JAPANESE carmaker Mazda has unveiled a prototype exhaust system which it says could capture up to 20% of the tailpipe CO2 ...

EXXONMOBIL has been fined £176,000 (US$232m) over a “preventable and unacceptable” week-long period of continuous flaring at ...

Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month 20 April 2010 was to be a special day for the rig and crew of Deepwater Horizon, Transocean’s semi-submersible ...

SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully stabilised plasma instabilities in a spherical tokamak using 3D magnetic coils – marking the first time this technology has ever ...

A MAJOR government-commissioned review has called for a strategic overhaul of how the UK prioritises greenhouse gas removal ...

Scale-up is hard-wired into chemical engineering, with one textbook even claiming it is the profession's raison d’etre. Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale-up from an equipment-based ...

RESEARCHERS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to purify gene therapies 10 times more quickly than conventional processes, paving the way to lower prices for the ...

VACCINES are a wonderful invention that have transformed the health of billions. Not only can an individual be protected by a vaccine but, once enough people have been vaccinated, the whole population ...

The investigation into the Piper Alpha disaster has much to teach us thirty years on. Most of the physical evidence sank to the bottom of the North Sea, so the testimony of survivors and witnesses had ...

Mike Menzies asks what effect does injected hydrogen have on furnace, flame and exhaust in natural gas combustion plant? THE world is rising to the exciting challenge of controlling CO 2 emissions.

Welcome to The Chemical Engineer's coverage of Hazards35, IChemE's annual process safety conference which is taking place this year from 4-6 November at the Edgbaston cricket stadium in Birmingham, UK ...

On 8 August 1975, about one hour after midnight, China's Banqiao dam failed. A tidal wave of water 10 km wide, over 5 m high and travelling at up to 50 km/h raced across flat farmland in Henan ...