A PILOT plant using a new process to recover rare earth alloys from scrap magnets will be built at the UK’s University of Birmingham following a €4m (US$4.4m) grant from the EU.

19th August 2019

Industry

BHP announces US$400m Climate Investment Program

MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop technologies to reduce emissions from BHP’s own operations, as well as from the use of its resources.

16th August 2019

Research & Development

Novel process for damage-free algae biomass harvesting

RESEARCHERS at the University of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a novel, damage-free process for removing water from algae biomass. The process could help to produce cheaper bioproducts that are more efficient and more eco-friendly.

16th August 2019

Culture

A periodic exhibition: RSC celebrates 150 years of Mendeleev’s periodic table

ON Tuesday the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) opened a special exhibition, curated by the University of Cambridge’s Peter Wothers, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev’s first periodic table of the elements.

15th August 2019

Christopher Julian Hewitt 1969–2019

Obituary of Chris Hewitt, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University

Industry

Back to the Future

Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy challenge using an almost century-old reaction

Research & Development

First Steps

Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system

Risk & Safety

Houston…We Have a Checklist

Why the humble checklist was essential during the Apollo space programme.

Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World

People

Kenneth 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.