June 2020

News June 2020 www.pwemag.co.uk Plant & Works Engineering | 0 9 Calor is celebrating taking its 1200th load of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from National Grid’s import terminal on the Isle of Grain. The milestone marks just five years since the terminal opened, and equates to more than 24,000T of LNG being supplied across the length and breadth of the UK in that time. The truck loading facility on the Isle of Grain, which is located 43 miles east of London, opened in 2015, and Calor was the first LNG supplier to load and deliver to its extensive UK LNG customer base, which ranges from large off-grid industrial applications (including Food & Beverage and Pharmaceutical) to vehicle refuelling, to name a few. Mark Gilks, Calor LNG national account manager, commented: “Not only is this a great achievement which shows Calor’s commitment to continually delivering fuel to our customers, especially throughout the current crisis, it also shows the UK’s commitment as a whole to using cleaner, greener fuel sources. “By using LNG instead of more polluting fuels such as oil and diesel derivatives, we have helped UK businesses cut their CO2 emissions by up to 25% over the past five years, based on the loadings from the Isle of Grain alone.” LNG provides Calor’s customers with clean, reliable and cost- effective energy, for locations that are off the natural gas grid, making it ideal for commercial and industrial applications in need of heat, steam or process-energy. LNG-powered trucks have comparable performance to diesel vehicles in terms of power, acceleration and cruising speed, but can cut CO2 by between 10% and 20%, dependent upon duty cycle and vehicle type. LNG also takes up 600 times less space than conventional natural gas making it easy to transport and store compactly in its liquid form. Milestone shows UK industry committed to going greene r The National Engineering Policy Centre – which includes the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) and is led by the Royal Academy of Engineering – has convened a diverse range of experts to provide agile and continued advice to government to help address the long-term global threat posed by climate change and support its goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This will include recommendations for a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that puts the UK on track for net-zero. Engineering has a vital role to play in creating systems and solutions to address the climate crisis. The UK government faces urgent and difficult decision-making across engineering-driven economic sectors such as energy, construction, manufacturing and transport. Engineers from every discipline are the people who will design, build, retrofit, operate and make safe the infrastructure and technologies that will enable a decarbonised UK to become a reality. The National Engineering Policy Centre has assembled a diverse group of experts from organisations including the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the IET, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Energy Institute, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and the British Academy. The group forms a forum for debate and will draw heavily on insights and perspectives from an even wider range of expertise from engineering and other disciplines such as social and system sciences as needed. Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, commented: “Engineers have a responsibility to actively support the reduction of greenhouse gases to protect our planet from adverse climate change. The National Engineering Policy Centre is uniquely placed to galvanise and lead the engineering community to focus on activities that can deliver practical, deployable solutions in response to the scientific evidence. “As engineers we can capitalise on our experience and use of systems approaches in bringing together different elements – from technological to financial, from regulatory to ethical – to create practical solutions and help the government to make tough and lasting decisions that will reduce harmful emissions whilst creating jobs and benefitting people’s lives.” National Engineering Policy Centre to provide advice to government on reaching net zero emissions