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Salt of the Earth: Part 2

Martin Pitt continues his look at the chemical engineering history of common salt

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Old King Coal Part 3: Coal Chemicals

Martin Pitt looks at how once-discarded byproducts fuelled revolutions in fuels, antiseptics, plastics and road building

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Old King Coal Part 4: Coal Colours

Martin Pitt continues his series on coal, exploring how tar gave rise to the world’s first synthetic dyes and a global chemical industry

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Engineering Net Zero Part 5: Consuming the Planet's Resources

David Simmonds explores the picnic basket of our energy transition, our increasing dependency on China, and how hydrogen can help us deliver an electrified economy

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Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 4: Hybrid Schemes and Analysis

Izak Nieuwoudt reviews the hybrid schemes that can help process engineers reduce the energy use of their distillation processes

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Greener Medicines

Chemical engineers and chemists are working together to create a sustainable future at AstraZeneca

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Changing the World

Education students differently, with a more scenario- and problem-based engineering curriculum

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Not Just a Pretty Smell

Matthew Styles and Marc Hutchby discuss using biotechnology to make terpenes, and turning them into useful products

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Models of Good Behaviour?

IN 1976, George Box opined: “All models are wrong, some are useful.” How do we assure that a model is not sufficiently wrong that it is useful? A useful model is one that adequately predicts the results under the conditions and scale required for design or a process simulation. Most models of course are not derived at design scale. We are inevitably working outside the envelope of model derivation. So how do we build confidence that the extrapolation is adequately correct that the results may be trusted?

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Is Spider-Man Just a Big Gecko?

How introducing a biomimetic engineering course at the University of Canterbury led to unexpected research on the ‘existence’ of Spider-Man

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Something in the water

Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production

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Francis Bacon – Future Fuel

Meet Francis ‘Tom’ Bacon, the father of the hydrogen fuel cell; Claudia Flavell-While writes

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Slide Rules at Dawn

IChemE members Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee go head-to-head in a fight for survival on UK television

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Applying Chemistry

How chemical engineering developed in Nigeria

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Brexit: The Impact on Energy and Climate Change

Since Brexit negotiations have entered full force, concerns are growing about the future of the UK’s climate change policy, a lot of which is underpinned by EU regulations.

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Add It Up!

How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification

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Switching off

Why operators turn advanced controls off (and how to prevent them from doing so)

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No More Lost Light Gases

Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for the oil and gas industry

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Clean Hydrogen: Part 2

Other methods of producing hydrogen, not from natural gas

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Back to the Future

Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy challenge using an almost century-old reaction

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