All Chemicals
DuPont may sell performance chemicals arm
Added: 25 Jul 2013
US giant DuPont yesterday announced it was consider the sale or spinning-off of all or part of its …
Reaction cuts chemical production costs
Added: 25 Jul 2013
Experts at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) believe they have discovered an organic reaction…
First rise for manufacturing orders in a year
Added: 24 Jul 2013
New orders in the UK’s manufacturing sector rose in the three months to July for the first time in …
Championing change
Added: 8 Jul 2013
Stan Higgins, director of the North East of England Process Industry Cluster, is on a mission to ch…
Technique set to produce renewable chemicals
Added: 4 Jul 2013
Researchers from Liverpool University have been awarded funding to develop renewable chemicals prod…
Are we learning the lessons?
Added: 3 Jul 2013
The process sectors need to take on-board the lessons learned from recent disasters. Patrick Raleig…
Protecting against chemicals
Added: 2 Jul 2013
Ian Samson, training specialist for DuPont, offers his insight into protective equipment for those …
Does hydrofracking contaminate water?
Added: 1 Jul 2013
A study led by experts at Duke University has found that those living near shale gas wells are at r…
Cleaning up carbon dioxide
Added: 26 Jun 2013
Researchers at MIT have proposed a method that ‘scrubs’ the harmful emissions from fossil-fuel powe…
Export agency backs British bidding
Added: 26 Jun 2013
The UK Export Finance has announced a guarantee of £450 million to companies bidding for Saudi Arab…
Molecular ‘sieves’ provide greener power generation
Added: 13 Jun 2013
Polymer molecular sieve membranes, when exposed to UV irradiation, could improve processes such as …
£3.25m funding aims to speed up CCS development
Added: 10 Jun 2013
EPSRC-funded research will look into how carbon dioxide can be stored underground.
The REACH initiative gains further approval
Added: 29 May 2013
BASF has completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law.
'Ultraselective' process creates p-xylene from biomass
Added: 29 May 2013
Chemical engineers have discovered a new process for making p-xylene from biomass.
Process produces hydrogen at lower temperatures
Added: 22 May 2013
Duke University has produced hydrogen with less than 0.002% of carbon monoxide.
Single-pixel camera creates affordable 3D images
Added: 20 May 2013
Single-pixel technique could be used in the process industries to detect gases.
Algorithm isolates attacks on control systems
Added: 15 May 2013
US researchers have developed an algorithm that detects and isolates attacks on networked control s…
Technique to reduce the cost of biofuels
Added: 10 May 2013
A technique for pre-treating cellulosic biomass could cut the cost of biofuel processing.
Method simplifies fluid flow design
Added: 9 May 2013
UCLA engineers have developed a way to shape fluid flow through pipes without the need to solve com…
The new reality
Added: 8 May 2013
Dow boss Andrew Liveris sees a potentially bright future for the UK’s chemical and pharmaceuticals …
