
Fly Me O2 The Moon
Mark Symes and Beth Lomax explain the thinking behind how to make oxygen on the Moon
Mark Symes and Beth Lomax explain the thinking behind how to make oxygen on the Moon
Shrihari Sankarasubramanian, Pralay Gayen and Vijay K Ramani discuss work on methods to make fuel...
Ali Mokhber, Christopher Ross, and Pablo Garcia-Trinanes describe how layers of protection analys...
Adam Duckett on Fukushima and the future of nuclear
Researchers and industry have developed a guide to data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing
The importance of locking down innovation in troubled times
Oliver Jones; ISBN: 978-981-15-6189-4; Springer Singapore; 2020; US$59.99 (softcover)
Alexandra Meldrum introduces Communities of Practice
JMP invites engineers to explore an alternative way of experimenting that can increase your effec...
Ian Scott discusses the development of the waste-burning stable salt reactor (SSR)
Jon Prichard and Claudia Flavell-While explain IChemE’s role in supporting the innovation process
Zainuddin Manan describes routes to increasing graduates’ employability
Rotating packed beds can play a part in making carbon capture smaller and cheaper
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and ...
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is a...
Constantine Tsounis, Bijil Subhash, and Khushal Polepalle chart their journey from undergrad desi...
John Bewsey describes a new ion exchange process for cleaning up acid mines and brackish water
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
A decade on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, James Pettigrew discusses the efforts to bring t...
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
Jonathan Pearce explains how new techniques can improve process efficiency
JMP discusses how to encourage organisations to take a new approach to innovation
George Wypych; ISBN: 978-1-927885-51-2; ChemTec Publishing; 2019; US$350
JMP discusses how Design of Experiments (DOE) can help startups bring new and better products to ...
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonst...
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE
Raymond Tan and Dominic Foo explain how pinch analysis techniques can be used to optimise decarbo...
Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as vali...
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale oper...
Ruby Ray and Fabio Ruggeri describe an innovative process to produce substitute natural gas – a s...
Adam Duckett on the tug of war between R & D
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), D...
Adam Duckett on the Apollo 11 anniversary and human ingenuity
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system
ON 25–26 June the University of Cambridge’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology ...
ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experime...
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Dyllon Randall explains how bio-bricks can be grown from human urine
James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for ...
Why is it that the introduction of innovative process technologies appears to be so slow in the p...
Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane tec...
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing ...
Process simulation software has become almost universal in the chemical engineering sector, and m...
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale
Constant pressure to innovate? Boost development productivity with data analytics
Filtration is often overlooked during the development of new processes, but at what cost?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
The potential of algae to recover valuable resources from waste could transform the traditional w...
An engineer’s role in rejuvenating a naturally-inspired antimicrobial
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Hydroponic technology could help us sustainably meet growing food demand
Can novel uses of blockchain technology in the chemical and process industries justify its cost?
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
Chemical synthesis of a retina, and how it can ‘see’ the world around it
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
Developing a low-cost smartphone app to help craft beer breweries and homebrewers monitor and con...
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
A look into public awareness and acceptance of carbon capture and utilisation
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
New reactor promises continuous processing of biotherapeutics
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
The promise of AI for industrial automation
AkzoNobel is calling on chemical engineers to enter its R&D challenge and help provide the missin...
FBP journal – a new avenue for the research
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Creating scalable nanomaterials for industry
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Funding up for grabs for Anglo-French projects
Water and wastewater processes: the last (and next) 30 years
Why we must harness the power of horizontal innovation in the formulation sector
Rethinking the PhD – and your perceptions
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
Astronaut Donald Pettit talks to Adam Duckett about his life and work
Quality by design must be viewed as an opportunity, not as a regulatory burden
Transformational technologies in oil and gas. Could we learn future direction from past innovations?
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
FOURTEEN companies have won contracts in a £3.9m (US$5.5m) competition aimed at developing a wast...
A RESEARCH consortium led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia is invest...
CEMEX has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a pilot carbon c...
SEEKING to accelerate a novel method for producing inactivated vaccines to market and ensure comp...
TECH billionaire Elon Musk is launching a US$100m prize for innovators who can remove CO2 from th...
THE UK Government is offering £40m (US$56m) in funding for energy-intensive companies to conduct ...
A NEWLY-discovered bacterium strain could be used to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from sewage ...
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
FIVE engineers who helped develop LED lighting have won the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engine...
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans for US$160m of federal funding aimed at dec...
CHEMICAL company INEOS has donated £100m (US$136.8m) to the University of Oxford, UK for a new, s...
CPI, an independent technology centre, has announced the launch of a programme aiming to support ...
Project partners Equinor, OGE, and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have completed their joint feasibili...
AN inexpensive, non-toxic method has been developed to recover silver and palladium from industri...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient p...
A NEW method to produce ammonia via electrolysis can improve the process while also lowering emis...
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and ...
AUSTRALIAN energy company Transborders Energy has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs)with ...
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
MINING company Vale has opened a pilot plant that will make products for civil construction using...
C-CAPTURE has announced that it will work alongside glass manufacturer Pilkington to assess the p...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced £22.5m (US$29.9m) in funding for five new circula...
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
A PROJECT between Swansea University, UK, and Tata Steel will assess if a thermochemical heat sto...
ENEOS has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sarawak Economic Development Company (S...
TAKING a step to achieving a fusion power plant, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) £55m ...
THE Australian and Singaporean governments have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance c...
A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of sever...
SERIOUS consideration should be given to decontaminating and reusing PPE to alleviate shortages a...
PRINCE William has launched the Earthshot Prize, which offers £50m (US$65m) in funding for soluti...
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
EVONIK and Siemens have commissioned a pilot plant that uses microorganisms to convert water and ...
PALE Blue Dot has signed an agreement with Carbon Engineering to work together on deploying direc...
THE UK’s Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre has expanded its partners to include PSE, Siem...
A PARTNERSHIP between researchers at Aston University, UK, and EcoMotive has developed alcohol-fr...
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks ...
MSD, known as Merck & Co within the US and Canada, has selected to build its future US$1.32bn sta...
NATIONAL Grid is partnering with gas distribution companies, safety organisations, and academia, ...
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology compa...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
THE UK Government has announced a £100m (US$127.7m) investment to fund a state-of-the-art facilit...
A BLOOD test has been developed by researchers in Australia which can detect Covid-19 antibodies ...
A CATALYST produced via flame spray pyrolysis can be used to turn waste CO2 into syngas for use i...
A PROFESSOR at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), US has develo...
EVONIK has developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM) that could contribute to commercial re...
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
THE UK Government has released a research and development (R&D) plan which it says marks the star...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in fundi...
SCIENTISTS have taken a step forward in breaking the so-called vaccine “cold chain” by creating a...
HYDROGEN technology company Hazer’s commercial demonstration project – which will produce low-emi...
BASF has been using its supercomputer to help identify molecules that might help in the fight aga...
The UK’s Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced two major supp...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Shell have agreed to jointly accelerate technology to electrify...
THREE partners have joined forces in Canada to demonstrate a 15 MW small modular reactor that wou...
PETROFAC has been awarded a contract for engineering and project support for Pale Blue Dot Energy...
PHILLIPS 66, Uniper, and Vitol have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Humber ...
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a four-year, multimillion-pound framework agree...
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is now open for entries into its 2020 Emerging Technolo...
AUSTRIAN technology company Krajete has announced the successful testing of a filtration system t...
A TEAM of MIT chemical engineers has developed an electrochemical process for producing ammonia t...
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment f...
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could ...
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
BRITISH plant biologist Dame Ottoline Leyser has been appointed as new CEO of UK Research and Inn...
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net...
THE Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is investing US$338m to develop and ma...
RESEACHERS at the University of Southampton, UK have developed photocatalytic microreactors that ...
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
ICHEME’S volunteer Covid-19 Response Team has divided into distinct workstreams, including on dia...
WOODSIDE has joined a consortium to study exporting hydrogen as ammonia from Australia to Japan.
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
SINGAPOREAN and Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, have signed a memorandum of understandi...
A COLLABORATIVE project has succeeded in demonstrating proof-of-concept for novel sodium-nickel-c...
A CONSORTIUM of life sciences companies including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer, is c...
BRITISH multinational pharma company GSK is helping to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, including...
AN interdisciplinary team of researchers has calculated how wood could replace petroleum in the c...
RESEARCHERS have presented a new view of chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineering, which sees t...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US have discovered a green process which can quickly and cheaply ...
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
RESEARCHERS at Stanford University, US have developed a soft and stretchable battery that could b...
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at ...
THE UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded around £90m (...
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI and the University of Oxford, UK have partnered to scale up tech...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK and the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have devel...
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI has partnered with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part ...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
A METAL-organic framework (MOF) developed at the University of Manchester, UK is capable of selec...
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
A JOINT study will assess the viability of a commercial-scale carbon capture facility at LafargeH...
THE UK Government has announced the details of a new fast-track visa scheme to attract overseas r...
BRUNEL University London’s new Department of Chemical Engineering was officially launched on 29 J...
NOURYON has signed a framework agreement with Semiotic Labs to implement technology that will pre...
RESEARCHERS at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have developed a process to turn ban...
CPI is partnering with ImmunoBiology (ImmBio) to develop a vaccine that protects against illnesse...
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas p...
A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which co...
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovati...
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and rever...
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have ...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised £800m (US$1.03bn) in funding for CCS along with doub...
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
A UK sustainable steel research network is offering up to £1m (US$1.3m) in funding for other rese...
AN international team of researchers has, for the first time, shown that the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
MIT scientists have developed a process to produce cement via electrolysis, which would lower the...
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process usi...
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
RAWWATER Engineering Company, which developed specialist alloys for the oil and gas industry that...
LINDE has developed a novel process to recover high-value products, including helium, from natura...
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
OIL and gas companies Shell and BP have joined the Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS...
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and A...
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Clariant has opened a new High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) Labor...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed an electrocatalytic reactor that could be used...
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will join...
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed ...
USING North Sea oil rigs to generate power from methane and bury the resulting emissions would be...
A METAL oxide-infused membrane has been developed that offers lower-energy chemical separation th...
A container-based test facility has successfully produced synthetic fuel from renewable energy an...
OIL and gas company Santos and diversified company Perdaman have signed a heads of agreement to f...
EXXONMOBIL and separations technology company Mosaic Materials have agreed to explore the advance...
QUEENSLAND Government-owned power generation company Stanwell is spending A$5m (US$3.4m) to study...
BASF is to sell its global pigments business to fine chemicals company DIC for €1.15bn (US$1.3bn)...
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a novel, damage-free process for r...
LED by the World Economic Forum (WEF), chemical companies are to collaborate to reduce the chemic...
A CHEMICAL reactor has been designed that can produce hydrogen as a pure product stream.
A plant-based alternative to polystyrene foam has been developed that has better insulation prope...
COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon...
LOCALISED corrosion can cause failures in steel pipes used in the oil and gas industry, but new r...
LEADING specialty chemicals company Perstorp is investigating the potential production of recycle...
NESTE and LyondellBasell are claiming an industry-first with the parallel, commercial-scale produ...
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research...
DRAX is partnering with startup Deep Branch Biotechnology (DBB) on a new bioenergy carbon capture...
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed a novel electrochemical pat...
USING a temperature-dependent solvent to desalinate water with high concentrations of dissolved s...
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for ...
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
CO2CRC, an Australian carbon capture and storage (CCS) research organisation, has announced a A$4...
RESEARCHERS from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan have developed a bench-scale ammonia pro...
EIGHT groups received awards in Nouryon’s 2019 Imagine Chemistry competition.
RESEARCHERS in Australia have received a A$3.5m (US$2.4m) investment to develop a system that sto...
PRODUCING useful chemicals from carbon dioxide via electrolysis typically has a high energy consu...
RESEARCHERS have developed a new process for producing the biofuel isobutanol more economically.
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer ...
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
ADDING rubber to bioplastic to make it less brittle has led to the development of a new type of b...
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
WOOD has secured a contract with SABIC to design a world-class petrochemicals research centre in ...
A NEW method for dying threads could be used to create smart clothing that changes colour in the ...
A CARBON-NEGATIVE form of concrete has won an inaugural prize that recognises the potential of us...
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire, the Salzgitter Group, and their international partners are to build t...
A PARTNERSHIP between Nordic clean energy company Fortum, and Finnish speciality recycling compan...
A PROCESS has been developed that can remove nearly all traces of oil in produced water.
A HYDROGEL has been developed that can bend, twist, or stick together when exposed to certain sol...
A PROCESS for converting algae to biofuel has been developed that is significantly less energy-in...
BP has formed a partnership with Virent and Johnson Matthey to commercialise a process that produ...
JOINT European Torus (JET), a fusion energy research centre in the UK, has had its contract exten...
BASF has opened a new research centre for catalyst and process development.
SCIENCE and technology company Merck is collaborating with Iktos to use Iktos’ artificial intelli...
A NEW carbon capture process has been developed that turns carbon dioxide gas into solid carbon t...
RESEARCHERS at North Carolina State University (NCSU), US have developed a technique that adds ba...
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
RESEARCHERS in Singapore are to build a pilot membrane filtration plant to treat industrial waste...
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to dev...
RESEARCHERS at Michigan Technological University (MTU), US have designed a carbon dioxide (CO2) s...
EVONIK is selling its methacrylates business to private equity firm Advent International for €3bn...
A NEW process has been developed that uses supercritical water to transform polypropylene plastic...
ENGINEERS at MIT, US have proposed a method that could use desalination waste to produce useful c...
SCIENTISTS at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US have developed ...
THE European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) has released a report identi...
THE UK’s Penultimate Power has agreed to form a joint venture with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency...
CHEMICAL engineers have produced ammonia from nitrogen and water using plasma, in a process that ...
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for t...
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract developer and manufacturer, has partnered with the ...
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
BIOMANUFACTURING and the steel sector have each been awarded £10m in funding to help commercialis...
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to turn graphene oxide into a mouldable dough, making it safe...
Clariant has partnered with ExxonMobil and the biofuel firm Renewable Energy Group (REG) to devel...
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire has successfully demonstrated a single-step process for producing syng...
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, have developed a 3D-printe...
THE Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and Carbon CCS-US, the US subsidiary of Carbon Clean Solutions...
NOURYON has launched the 3rd edition of Imagine Chemistry, a collaborative challenge which aims t...
EXXONMOBIL has become the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community t...
BASF has picked Zhanjiang as the site for its new US$10bn chemicals complex in China.
BASF has outlined four R&D activities that will allow the company to achieve CO2-neutral growth u...
A RESEARCHER at the University of Delaware (UD), US has patented a process that could enable gree...
SIX IChemE members have been recognised for their research excellence by the Academy of Sciences ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Melbourne, Australia have won a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Expl...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a new class of multifunctional sequence...
RESEARCHERS led by the University of Cambridge, UK have developed a three-dimensional (3D) ‘organ...
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The ...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed novel micrometre-sized, titanium dioxide (TiO2...
THE UK government has unveiled an action plan for developing carbon, capture, utilisation and sto...
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydro...
METROLOGISTS from over 60 countries met at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Vers...
TWELVE research groups from seven countries have developed a sustainable method for producing bio...
BP-FUNDED fellowships have been awarded to two scientists at the UK’s University of Manchester. T...
RESEARCHERS in the UK have undertaken a project which aims to develop new technologies for dealin...
RESEARCHERS at Dartmouth College, US, have released a study explaining the transfer of radium to ...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will be contributing US$10m to the Singapore Energy Centre. The ...
A Royal Academy of Engineering report has found that more support is needed for the final develop...
A EUROPEAN project is researching how to use the carbon dioxide produced during steelmaking to ma...
A CATALYST has been developed that almost eliminates carbon dioxide emissions in the Fischer-Trop...
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$1...
RESEARCHERS from the Livingston Group at Imperial College London, UK, in collaboration with BP, h...
Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with tr...
A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
A NEW, multi-university research centre, headquartered at the US' University of Texas at Austin (...
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
SWANSEA University, in partnership with Tata Steel and Warwick Manufacturing Group at the Univers...
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved...
A SELF-HEALING liquid membrane has been developed that acts as a reverse filter by blocking small...
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
ENGINEERS at Rice University, US, in conjunction with Shell Global Solutions, have developed magn...
IN a collaboration between Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), and global p...
IChemE has announced the finalists of the IChemE Global Awards 2018. More than 100 entries from a...
NUVIA (UK) has won a multi-million-pound contract with Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) t...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have discovered a method that makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their ta...
L-METHIONINE is an amino acid that is typically produced using toxic hydrogen cyanide. Researcher...
PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic part...
The US Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water resource management, has announced that it wil...
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
A TECHNIQUE has been developed combining a photocatalytic membrane and UV light to remove most an...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, are developing a novel water treatment technology to selectiv...
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
THE EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) has announced that it is giving a ...
CRISP packets, chocolate wrappers, and blister packets for pills are all extremely difficult to r...
A FLUID mechanics phenomenon commonly seen when tap water hits a sink, and first observed by Leon...
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
THE UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has awarded a three-y...
A LAB-ON-A-CHIP that can allow droplets to ‘surf’ across oil using acoustic waves has been develo...
A NEW technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells improves their efficiency and solves pre...
A HYBRID conductive material has been developed for flexible electronic circuits by combining ela...
NANOPARTICLES which emit fluorescent signals in the presence of scar cells could be used for non-...
FIBRES that change colour when stretched have been integrated into compression bandages, which wi...
A substance in trees that is usually discarded by paper manufacturers has been used to create adh...
A NEW method has been developed for drug production that avoids the use of expensive precious met...
RESEARCHERS have developed a new polymerisation process involving a light-activated catalyst that...
WOOD has launched a new fund that will invest in technologies developed by small and medium enter...
NEW laser technology will allow steelworkers to monitor the condition of molten metal furnaces in...
THE UK government has unveiled a £200m (US$262m) deal in partnership with the nuclear industry th...
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
MIT chemical engineer Michael Strano has helped develop a treatment for wetsuits that protects di...
HSE has teamed up with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation to develop new techniques aimed at sifting...
THE University of Huddersfield has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai Jiao Tong U...
A 3D printer has been developed that uses a microfluidics chip to combine multiple cell-laden hyd...
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham H...
A NEW polymer manufacturing process that uses the energy from the internal polymerisation reactio...
HUMAN corneas have been 3D-bioprinted using a specially designed bio-ink containing corneal cells.
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
BASF and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing will work together to develop new gas-treating solven...
A CHEMICAL engineer from the University of Queensland has created a new type of micro distillery ...
NORWAY’S efforts to develop a full-chain CCS demonstration project have been boosted by governmen...
THE 20 finalists for the 2018 Imagine Chemistry challenge have been announced, with winners due t...
NASA has demonstrated that its prototype nuclear fission reactor can operate safely and produce t...
CHEMICAL engineer Lynn Gladden will be the next executive chair of the Engineering and Physical S...
RESEARCHERS looking for a safe catalyst to use when creating gels for drug delivery have found th...
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
TEN finalists have been announced in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE which is incentivising companies...
A WATER purification method has been developed that uses sunlight along with an inexpensive gel, ...
A TEAM of scientists has developed a method to 3D print all-liquid structures which could have ap...
A PLASTIC has been developed that can dissipate heat instead of trapping it, which could be used ...
AN EXPERIMENT to study a plastic-eating bacterium accidentally created a mutant enzyme that degra...
A COMPLETE overhaul of the design of the lithium-air battery has led to the development of a prot...
MODIFIED yeast that use light as a switch to change metabolic pathways have been used to produce ...
UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s larges...
RESEARCHERS have developed a prototype ‘4D’ printer that allows 3D-printed objects to change thei...
A FUEL cell has been developed that can store and transport hydrogen using formic acid so that th...
NESTLÉ has announced it is launching its first product containing a new form of natural sugar tha...
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
AKZONOBEL has joined a partnership in Sweden that seeks to use excess renewable power to produce ...
A METHOD has been developed for keeping proteins functional in non-native environments, which cou...
LIVING and non-living components have been combined using microfluidics to create a hybrid cell c...
A STUDY has shown that near-infrared chemical imaging (NIR CI) can be used for monitoring the mix...
AN ENERGY efficient separation method for propylene and propane has been developed using metal-or...
THE CEO and former-president of Theranos – a company which claimed to have developed technology t...
A BREAKTHROUGH has been made in the manufacturing of carbon nanotube membranes which will lead to...
A PROCESS for the chemical decontamination of nuclear reactor cooling systems has been developed ...
A GRAPHENE-BASED carrier system for delivering micronutrients to crops increases the efficiency o...
A METAL-FREE and recyclable catalyst has been developed for synthesising complex esters which cou...
RESEARCHERS at Oregon State University have developed a method to 3D-print metal alloys which cou...
FUSION power – the clean energy technology wryly said to always be 30 years from reality – could ...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
AN ENERGY trial at Keele University, UK, will assess the feasibility of adding hydrogen to the ga...
TOYOTA has developed a new magnet for electric car motors that requires less neodymium than conve...
DOCTORAL students were challenged by the University of Bath, UK, to summarise their research in a...
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
ENGINEERS have devised a way to make drug testing more efficient and affordable. The new drug dis...
A CATALYST has been developed for synthesising ammonia that is around 100 times more efficient th...
ENGINEERS at the University of Maryland have developed a way to make wood more than ten times str...
DNV GL has set up an R&D centre in Singapore to accelerate the use of 3D-printed technology by th...
A TECHNIQUE has been developed that allows two fluids to be combined mid-air by using two jets of...
A PROTOTYPE nuclear fission reactor is currently being tested as part of NASA’s Kilopower project...
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
A CATALYST composed of nickel and iron has been developed that will make the production of hydrog...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have simplified the process of creating microfluidics prototypes by building t...
GENOMATICA is working with nylon-maker Aquafil to produce one of its key feedstocks – caprolactam...
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 (CLG) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA...
EVONIK and Siemens are working together on a process to produce specialty chemicals from carbon d...
SHALE gas is one of the least sustainable options for producing electricity, according to a new s...
CHEMICAL engineer Timothy Noël has been awarded the 2017 DECHEMA Prize for his pioneering work on...
A NEW platinum and copper alloy catalyst developed at University College London, UK, and Tufts Un...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed a nanoparticle catalyst that converts hazardou...
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially...
ENGINEERS at Ohio State University, US, are developing a chemical looping process which can creat...
A MULTIDISCIPINARY research team from the University of Bath, UK, has developed a cheap, sustaina...
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS at MIT have engineered a living plant to emit green light, with the eventual h...
ELSEVIER, the publisher of IChemE’s journals, has launched a new early stage research network ded...
RESEARCHERS at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nanosystems (ENAS) have developed mo...
“INSTANTANEOUS” 3D printing using holograms could provide an alternative to layer-by-layer additi...
EVONIK is to build its first Asian research hub in Singapore, with a specific focus on functional...
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, wh...
THE US military plans to go green – as it announces plans to fund the development of “spy plants”...
A NEW model in the production of biofuels and chemicals by metabolic engineering could be enabled...
THE WORLD’S largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant has been inaugurated in Germany, and has ...
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
BACTERIAL cells that work as a “tape recorder”, by recording environmental interactions and time-...
ETHYLENE has been produced from an integrated artificial photosynthetic device for the first time...
MOLTEN metal could be used for a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly alternative to produce H2...
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
A COATING that allows the first ever continuous production of cells could remove a significant bo...
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of Surrey, UK have developed a cost-effective ‘supercatalyst...
ENGINEERS at MIT, US, have developed a chemical composite that can store heat from the sun during...
POROUS wood from trees like poplar and pine could be used for an efficient, biodegradable water p...
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
THE half-life of nuclear fission products could be reduced from hundreds of thousands of years to...
ADDING plastic bottles to concrete could lead not only to lower carbon emissions, but improve str...
GRAPHENE OXIDE membranes were once thought to be permeable only to aqueous solutions, but researc...
EMULSIONS that can stay stable for months have been created using a low-cost, low-energy process ...
A SMART paper laced with conductive nanomaterials could be used to easily locate water leaks in a...
A PROJECT seeking to explore turning jellyfish blooms into new products such as biofilters, ferti...
BIO-SOLAR panels have been printed to resemble wallpaper, and could lead to new types of electric...
METHANE emissions from natural gas have been underestimated by governments, and the “bridging fue...
RESEARCHERS in the US have worked out how to make polymer chains self-assemble into a desired str...
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed...
A SPINOUT from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) has developed a process to extract...
A MACHINE learning tool with the potential to search through millions of research papers to devel...
A MINING company is seeking to switch from an alkaline to acidic method of uranium recovery in a ...
CHEMICALLY active catalysts have been 3D printed in a single step, which researchers say could al...
NUTRIENTS, energy and water will be safely recovered from the faeces and urine of up to 1,000 peo...
RUSSIA has signed agreements to build a nuclear power plant and a research centre housing a multi...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have assembled me...
MUCH of the heat loss from buildings is through the windows, but researchers in Sweden have devel...
ASPHALTENE, the cholesterol of the oil industry, clogs pipelines and interrupts flow, but dispers...
COOLING tower water could be reused and recycled ten or more times by using a new silica-removing...
A NOVEL electrochemical process to convert methane into methanol precursors could reduce the need...
COVESTRO is leading a consortium of 14 European partners from seven countries in a new project to...
A CERAMIC pump capable of transferring molten tin at temperatures of more than 1,400°C could lead...
BAYER has agreed to sell some of its crop science businesses to BASF for €5.9bn (US$7bn), as it s...
NOVEL research has demonstrated that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), commonly produced as fine p...
EVONIK has developed a more efficient process to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA), a widely-used...
RESEARCHERS have reported a “major breakthrough” in reforming CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and c...
SINGAPORE’S first 'model factory' has been launched, which will allow SMEs to gain experience of ...
PROCESS safety incidents are not decreasing over time, and steps must be taken to reduce the repe...
SEVEN British universities have been named as founding partners of the £65m Faraday Battery Insti...
THE European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has today announced the winners of a serie...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan have developed vapour jet printing technology, usually ...
RESEARCHERS have piloted a process to turn a waste stream from olive oil manufacture into biofuel...
MILLIONS of tons of chicken feathers are wasted every year, but researchers at Lund University in...
A SUPERHYDROPHILIC filter has been shown to remove 90% of hydrocarbons, bacteria, and particulate...
FREELY-available software which is hoped will provide an easy-to-use tool for automated reaction ...
A PILOT facility in Finland has successfully trialled an environmentally-friendly process to recy...
A COMPOSTABLE biomaterial made of derivatives from lobster shells and wood could sustainably repl...
STUNNING 3D images that show the effect of electric fields on ionic winds flowing from a flame co...
A SCIENCE and technology agreement between the UK and US was signed yesterday, which is the first...
THE IgNobel Awards, celebrating the weirdest of weird science, have this year been awarded to suc...
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically b...
FORMER IChemE president Ian Shott says that the huge UK chemical industry must focus on its stren...
FIREBRICKS similar to those used to line kilns for over 3,000 years could provide an industrial e...
A THORIUM molten salt reactor (TMSR) experiment – the world’s first in over 45 years – has been s...
A MEMORANDUM of understanding between three industry giants and Singapore’s public sector was sig...
A SAFER, easier process to apply colour-changing conjugated polymer films to consumer goods such ...
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from...
BIOSYNTHESIS of psilocybin, the psychoactive drug found in so-called “magic mushrooms”, has been ...
BLUE light has been used by researchers to create an interpenetrating polymeric network (IPN) in ...
MERCK & Co has said that it still does not yet know the full impact of the NotPetya cyberattack, ...
RESEARCHERS at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have developed a “spongy” nickel-b...
A GASTRONOMIC delight in Asia could be making its way to the western world, thanks to a new proce...
AN ADHESIVE inspired by a species of slug has been described by researchers, who say it adheres f...
A STANFORD University study suggests that ageing oilfields can demand more energy even while petr...
RESEARCHERS using so-called “click chemistry” say they have developed a fast, easy way to make su...
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often l...
SUCCESSFULLY understanding the unique, non-enzymatic digestion of wood by a fungus has been descr...
A HIGHLY enantioselective method for the decarboxylative halogenation of carboxylic acids has bee...
RESEARCHERS in Finland have successfully produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricit...
MORE oil could be recovered from wells by injecting a mixture of ‘nano-sand’ and a surfactant, ac...
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, ac...
A NEW type of cellulose composite material which can turn spilled oil into a rigid floating gel t...
BIOCOMPATIBLE, biodegradable silk cocoons capable of being accurately spun on a nano-scale could ...
BATTERY technology in the UK received a boost today, as the government announced £246m (US$321m) ...
A NEW £5m (US$6.5m) project led by BP and the University of Manchester, UK, will seek to better u...
A WORLD-first study of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made has shown that 8.3 ...
A 100-YEAR law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks has been overturned by engineers at...
PRICE often limits training and research opportunities in developing countries – but researchers ...
A NEW form of graphene aerogel, inspired by the structure of a plant stem, is exceptionally stron...
SEEKING to raise awareness of the promise of hydrogen fuel, a converted racing boat equipped to p...
A BIOMASS pre-treatment technique could make biofuels cheaper, safer and up to 172% faster to pro...
NUCLEAR fusion in Europe from the DEMO demonstration plant could be pushed back beyond 2054, acco...
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY team at the University of Bath, UK, is developing a new portable, cheap and e...
HYDROGEL fibres similar to spider silk have been spun at room temperature, and researchers say it...
EVONIK has earmarked €100m (US$114m) for investment in digitalisation by 2020 and formed strategi...
PROCESS developers are celebrating a roadtrip fuelled by whisky waste.
LITHIUM could hold the key to improving the confinement of plasma in fusion reactors, and ensurin...
A BIOFOULING study that has examined colonies of bacteria on membranes suggests desalination plan...
A NEW R&D centre aiming to develop modular manufacturing in the UK’s nuclear energy sector has be...
EVONIK and the SINOPEC Beijing Research Institute of the Chemical Industry (BRICI) have agreed to...
BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product develo...
CHEMISTS in the US and South Korea have developed a technique to produce olefins, a vital chemica...
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (GTI) in the US will be partnering with China’s Yangquan Coal Industry G...
THE UK government has committed to funding the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion energy research ...
A NEW metal-organic framework developed at the University of Adelaide, Australia, can convert CO2...
CHEMISTS at the University of Bath, UK, have developed a process to create polycarbonate plastic ...
GREEN chemicals are a focus of a new £200m (US$253m) investment announced by the UK’s University ...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint...
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