A WORKER is missing and five have been taken to hospital in Louisiana, US, after an oil platform on Lake Pontchartrain near Kenner exploded at around 19:15 local time on 15 October.

16th October 2017

Research & Development

Ceramic pump works at 1,400°C

A CERAMIC pump capable of transferring molten tin at temperatures of more than 1,400°C could lead to new types of chemical reactors, according to researchers.

16th October 2017

Waste Management

Arup: Organic waste could be used in construction

A NEW report from engineering major Arup says that organic waste such as that from bananas, potatoes and maize could be used to make materials for construction with much lower environmental impact.

13th October 2017

Business

BASF to enter seeds business with €5.9bn Bayer deal

BAYER has agreed to sell some of its crop science businesses to BASF for €5.9bn (US$7bn), as it seeks to address regulatory concerns for its US$66bn takeover of Monsanto.

13th October 2017

Who is Running Your Plant at 3 AM?

Safety experts John Bresland and Ian Travers review the recruitment and training of process staff from around the world.

Energy

Bright ideas: Rakesh Agrawal on developing a solar economy

RAKESH AGRAWAL, chemical engineering professor at Purdue University, speaks on camera to The Chemical Engineer magazine after delivering the 2017 Danckwerts Memorial Lecture at the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE10).

4th October 2017

Risk & Safety

How to Limit Amine Systems Failures

A review of incident trends reveals ways to reduce risks to production

Risk & Safety

Surviving the storm

Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe

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.