February 2020Issue 944
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at the university. At the heart of its plans is a £17m (US$21.87m) building, that is to house cutting-edge laboratories and facilities, including a 3D lecture theatre.
THE UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded around £90m (US$114m) in funding to help decarbonise homes and industry, which includes funding for five demonstration phase hydrogen projects.
ENERGY experts and dedicated volunteers are among 26 chemical engineers being recognised by IChemE for outstanding contributions to the profession in industry and academia.
UK Research and Innovation has appointed Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IChemE Fellow and Professor at Heriot-Watt University, as champion to develop plans for a new centre that will address industrial decarbonisation challenges to help achieve the UK’s net zero ambitions.
In November, the 26th UN Conference of Parties (COP) climate summit will take place in Glasgow, UK. Known as COP26, it will mark five years since the Paris Agreement, and it will be crucial that real progress is made at the summit in order to take immediate action on the climate emergency.
Wendy Wilson reports on the actions from the IChemE Member Engagement survey
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the UK, which won IChemE’s 2019 Global Award for Process Safety
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.
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.
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than the Haber-Bosch process.