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Deepwater Horizon: As it Happened

Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month

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Opening Up Instrumentation

John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and easier to make

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Who is Running Your Plant at 3 AM?

Safety experts John Bresland and Ian Travers review the recruitment and training of process staff from around the world.

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Food and Drink: Learning from Others

Contractors are borrowing techniques from the petchem, pharma and auto in-dustries to help food and drink re-establish itself in manufacturing

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Desal: Hot Favourites

Where the smart money is going in desalination technologies

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North Sea Success

PREDICTIONS about the downfall of the UK oil and gas industry have abounded in recent years, as existing, easy-to-access reserves have become depleted, and the oil price has collapsed, meaning that many remaining reserves are becoming less economical to exploit. Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost, and there’s little doubt that the industry is struggling, particularly in the North Sea.

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Accelerating Progress on Hydrogen Fuel Cells

A hydrogen-powered society is possible - with a little help from our engineers

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Nicolas Leblanc – Revolutionary discoveries

One of the first chemicals to be produced at industrial scale, a product that laid the foundation for much of the modern chemicals industry, is sodium carbonate, commonly known as soda ash or, simply, soda.

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Open Heart Surgery

Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies

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Better by Design

Quality by design must be viewed as an opportunity, not as a regulatory burden

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A Beacon for Biotech

Neil Clark ventures inside University of Nottingham’s new green chemicals hub

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Dermot Manning and colleagues at ICI – Plastic Fantastic

The commercial success of PE starts with Reginald Gibson, Eric Fawcett, Michael Perrin and Dermot Manning at ICI. Claudia Flavell-While tells their story

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Donald Campbell and colleagues – Fuelling a way of life

Fluid catalytic cracking has been called ‘the most revolutionary chemical engineering achievement of the early 20th century’. Claudia Flavell-While finds out why

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Magnus von Braun – Rocket man

Overshadowed by his brother Wernher, Magnus von Braun still had a fateful role to play. Claudia Flavell-While recounts the story

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Vladimir Haensel – Breath of Fresh Air

Vladimir Haensel’s brainchild, the platforming process, underpins transport and plastics production while cutting emissions, finds Claudia Flavell-While

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Andrew Grove – The Processor Engineer

Richard Jansen looks at the life and work of Andrew Grove, a founding father of the silicon age

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George Rosenkranz and colleagues – Engineering the Sexual Revolution

Chemical engineers have a lot to answer for – including the Summer of Love. Claudia Flavell-While explains

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Shape the Future

Vote for transparency, representation and accountability at the EGM

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Ditch the Deluge

An argument for using insulation rather than fixed firewater deluge to protect bulk LPG storage tanks against the risk of BLEVEs

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Biorefining and Integrated Bioresource Engineering

FBP journal – a new avenue for the research

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