Viewpoint: How to Tackle the Skills Shortage in Electrochemical Engineering
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Profiles of an Electrochemical Engineer
Megan Jobson finds out from six electrochemical engineers and IChemE members what drew them to th...
Given Agency
With hands-on placements and a new graduate scheme, the Environment Agency is giving chemical eng...
Viewpoint: Electrification Should be the First Choice to Power Industry
While many industries have hidden behind the “hard to abate” label, advances mean deep emissions ...
Viewpoint: Offshore Electrification Money Better Spent Closer to Home
The North Sea Transition Authority supports electrifying UK oil and gas sites to cut greenhouse g...
Phosphate Rocks Chapter 11: The Aberdeen Keyring
Chapter 11 in the serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery se...
Tackling PFAS
Transitioning Away from PFAS is a Profound Opportunity for Chemical Engineers
Pradeep Shukla, guest editor of a special series on PFAS, brings together a team of experts to ex...
PFAS Uncovered: What You Need to Know About These Lingering (Not Forever) Chemicals
Paul Nathanail argues that rather than referring to PFAS as ‘forever chemicals’, the term ‘linger...
Unravelling PFAS: Challenges and Advances in Contaminant Remediation
From industrial applications to environmental concerns, Jim Fenstermacher, Pradeep Shukla, and Pr...
Breaking Down Barriers: Innovations in PFAS Destruction
A ‘silver bullet’ technology remains elusive, but Jens Blotevogel and Pradeep Shukla say the deve...
Regulators on the Frontline
Eric Wood, Rick Parkman, and Annette Nolan look at how policymakers are responding to the chall...
PFAS Monitoring: Novel Approaches for Air and Water Detection
As the extent of PFAS contamination becomes clearer, Sarit Kaserzon looks at the application of n...
Engineering a Future Without PFAS: The Path to Sustainable Alternatives
The shift from PFAS is both a regulatory need and an opportunity for industries to lead in sustai...
Destroying PFAS… and environmental anxiety
Luke Henderson talks to Adam Duckett about his work scaling up a plasma torch system to destroy PFAS
Direct Air Capture
Direct Air Capture: The State of Play and What’s to Come
An introduction to direct air capture
Predicting Direct Air Capture Performance, Come Rain or Shine
Process engineer Adam Ward is modelling DAC at Imperial College London. He explains his research ...
Air Apparents
Amanda Jasi speaks to the innovators developing direct air capture technologies hoping to be next...
Risk & Safety
Protecting Chemical Infrastructure: Navigating the Cyber-Threat Landscape
As cyber threats grow, engineers must integrate cybersecurity with process safety. To secure the ...
Charting a Safe Course
Leanne Potter and Ashley Hynds take to the high seas to underline the importance of an effectiv...
Why Bhopal Remains Toxic 40 Years on
40 years since the tragedy that killed thousands, the Indian government has moved forward plans t...
Artificial Intelligence
GPTs for Process Control: First Principles Thinking
GenAI seems important, but it’s not always clear how to use it. A good way in is to start with wh...
Risk and Reward: Integrating GenAI into Educational Assessment
As GenAI improves, ideas of authorised or unauthorised use in assessment become harder to discern...
Viewpoint: Take the Guesswork out of Chemical Engineering
Tim Duignan looks at how AI accelerated simulation will transform chemical engineering, freeing c...
Practical Process Control
Practical Process Control 24: Distillation – Part 1
Myke King addresses some remaining challenges in the control of distillation columns, starting by...
Practical Process Control Part 23: Inferentials in Action
The last three articles described the principles underlying the development and installation of i...
Practical Process Control Part 22: Monitoring
In the last article we looked at the assessment of a potential inferential. Here we cover techniq...
Careers
Starting Out: Oil and Gas in the Age of the Energy Transition
Continuing our series from the IChemE National Early Careers Group profiling early career opport...
Profiles of an Electrochemical Engineer
Megan Jobson finds out from six electrochemical engineers and IChemE members what drew them to th...
Making a Clean Getaway
With our energy systems going through profound change, Adam Duckett asked chemical engineers who ...
Dairy Diary
Process and chemical engineer Ramin Razmi charts his journey from research to industry in the dai...
The Dangers of Becoming too Remote
Aniqah Majid speaks to the University of Bath’s John Chew about the damaging impact remote and hy...
Heat Vision
Pippa Corbett takes a closer look at the potential of heat networks, recent market transformation...
TCE at 1,000
The Chemical Engineer: A Retrospective
Jamie Cleaver journeys through the life of TCE, exploring its contribution to our technical chall...
Design Issues
358 issues since she first helped produce The Chemical Engineer magazine, Alex Revell recounts ju...
How Your Magazine is Made: Printing
To capture the key stages of how your copy of TCE is manufactured, Adam Duckett hot-footed it to ...
Flixborough 50 Years On
Flixborough 50 Years On: Addressing Process Safety Competence Challenges in Smaller Organisations
Fifty years on from Flixborough, Carolyn Nicholls says key challenges in process safety competenc...
Flixborough 50 Years On: Stirring Memories and Sharing Memories
Paul Okey visits the Flixborough 1974 Exhibition with his dad to discover the stories behind the ...
Flixborough 50 Years On: Application of Inherent Safety Principles to Plant Design
Steven Murphy and Graham Ackroyd look at how applying Trevor Kletz’s concept of inherent safety a...
Flixborough 50 Years On: Remembering Flixborough by Someone Who Wasn’t Alive in 1974
In the engineering industry, it is often asked if major incidents could ever happen again. Early-...
The Loch Ness Monster and Plant Safety
Martin Pitt recalls his time spotting monsters, and warns that just because they are hard to spot...
Flixborough 50 Years On: How Management of Change Failures Contributed to the Disaster
Richard Mundy reflects on the Court of Inquiry’s findings relating to what we now call management...
Modelling with Excel
Modelling with Excel Part 10: Test and Validate
Stephen Hall wraps up his series on how to use Excel for project engineering. Download the intera...
Modelling with Excel Part 9: Digitising a Chart
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Modelling with Excel Part 8: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 2
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Volunteer Spotlight
Volunteer Spotlight: Nathan Walsh
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Volunteer Spotlight: Clare Dunkerley
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Volunteer Spotlight: Andrea Longley
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Distillation Improvement Opportunities
Distillation Distilled: Is Industry Adapting Fast Enough?
David Martyn looks back at TCE’s recent series of distillation articles and asks whether chemical...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 6: Safety Implications from New Technologies
Roger Stokes and Michael Moosemiller outline the safety issues associated with conventional disti...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation ...
Rules of Thumb
Rules of Thumb: Distillation
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 ru...
Rules of Thumb: Centrifugal Pump Efficiency
Tom Baxter looks at how focusing on fluid efficiency can maximise cost savings while also reducin...
Rules of Thumb: Scale-up
In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale...
Viewpoint
Why we Should Stop Talking About Work-life Balance
Kate O’Brien and Liz Erskine argue that instead of focusing on balancing our work and private liv...
Viewpoint: How to Tackle the Skills Shortage in Electrochemical Engineering
David Bogle argues that only greater collaboration and smarter curriculum integration will close ...
Viewpoint: Offshore Electrification Money Better Spent Closer to Home
The North Sea Transition Authority supports electrifying UK oil and gas sites to cut greenhouse g...
Ethics and the Chemical Engineer
Navigating the AI Frontier: Bias, Ethics, and the Vital Collaboration Between Engineers and Policymakers
Graham Herries on the guardrails that must be established to ensure the fair and responsible inte...
Embracing the Challenges of Ethical Engineering
Robert Peeling, chair of IChemE’s Congress, recounts the ethical lessons he has learned throughou...
Ethics: No Room for Relativity
Malcolm Staves explains the importance of applying the highest safety standards regardless of reg...
Career Paths
Starting Out: Oil and Gas in the Age of the Energy Transition
Continuing our series from the IChemE National Early Careers Group profiling early career opport...
Starting Out: A New Age of Nuclear and Fusion
The first in a series from the IChemE National Early Careers Group profiling early career opportu...
What we have Learned from our Mentor/Mentee Journey
Chemical engineering graduates Rory Foster and mentee Fred Barrett share insights into their ment...
Turnaround Tips
Controlling Your Maintenance Turnaround Scope, from Kick-Off to Closeout
Gordon Lawrence discusses the need to keep scope to a manageable size and avoid excessive scope g...
Turnaround Kick-Off
Gordon Lawrence explains how to get your maintenance turnaround off on the right foot
Improving Cost Estimating for Maintenance Turnarounds
We must do better, says Gordon Lawrence
Chemical Engineers and the Biopharmaceuticals Industry
Writing wrongs
Digitalisation progress in pharmaceutical manufacturing has been too slow. David Margetts looks a...
Visions of Biopharma
David Gemmell looks at possible biopharmaceutical facilities of the future
Viral Safety Challenges in Bioprocessing
David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing
Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World
Jay Bailey – Blazing a Trail for Biology
Jay Bailey helped to bring chemical engineering to cell level. Claudia Flavell-While investigates
Arthur D Little – Dedicated to industrial progress
Arthur D Little defined unit operations and, with it, a whole profession, says Claudia Flavell-While
Henry Bessemer – Man of Steel
If the industrial revolution was built on steel, then the father of the industrial revolution was...
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