Chemical Engineering

Fitness Fads and Their Environmental Price Tag

Tamzin Preece: The ‘home gym’ didn’t feature in many UK homes before the pandemic, but it’s now much more commonplace to own various bits of kit for home workouts. Within the first three months of lockdown alone, exercise bike sales rose…

Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger.

New York Times: Chuck McGinley, a chemical engineer, stepped out of his car, eyed the smokestack of an animal processing plant rising above the treetops, and inhaled deeply. At first he smelled nothing except the faint, sweet fragrance of the nearby trees….

Loughborough leads Zero Carbon Loss biomanufacturing project

The Engineer: A Loughborough University-led project aims to develop a sustainable biomanufacturing system with integrated carbon capture and utilisation through a novel electrochemical approach. Funded through an EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing grant, the project is pushing to lower emissions within UK manufacturing…

Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China: IEEE Spectrum’s biggest energy stories of 2021

IEEE Spectrum: 2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and…