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Fast Followers: Speeding up the Global Energy Transition
As attention turns to the coming COP27 climate conference, David Simmonds looks at where some of the big emitters are at, and what they need to do to combat climate change
Type: Feature
What do you do when you unexpectedly lose a crucial piece of your refinery complex? Shahidan Laili and M Safwan Atan explain
Type: Feature
Top Tips for Young Engineers Entering the YEAIS Awards
With IChemE’s Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability (YEAIS) now open for nominations, Adam Duckett asked the judges what top tips they have to share with those looking to throw their hat in the ring
Type: Feature
My ChemEng Career Path: Ahmad Ameer Mohamad
TCE talks to Ahmad Ameer Mohamad, an executive (technology delivery) at Petronas about how to bring lab experiments to-scale and what students gain from an IChemE membership
Type: Feature
How to Size and Rate Horizontal Three-Phase Separators
Separation is used in almost every oil and gas process. But how do you size or rate a separator and what fundamental principles should be applied?
Type: Feature
Aimee Russell highlights the issues you probably haven’t thought about when it comes to extreme weather risks and what you should do about them
Type: Feature
Flixborough 50 Years On: Reader Feedback
To finish the series of articles we’ve published this year for the 40th anniversary of the Flixborough disaster, we asked the TCE Reader Feedback Panel for their insights on how well safety is being managed, and what fresh fears they face
Type: Feature
MPs launch STEM diversity investigation
THE UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry, Diversity in STEM, to investigate the extent of underrepresentation within STEM and to explore what policies from Government, academia, and industry could address it.
Type: News
Getting More Women and Girls into Engineering
As International Women in Engineering Day approaches and with women still significantly underrepresented in engineering, Tegan Norster spoke to engineers about what we can all do to make a positive difference
Type: Feature
Ineos secures €3.5bn for its huge European chemicals investment
INEOS has raised €3.5bn (US$3.7bn) for the construction of a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgium, in what will be the largest investment in the European chemicals sectors in around 20 years, for the continent’s greenest cracker.
Type: News
Chemical Engineers Delivering Climate Change Action
In the lead-up to COP26, Amanda Lake discusses how IChemE is delivering on its climate change commitments, what to look out for, and how you can get involved
Type: Feature
Oil, Gas and Energy Transition SIG – What a Difference a Year Makes
A year on from the launch of IChemE’s Oil, Gas and Energy Transition SIG, chair Steve Flynn reflects on progress, community growth and lessons learned amid the sector’s shift towards net zero
Type: Feature
Shell starts up Europe’s largest PEM ‘green’ hydrogen electrolyser
SHELL has started operations at what it claims is Europe’s largest polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser, producing “green” hydrogen at its Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, in Germany.
Type: News
Cement major plans world’s first carbon-neutral production plant
HEIDELBERGCEMENT plans to retrofit its plant in Sweden to capture 1.8m t/y of CO2, and become what it says will be the world’s first carbon-neutral cement plant.
Type: News
Partnership to fill Europe’s EV supply chain gap
WOOD has been appointed as Owner’s Engineer by Green Lithium and will build and operate what is expected to be the UK’s first large-scale commercial lithium refinery.
Type: News
Wabash Valley Resources closes investment for CCS project
WABASH Valley Resources (WVR) has closed an investment from Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) for what is expected to be the US’ largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project to date.
Type: News
Engineers say artificial reefs could filter microplastics from the sea
WHAT if we could build artificial coral reefs to filter microplastics from the sea? That’s a possibility put forward by engineers in Canada who have been looking at how living reefs are becoming clogged with plastic pollution.
Type: News
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 of change (MOC), a concept that was not widely appreciated in 1974, and discusses modern MOC good practices and common pitfalls
Type: Feature
Highview Power to build Europe’s largest battery storage system
HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be Europe’s largest battery storage system, in the North of England. The project will also be the UK’s first commercial cryogenic energy storage facility at large scale.
Type: News
China pledges to be carbon neutral before 2060
IN what has been called a surprise announcement by multiple media outlets, Xi Jinping, President of China, informed the United Nations General Assembly that China aims to be “carbon neutral” before 2060.
Type: News
