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October 11, 2021

Promoted Content: Enhancing Performance and Safety of Medical Implantable Devices with Multiphysics Simulation

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At Abbott Laboratories, ventricle assist devices are developed to improve the lives of patients with heart failure. Numerical simulation is used throughout the design process to characterise diverse concurrent aspects of the design, from thermal effects and fluid dynamics to power transfer. The development of a device meant to assist or completely replace functioning of […]

September 28, 2021

UK firm Tevva unveils mass production electric truck

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Electric truck pioneer Tevva has unveiled a 7.5-tonne electric truck intended for mass production in the UK. Engineered by a team led by Ken Scott, formerly engineering director at Bentley and Alexander Dennis, and styled by Dale Grewer, former chief designer at Jaguar Land Rover, the Tevva Truck will be manufactured in a brand-new 11,000 […]

September 28, 2021

New research reveals four key actions to strengthen process resilience

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Independent research commissioned by RS Components (RS), has uncovered four key actions that senior engineers should consider taking to build process resilience across their organisations. The findings are presented in the second report in the company’s Resilience Index series:The Resilience Index: Process – How a focus on process can build better resilience and drive productivity. […]

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September 28, 2021

Rolls-Royce sells ITP Aero to Bain Capital for €1.7bn

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Rolls-Royce is continuing its disposal programme with the sale of its subsidiary ITP Aero to Bain Capital Private Equity for approximately €1.7bn. Low-pressure turbine (Image: ITP Aero) ITP Aero supplies aeronautical components and engines and employs 4,300 staff at production sites in Spain, the UK, Mexico, Malta and India. In the year ended 31 December 2020, the […]

September 27, 2021

Fusion power plant test facility opens in South Yorkshire

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Components for fusion power plants can be tested in simulated conditions at a new facility now open and operating in South Yorkshire. New UKAEA facility will aid development of fusion plants (Image: UKAEA) The Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham was chosen by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) as the location for the new 25,000 […]

September 27, 2021

Recruitment bias is barrier to STEM employment

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Recruitment bias based on factors including age or race must be challenged by employers if industry is to become more inclusive, a survey has by STEM Returners has found. Image by RAEng_Publications from Pixabay In the annual STEM Returners Index – a survey of over 750 STEM professionals on a career break who are attempting to return to work or who […]

September 13, 2021

Newcastle team engineers E. coli to make chemicals from waste CO2

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Researchers at Newcastle University have engineered E. coli  bacteria to capture carbon dioxide and use hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. The research, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology raises the possibility of converting atmospheric CO2 to commodity chemicals. Rendering of e.coli bacteria. catalin via stock.adobe.com Normally, an enzyme in E. coli catalyses the reverse of this reaction—production of […]

September 13, 2021

UK gets new test facility for agricultural and off-highway vehicles

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A new facility at Millbrook in the UK will enable agricultural and off-highway vehicle engineers to conduct a wider range of powertrain tests with greater accuracy, at temperatures as low as -20C Inside UTAC’s new 4WD VTEC (Variable Temperature Emissions Chamber) facility at Millbrook Operated by vehicle testing group UTAC, the 4WD VTEC (Variable Temperature […]

September 13, 2021

Sep 1856: Ploughing ahead

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In September 1856, The Engineer reported on one of the latest developments in mechanised farming: Fowler’s steam-driven plough. Jason Ford reports John Fowler’s career as an agricultural engineer was inspired in part by a visit to Ireland in 1849 where he witnessed crop failure – and incredible human suffering – due to poor drainage. On […]

September 13, 2021

World’s biggest CO2 removal plant switched on in Iceland

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In a landmark moment for the development of so-called negative emissions technologies, the world’s largest direct air capture facility designed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere has begun operation in Iceland. Image: Climeworks Developed by Swiss company Climeworks the new plant – named Orca – is powered by renewable energy from ON Power’s Hellisheiði Geothermal […]

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