LIVE: Frank Morton 2026
IChemE virtual work experience inspires 6,700 future chemical engineers
Teams of Intelligent Agents: The Next Step for Chemical Engineering
February 2026Issue 1016
Welcome to The Chemical Engineer's live coverage of Frank Morton 2026 at the University of Nottingham. We'll bring you rolling updates as 21 student ChemEng societies battle it out across 12 sports this afternoon, along with some of the biggest talking points of the day. Edited by Aniqah Majid and Sam Baker.
JAPANESE floating oil platform developer MODEC has signed an agreement to scale up its pilot fuel cell project, tripling planned power output for a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO).
THE INDIAN government’s latest federal budget has committed US$2.2bn (Rs 20,000 crore) to scale up carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) projects over the next five years.
Nearly 7,000 young people have explored a career in chemical engineering through IChemE’s Virtual Work Experience (VWEX) programme, with many saying it has helped shape their decision to pursue chemical engineering at university.
Martin Pitt looks at how once-discarded byproducts fuelled revolutions in fuels, antiseptics, plastics and road building
TCE talks to Orla Douds, a process engineer for Assystem, about the importance of soft skills and the future of nuclear
Continuing the IChemE National Early Careers Group series profiling early career opportunities in different sectors
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
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.
Trevor Kletz, the father of inherent safety, explains his remarkable career
Claudia Flavell-While explores the contribution of separation scientist Csaba Horváth