Deal or No Deal – Brexit and UK Energy Policy
Clean Hydrogen. Part 1: Hydrogen from Natural Gas Through Cost Effective CO2 Capture
Operating Discipline: Maintaining the Basis of Safety
March 2019Issue 933
THE death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has now reached 47, reports state news agency Xinhua. Another Xinhua report adds that 640 people are receiving medical treatment in hospitals, 90 of whom are seriously injured.
BP has reduced its oil and gas exploration activities and could keep some of its resources in the ground.
FOLLOWING an explosion at a Tianjiayi chemicals plant in Yancheng, eastern China, six people are confirmed dead, and 30 have been seriously injured.
NOURYON and Gasunie have agreed to supply ‘green’ hydrogen to BioMCN for renewable methanol production. The companies say that this marks a step in the sustainability of processes in the industry.
BP HAS agreed to a resolution from investors to disclose how its greenhouse gas reduction and future investments plans are in line with the Paris Agreement. However, concerns have been raised separately about BP’s commitment to methane reductions.
Yasmin Ali interviews Caroline Metcalf about her journey from aluminium smelters to railway stations
Chemical engineers should not be afraid of developing the maths to solve problems.
FOLLOWING the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam the company has decided to remove several employees from office and forbid others from performing “dam safety monitoring and/or risk management activities”.
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.
