December 2018/January 2019Issue 930/31
NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and ExxonMobil, have formed an alliance to combat plastic waste. Announced yesterday in London, UK the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) aims to reduce plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean.
EXXONMOBIL has become the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community that aims to advance quantum computing and explore science and business applications. Advancement could lead to the development of next-generation energy and manufacturing technologies.
CHEVRON and Occidental Petroleum have invested in Canadian direct air capture (DAC) company Carbon Engineering, to help commercialise Carbon Engineering’s synthetic fuels.
INEOS has selected Antwerp in Belgium as the site for its €3bn (US$3.4bn) investment in the first cracker built in Europe for 20 years.
Process safety and personal safety need to be managed in very different ways
Bias can have a significant safety effect, both in the causes of accidents and in the way we investigate them.
A profile of Rachel Cooke, central programs engineering manager for Amazon in Europe, based in Luxembourg.
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.