Chemical Decommissioning: Safety Challenges
How engineers are key to addressing societal challenges in Australia – Chemeca 2019
Energy Saviours: Part 3
September 2019Issue 939
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will jointly investigate naphtha or gas steam crackers that use renewable electricity instead of fossil fuels. They aim to produce base chemicals whilst significantly reducing carbon emissions.
PROCESS Systems Enterprise (PSE), supplier of process modelling software and services, has announced it is to be bought by Siemens.
EXXONMOBIL will invest £140m (US$173m) in its ethylene plant in Fife, UK, over the next two years as it seeks to improve reliability and performance.
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in sediments, after researchers discovered rising volumes of waste are being preserved in the fossil record.
IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to the Institution’s future
Nooryesha Choudhury explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
How digital systems can make shift handover processes more efficient, and safer
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), David Wagg discussed DigiTwin, a collaborative project which seeks to develop digital twin technology to empower industry. The project could move industry closer to autonomous process management.
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.
