THE Australian Government has backed a green hydrogen and ammonia production facility in Western Australia.

23rd October 2020

Process

Monolith Materials to build carbon-free ammonia plant

CLEAN technology company Monolith Materials plans to build a large-scale carbon-free ammonia plant in Nebraska, US.

22nd October 2020

Risk & Safety

EU project targets nuclear accident combustion risk

A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of severe accidents at nuclear power plants has been launched.

22nd October 2020

Policy

EU introduces new chemicals strategy

THE European Commission has unveiled its new chemicals strategy which aims to make chemicals production more sustainable while phasing out potentially harmful substances such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and endocrine disrupters.

21st October 2020

Experiences Work

John Wilson explains why undergraduate placements are so important

The Profession

Tackling Hidden Thoughts Within

Our sector must do more to improve unconscious bias in the workplace, says Kelly Paul

Equipment

Rules of Thumb: Tanks and Vessels

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

IChemE

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and IChemE

Macsene Isles-Ahite shares her vision for ED&I in IChemE and the chemical engineering profession.

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.