USING a temperature-dependent solvent to desalinate water with high concentrations of dissolved salts may prove more efficient than conventional methods.

21st June 2019

Process

BASF develops climate-friendly methanol production process

BASF has developed a climate-friendly process for methanol production, which if implemented could eliminate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the entire process – from syngas production to pure methanol.

21st June 2019

Industry

BASF and Lutianhua sign agreement to build dimethyl ether pilot plant

BASF and Lutianhua have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a pilot plant for synthesising dimethyl ether (DME) using a new energy-efficient one-step process.

20th June 2019

Research & Development

Researchers achieve commercially attractive carbon capture with a MOF

CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for the first time, achieved commercially-attractive carbon capture with a metal-organic framework (MOF).

20th June 2019

Webinar: how Tata Steel is speeding up development with data analytics

ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experiment design to optimise the development cycle of new products.

The Profession

Careers in Chemical Engineering: David Adam

Yasmin Ali interviews chemical-engineer-turned-journalist David Adam

IChemE

Congress: Rising to the Challenge

Congress Chair Nigel Hirst discusses the group's enthusiastic start and its immediate priorities

Pharma

Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?

How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vaccines

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.