FRAMES Group, Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies (HLT), and MAN Energy Solutions (MES) have entered a partnership for storing hydrogen at a large scale.

21st August 2019

Industry

Jacobs purchases Wood’s nuclear business for US$303.5m

WOOD is to sell its nuclear business to Jacobs for £250m (US$303.5m). The sale proceeds will go towards reducing Wood’s debt from its 2017 purchase of Amec Foster Wheeler.

21st August 2019

Industry

No-deal Brexit could close two UK refineries, leaked report warns

TWO UK refineries could close if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, a leaked government report has warned.

21st August 2019

Industry

Reliance agrees to sell 20% refining stake to Saudi Aramco

RELIANCE Industries has agreed to sell a 20% stake – worth US$15bn – in its refining and petrochemicals business to Saudi Aramco.

20th August 2019

Christopher Julian Hewitt 1969–2019

Obituary of Chris Hewitt, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University

Industry

Back to the Future

Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy challenge using an almost century-old reaction

Research & Development

First Steps

Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system

Risk & Safety

Houston…We Have a Checklist

Why the humble checklist was essential during the Apollo space programme.

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.