May 2019Issue 935
ON 23 May IChemE presented ten chemical engineers with medals for their outstanding contributions to the profession. The awards were presented by IChemE President Ken Rivers, at a special ceremony in front of friends, family, and colleagues at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, UK.
ICHEME has launched two interactive safety case studies – Chemical Plant and Underground Pipeline. The launch was announced by Trish Kerin, IChemE Safety Centre Director, at Hazards 29, Europe’s largest annual process safety conference, held in Birmingham, UK.
PLASTICS company Covestro has signed a deal with industrial software company AVEVA, to help digitally transform its process engineering workflow using AVEVA’s process simulation platform.
BASF is to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) plant at a proposed integrated chemical production site in Zhanjiang, China. The plants will be the first to begin production at the site, which is to become BASF’s third-largest site worldwide.
A look at how the Loss Prevention Bulletin and its Editorial Panel operate
Fighting complacency and drift by using process safety performance indicators to establish and maintain a state of “chronic unease”
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without urgent action, says a UN report.
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for the oil and gas industry
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.
