WHP wins contract for new UK vaccine centre
ENGINEERING contractor WHP has won a contract to help design the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre.
The Chemical Engineer
News, views and jobs from the chemical, biochemical and process engineering sectors.
May 2019Issue 935
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HeidelbergCement sets Paris-aligned emissions targets
HEIDELBERGCEMENT has set targets to reduce its emissions in line with the Paris Agreement climate goals, becoming the first cement company to have its targets validated under an independent assessment scheme.
Petronas Chemicals buys Da Vinci
PETRONAS Chemicals (PCG) has agreed to buy Dutch specialty chemicals firm Da Vinci Group for a reported €163m (US$182m).
Novel epoxide synthesis
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer and more sustainable alternative.
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Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World
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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.
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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.
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch – Feed the World
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than the Haber-Bosch process.
