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Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy
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The Pharmaceutical Industry: Engineering Frustrations
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineers, and suggest a new model to provide patients greater access to medicines
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Catapulting the Hydrogen Economy: Catalytic Membrane Reactors
Humbul Suleman and colleagues explain how refinements to a decades-old technology can provide clean, cheap hydrogen
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Microwave Processing – Beyond Food
Sam Kingman, Chris Dodds, Adam Buttress and Daniel Groszek discuss new technology that offers a high-temperature hybrid microwave reactor for large-scale industrial use
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British Sugar’s James Caws and consultant Howard Boder explain how small-scale advanced process control can work outside of refining
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Cloud Computing and Chemical Engineering
Joanne Tanner and Tobias Cleaver-Ross discuss the benefits and challenges of cloud computing and collaboration in the chemical and process industries
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Carry on Teaching: Higher Education During a Pandemic
Amanda Jasi surveys students and teachers to understand how Covid-19 has impacted university life and how successful the forced changes have been
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Our Research Focus: Going with the Flow Chemistry
Christian Holtze and Klaus Hellgardt on how the newly established IConIC consortium is aiming to seize the opportunities presented by flow chemistry and implement them on a commercial scale
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How to Perform a First Pass Water System Sustainability Analysis
Stephen Hall and Sarah Kutz examine strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of water purification systems, including membrane-based water for injection generation and optimised flow rates, while exploring sustainability approaches and alternative designs
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Old King Coal Part 2: Coal Gases
Martin Pitt continues his series on the history of coal, looking at coal gas, balloons and the fuels that lit the world
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The challenges of managing interfaces and integration at a complex, world-scale refinery and petrochemicals project.
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With water accessibility increasingly under threat, technology leads the mining industry's efforts towards water-free mining
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Kenneth Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.
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Introducing your nominees for IChemE’s 2018 trustee vacancies
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Managing ALARP in Major Engineering Projects
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
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Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determine cost beneficial options
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Engineering Net Zero Part 7: Energy Security and Affordability
In his penultimate feature on achieving net zero, David Simmonds considers the structure of the energy market and how it needs to change to meet the UK's net zero ambitions.
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Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation columns in an industrial setting
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