February 2019Issue 932
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of one of the company’s tailings dams on 25 January in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. BBC News reports that 17 employees have already been detained for questioning this month.
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract developer and manufacturer, has partnered with the UK’s universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and York to address challenges in bioprocessing.
ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations about safety incidents.
BP has invested US$5m in artificial intelligence technology in a bid to speed up projects.
Adam Duckett on responding to calls for a new biodegradable wrapper
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, about its efforts to accelerate process intensification
The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale
No deal is now the base case – are you ready for Brexit?
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.