Hydrogen: Informing a Safe Decision to Achieve Net Zero
PPE Challenge Accepted
Bulk Solids Flow: Know What you’re Dealing With
June 2020Issue 948
DOXA Plast, a stretch film manufacturing company, is commercialising a family of bio-based high performance stretch films that employ a sustainable polyethylene (PE) resin. The resin, provided by materials company Dow, is made using waste material from the paper industry.
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could contribute to sustainability – by establishing a new, five-year professorship. Chemicals company Covestro is supporting the professorship through a “major” donation.
SHELL, CNOOC, and the Huizhou Government have announced a cooperation agreement to expand their petrochemical complex in China.
BRAZILIAN mining company Vale has been ordered by a judge to put aside around R$7.93bn (US$1.47bn) for potential fines related to the fatal collapse of a mining waste dam last year, which killed at least 259 people.
Yasmin Ali interviews Lina Aglén, Lead Engineer at FairHeat
Amanda Doyle speaks to Florence Gschwend, CEO and Co-founder of Lixea, about the company's new process to turn wood waste into biochemicals, bioplastics, and biofuels.
HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality
IChemE has accelerated plans to offer many of its most popular training courses virtually in response to the outbreak of Covid-19. For those isolated at home, now might be an opportune time to boost skills and knowledge.
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.