ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations about safety incidents.

15th February 2019

Industry

BP invests in AI to accelerate upstream projects

BP has invested US$5m in artificial intelligence technology in a bid to speed up projects.

14th February 2019

People

IChemE names safety prize in Sam Mannan’s honour

SAM Mannan, a safety expert who died last year, will have a prize named in his honour at IChemE’s Hazards conference.

14th February 2019

Industry

Permian growth prompts Exxon to build third unit at Beaumont refinery

EXXONMOBIL has started building a third crude unit at its Beaumont refinery in Texas, US, in a move that will expand processing capacity by more than 65%.

14th February 2019

Break it Down

Adam Duckett on responding to calls for a new biodegradable wrapper

Process

Producing Graphene at Scale

The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale

Business

Deal or No Deal?

No deal is now the base case – are you ready for Brexit?

Careers in Chemical Engineering

Careers in Chemical Engineering: Rachel Cooke

A profile of Rachel Cooke, central programs engineering manager for Amazon in Europe, based in Luxembourg.

Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World

People

Keith 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.