LAST night London’s Science Museum unveiled a series of drawings by renowned illustrator Quentin Blake celebrating famous engineers, scientists, and their inventions.

19th October 2018

Research & Development

A membrane technology breakthrough

RESEARCHERS from the Livingston Group at Imperial College London, UK, in collaboration with BP, have made breakthrough insights into membrane technology. The study findings could lead to improved membrane technologies.

19th October 2018

Business

Consortium bails out Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux

TROUBLED Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux has been rescued by a S$530m (US$384m) investment by an industrial consortium formed by the Salim and Medco groups.

19th October 2018

Industry

Amsterdam considers green electrolysis plant

NOURYON, Tata Steel, and the Port of Amsterdam are collaborating on a feasibility study for a green hydrogen cluster in the Amsterdam area.

19th October 2018

Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold wins Nobel Prize

CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work that mimics evolution to engineer enzymes.

5th October 2018

Water

Nereda: Redefining Effluent Treatment

There is a new player in the wastewater process sector, re-writing the rules of the game

IChemE

IChemE announces Congress candidates

ICHEME has announced the nominees for Congress – the Institution’s new advisory body. The body will consist of up to 40 members and will act as a sounding board and advise the board of trustees on matters of interest to IChemE and its members.

27th September 2018

Risk & Safety

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

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.