THE IChemE Centenary Steering Committee, with approval from the Board of Trustees, has invited contributions for the Institution’s 100th birthday via IChemE’s member-only online forum, Interface.

18th October 2018

IChemE

Queen of Perak presents IChemE Awards to outstanding young engineers

Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with trophies at the IChemE Malaysia Awards on 15 October.

17th October 2018

Industry

UK set to see surge in biomethane plants

THE UK is set to see a 50% rise in biomethane plants operating by 2020, with as much as £400m (US$525m) invested in response to government incentives, says industry body.

17th October 2018

Research & Development

Producing hydrogen from plastic waste

A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.

17th 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.