Brainstorming: Maximise the Quantity and Quality of Your Ideas
Applying chemical engineering in the construction industry
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September 2018Issue 927
TOTAL, the world’s fourth-largest oil and gas company, has announced a major gas discovery on the Glendronach prospect, off the coast of the Shetland Islands, UK. It is the largest discovery of oil and gas made in the UK in a decade.
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved catalyst for converting methane to syngas. Further development of the catalyst could lead to more economical syngas production.
AN EXPLOSION has occurred at the Umicore Speciality Chemicals plant in Arab, Alabama, killing one worker.
DOWNSTREAM producer Jiutai is planning a coal-to-chemistry plant in Inner Mongolia that will produce ethylene glycol from syngas, using proprietary technology developed by Johnson Matthey and Eastman Chemical Company.
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), after IChemE lobbied to have the fee waived.
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Continuing the theme of communication, this month we take a look at technical writing.
Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series launched to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the landmark offshore tragedy
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.