Acid in the Sea – or How I Missed My First Million
Style Guide: Tune Your Communication for Better Results
Process pioneer: Rodney Allam discusses the development of his CCS technology
July/August 2018Issue 925/26
CABOT Microelectronics, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarisation (CMP) polishing slurries for the semiconductor industry, has agreed to acquire KMG Chemicals, in a US$1.6bn deal.
NORWAY’s ministry of petroleum and energy has announced that it will fund FEED studies on CO2 capture at Fortum Oslo Varme’s waste-to-energy facility at Klemetsrud in Oslo.
A TECHNIQUE has been developed combining a photocatalytic membrane and UV light to remove most antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes from wastewater.
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, are developing a novel water treatment technology to selectively remove specific toxins from water through capacitive deionisation.
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
Erin Johnson, Ashok Kumar Fellow, talks to IChemE’s Rachael Fraser
How turning a blind eye can have serious cumulative effects on process safety
A look at mathematical modelling of how we get our message across.
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.
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.
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than the Haber-Bosch process.