THE Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released a report showing that a number of subtle biases against women exist throughout each stage of the publishing process.

20th November 2019

Risk & Safety

Dam collapse tragedy could have been prevented

BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the tailings dam at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine near Brumadinho, which fatally collapsed earlier this year. The report says that Vale withheld information which could have helped to prevent the dam collapse.

20th November 2019

Industry

IEA calls for ‘bold’ action to achieve emissions savings through energy efficiency

ENERGY efficiency can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but with efficiency improvements slowing, policy makers and investors need to take “bold” action, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).

19th November 2019

Industry

UK Prime Minister promises funding for CCS and R&D

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised £800m (US$1.03bn) in funding for CCS along with doubling research and development funding to £18bn.

15th November 2019

Volunteer Spotlight: Adisa Azapagic

Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers

IChemE

Presidential Review: Restating and Reinvigorating IChemE

Ken Rivers reflects on his 18 months as IChemE President

Industry

Powering the future: the lithium battery that doesn’t get thrown away

LITHIUM-ION battery storage goes hand-in-hand with renewable energy, but these batteries are extremely difficult to repurpose or recycle, creating a huge waste problem. I spoke to Amrit Chandan, co-founder and CEO of Aceleron, about the company’s battery pack design which allows lithium-ion batteries to be recycled, as well as its role in providing off-grid energy in developing economies.

Risk & Safety

Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center: So Much Achieved and Much More to Do

On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at the growing success of the safety center forged in her memory

Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World

People

Kenneth 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.