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The Benefits of a PhD: An Academic's Perspective
In the second part of this series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to Vassilis Charitopoulos about his post-PhD career
Type: Feature
The Benefits of a PhD: An Alternative Perspective
In the last part of this series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to Eleni Routoula about her post-PhD career
Type: Feature
EEF use 2017 to inspire next-gen engineers
Publishes list of facts and myths to boost uptake
Type: News
The big data revolution is happening, and we must harness its potential to develop formulated products better, faster and cheaper than ever before
Type: Feature
United Utilities is Silver Corporate Partner
First Silver level partner in the water sector
Type: News
Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determine cost beneficial options
Type: Feature
Improving Cost Estimating for Maintenance Turnarounds
We must do better, says Gordon Lawrence
Type: Feature
Data Science and Digitalisation for Chemical Engineers
Matthew Proctor and Leo Chiang discuss how the proliferation of data and ways to use it is impacting the role of chemical engineers
Type: Feature
UK sets out green growth plans
THE UK government has outlined a raft of plans for low-carbon investment, setting out how £2.5bn will be spent to support green innovation through to 2021.
Type: News
New plastic can be recycled repeatedly
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) have developed a next-generation plastic that can be recycled repeatedly without loss of performance or quality.
Type: News
100+ partners commit to the Circular Plastics Alliance
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the Declaration of the Circular Plastics Alliance, thereby joining the EU-wide movement to increase recycling and the EU’s uptake of recycled plastics by 2025.
Type: News
Novel material for reversible SO2 capture
AN international team of scientists has developed a novel material capable of selective and reversible capture of sulfur dioxide (SO2). The porous material could help to reduce SO2 emissions and enable use of captured SO2 to produce useful products.
Type: News
16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with homicide and environmental crimes relating to the fatal collapse of a Vale tailings dam last year, which killed at least 259 people.
Type: News
UK heat network projects awarded £25m
FOUR heat network projects have been awarded almost £25m (US$31.6m) of funding, in the third round of the UK’s Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP). Recipients include the first HNIP-funded mine water heating project, which could save 1,300 t/y of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Type: News
MSD selects London site for US$1.32bn research complex
MSD, known as Merck & Co within the US and Canada, has selected to build its future US$1.32bn state-of-the-art research centre and UK headquarters at the heart of London’s academic and life science cluster in Camden.
Type: News
EU introduces new chemicals strategy
THE European Commission has unveiled its new chemicals strategy which aims to make chemicals production more sustainable while phasing out potentially harmful substances such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and endocrine disrupters.
Type: News
UK confirms plans to end coal power for electricity in 2024
THE UK Government has brought forward its deadline to end the use of coal for electricity by a year to 2024, although a new coking coal mine has yet to be ruled out.
Type: News
