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 ...

A COMMITTEE of animal welfare experts has recommended a ban on the use of high concentration CO2 to stun and kill pigs in a new report for the UK government.

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 ...

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 ...

A CAMBRIDGE-BASED biotech is taking its anti-ageing therapy to space, aiming to fast-track the development of a drug that blocks necrosis – uncontrolled cell death linked to ageing and disease.

SOFT DRINK manufacturers can now use carbon captured from industrial processes to carbonate their beverages, as recent innovations aim to transform the food-grade CO2 supply chain.

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 ...

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) researchers have secured shale-backed funding to investigate the state’s natural hydrogen reserves. The project was one of eight to receive US$25,000 in a recent round ...

MANAGEMENT of the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, UK is not responding quickly enough to “intolerable risks” at the site posed by ageing assets, a damning new report has warned. In the report ...

BRITISH carbon capture and storage (CCS) company Carbon Clean has achieved commercial scale for its series of modular reactors, which it expects to capture up to 100,000 t/y of CO2. Carbon Clean’s ...