives for semiconductors
The semiconductor industry has long been reliant on PFAS but that could be set to change thanks t...
Engineering at the Vanguard of Clean Power
Adam Duckett on the ever-evolving timescale for fusion power
Our Research Focus: Achieving Zero Harmful Discharge to Sea
Benaiah Anabaraonye discusses the Danish Offshore Technology Centre’s role in developing and acce...
Vendor Viewpoint: How RotoDynamic Technology enables clean olefin production
Coolbrook CEO Joonas Rauramo charts the path to fully electrified steam cracking, a game-changing...
Book Review: Engineers Making A Difference
Shini Somara; ISBN: 9781804660270; What on Earth Books; £16.99; 2023
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...
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 ...
Internet of Things and its Implications for the Process Industries
Deaglan Gahan explains the basics of the internet of things (IoT) and puts the technology in cont...
Modelling with Excel Part 8: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 2
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation ...
Our Research Focus: Converting a Problem into a Solution
James Young asks chemical engineers if they’re ready to realise the potential in creating feedsto...
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...
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
Public Engagement for a Sustainable World
Alexandra Meldrum and Amit Verma share how IChemE members have been working to shape policy and p...
Plastic Recycling: A Crosslinking Approach for Managing Mixed Waste
Amanda Jasi talks to Eugene Chen, Sanat Kumar, and Tomislav Rovis about the crosslinking solution...
Waste Away
Adam Duckett on our plastic plight and the efforts of engineers
A Safer Management of Ammonia
Seshu Dharmavaram discusses his research into anhydrous ammonia and how better management of it c...
Plastic Feedstocks: From Plants and Emissions
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers exploring novel routes to greener plastics
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 3: Improvements Through the Use of Novel Mass Transfer Internals
The push for fewer emissions and greater profitability are driving the development of more effici...
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...
IChemE Global Awards 2023
Matt Stalker offers some useful tips to anyone planning an awards entry this year
CO2 Capture: Putting the Sea into CCS
Amanda Jasi and Kerry Hebden talk to companies developing technologies to capture CO2 from the ocean
Modelling with Excel Part 5: Visualising Batch Processes with Gantt Charts
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 1: Introduction - Your Greener Prospects
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportu...
Modelling with Excel Part 4: Batch Heating and Cooling
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
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...
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...
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...
Digi-Bridging Biochemical Engineering Education
Preparing students for the digitally-enabled workplace, Duygu Dikicioglu and Gary Lye discuss the...
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Adam Duckett on the calls for rapid investment in technology
Our Research Focus: Converting batch production to continuous processing
Nikolay Cherkasov explains how complex compounds for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals can be pro...
Modelling with Excel Part 2: Naming Conventions
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
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
A Short History of Unintended Consequences
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Biobatteries: Harnessing the Power of Nature
Kerry Hebden speaks to researchers who are developing novel batteries for military and environmen...
Flow Batteries: Chemicals Operations that Promise Grid-Scale Storage
Adam Duckett speaks to flow battery innovators about the history of the technology and what’s to ...
The Benefits of a PhD: An Academic's Perspective
In the second part of this series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to V...
Iron Plan: Working Towards Emissions-Free Reduction
Kerry Hebden speaks to innovators piloting green steel production in Sweden, and a second team wo...
Modelling with Excel Part 1: Introduction
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Electrochemistry for greener steel
Amanda Jasi speaks to technology developers working to use electrolysis to reduce emissions from ...
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
Our Research Focus: Déjà Vu
Humbul Suleman and Rizwan Nasir ask if VHS tapes can help to develop better membranes for CO2 rem...
Sellafield Digital Twin Project Clinches Top IChemE Award
Adam Duckett reports from this year’s Awards ceremony
Challenger: Home for Christmas
Mark Yates examines the engineering behind Apollo, and highlights the continuing importance of sc...
IChemE releases ChERD Centenary Special
In a centenary special issue of the journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design, experts off...
Question Time: Celebrate, Communicate, Inspire
As IChemE wraps up its Centenary year, Adam Duckett looks to the important contributions needed next
Chemical Engineering Matters in a time of Global Challenges
Alexandra Meldrum outlines coming updates to IChemE’s technical roadmap
Home Hydrogen: Is it Safe?
Tom Baxter looks at the evidence
The Davidson Symposium 2022
Celebrating a pioneer and looking to the future
Question Time: Materials
Adam Duckett shares the major talking points from the latest centenary webinar
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: 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
One Year On
Jin Xuan, Jinfeng Liu and Chunfei Wu pick out their highlights from the first 12 months of Digita...
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
Ethics Series - For the People: By the People
Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science
Viral Safety Challenges in Bioprocessing
David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing
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: 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...
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...
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...
Digitalisation: Integrating it in Education
Jarka Glassey talks to Amanda Doyle about the vital work of CHARMING
Bioplastics Promise
Nyssa Nair, Steven Pratt, Paul Lant and Bronwyn Laycock explain the use of bacteria to produce bi...
An Introduction to the Biopharmaceutical Industry
David Gemmell looks at key unit operations, and why chemical engineers are heavily involved in th...
Put on Your 3D Glasses
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over...
Improve the Accuracy of Your Formulations
Discover how smart balances coupled with database storage can boost process and product development
Precision Fermentation: A green route for protein production
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Cow-Free: A possible future for dairy
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Clean Steam: Greener distillation processes
Brian Williamson and Chris Jackson talk to Adam Duckett about zero emission closed-loop steam
Nitrate: An Emerging Solution
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
100 Centuries of Chemical Engineering
In a prelude to IChemE’s centenary celebrations, IChemE Fellow Martin Pitt charts the influence o...
The Bomb in Your Pocket?
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
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
Separation Anxiety
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicompon...
Lab-to-Table: Why Chemical Engineers are Key to a Meat-Free Future
Marianne Ellis talks about her work on tissue engineering to find ways to improve societal health...
Webinar: Improve the Accuracy of Your Final Analysis
ON 10 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a free webinar to discuss techniques to improve the ...
Book Review: Petroleum Refining Design and Applications Handbook Volume 2
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 978111947641; Wiley-Scrivener; 2021; US$295
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
Small but Mighty
Noor Al-Rifai and Rene Holm look at the use of nanosuspensions as long-acting injectables
DRAM It!
Joshua Pearce explains the use of open-source hardware to use recyclables as feedstock for custom...
A Life in Lithium
The future of energy needs chemical engineers, and lots of them, say Jacob Brown, Titi Oliyide, L...
A Change of Clothes
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Making (Anti)sense of Oligonucleotide Manufacturing
Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines
Catapulting the Hydrogen Economy: Catalytic Membrane Reactors
Humbul Suleman and colleagues explain how refinements to a decades-old technology can provide cle...
Research Bias
Raffaella Ocone and Nina Baker seek out the stories of chemical engineering’s female forerunners
Producing Hydrogen While Storing CO2 in the Oceans
Mike Kelland and Greg Rau talk to Amanda Doyle about their clean-tech goals
From Wastewater to Resource
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down th...
Reducing the Daily Grind
Liza Forbes, Kym Runge, Mike Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench and Luke Vollert discuss a froth-free flot...
Transforming Supply Chains
Industry will be forced to adapt, says Paul Hodges
Championing Research
A message from the new Editor-in-Chief of ChERD, Jerry Heng
Call and Response
Adam Duckett on member feedback
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...
LOPA Versus Covid
Ali Mokhber, Christopher Ross, and Pablo Garcia-Trinanes describe how layers of protection analys...
How on Earth
Adam Duckett on Fukushima and the future of nuclear
Describe, Diagnose, Predict and Prescribe – make it Data not Drugs!
Researchers and industry have developed a guide to data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing
Patenting in the Pandemic
The importance of locking down innovation in troubled times
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)
Upon the Shoulders of Giants
Alexandra Meldrum introduces Communities of Practice
Accelerating Innovation with DOE
JMP invites engineers to explore an alternative way of experimenting that can increase your effec...
New Nuclear
Ian Scott discusses the development of the waste-burning stable salt reactor (SSR)
Carbon Capture: But Not as We Know It
Rotating packed beds can play a part in making carbon capture smaller and cheaper
Gainful Employment, by Design
Zainuddin Manan describes routes to increasing graduates’ employability
A Cog in the Machine
Jon Prichard and Claudia Flavell-While explain IChemE’s role in supporting the innovation process
Opening Up Instrumentation
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and ...
Webinar: the importance of design of experiments within chemical engineering
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is a...
Brewing Up Energy
Constantine Tsounis, Bijil Subhash, and Khushal Polepalle chart their journey from undergrad desi...
Turning Points for IX
John Bewsey describes a new ion exchange process for cleaning up acid mines and brackish water
H2 and NH3 – the Perfect Marriage in a Carbon-free Society
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
After the spill: research for safer offshore operations
A decade on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, James Pettigrew discusses the efforts to bring t...
H21: The Story So Far
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
Getting the Measure of Temperature
Jonathan Pearce explains how new techniques can improve process efficiency
Accelerating Innovation
JMP discusses how to encourage organisations to take a new approach to innovation
Book Review: Graphene – Important Results and Applications
George Wypych; ISBN: 978-1-927885-51-2; ChemTec Publishing; 2019; US$350
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...
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...
Hot Water
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
Spiralling Up
IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE
Carbon: Feeling the Pinch
Raymond Tan and Dominic Foo explain how pinch analysis techniques can be used to optimise decarbo...
Step by Step
Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as vali...
Dry Run
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Design by Modelling
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale oper...
The Next Best Thing
Ruby Ray and Fabio Ruggeri describe an innovative process to produce substitute natural gas – a s...
Tug of More
Adam Duckett on the tug of war between R & D
Automatic for the People
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Where Next for AI in Drug Discovery?
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
DigiTwin: Moving closer to autonomous management
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), D...
Pushed for Space
Adam Duckett on the Apollo 11 anniversary and human ingenuity
AM: Keeping it Clean
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
Stripping Ammonia in Anaerobic Digesters
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Uses of Hydrogen in Industry
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
First Steps
Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system
Two become one
ON 25–26 June the University of Cambridge’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology ...
Webinar: how Tata Steel is speeding up development with data analytics
ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experime...
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
A Clean Bill of Health
James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs
Testing the Metal
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
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 ...
Quick Thinking
Why is it that the introduction of innovative process technologies appears to be so slow in the p...
Monodispersion at Scale
Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane tec...
Little Wonder
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
Worth its Weight
It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing ...
Add it Up
Process simulation software has become almost universal in the chemical engineering sector, and m...
Waste-to-BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
2018 – The Year of Engineering
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
Producing Graphene at Scale
The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale
Speeding up Development with Data Analytics
Constant pressure to innovate? Boost development productivity with data analytics
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
Add It Up!
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Pet Projects
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Ditch the Dirt
Hydroponic technology could help us sustainably meet growing food demand
Thinking Outside the Block
Can novel uses of blockchain technology in the chemical and process industries justify its cost?
Get more from your data, increase yields and reduce costs
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
Under One Roof
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
How to Build a Retina
Chemical synthesis of a retina, and how it can ‘see’ the world around it
Hands On
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
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...
Has Carbon Utilisation Captured its Audience?
A look into public awareness and acceptance of carbon capture and utilisation
Making a Dent in the Water Crisis
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
Landfill vs Skyfill
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
Shale Gas: Friend or Foe?
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
Spiralling into Affordable Healthcare
New reactor promises continuous processing of biotherapeutics
Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Reality Check
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
Coming Soon…
The promise of AI for industrial automation
Imagine Chemistry: a New Kind of Innovation Challenge for an Industry that Needs Shaking Up
AkzoNobel is calling on chemical engineers to enter its R&D challenge and help provide the missin...
Biorefining and Integrated Bioresource Engineering
FBP journal – a new avenue for the research
A Greener Future for IChemE
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
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
Interreg FCE – Funding Cross-Channel Collaboration
Funding up for grabs for Anglo-French projects
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
Equipped to Innovate
Rethinking the PhD – and your perceptions
CCS: Carbon Capture and Strategy
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
In Orbit
Astronaut Donald Pettit talks to Adam Duckett about his life and work
Better by Design
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Kellogg’s fuels your breakfast with hydrogen
A KELLOGG’S factory has successfully demonstrated that hydrogen fuel can be used to toast cereals.
enfinium will relocate CCS pilot plant in effort to expands technology trial
WASTE-TO-ENERGY company enfinium is relocating a CCS pilot plant to its Parc Adfer plant in Wales...
Engineers say artificial reefs could filter microplastics from the sea
WHAT if we could build artificial coral reefs to filter microplastics from the sea? That’s a poss...
Monash team enlists AI to rapidly identify microplastics in step towards real-time environmental analysis
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE could one day help us clean up microplastics after researchers at Monash ...
Concrete may last longer in nuclear power plants than previously thought, Japanese researchers claim
RESEARCHERS at the University of Tokyo have found that concrete could be more resilient to neutro...
The UK engineers working to kickstart the hydrogen economy
Engineers across the UK are researching hydrogen’s role in decarbonising industry, exploring ammo...
AI pioneers scoop 2025 QE Prize for Engineering
SEVEN engineers behind the rise of the artificial intelligence technologies that are revolutionis...
US-developed drug formulation could eliminate cold storage for vaccines
RESEARCHERS at Pennsylvania State University have developed a new type of formulation for pro...
UK protein study has potential to transform personalised medicine
A HUGE study that has been launched to find treatments for diseases by measuring how the proteins...
UK government launches lab in Gateshead to research heating from flooded mines
THE UK government has opened a lab in Gateshead in northeast England to research how heat can be ...
UK pledges £410m for fusion R&D and shortlists firms that will design and build prototype plant
THE UK has pledged to invest £410m (US$501m) in fusion power development and has shortlisted the ...
Beale’s Andrew Lecture focuses on CO2 hydrogenation catalysts
ANDY BEALE, professor of chemistry at University College London (UCL), has been awarded IChemE’s ...
UCL academics praise UK government’s new AI strategy as ‘positive shift’
ACADEMICS at University College London (UCL) who met with Sir Keir Starmer on Monday have welcome...
UK needs integrated materials sector to drive growth, urges joint report
THE AUTHORS of a national materials strategy have warned that without concerted industry leadersh...
Cornell researchers develop ‘win-win’ method for upcycling gold from electronics waste for CO2 conversion
CORNELL University researchers have developed a new method of extracting gold from electronic was...
Australian researchers create eco-friendly alternative to greenhouse gases in cooling tech
RESEARCHERS at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, have developed a material which they say...
Israeli researchers develop gas-sensitive textile that could be worn by soldiers
ISRAELI researchers have developed a fibre that changes colour when exposed to toxic gas, which t...
Eni launches Europe’s ‘most powerful’ supercomputer to aid decarbonisation efforts
ITALIAN oil giant Eni has switched on its next generation supercomputer, ranked the most powerful...
US and UK invest US$52m in landmark joint venture to advance fusion technology
ENERGY bodies from the US and UK have committed US$52m in a joint venture to upgrade an experimen...
MIT engineers develop catalyst that converts methane into ‘useful’ polymers
CHEMICAL engineers from MIT have designed a catalyst that can convert methane into polymers, in a...
German researchers to convert wood waste into biohydrogen
GERMAN engineers have developed a biotechnological process to convert old wood waste into biohydr...
Berkeley researchers use AI and 19th century maps to find lost oil and gas wells
RESEARCHERS at the Berkeley National Laboratory in California have created a tool that uses artif...
US offers US$36m for process developers to recover ammonia and metals from wastewater
THE US is offering US$36m for researchers who can help recover ammonia and critical metals from w...
Tokyo University researchers find critical conditions for embryo development using rubber rings
TOKYO University researchers have discovered some of the conditions that cause human cells in emb...
UK’s Manchester Prize focuses on clean energy innovation in second round
ROUND TWO of the UK government’s Manchester Prize has been launched, with this year’s focus on AI...
US researchers design water filtration system based on manta rays
RESEARCHERS in the US have developed a new water filtration design based on the feeding system in...
A virtuous circle? Fusion developers relying on power-hungry AI to accelerate commercialisation
FUSION energy development is locked in step with artificial intelligence (AI), according to the f...
Imperial College secures £3m grant to advance engineering biology innovation
ENGINEERING biology startups in the UK will have the opportunity to accelerate their commercial g...
Robots found to perform chemical research ‘faster’ than humans
AI-DRIVEN robots can carry out complex chemistry experiments “faster” than humans, according to a...
Glasgow research centre will extend life of industrial equipment
A NEW £5.5m (US$7m) research centre in Scotland will focus on how industrial equipment can be reu...
AstraZeneca to boost US R&D with US$3.5bn investment
BRITISH pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is investing US$3.5bn into expanding its research and de...
Australia funds project to grow plants on the moon
PLANTS could soon be grown off Earth thanks to a team of Australian researchers who plan on sendi...
Norwegian researchers pioneer CCS process for post-combustion CO2
RESEARCHERS from SINTEF have developed a “simpler” low-cost carbon capture and storage (CCS) syst...
BioNTech to acquire Chinese oncology startup for almost US$1bn
RESEARCHERS from SINTEF have developed a “simpler” low-cost carbon capture and storage (CCS) syst...
Cleantech uses ‘reversable rusting’ to develop 100-hour battery
A MASSACHUSETTS energy firm has developed an iron-based battery that can store electricity for fo...
Rolls-Royce sells stake in SMR business to fund nuclear expansion
ROLLS-ROYCE has sold a stake of its small modular reactor (SMR) subsidiary to legacy partner ČEZ ...
UK invests £50m in “lifesaving” medicine manufacturing facility
THE NHS is set to benefit from an increased supply of oncology and autoimmune disease treatments ...
Siemens buys out AI software engineering firm for US$10bn
GERMAN-OWNED Siemens is set to acquire the leading American AI firm Altair for US$10bn, further e...
Scientists publish handover script to guard against AI technology harm
GOVERNANCE of AI is lagging dangerously behind the technology’s spread though society, scientists...
Biotech secures £9m to expand collagen-based biomaterial for the fashion industry
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE spinout PACT has secured £9m (US$12m) to scale the production of its “ver...
Engineers call for smaller electric car batteries and ban on vapes
USING smaller electric car batteries and stripping materials out of old wind turbines for use in ...
World-first as UKAEA deploy autonomous robot to operate at JET
AN AUTONOMOUS robot has carried out maintenance works at the Joint European Torus (JET), marking ...
Kraft pulping cleantech secures €1m for lignin separation technology
CHEMICAL pulping cleantech LignEasy has secured €1m (US$1.1m) to scale up its innovative separati...
TEPCO restarts removal of radioactive debris from Fukushima
SMALL-SCALE removal of radioactive debris has restarted at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site, ac...
INEOS cross-border CCS storage project completes ‘successful’ pilot phase
INEOS has completed the pilot phase of its European cross-border carbon capture and storage (CCS)...
Evonik targets €1.5bn sales boost with sustainable research strategy
GERMAN specialty chemicals firm Evonik expects to generate an additional €1.5bn (US$1.7bn) in sal...
EU investing €1bn in AI factories in race for innovation
THE EU is investing €1bn (US$1.1bn) to set up so-called AI Factories that will use the bloc’s sup...
Eli Lilly invests US$1bn in ongoing Irish expansion
AMERICAN pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has invested US$1bn into the expansion of its manufactu...
RAEng offers £150m in grants for engineers who want to scale up climate tech
ENGINEERS in the UK can bid for fellowships worth up to £3m (US$3.9m) to help scale up climate te...
Lego building for a greener future as it increases sustainable feedstocks
THOSE LEGO bricks you buy for your children (or sometimes yourself) are on their way to becoming ...
Sweden’s green steel pilot project a success with commercialisation now underway
ENGINEERS have declared that their attempts to produce fossil-free steel have been successful and...
Dutch pilot plant turns CO2 into fish and chicken feed
LIVESTOCK and fish could soon be eating protein made from CO2 and hydrogen thanks to the launch o...
Nuclear-power container shipping could be possible within the decade
NUCLEAR-POWERED container ships could be moving cargo in and out of Europe by the end of the deca...
MIT researchers develop mineral to prevent cracks in fusion reactors
FUSION reactors’ lifespans could be extended by more than ten years thanks to researchers from th...
Chinese nuclear reactor completes world-first passive cooling test
CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling sy...
Essar to buy Thornton Science Park from Chester Uni
ESSAR is buying Thornton Science Park from the University of Chester as part of plans to create a...
Australian researchers develop technology to power mobile phones with CO2
ELECTROCHEMICAL conversion could soon turn CO2 into a “valuable” power source for laptops and pho...
UK RNA sector risks major skills gap, report says
UK INNOVATION in RNA therapeutics, crucial in the development of Covid vaccines, could be stalled...
UK researchers develop fridge-free hydrogel to store vital medicines
UK SCIENTISTS have developed a water-based gel that can store vital medicines, including the diab...
Taking the P out of pee
ENGINEERS at the University of Surrey are investigating how phosphorous can be filtered from huma...
£70m for engineers to design and build advanced nuclear fuel plants
THE UK government is offering £70m (US$90m) for engineers to design and build plants needed to ma...
David York 1951-2024
Obituary of IChemE Fellow David York who played a key role in the invention of the unit dose form...
AI-guided evolution, lower-carbon carpets and plastic recycling win out at IChemE’s inaugural Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability
“I WANT the stuff I work on to make an impact. That’s everything I think engineering should be.”
Bezos funds US$30m sustainable protein lab as Imperial engineers seek to revolutionise food production
A US$30m centre for sustainable protein has been launched at Imperial College London as engineers...
German wind turbine manufacturer develops 500 kW green hydrogen electrolyser prototype
GERMAN manufacturer Nordex Group is advancing green hydrogen production in Spain with the develop...
Birmingham students win Davidson Inventors Challenge for ‘forever chemical’ removal process
TEAM Breaking Bonds, a group of Year 11 students from King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, ...
US Department of Energy commits US$213m for construction of organic acids facility
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has made a conditional commitment of US$213.6m to sustainable c...
Rio Tinto says steel industry will need ‘every technology in the book’ to decarbonise
MINING company Rio Tinto says the steel industry will need “every technology in the book” to deca...
CO2 leaks: engineers join forces to understand the threat posed by greater use of CCS
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a lar...
Novel Honeywell technology reduces emissions from light olefins production
HONEYWELL is promising to reduce emissions intensity from olefin production by up to 50% with its...
Jacobs selected to support UK National Nuclear Laboratory’s high-temperature gas-cooled reactor
THE UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has selected Jacobs to help develop novel high-tempera...
C-Capture uses ‘next generation’ carbon capture tech for UK hard-to-abate industries
UK-BASED startup C-Capture has developed an alternative to traditional carbon capture methods whi...
University of Bristol switches on fastest, greenest supercomputer
THE UK’S most powerful and greenest supercomputer – Isambard-AI – has begun to come online and re...
Engineers urge UK action on sewage to guard against sickness outbreaks
IMMEDIATE action to bolster maintenance of the sewage system and sensors to allow real-time monit...
Australia’s commits A$22.7bn to green energy and production in latest federal budget
HYDROGEN, critical minerals, batteries, and low-carbon fuels are set to benefit from a multi-bill...
Jacobs chosen to design underwater energy storage pilot
TECHNOLOGY developer BaroMar has appointed Jacobs to develop the preliminary design for its large...
University of Leeds facility to accelerate new-era nuclear research in the UK
NUCLEAR researchers and scientists in the UK will have access to a new “cutting-edge” facility at...
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...
US-designed natural gas reactor heats up alternative propylene production
US RESEARCHERS have designed a reactor that produces propylene from natural gas, potentially prov...
UK's ambition to become leader in scientific development receives £473m funding boost
UK RESEARCHERS are set to benefit from the world’s most powerful electron microscope, a mass spec...
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...
Cranfield awarded £69m for R&D hub to demonstrate hydrogen in aviation
THE UK’s Cranfield University will spearhead a £69m (US$87m) research and development hub to demo...
UK awards AI projects £1.73m to help decarbonise energy and transport
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) projects that could help optimise renewables and increase industrial...
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.
UKRI pumps in £100m to transform engineering biology projects
RESEARCHERS working to combat plastic pollution, improve metals circularity, and develop novel fo...
Australia funds A$14m cleantech support centre
AUSTRALIA is funding a A$14m (US$9.2m) centre that will help companies manufacture and adopt rene...
Covestro turns to nature to divert aniline production away from fossil feedstocks
A PROCESS that uses genetically modified microorganisms to make a chemical used in insulating foa...
UK Space Agency announces £3.5m funding to make satellites more sustainable
THE UK Space Agency has announced millions in funding for work aimed at prolonging the life of sa...
JET’s swansong experiments break fusion record
THE final experiments at the UK’s JET fusion power plant have produced a world record for energy ...
NDA calls together group-wide researchers to discuss decommissioning innovations
THE UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will host a first-of-its-kind meeting in Sheffield lat...
Wind turbine pioneers Stiesdal and Garrad win 2024 QEPrize
HENRIK STIESDAL and Andrew Garrad have been awarded the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineerin...
Imperial College and Liverpool Uni to lead AI chemistry hub
A NEW UK research hub has received £12m (US$15m) in funding to investigate how AI can accelerate ...
Wellcome commits £20m to increase representation of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani researchers
WELLCOME is launching a £20m (US$25m) funding drive to help tackle the underrepresentation of Bla...
Edinburgh and Glasgow universities unite for climate research
UNIVERSITIES in Scotland have formed a new collaborative research partnership to address the clim...
AI put to work in push for rapid battery development
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is helping slash the time it takes to develop batteries, with Umicor...
UK’s Aston University receives £10m to establish holistic membrane research centre
ASTON UNIVERSITY, UK will use £10m (US$12.8m) awarded by funder Research England to establish the...
50 technologies that could change the world
BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED AI, data stored in DNA, and power beamed from space are among 50 emerging t...
ExxonMobil to build CCS pilot plant using carbonate fuel cell technology
ESSO Nederland, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, plans to build a pilot carbon capture plant at its Ro...
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...
Goodbye 2023, and what to read while we’re away
AS WE put the lids on our pens, close our notebooks, and say goodbye until 2 January, we thought ...
UK’s Redcar ‘hydrogen village’ trial cancelled due to insufficient feedstock supply
THE UK government will not be proceeding with a controversial hydrogen trial in Redcar. Northern ...
Oxford’s rapid Covid test wins top prize at IChemE Awards
THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process ...
Sweden’s Northvolt hails sodium battery breakthrough
NORTHVOLT says it has made a breakthrough in the development of sodium-ion batteries that could h...
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 ...
Equinor and Captura partner to scale up direct ocean capture
INTERNATIONAL energy company Equinor has partnered with Captura to develop the direct ocean captu...
Birmingham precious metal experts to work together in 3D printing
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham researchers are teaming up with Cooksongold Additive Manufacturing to de...
Consortium successfully operates gas turbine with 100% renewable hydrogen
A CONSORTIUM led by Siemens Energy has successfully operated a gas turbine with 100% renewable en...
New supercomputers will put the UK 'first in the queue' when it comes to R&D and managing AI risks
UK INDUSTRIAL researchers have been promised a boon on the fringes of the Bletchley AI Summit tha...
BASF commercially produces metal-organic frameworks for CO2 capture in world first
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hun...
UK government unveils £650m fusion programme as JET moves towards decommissioning
THE UK government has announced the £650m (US$789.9m) Fusion Futures Programme, part of its strat...
Engineers successfully trial single process to produce zero emissions steel and cement
ENGINEERS working on a process to produce zero-emission cement as a byproduct of recycling steel ...
New novel use of glycerol helps make renewable hydrogen and propane fuel gases
GLYCEROL, a naturally occurring alcohol made from the hydrolysis of fats and oils, is being used ...
FluRefin technology wins impact award
A CARBON capture technology developed at the University of Sheffield by IChemE member Peter Styri...
UK universities to partner in Global Centers for researching net zero innovations
A COLLABORATION involving partners in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, will see a string of UK ...
Pennsylvania researchers win Nobel Prize in Medicine for mRNA work critical to Covid-19 vaccine development
NEARLY three years after the rollout of mRNA vaccines across the world, research pioneers Katalin...
Coolbrook primed for industry use after RotoDynamic Heater pilot tests reach over 1,000°C
COOLBROOK has successfully completed the first phase of largescale pilot testing for its RotoDyna...
EDF consortium awarded almost £400,000 as UK government announces hydrogen fuel switching funding
BAY HYDROGEN HUB has received £399,376 (US$487,381) in additional funding from the UK government ...
Dylan Sherman awarded 2023 Ashok Kumar Fellowship
ICHEME has awarded the 2023 Ashok Kumar Fellowship to Dylan Sherman, a final-year DPhil student i...
Adisa Azapagic awarded IChemE’s Davis Medal
ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded...
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...
UK-Japan partnership funds nuclear research to support waste management at Sellafield and Fukushima sites
RESEARCH projects led by the universities of Strathclyde and Sheffield in the UK are receiving a ...
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners to team up with Swansea University on CO2 upcycling research
COCA-COLA Europacific Partners (CCEP) is teaming up with Swansea University to work on cutting-ed...
‘Colossal relief’ as UK rejoins EU science research scheme Horizon
AFTER years of negotiations and uncertainty, the scientific and academic community now have cause...
Chemical engineers create bio-inspired leaf that generates more power than conventional solar panels
A NEW photovoltaic leaf (PV-leaf) technology by chemical engineers at Imperial College London cou...
Researchers develop mussel-inspired coating that can extract rare earth elements
RESEARCHERS at Penn State University, US, have developed a mussel-inspired nanocellulose coating ...
Futraheat seeks UK industrial partner to host £1m heat pump trial following funding boost
FUTRAHEAT, an industrial heat pump startup, has received £689,000 (US$871,000) from national fund...
German energy technology company Marvel Fusion partners with Colorado State University for US$150m laser facility
MARVEL FUSION, which is working to commercialise laser-based fusion energy technology, has partne...
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...
South Yorkshire named as first UK investment zone focused on advanced manufacturing
COMMUNITIES in Sheffield and Rotherham are set to benefit from £80m (US$101m) of investment as pa...
Scottish researchers explore novel PET recycling approach to produce pharmaceuticals
IN WHAT they believe to be a world first, Scottish researchers are exploring whether it is feasib...
UK government calls for funding bids to £50m programme supporting new ways of delivering research
THE UK government is inviting bids for funding to the recently launched £50m (US$63.6m) Research ...
Year 11 students’ sustainable flavonoid soap wins the Davidson Inventors Challenge 2023
FABNOIDS, a team of year 11 students from the Benenden School in Cranbrook, UK has won this year’...
Lhyfe announces funding award for another hydrogen first following inauguration of its offshore production pilot
RENEWABLE hydrogen producer Lhyfe and eight partners have been awarded a €20m (US$22.5m) grant by...
Rio Tinto announces manufacturing research lab in Australia as it charges ahead with batteries push
RIO TINTO is building a battery manufacturing laboratory at its research facility in Bundoora, Me...
GSK acquires biopharmaceutical company Bellus Health
GSK has completed the acquisition of Bellus Health, a Canada-based, late-stage biopharmaceutical ...
New Scottish R&D hub set to support manufacturing industry and catalyse economic growth
THE National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has opened a new, flagship facility designed...
BASF opens centre to research microplastics and biodegradation
BASF has opened a research facility in the US to help understand how plastics disintegrate and bi...
Seaweed heat storage material set for steelmaking trial
ENGINEERS at Swansea University, UK have developed a heat storage material made from seaweed that...
Zheng congratulated by IChemE for insights into Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
ICHEME has congratulated Qingyuan Zheng for publishing a paper in Nature Catalysis based on resea...
A new gallery celebrating engineers opens at the Science Museum
AN exhibition called Engineers opened today at the Science Museum in London dedicated to world-ch...
UKAEA awards £6.8m to develop fusion technologies
THE United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded £6.8m (US$8.6m) in contracts to se...
UK government extends Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme to end of September
THE support provided to UK Horizon Europe applicants while the UK is in the process of associatin...
Jupiter Ionics announced as a finalist for the Spinoff Prize 2023
JUPITER Ionics, a spinoff from Monash University, Australia that aims to produce ammonia in a zer...
BASF strengthens R&D capabilities with a more powerful supercomputer
BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany, which it says is the...
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...
The importance of engineers and not strangling AI
SIR PATRICK VALLANCE reflects on five years as the UK’s chief scientific advisor.
Alvin Nienow, 1937-2022
ALVIN NIENOW, a pioneer of biochemical engineering, has died aged 85.
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...
NCC advances UK-based composite cryogenic hydrogen programme with testing facility
THE National Composites Centre (NCC) has announced a UK-based test programme to assist the aerosp...
Merck to acquire Prometheus Biosciences for US$10.8bn
MULTINATIONAL pharmaceutical company Merck will buy Prometheus Biosciences for about US$10.8bn, a...
ChemEngDayUK: Preparing to deliver sustainability
HELD for the first time in Northern Ireland, and hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, this year’...
UK battery projects awarded £30m in government funding
THREE cutting-edge businesses are set to benefit from a share of £30m (US$37m) in funding from th...
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 ...
UK government unveils £14.6bn alternative to Horizon Europe funding programme
THE UK government has published its “Pioneer” programme, a long-term strategy to support research...
Sulzer builds separation technology R&D centre in Singapore
SULZER is building a new research centre for its separation technologies in Singapore as it seeks...
Sir David Harrison, 1930-2023
Sir David Harrison, an educationalist who co-published leading literature on fluidisation, died o...
Claire Adjiman elected to the US National Academy of Engineering
CLAIRE ADJIMAN, a chemical engineer and Fellow of IChemE, has been elected to the US National Aca...
A century of chemical engineering at UCL
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of...
Darrell Patterson awarded Bath’s first ever posthumous professorship
DARRELL PATTERSON is the first person to be awarded a posthumous professorship by the UK’s Univer...
Birmingham Uni and Innospec join forces to develop safe and responsible chemicals
THE University of Birmingham has teamed up with chemical company Innospec to accelerate research ...
Sabic to assess Coolbrook’s greener cracking technology
SABIC has agreed to assess Coolbrook’s turbomachine technology which is being piloted as a greene...
IChemE joins bid to create Australian hydrogen research centre
ICHEME is joining a proposed Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) in Australia that would work to ex...
UK spring budget includes launch of nuclear support body and up to £20bn for CCUS
THE UK government has pledged to invest up to £20bn (US$24.2bn) from its spring budget to support...
US aims to create semiconductor manufacturing clusters by 2030
THE US is planning to create at least two manufacturing clusters for leading-edge semiconductors ...
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
Government announces new £370m Science and Technology Framework to boost UK innovation
THE UK government has announced a raft of measures to ‘cement the UK’s place as a science and tec...
Research community doubts UK’s 'science superpower' ambition as BEIS returns £1.6bn Horizon funding
THE UK’s research community is questioning government’s commitment to making the nation a “scienc...
UKWIR provides free access to hundreds of water sector research reports
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) has launched MyLibrary, an online facility that provides easy ...
Governments support ‘dry lab’ for developing next-gen batteries
FUNDING from the UK and Scottish governments is supporting a new £4.7m (US$5.7m) research facilit...
Scientists produce green hydrogen from seawater
SCIENTISTS have developed a system that can produce green hydrogen directly from seawater without...
1,300 times more novel CDR needed to meet climate targets
NOVEL carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storag...
£27m to boost the UK’s battery industry
THE Faraday Battery Challenge has awarded £27.6m (US$33.2m) in funding to support 17 firms workin...
UK partners to advance inertial confinement fusion
FOLLOWING the US’s major fusion breakthrough with inertial confinement technology, a UK partnersh...
UK government formally establishes ARIA as an independent body
THE UK government has announced the formal establishment of the Advanced Research and Invention A...
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...
Competition launched to advance low-emission foods
INNOVATE UK and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have jointly launc...
BioNTech to fully acquire AI company InstaDeep
BIONTECH is fully acquiring artificial intelligence (AI) provider InstaDeep in a deal worth about...
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...
UK government announces £75m nuclear fuel fund
UNDER plans to encourage investment in new and robust nuclear fuel production capabilities in the...
Crown Estate awards first survey contracts for Celtic Sea floating wind farms
AMBITIOUS plans to deliver an initial 4GW of energy capacity in the Celtic Sea has taken a major ...
UK awards £32m to advance energy storage technologies
THE UK Government has awarded more than £32m (US$38.9) in funding to five projects across the cou...
Consortium develops £3.5m ammonia cracker
SIEMENS Energy is leading a consortium that is developing a £3.5m (US$4.3m) ammonia cracker proto...
US announces ‘major’ fusion breakthrough
RESEARCHERS at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have a...
UK to fund AI emissions reduction projects
THE UK Government has launched a new programme backed by £1.5m (US$1.9m) to support the use of ar...
UK Government commits nearly £500m for R&D to cover EU shortfall
THE UK Government has said it will provide a package of nearly £500m (US$614m) to provide immedia...
Consortiums investigate nuclear-powered hydrogen production
TWO projects by UK and US consortiums will investigate using nuclear-generated heat and electrici...
IBioIC increases funding for biotechnology innovation
THE Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has launched a new call for funded feasib...
Plastic Energy opens new R&D labs at Loughborough
RECYCLING technology firm Plastic Energy has opened new research and development labs and a dedic...
Partnership will use nanobubbles to increase copper recovery
BASF has partnered with Moleaer, a nanobubble technology company, to combine novel technologies i...
Solar farms in space demo could be ready by 2030
A PLAN to use satellites in Earth’s orbit to harvest the Sun’s energy from space and beam it down...
Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award
SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in C...
UK Autumn statement offers boon to research but little news for industry
AMIDST tax rises and expenditure cutting amounting to around £50bn (US$60bn), funding for researc...
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...
LanzaTech produces ethylene directly from CO2
PROCESS technology company LanzaTech has successfully engineered biocatalysts to directly produce...
US DOE awards US$38m for nuclear recycling projects
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding US$38m in funding to twelve projects aimed at recyc...
TRISO-X begins construction on commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility
TRISO-X, a wholly-owned subsidiary of X-energy, has marked the start of construction at a site it...
NZTC reveals winners of its 2022 Open Innovation Programme
NET ZERO Technology Centre (NZTC), a UK-based innovation firm, has revealed the 20 game-changing ...
Partners break ground on flow processing research centre
LONG-TIME partners Calgavin and the University of Birmingham, UK have broken ground on a new, joi...
UK funding body announces sustainable smart factory competition winners
NATIONAL funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced the winners of £13.7m (US...
UK picks Midlands to host prototype fusion reactor
THE site of a coal-fired power plant in Nottinghamshire is set to host the UK’s prototype nuclear...
Partners successfully test UK’s first 3D-printed concrete water chamber
UNITED Utilities and its partner, 3D mortar printing company ChangeMaker3D (CM3D), have successfu...
Partners scale up technology for achieving hydrogen production and capture carbon in one step
COORSTEK Membrane Sciences is working with independent European research organisation SINTEF to s...
France and Sweden both launch ‘first of a kind’ hydrogen facilities
FRANCE has launched an offshore green hydrogen production platform at the country’s Port of Saint...
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...
UoQ’s A$13m research centre wants to lead the way on greener plastics
THE University of Queensland, in Australia is leading a new training centre that aims to become a...
New ‘forever chemical’ elimination method ‘might be the start of something practically interesting’
A TEAM of multinational researchers has developed a novel method for breaking down environmentall...
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...
Charles Darwin University will install hydrogen system to collaborate with industry
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
Calls for UK to maintain EU research links as Government publishes ‘Horizon Plan B’
CHEMICAL engineers have joined calls for the UK to maintain its links with the EU’s €95.5bn (US$9...
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...
UK joins forces with MIT spin-out to accelerate nuclear fusion
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has joined forces with Common Fusion Systems (CFS) of the US to sp...
Engineers will suck CO2 from the ocean
CHEMICAL engineers at Brunel University London are developing a pilot plant to strip CO2 from sea...
How research can help tackle engineering challenges
A NEW report lays out the key challenges facing engineers in the next 10–15 years, and makes reco...
Imperial College and BASF strengthen partnership that seeks innovative chemicals development
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
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...
Ingenza awarded funding to develop carbon capture technology
BIOTECHNOLOGY company Ingenza is partnering with Johnson Matthey to produce formic acid from capt...
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...
MPI receives funding for green steel hydrogen pilot project
The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) has announced it is leading a national project to demons...
LanzaTech transforms captured carbon into plastic
Carbon recycling specialist LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, says it has found a way to pro...
UK invests £31m to reduce reliance on fossil fuels
The UK Government has announced it is investing more than £31 m (US$38.9m) to help industry cut c...
Student team’s water sterilisation system wins sustainability competition
A TEAM of school students who designed a solar water sterilisation system has won this year’s Dav...
Australian universities join forces to commercialise clean tech
AUSTRALIA’S University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW) and University of Newcastle have received...
UK partnership successfully recycles continuous carbon fibres
ENGINEERS at the UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC), along with partners, have successfully re...
Andrew Livingston elected to the Royal Society
ANDREW LIVINGSTON, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, has been...
Scottish trial tests hydrogen in gas pipelines
A TRIAL is underway at Ineos’s Grangemouth site to help determine how existing natural gas networ...
AI discovers routes for recycling chemical waste
RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover routes for recycling waste into us...
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 ...
New £15m research facility to boost UK nuclear
CONSTRUCTION of a new £15m (US$18.9m) nuclear research facility is underway at Infinity Park Derb...
Chemical engineers lead efforts to unblock UK hydrogen use
CHEMICAL engineers are investigating how the UK could increase its use of hydrogen and alternativ...
BioNTech and Matinas collaborate on mRNA vaccines
BIONTECH has signed a collaboration agreement with Matinas BioPharma to advance formulations for ...
AkzoNobel and Microsoft work to fast-track development of new paints and coatings
AKZONOBEL has entered a collaboration with Microsoft to explore how quantum computing can fast-tr...
UK first: Cornish Lithium trials direct extraction of key battery metal from geothermal waters
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
UK’s state-backed vaccine manufacturing centre sold
THE UK’s emergency vaccine manufacturing innovation centre (VMIC) has been sold to US manufacture...
Johnson Matthey receives £400m loan for sustainable technology development
JOHNSON Matthey has received a £400m (US$521m) loan backed by the UK Government to boost the comp...
RAEng awards £1m to boost diversity success at engineering departments
UK university engineering departments have been awarded £1m (US$1.3m) from the Royal Academy of E...
HyNet launches demonstration of hydrogen-fired consumer goods production
HYNET has launched a demonstration project at Unilever’s Port Sunlight site that is fuelling prod...
Converting methane directly into useful chemicals
RESEARCHERS have demonstrated that a gold catalyst can be used to convert methane directly into m...
Novel method for green ammonia production
RESEARCHERS at Monash University, Australia have discovered a method for producing green ammonia ...
Boukouvala awarded IChemE’s first Junior Sargent Medal, as Institution announces annual prize winners
ICHEME’S inaugural Junior Sargent Medal has been awarded to Fani Boukouvala for her development o...
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...
New funding to aid bioeconomy
THE Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has launched a new fund to aid biotech co...
A call for digital chemical engineering editors
THE EDITORIAL board of IChemE’s new journal, Digital Chemical Engineering, is calling for editors...
Johnson Matthey partnership to close EV battery recycling loop
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) and material recycler European Metal Recycling (EMR) have signed a memorandu...
Science agency partners up to advance carbon capture
MCDERMOTT and Australia’s national science research agency CSIRO are working together to evaluate...
Rapid test identifies Covid-19 antibodies
A RAPID test has been developed which can detect Covid-19 antibodies within ten minutes and doesn...
Sustainable method for recovering neodymium from electronic waste
A NEW method has been developed to remove neodymium from electronic waste using cellulose, which ...
Steel industry gathers to discuss sustainability
INDUSTRY workers and researchers from across the steel sector gathered for the virtual bi-annual ...
UKAEA signs two new deals to develop fusion
TWO multimillion-pound frameworks will see experts join the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to...
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...
European Commission selects large-scale projects for funding
The European Commission (EC) has selected seven large-scale clean-tech projects for funding that ...
UK provides funding for distilleries to reduce emissions
THE UK Government has announced £11.3m (US$15.1m) in funding for distilleries to help them cut em...
AstraZeneca opens new R&D facility
ASTRAZENECA has opened a new £1bn (US$1.3bn) R&D facility in Cambridge, UK.
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...
Rolls-Royce pushes ahead with funding for small modular reactor development
ROLLS-ROYCE is moving ahead with plans to develop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) and has e...
Johnson & Johnson to focus on pharmaceuticals
JOHNSON & Johnson has announced that it plans to separate its Consumer Health business, leaving t...
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...
New initiatives support global climate efforts
Today, on Science and Innovation Day at COP26, global coalitions of businesses, nations, and scie...
New £20m facility to strengthen South Wales steel and metals industry
A NEW £20m (US$27.6m) facility has been launched in South Wales, which is expected to set the reg...
UK strategy is pivot point for fusion development
Experts welcome UK plans to build fusion demonstrator
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 ...
Biotech demonstrator will produce acetone from captured industrial emissions
NORWAY is set to host a demonstration plant that will use biotechnology to convert 10,000 t/y of ...
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...
U-Battery unveils full-scale AMR mockup
U-BATTERY Ltd has unveiled a full-scale mockup of a first-of-a-kind advanced modular reactor (AMR...
AstraZeneca invests and collaborates for therapeutics platform
ASTRAZENECA and Imperial College London spinoff VaxEquity have agreed to collaborate for the disc...
Engineers issue six demands for government spending
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has outlined six spending priorities for the UK gov...
Partnership to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commerc...
Eneos and Petronas study clean hydrogen supply chain
PETRONAS and Japanese oil company Eneos have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointl...
Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and ...
UK funds projects to boost production of biomass
THE UK Government has awarded £4m (US$5.5m) across 24 projects to increase biomass production tha...
Consortium to develop solid-state battery technology
SEVEN UK-based organisations including Johnson Matthey have signed a memorandum of understanding ...
Australia expands role of renewables funding agency to support CCS, hydrogen and greener metals
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) now has a wider remit that includes funding CCS an...
Engineering X outlines strategy for the profession to lead on safety in complex systems
FACED with an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RA...
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...
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...
UK seeks input on plans to use high temperature nuclear reactors to produce heat for industry
HIGH temperature gas nuclear reactors (HTGRs) could provide low-carbon process heat to help decar...
Chemical engineers collaborate for ‘cookie-cutter’ oxygen units
THREE chemical engineers at different universities around the world are collaborating to develop ...
Partners to accelerate biofuels production cycle
TOTALENERGIES and Veolia have teamed up to accelerate the development of microalgae cultivation u...
John Ross Grace, 1943–2021
Obituary of John Grace, one of the leading chemical engineers in Canada, known worldwide for his ...
Sanofi invests in mRNA vaccine centre
SANOFI will invest about €400m (US$472m) annually in a first-of-its-kind vaccines mRNA Center of ...
LEGO makes bricks from recycled plastic bottles
THE LEGO Group has developed a prototype LEGO brick using PET from recycled plastic bottles.
Rio Tinto studies using hydrogen to make greener alumina
RIO TINTO is investigating the technical implications of using hydrogen feedstock instead of natu...
Siemens and BioNTech commit to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine scale-out, starting in Singapore
SIEMENS and BioNTech say they will build a Covid-19 vaccine facility in Singapore, as part of eff...
Three researchers awarded IChemE Andrew Fellowship
ICHEME has awarded three chemical engineering researchers the Andrew Fellowship to advance the fi...
Report makes recommendations on how to utilise nuclear in UK net zero strategy
A SENIOR leadership team at The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute has released ...
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...
Researchers receive £1.3m to develop low-carbon energy storage for buildings
THE University of Nottingham, UK has received £1.3m (US$1.8m) for a project to develop a novel, l...
Drax enters carbon capture deals to advance BECCS
DRAX has entered into carbon capture agreements with services company Bechtel, and industrial fir...
Student team’s potato mask wins inaugural John Davidson competition
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have wo...
Novel wearable gas sensor
RESEARCHERS at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea have develo...
Using a sponge made of pollen to soak up oil from contaminated water
A POLLEN-BASED sponge has been developed as a more environmentally friendly way of soaking up oil...
Sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate net-zero
LED by the University of Bath, UK, a major new collaboration between academia and industry seeks ...
Innovation challenge launched to decarbonise cement and concrete industry
THE Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched a programme to help accelerate low...
Singapore and UK to address climate change in the ASEAN region
RESEARCHERS in Singapore, in a first-of-its-kind international collaboration, are partnering with...
Increasing yield for portable vaccine production method
RESEARCHERS at Northwestern University, US have discovered a way to improve their new protein-bas...
Novel sponge tech collects oil in ultra-cold waters
RESEARCHERS in Canada and the UK have developed a coating for commercially-available sponges that...
Jacobs supports UK nuclear reactor development
JACOBS is going to provide “cutting-edge” technical support to two companies as they continue to ...
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...
UK announces Horizon funding following science budget cuts
THE UK Government has announced that it is making an additional £250m (US$345.5m) in funding avai...
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...
Chemical engineers develop ‘smart bandages’
RESEARCHERS at the University of Rhode Island (URI), US have embedded nanosensors into microfibre...
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 ...
Researchers look to recover waste anaesthetics
A TEAM of chemical engineers and doctors are developing a new membrane to capture and reuse anaes...
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 ...
Australia invests A$50m in carbon capture projects
THE Australian Government has opened the A$50m (US$38.5m) Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage Develo...
UK launches new high-risk research funding agency
THE UK Government has launched a new scientific research agency to fund high-risk, high-reward re...
Novel anodes for safe and stable seawater-based aqueous batteries
US RESEARCHERS have developed a battery anode based on a new nanostructured alloy that could chan...
UK announces nuclear waste competition winners
FOURTEEN companies have won contracts in a £3.9m (US$5.5m) competition aimed at developing a wast...
Consortium investigates Australian P2X industry
A RESEARCH consortium led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia is invest...
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...
Accelerating novel vaccine inactivation method
SEEKING to accelerate a novel method for producing inactivated vaccines to market and ensure comp...
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...
LED pioneers win Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
FIVE engineers who helped develop LED lighting have won the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engine...
US announces US$160m funding for hydrogen technologies
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans for US$160m of federal funding aimed at dec...
INEOS donates £100m to antimicrobial research
CHEMICAL company INEOS has donated £100m (US$136.8m) to the University of Oxford, UK for a new, s...
CPI launches programme to support SMEs
CPI, an independent technology centre, has announced the launch of a programme aiming to support ...
Hydrogen for steel completes feasibility study
Project partners Equinor, OGE, and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have completed their joint feasibili...
Recovering precious metals from industrial waste
AN inexpensive, non-toxic method has been developed to recover silver and palladium from industri...
Novel process for cost-effective biofuel recovery
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient p...
Lowering emissions from ammonia production with electrolysis
A NEW method to produce ammonia via electrolysis can improve the process while also lowering emis...
Partners to develop and commercialise polysaccharide technology
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and ...
Research and industry sign MoUs for Australian offshore CCS hub
AUSTRALIAN energy company Transborders Energy has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs)with ...
IChemE awards engineers who 3D print reactors
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
Vale opens plant to make mining waste into construction products
MINING company Vale has opened a pilot plant that will make products for civil construction using...
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...
UK announces funding for five new circular economy R&D centres
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced £22.5m (US$29.9m) in funding for five new circula...
Linde and Siemens partner to help decarbonise the petrochemicals sector
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
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...
MoU for CO2-free hydrogen production in Malaysia
ENEOS has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sarawak Economic Development Company (S...
UKAEA’s £55m device successfully takes a step closer to fusion power
TAKING a step to achieving a fusion power plant, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) £55m ...
Australia and Singapore partner on low emissions technologies
THE Australian and Singaporean governments have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance c...
EU project targets nuclear accident combustion risk
A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of sever...
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...
Prince William launches £50m Earthshot Prize for environmental solutions
PRINCE William has launched the Earthshot Prize, which offers £50m (US$65m) in funding for soluti...
Pilot project to convert waste into construction material
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
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 ...
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...
PSE and Siemens join partnership to advance continuous drug manufacturing
THE UK’s Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre has expanded its partners to include PSE, Siem...
Partnership creates alcohol-free sanitisers
A PARTNERSHIP between researchers at Aston University, UK, and EcoMotive has developed alcohol-fr...
Unilever invests €1bn to develop sustainable cleaning products
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks ...
MSD selects London site for US$1.32bn research complex
MSD, known as Merck & Co within the US and Canada, has selected to build its future US$1.32bn sta...
Partners build facility to test hydrogen transmission
NATIONAL Grid is partnering with gas distribution companies, safety organisations, and academia, ...
Partnership to accelerate plastic waste elimination
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology compa...
Developing sulfur polymers
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
UK Government invests £100m to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine manufacture
THE UK Government has announced a £100m (US$127.7m) investment to fund a state-of-the-art facilit...
Covid-19 antibody test gives results in 20 minutes
A BLOOD test has been developed by researchers in Australia which can detect Covid-19 antibodies ...
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...
Researcher develops coating to inactivate Covid-19 virus
A PROFESSOR at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), US has develo...
Evonik develops novel membrane for hydrogen production
EVONIK has developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM) that could contribute to commercial re...
Atkins awarded contract for nuclear project
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
UK Government starts conversation to improve R&D
THE UK Government has released a research and development (R&D) plan which it says marks the star...
Researchers awarded funding to develop reusable facemasks to help meet PPE shortfall
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in fundi...
Scientists demonstrate powdered vaccine can break the cold chain
SCIENTISTS have taken a step forward in breaking the so-called vaccine “cold chain” by creating a...
Australian-first hydrogen project completes funding
HYDROGEN technology company Hazer’s commercial demonstration project – which will produce low-emi...
BASF lends supercomputer to fight against Covid-19
BASF has been using its supercomputer to help identify molecules that might help in the fight aga...
UK Government announces 'major' support for UK research sector
The UK’s Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced two major supp...
Dow and Shell to jointly develop ‘e-cracker’ technology
MATERIALS science company Dow and Shell have agreed to jointly accelerate technology to electrify...
Partners join forces to develop micro nuclear reactor
THREE partners have joined forces in Canada to demonstrate a 15 MW small modular reactor that wou...
Petrofac awarded contract for Acorn project
PETROFAC has been awarded a contract for engineering and project support for Pale Blue Dot Energy...
Partnership to develop large-scale decarbonisation project in the Humber
PHILLIPS 66, Uniper, and Vitol have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Humber ...
UKAEA signs framework agreement to develop fusion energy
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a four-year, multimillion-pound framework agree...
RSC opens Emerging Technologies Competition 2020
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is now open for entries into its 2020 Emerging Technolo...
NOx capture system proves successful in trials
AUSTRIAN technology company Krajete has announced the successful testing of a filtration system t...
Producing ammonia with small-scale electrochemical reactors
A TEAM of MIT chemical engineers has developed an electrochemical process for producing ammonia t...
AstraZeneca to begin manufacturing coronavirus vaccine candidate immediately
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment f...
Covestro funds professorship to advance electrochemistry research
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could ...
Consortium develops power to methanol demonstration project
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
New UKRI CEO appointed
BRITISH plant biologist Dame Ottoline Leyser has been appointed as new CEO of UK Research and Inn...
UK funds projects vying to develop net zero industrial clusters
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net...
CEPI invests US$338m in manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine
THE Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is investing US$338m to develop and ma...
Photocatalytic microreactors for ‘green’ hydrogen
RESEACHERS at the University of Southampton, UK have developed photocatalytic microreactors that ...
Japanese consortium to study CCU
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
IChemE volunteers identify areas of focus to help fight pandemic
ICHEME’S volunteer Covid-19 Response Team has divided into distinct workstreams, including on dia...
Woodside joins hydrogen-as-ammonia study
WOODSIDE has joined a consortium to study exporting hydrogen as ammonia from Australia to Japan.
UK launches vaccine taskforce to co-ordinate scaleup
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
Turning CO2 into carbon black
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
First aerogels made using rubber
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
Companies sign MoU to study hydrogen for Singapore’s energy future
SINGAPOREAN and Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, have signed a memorandum of understandi...
Novel battery technology project succeeds in proof-of-concept
A COLLABORATIVE project has succeeded in demonstrating proof-of-concept for novel sodium-nickel-c...
Life sciences companies collaborate to accelerate coronavirus response
A CONSORTIUM of life sciences companies including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer, is c...
GSK efforts against coronavirus include US$10m to response fund
BRITISH multinational pharma company GSK is helping to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, including...
Replacing petroleum with wood in chemicals production
AN interdisciplinary team of researchers has calculated how wood could replace petroleum in the c...
New view of chemical engineering to help serve society
RESEARCHERS have presented a new view of chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineering, which sees t...
Green process converts almost any carbon source into graphene
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US have discovered a green process which can quickly and cheaply ...
UK confirms £800m for carbon capture clusters
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
Stretchable battery for wearable electronics
RESEARCHERS at Stanford University, US have developed a soft and stretchable battery that could b...
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...
Lancaster to make major investment in engineering
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at ...
New funding announced for UK decarbonisation projects
THE UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded around £90m (...
CPI and Oxford partner to scale up biocatalysis technology
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI and the University of Oxford, UK have partnered to scale up tech...
Innovative sponge for offshore oil drilling wastewater cleanup
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK and the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have devel...
CPI partners with RSC to tackle chemical science challenges
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI has partnered with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part ...
Evonik and LIKAT achieve carbonylation breakthrough
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
MOF captures and converts NO2 into useful product
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selec...
Drax and Econic partner to produce plastic using waste CO2
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
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...
UK announces new fast-track visa for world-leading researchers
THE UK Government has announced the details of a new fast-track visa scheme to attract overseas r...
New chemical engineering department at Brunel University London
BRUNEL University London’s new Department of Chemical Engineering was officially launched on 29 J...
Nouryon and Semiotic Labs partnership will improve plant reliability
NOURYON has signed a framework agreement with Semiotic Labs to implement technology that will pre...
Turning banana waste into food packaging
RESEARCHERS at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have developed a process to turn ban...
CPI partners with ImmunoBiology to produce pneumococcal vaccines that don’t require cold chain
CPI is partnering with ImmunoBiology (ImmBio) to develop a vaccine that protects against illnesse...
UK’s landmark trial to heat buildings with hydrogen is fully operational
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
Prince William launches Earthshot Prize to repair the planet
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
‘Artificial leaf’ for carbon neutral syngas production
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas p...
Steam cracking transforms waste plastic into new
A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which co...
US$1.32m to accelerate waste-reduction innovation and research
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovati...
Novel material for reversible SO2 capture
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and rever...
Communication troubles are holding back UK biotech
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
Upcycling plastic bottles for the chemical industry
RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have ...
UK Prime Minister promises funding for CCS and R&D
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised £800m (US$1.03bn) in funding for CCS along with doub...
Cheap catalyst for hydrogen production shows commercial-scale promise
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
New £1m funding pot for UK steel research
A UK sustainable steel research network is offering up to £1m (US$1.3m) in funding for other rese...
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...
Using CO2 and “green” energy to produce specialty chemicals
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
New lithium extraction process could revolutionise energy storage
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process usi...
Partnership to reduce steel industry CO2 emissions
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
Oil and gas innovation to benefit Japanese nuclear sector
RAWWATER Engineering Company, which developed specialist alloys for the oil and gas industry that...
Novel process recovers high-value products from natural gas
LINDE has developed a novel process to recover high-value products, including helium, from natura...
Milestone for molten salt nuclear reactors
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
Periodic Videos on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry win
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
Shell and BP join consortium to tackle methane emissions
OIL and gas companies Shell and BP have joined the Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS...
Scientists win Nobel prize for developing Li-ion batteries
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and A...
Removing pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
Clariant’s new HTE lab in the US energy capital to support oil and gas
SPECIALTY chemicals company Clariant has opened a new High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) Labor...
Novel electrocatalyst produces valuable fuels using CO2
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed an electrocatalytic reactor that could be used...
Cracker consortium aims to reduce carbon emissions
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will join...
Behold the Plastic Age: synthetic fibres found in fossil record
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
Record-breaking analysis
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed ...
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...
Membrane for low-energy chemical separation
A METAL oxide-infused membrane has been developed that offers lower-energy chemical separation th...
Integrated power-to-liquid test facility produces first fuel
A container-based test facility has successfully produced synthetic fuel from renewable energy an...
Santos and Perdaman sign HoA for an ammonium plant
OIL and gas company Santos and diversified company Perdaman have signed a heads of agreement to f...
ExxonMobil and Mosaic Materials collaborate to reduce CO2 emissions
EXXONMOBIL and separations technology company Mosaic Materials have agreed to explore the advance...
Australia investigates building its largest hydrogen production plant
QUEENSLAND Government-owned power generation company Stanwell is spending A$5m (US$3.4m) to study...
BASF to sell pigments business for US$1.3bn
BASF is to sell its global pigments business to fine chemicals company DIC for €1.15bn (US$1.3bn)...
BHP announces US$400m Climate Investment Program
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
Novel process for damage-free algae biomass harvesting
RESEARCHERS at the University of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a novel, damage-free process for r...
Advancing low-carbon technologies together
LED by the World Economic Forum (WEF), chemical companies are to collaborate to reduce the chemic...
New reactor can produce pure stream of hydrogen
A CHEMICAL reactor has been designed that can produce hydrogen as a pure product stream.
Environmentally friendly alternative to polystyrene foam
A plant-based alternative to polystyrene foam has been developed that has better insulation prope...
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...
Understanding localised corrosion of steel pipes
LOCALISED corrosion can cause failures in steel pipes used in the oil and gas industry, but new r...
Perstorp investigates sustainable methanol production
LEADING specialty chemicals company Perstorp is investigating the potential production of recycle...
Neste and LyondellBasell claim bioplastic first
NESTE and LyondellBasell are claiming an industry-first with the parallel, commercial-scale produ...
Petronas agrees partnership to develop oil industry chemicals
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research...
Protein-producing microbes to reduce CO2 emissions
DRAX is partnering with startup Deep Branch Biotechnology (DBB) on a new bioenergy carbon capture...
Avantium commercialising PEF production
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
A step towards closing the carbon loop
RESEARCHERS at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed a novel electrochemical pat...
New approach for desalinating hypersaline brines
USING a temperature-dependent solvent to desalinate water with high concentrations of dissolved s...
Researchers achieve commercially attractive carbon capture with a MOF
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for ...
New report assesses gas-to-hydrogen transition
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
New plastic can be recycled repeatedly
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
Third phase of Australian CCS project given go-ahead
CO2CRC, an Australian carbon capture and storage (CCS) research organisation, has announced a A$4...
A novel process for democratised fertiliser production
RESEARCHERS from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan have developed a bench-scale ammonia pro...
Nouryon announces Imagine Chemistry winners
EIGHT groups received awards in Nouryon’s 2019 Imagine Chemistry competition.
Australian hydrogen energy storage project receives US$2.4m investment
RESEARCHERS in Australia have received a A$3.5m (US$2.4m) investment to develop a system that sto...
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.
Novel epoxide synthesis
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer ...
Cattle feed and dye membranes win MIT water prize
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
A tougher bioplastic for food packaging
ADDING rubber to bioplastic to make it less brittle has led to the development of a new type of b...
A novel EOR surfactant
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
Wood secures SABIC engineering design contract
WOOD has secured a contract with SABIC to design a world-class petrochemicals research centre in ...
Threads that change colour in response to certain gases
A NEW method for dying threads could be used to create smart clothing that changes colour in the ...
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.
Dual-polymer hydrogel can respond dynamically to its environment
A HYDROGEL has been developed that can bend, twist, or stick together when exposed to certain sol...
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...
UK fusion research centre granted contract extension
JOINT European Torus (JET), a fusion energy research centre in the UK, has had its contract exten...
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...
Turning CO2 into solid carbon for storage
A NEW carbon capture process has been developed that turns carbon dioxide gas into solid carbon t...
Stabilising coal ash ponds using ‘biocement’
RESEARCHERS at North Carolina State University (NCSU), US have developed a technique that adds ba...
Chemical engineers quiz MPs on science funding and single-use plastic
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
Novel water treatment pilot plant
RESEARCHERS in Singapore are to build a pilot membrane filtration plant to treat industrial waste...
OGTC funds effort to create digital twins of pressure vessels
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to dev...
Novel CO2 scrubber
RESEARCHERS at Michigan Technological University (MTU), US have designed a carbon dioxide (CO2) s...
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 ...
Report identifies challenges towards a plastics circular economy
THE European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) has released a report identi...
UK-Japan venture seeks to build small nuclear reactor in North East England
THE UK’s Penultimate Power has agreed to form a joint venture with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency...
Producing ammonia with plasma
CHEMICAL engineers have produced ammonia from nitrogen and water using plasma, in a process that ...
Improved process for making plastics from sulfur
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for t...
Fujifilm and unis join forces on bioprocessing innovation
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract developer and manufacturer, has partnered with the ...
GPS pioneers win prestigious QEPrize
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
£20m boost for UK steel and biotech
BIOMANUFACTURING and the steel sector have each been awarded £10m in funding to help commercialis...
GO dough: transforming graphene oxide
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to turn graphene oxide into a mouldable dough, making it safe...
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...
3D-printed sponge could reduce side effects of chemotherapy
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, have developed a 3D-printe...
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...
Unilever joins Nouryon’s Imagine Chemistry
NOURYON has launched the 3rd edition of Imagine Chemistry, a collaborative challenge which aims t...
Exxon partners with IBM to advance quantum computing
EXXONMOBIL has become the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community t...
BASF selects Zhanjiang for new integrated chemicals complex
BASF has picked Zhanjiang as the site for its new US$10bn chemicals complex in China.
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...
IChemE members honoured by Malaysia science academy
SIX IChemE members have been recognised for their research excellence by the Academy of Sciences ...
University of Melbourne wins US$100,000 grant
RESEARCHERS at the University of Melbourne, Australia have won a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Expl...
Novel method for creating sequence-defined polymers
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a new class of multifunctional sequence...
Novel ‘organ-on-a-chip’ device
RESEARCHERS led by the University of Cambridge, UK have developed a three-dimensional (3D) ‘organ...
Scepticism over the UK bioeconomy strategy
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The ...
Novel particles for photocatalytic water treatment
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed novel micrometre-sized, titanium dioxide (TiO2...
UK moving forward with CCUS plans
THE UK government has unveiled an action plan for developing carbon, capture, utilisation and sto...
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...
New definitions for the kilogram, mole, ampere, and kelvin
METROLOGISTS from over 60 countries met at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Vers...
Mobile plant produces fuel from waste wood
TWELVE research groups from seven countries have developed a sustainable method for producing bio...
BP launches Kathleen Lonsdale fellowships at the University of Manchester
BP-FUNDED fellowships have been awarded to two scientists at the UK’s University of Manchester. T...
Recycling mixed plastics together
RESEARCHERS in the UK have undertaken a project which aims to develop new technologies for dealin...
Understanding why fracking wastewater contains radioactive waste
RESEARCHERS at Dartmouth College, US, have released a study explaining the transfer of radium to ...
ExxonMobil to contribute US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre partnership
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will be contributing US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre. The ...
Report finds more ‘D’ needed in UK R&D
A Royal Academy of Engineering report has found that more support is needed for the final develop...
Recycling carbon dioxide in steel production
A EUROPEAN project is researching how to use the carbon dioxide produced during steelmaking to ma...
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...
RAEng and Lloyd’s Register launch £15m safety initiative and call on others to join
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$1...
A membrane technology breakthrough
RESEARCHERS from the Livingston Group at Imperial College London, UK, in collaboration with BP, h...
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...
Producing hydrogen from plastic waste
A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.
Smaller cheaper plants: Exxon and BASF tout improved gas-treating solvent
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
Improving water purification
A NEW, multi-university research centre, headquartered at the US' University of Texas at Austin (...
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...
UK steel industry gets £7m funding for alloy development
SWANSEA University, in partnership with Tata Steel and Warwick Manufacturing Group at the Univers...
An improved methane to syngas catalyst
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved...
Liquid membrane blocks small particles and lets big ones through
A SELF-HEALING liquid membrane has been developed that acts as a reverse filter by blocking small...
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...
IChemE announces Global Award finalists
IChemE has announced the finalists of the IChemE Global Awards 2018. More than 100 entries from a...
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...
Green amino acid production incorporates carbon dioxide
L-METHIONINE is an amino acid that is typically produced using toxic hydrogen cyanide. Researcher...
Alliance seeks partner to boost lab safety
PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic part...
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...
‘Green’ high-tech dye synthesis
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
Membrane filters out antibiotic-resistant bacteria in wastewater
A TECHNIQUE has been developed combining a photocatalytic membrane and UV light to remove most an...
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...
EPSRC funds Inclusion Matters initiative
THE EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) has announced that it is giving a ...
New technique for recycling multi-layer packaging
CRISP packets, chocolate wrappers, and blister packets for pills are all extremely difficult to r...
Circular hydraulic jump not caused by gravity
A FLUID mechanics phenomenon commonly seen when tap water hits a sink, and first observed by Leon...
New packaging: cheap and slippery
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
Wood and National Nuclear Laboratory partner for nuclear fuel research
THE UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has awarded a three-y...
Lab-on-a-chip moves droplets via sound waves
A LAB-ON-A-CHIP that can allow droplets to ‘surf’ across oil using acoustic waves has been develo...
Spray coating solar cells improves efficiency
A NEW technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells improves their efficiency and solves pre...
Metal-polymer hybrid used to create flexible electronics
A HYBRID conductive material has been developed for flexible electronic circuits by combining ela...
Nanoparticles for non-invasive scar detection
NANOPARTICLES which emit fluorescent signals in the presence of scar cells could be used for non-...
Colour-changing fibres indicate pressure in compression bandages
FIBRES that change colour when stretched have been integrated into compression bandages, which wi...
Turning wood waste into adhesives
A substance in trees that is usually discarded by paper manufacturers has been used to create adh...
Epilepsy drug created from greener catalytic process
A NEW method has been developed for drug production that avoids the use of expensive precious met...
New process for creating biodegradable polyesters
RESEARCHERS have developed a new polymerisation process involving a light-activated catalyst that...
Wood invests in nuclear decommissioning
WOOD has launched a new fund that will invest in technologies developed by small and medium enter...
Laser monitoring of molten steel
NEW laser technology will allow steelworkers to monitor the condition of molten metal furnaces in...
UK outlines £200m nuclear sector deal
THE UK government has unveiled a £200m (US$262m) deal in partnership with the nuclear industry th...
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...
Blubber breakthrough: MIT engineers increase wetsuit survivability
MIT chemical engineer Michael Strano has helped develop a treatment for wetsuits that protects di...
Initiative seeks to unlock potential of health and safety data
HSE has teamed up with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation to develop new techniques aimed at sifting...
China-UK metrology collaboration
THE University of Huddersfield has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai Jiao Tong U...
New 3D printer creates complex biological tissues
A 3D printer has been developed that uses a microfluidics chip to combine multiple cell-laden hyd...
Queen honours Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham Hutchings and Jim Ratcliffe
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham H...
Heat-triggered polymerisation method saves energy
A NEW polymer manufacturing process that uses the energy from the internal polymerisation reactio...
3D-printing human corneas
HUMAN corneas have been 3D-bioprinted using a specially designed bio-ink containing corneal cells.
Top ten bio-based chemicals for UK economic growth
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
BASF and ExxonMobil form gas-treating alliance
BASF and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing will work together to develop new gas-treating solven...
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...
Finalists announced in AkzoNobel Imagine Chemistry challenge
THE 20 finalists for the 2018 Imagine Chemistry challenge have been announced, with winners due t...
Successful testing of fission reactor for future space exploration
NASA has demonstrated that its prototype nuclear fission reactor can operate safely and produce t...
Gladden to lead EPSRC
CHEMICAL engineer Lynn Gladden will be the next executive chair of the Engineering and Physical S...
Caffeine used as a catalyst to make gels for drug delivery
RESEARCHERS looking for a safe catalyst to use when creating gels for drug delivery have found th...
Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
Finalists announced for carbon capture XPRIZE
TEN finalists have been announced in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE which is incentivising companies...
Water purification using sunlight and hydrogel
A WATER purification method has been developed that uses sunlight along with an inexpensive gel, ...
Printing all-liquid 3D structures
A TEAM of scientists has developed a method to 3D print all-liquid structures which could have ap...
Plastic as a heat conductor
A PLASTIC has been developed that can dissipate heat instead of trapping it, which could be used ...
Engineered enzyme digests plastic
AN EXPERIMENT to study a plastic-eating bacterium accidentally created a mutant enzyme that degra...
New design of lithium-air battery is step towards next generation of energy storage
A COMPLETE overhaul of the design of the lithium-air battery has led to the development of a prot...
Light-controlled yeast produces biofuel
MODIFIED yeast that use light as a switch to change metabolic pathways have been used to produce ...
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...
New 4D printer can create shape-changing objects
RESEARCHERS have developed a prototype ‘4D’ printer that allows 3D-printed objects to change thei...
Formic acid-based fuel cell developed for hydrogen storage
A FUEL cell has been developed that can store and transport hydrogen using formic acid so that th...
Nestlé launches first product containing breakthrough form of sugar
NESTLÉ has announced it is launching its first product containing a new form of natural sugar tha...
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 ...
Keeping proteins active outside of the cell
A METHOD has been developed for keeping proteins functional in non-native environments, which cou...
Hybrid cells bridge the gap between biological and artificial cells
LIVING and non-living components have been combined using microfluidics to create a hybrid cell c...
Monitoring tablet production with near-infrared chemical imaging
A STUDY has shown that near-infrared chemical imaging (NIR CI) can be used for monitoring the mix...
New MOF membrane cuts energy use for petrochemical industry
AN ENERGY efficient separation method for propylene and propane has been developed using metal-or...
Blood-testing 'disruptor' charged with fraud
THE CEO and former-president of Theranos – a company which claimed to have developed technology t...
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 ...
Graphene as a carrier for fertiliser micronutrients
A GRAPHENE-BASED carrier system for delivering micronutrients to crops increases the efficiency o...
Metal-free catalyst for ester synthesis
A METAL-FREE and recyclable catalyst has been developed for synthesising complex esters which cou...
3D printing metal alloys for flexible electronics
RESEARCHERS at Oregon State University have developed a method to 3D-print metal alloys which cou...
Nuclear fusion is 15 years away from reality, say MIT engineers
FUSION power – the clean energy technology wryly said to always be 30 years from reality – could ...
Exxon’s algae biofuel venture enters new phase, targeting 10,000 bbl/d
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
Trialling hydrogen in the UK gas network
AN ENERGY trial at Keele University, UK, will assess the feasibility of adding hydrogen to the ga...
Toyota magnet cuts need for rare earth elements
TOYOTA has developed a new magnet for electric car motors that requires less neodymium than conve...
Rhyme time for research students
DOCTORAL students were challenged by the University of Bath, UK, to summarise their research in a...
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...
Printed hydrogel makes drug testing more efficient
ENGINEERS have devised a way to make drug testing more efficient and affordable. The new drug dis...
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...
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...
Fission reactor in development for future space travel
A PROTOTYPE nuclear fission reactor is currently being tested as part of NASA’s Kilopower project...
Green steel process given go ahead for testing at pilot scale
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
ExxonMobil expects to pump out majority of its oil, even in a low-carbon future
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
New catalyst for hydrogen production
A CATALYST composed of nickel and iron has been developed that will make the production of hydrog...
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...
Bread alert: chemical engineers reveal worst sandwiches for the climate
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
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...
Shale gas ruled one of the least sustainable options for power
SHALE gas is one of the least sustainable options for producing electricity, according to a new s...
Noël wins DECHEMA prize for his leaf-inspired microreactors
CHEMICAL engineer Timothy Noël has been awarded the 2017 DECHEMA Prize for his pioneering work on...
UCL, Tufts find new catalyst to turn shale gas into fuel
A NEW platinum and copper alloy catalyst developed at University College London, UK, and Tufts Un...
Catalyst turns nitrate pollution into water and N2
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed a nanoparticle catalyst that converts hazardou...
New method weeds out flipping drugs
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially...
Improved chemical looping process for greener fossil fuels
ENGINEERS at Ohio State University, US, are developing a chemical looping process which can creat...
Cheap paper sensor detects water impurities
A MULTIDISCIPINARY research team from the University of Bath, UK, has developed a cheap, sustaina...
MIT turns living plants into desk lamps
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS at MIT have engineered a living plant to emit green light, with the eventual h...
Elsevier launches early stage research network
ELSEVIER, the publisher of IChemE’s journals, has launched a new early stage research network ded...
Fraunhofer creates spherical probes for bioreactor optimisation
RESEARCHERS at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nanosystems (ENAS) have developed mo...
3D printing with holograms
“INSTANTANEOUS” 3D printing using holograms could provide an alternative to layer-by-layer additi...
Evonik sets up first Asia research hub
EVONIK is to build its first Asian research hub in Singapore, with a specific focus on functional...
Warwickshire to host £80m UK battery research centre
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
Sheffield plans continuous powder processing plant
THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, wh...
Preparing for a turf war
THE US military plans to go green – as it announces plans to fund the development of “spy plants”...
One-step metabolic engineering
A NEW model in the production of biofuels and chemicals by metabolic engineering could be enabled...
World’s largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant inaugurated
THE WORLD’S largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant has been inaugurated in Germany, and has ...
Government outlines plan to make UK world’s most innovative nation
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
A new whey to drink
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
A microbial ‘tape recorder’
BACTERIAL cells that work as a “tape recorder”, by recording environmental interactions and time-...
Ethylene from artificial photosynthesis
ETHYLENE has been produced from an integrated artificial photosynthetic device for the first time...
Molten metal for clean hydrogen
MOLTEN metal could be used for a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly alternative to produce H2...
Bioengineering opportunities and risks
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
New continuous cell therapy bioprocess
A COATING that allows the first ever continuous production of cells could remove a significant bo...
Cost-effective ‘supercatalyst’ recycles CO2 and CH4
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of Surrey, UK have developed a cost-effective ‘supercatalyst...
Stored heat from the sun can provide energy on demand
ENGINEERS at MIT, US, have developed a chemical composite that can store heat from the sun during...
Wood improves solar steam generation
POROUS wood from trees like poplar and pine could be used for an efficient, biodegradable water p...
First kerosene made from solar syngas
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
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...
New graphene oxide membrane filters organics
GRAPHENE OXIDE membranes were once thought to be permeable only to aqueous solutions, but researc...
Keeping oil and water mixed for months
EMULSIONS that can stay stable for months have been created using a low-cost, low-energy process ...
Detecting water leaks with ‘smart paper’
A SMART paper laced with conductive nanomaterials could be used to easily locate water leaks in a...
EU launches €6m project to valorise jellyfish
A PROJECT seeking to explore turning jellyfish blooms into new products such as biofilters, ferti...
Living solar panel printed on paper
BIO-SOLAR panels have been printed to resemble wallpaper, and could lead to new types of electric...
Natural gas emissions threaten EU carbon budget
METHANE emissions from natural gas have been underestimated by governments, and the “bridging fue...
Bioinspired polymers self-assemble like proteins
RESEARCHERS in the US have worked out how to make polymer chains self-assemble into a desired str...
NUS, NTU and ExxonMobil set up Singapore Energy Centre
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed...
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...
Russia signs nuclear agreements with Nigeria
RUSSIA has signed agreements to build a nuclear power plant and a research centre housing a multi...
2D materials with ‘smallest possible’ holes sieve salt from seawater
RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have assembled me...
Novel coating turns windows into radiators
MUCH of the heat loss from buildings is through the windows, but researchers in Sweden have devel...
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...
Functionalising waste methane in remote locations
A NOVEL electrochemical process to convert methane into methanol precursors could reduce the need...
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...
BASF to enter seeds business with €5.9bn Bayer deal
BAYER has agreed to sell some of its crop science businesses to BASF for €5.9bn (US$7bn), as it s...
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...
Singapore "model factory" to help SMEs
SINGAPORE’S first 'model factory' has been launched, which will allow SMEs to gain experience of ...
ISC report sets out safety roadmap
PROCESS safety incidents are not decreasing over time, and steps must be taken to reduce the repe...
Founders of £65m UK battery research institute named
SEVEN British universities have been named as founding partners of the £65m Faraday Battery Insti...
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...
Vapour jet printing personalised medicines
RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan have developed vapour jet printing technology, usually ...
An olive branch for a circular economy
RESEARCHERS have piloted a process to turn a waste stream from olive oil manufacture into biofuel...
Lund team turns chicken feathers into food
MILLIONS of tons of chicken feathers are wasted every year, but researchers at Lund University in...
Filtering fracking water for reuse
A SUPERHYDROPHILIC filter has been shown to remove 90% of hydrocarbons, bacteria, and particulate...
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...
Surf and turf: replacing plastic laminates
A COMPOSTABLE biomaterial made of derivatives from lobster shells and wood could sustainably repl...
Capturing ionic winds
STUNNING 3D images that show the effect of electric fields on ionic winds flowing from a flame co...
UK and US sign science agreement
A SCIENCE and technology agreement between the UK and US was signed yesterday, which is the first...
IgNobels reward coffee fluid dynamics and liquid cats
THE IgNobel Awards, celebrating the weirdest of weird science, have this year been awarded to suc...
Caterpillars might not break down plastic after all
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically b...
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...
Storing energy brick by brick
FIREBRICKS similar to those used to line kilns for over 3,000 years could provide an industrial e...
Thorium nuclear research boost
A THORIUM molten salt reactor (TMSR) experiment – the world’s first in over 45 years – has been s...
Singapore pharma innovation programme launched
A MEMORANDUM of understanding between three industry giants and Singapore’s public sector was sig...
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...
Making magic
BIOSYNTHESIS of psilocybin, the psychoactive drug found in so-called “magic mushrooms”, has been ...
Giving green polymers the blue light
BLUE light has been used by researchers to create an interpenetrating polymeric network (IPN) in ...
Merck unsure of cyberattack impact
MERCK & Co has said that it still does not yet know the full impact of the NotPetya cyberattack, ...
Light-activated catalyst turns CO2 to CO
RESEARCHERS at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have developed a “spongy” nickel-b...
Jellyfish and prawn cocktail
A GASTRONOMIC delight in Asia could be making its way to the western world, thanks to a new proce...
Medical adhesive inspired by slugs
AN ADHESIVE inspired by a species of slug has been described by researchers, who say it adheres f...
Produce less, pollute more
A STANFORD University study suggests that ageing oilfields can demand more energy even while petr...
Making polysulfates and polysulfonates
RESEARCHERS using so-called “click chemistry” say they have developed a fast, easy way to make su...
Turning dirty foil into useful catalysts
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often l...
Wood digestion without enzymes
SUCCESSFULLY understanding the unique, non-enzymatic digestion of wood by a fungus has been descr...
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...
Nano-sand in EOR
MORE oil could be recovered from wells by injecting a mixture of ‘nano-sand’ and a surfactant, ac...
Bismuth could replace lead in solar cells
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, ac...
Floating cellulose gel cleans up oil spills
A NEW type of cellulose composite material which can turn spilled oil into a rigid floating gel t...
Spinning silkworm cocoons
BIOCOMPATIBLE, biodegradable silk cocoons capable of being accurately spun on a nano-scale could ...
UK battery technology funding announced
BATTERY technology in the UK received a boost today, as the government announced £246m (US$321m) ...
New project to tackle surface corrosion
A NEW £5m (US$6.5m) project led by BP and the University of Manchester, UK, will seek to better u...
First global plastics analysis
A WORLD-first study of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made has shown that 8.3 ...
Engineers dispel 100-year fluid flow law
A 100-YEAR law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks has been overturned by engineers at...
Science sans frontières
PRICE often limits training and research opportunities in developing countries – but researchers ...
Very strong plant-inspired graphene aerogel
A NEW form of graphene aerogel, inspired by the structure of a plant stem, is exceptionally stron...
Hydrogen-powered boat begins six-year journey
SEEKING to raise awareness of the promise of hydrogen fuel, a converted racing boat equipped to p...
Cutting biofuel production time
A BIOMASS pre-treatment technique could make biofuels cheaper, safer and up to 172% faster to pro...
Nuclear fusion in Europe delayed past 2050
NUCLEAR fusion in Europe from the DEMO demonstration plant could be pushed back beyond 2054, acco...
New way to clean water in developing world
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY team at the University of Bath, UK, is developing a new portable, cheap and e...
Spinning webs sustainably
HYDROGEL fibres similar to spider silk have been spun at room temperature, and researchers say it...
Evonik plans €100m digital investment
EVONIK has earmarked €100m (US$114m) for investment in digitalisation by 2020 and formed strategi...
Roadtrip fuelled on whisky waste
PROCESS developers are celebrating a roadtrip fuelled by whisky waste.
Consider treating unused desal filters
A BIOFOULING study that has examined colonies of bacteria on membranes suggests desalination plan...
Lithium promotes hot plasma edge for fusion
LITHIUM could hold the key to improving the confinement of plasma in fusion reactors, and ensurin...
Modularisation of nuclear new builds
A NEW R&D centre aiming to develop modular manufacturing in the UK’s nuclear energy sector has be...
Evonik and Sinopec partner on OSN
EVONIK and the SINOPEC Beijing Research Institute of the Chemical Industry (BRICI) have agreed to...
Industry 4.0 in R&D
BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product develo...
Method makes olefins under mild conditions
CHEMISTS in the US and South Korea have developed a technique to produce olefins, a vital chemica...
IChemE’s PSEP impact factor up 40%
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
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...
UK government commits funding to fusion
THE UK government has committed to funding the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion energy research ...
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 ...
Notts Uni to reprogramme chemicals production
GREEN chemicals are a focus of a new £200m (US$253m) investment announced by the UK’s University ...
Exxon and partner double algae oil output
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
Solar paint turns wall into a fuel station
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint...
