THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas industry.

21st September 2018

News

Chemical engineering professors recognised with Royal Academy fellowship

CHEMICAL engineering professors and IChemE members, Chris Hewitt, Zhibing Zhang, and Barry Lennox, have been elected Fellows of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) for their outstanding contributions to engineering.

21st September 2018

IChemE

Chemical engineer to brief parliamentarians on chemical weapons

JENNIFER Spragg, a postgraduate student in bioenergy at the University of Leeds, UK, will advise MPs on policy issues on chemical weapons as part of a fellowship in UK parliament.

20th September 2018

Business

Major new refinery proposed for Canada

INDIGENOUS communities and Chinese companies are planning to build a 167,000 bbl/d refinery in Alberta, Canada.

19th September 2018

Landmark Piper Alpha Cullen report now free to download

THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), after IChemE lobbied to have the fee waived.

11th September 2018

IChemE

What Does Being a Learned Society Mean?

Join the discussion and share your views

The Profession

Manufacturing Documents

Continuing the theme of communication, this month we take a look at technical writing.

Piper Alpha Perspectives

Piper Alpha Perspectives: Introducing the Series

Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series launched to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the landmark offshore tragedy

Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World

People

Keith Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start

2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.

People

George E Davis – Meet the Daddy

For a series called Chemical Engineers who Changed the World, it would be downright rude not to feature the man who is widely regarded as the founding father of the discipline and the spiritual father of IChemE.