TWENTY-SIX chemical engineers have been recognised by the IChemE Medals and Prizes Committee for their contributions to the profession.

19th February 2019

Risk & Safety

Employees arrested after Brazil dam breach

EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of one of the company’s tailings dams on 25 January in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. BBC News reports that 17 employees have already been detained for questioning this month.

19th February 2019

Research & Development

Fujifilm and unis join forces on bioprocessing innovation

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract developer and manufacturer, has partnered with the UK’s universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and York to address challenges in bioprocessing.

18th February 2019

IChemE

IChemE seeks applications for new student safety medal

ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations about safety incidents.

15th February 2019

Break it Down

Adam Duckett on responding to calls for a new biodegradable wrapper

Process

Little Wonder

Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, about its efforts to accelerate process intensification

Process

Producing Graphene at Scale

The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale

Business

Deal or No Deal?

No deal is now the base case – are you ready for Brexit?

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.