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Front-end lessons: green megaprojects at risk unless government learns from HS2 blunders
Tom Baxter says the UK government must learn from past engineering project mistakes or expensive CCS, hydrogen and electricity grid megaprojects could fail
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Bringing AI to carbon capture: how Imperial College is revolutionising plant operations
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are fast becoming in-demand skills for chemical engineers. Aniqah Majid visits Imperial College London to see how these technologies are being utilised for plant maintenance and operations
Type: Feature
IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to the Institution’s future
Type: Feature
Everything is interdependent, say Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray
Type: Feature
How we can learn important safety lessons from success as well as failure
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UK Energy Security Strategy deemed ‘a missed opportunity’
THE UK Government has released its much-delayed Energy Security Strategy, which improves long-term plans for more oil and gas, hydrogen, nuclear, and offshore wind. However, the strategy has received strong criticism for failing to deliver on solar power, onshore wind, energy efficiency, and demand reduction.
Type: News
Ethics Series: A Circle of Trust
Joan Cordiner discusses the world of professional ethics
Type: Feature
Industrial placements offer huge opportunities for both students and employers. Student George Watson and the chemeng team leaders at TÜV Rheinland Industrial Services share their tips on how to get the most out of the experience
Type: Feature
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engineering profession and the biosector
Type: Feature
Supporting the chemical engineers of the future
The Salters' Institute is offering awards of £2,500 to recognise and support outstanding young chemists and chemical engineers, and to encourage them to join in its mission to promote science education in schools.
Type: Feature
Best practice on specifying, designing, commissioning and operating control rooms
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Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capability
Type: Feature
Chris McDonald discusses his career in metals, and why the industry needs more chemical engineers
Type: Feature
Sleepwalking Towards a Net Zero Skills Shortage
Michael Hardisty of EngineeringUK discusses the urgent fixes the UK needs to reliably forecast the jobs required to meet the climate crisis
Type: Feature
Virtual Reality: Levelling Up Process Safety Training
Process safety engineer Martin Wardrope looks closely at how virtual reality is being used to develop process safety practice and awareness
Type: Feature
UK spring budget includes launch of nuclear support body and up to £20bn for CCUS
THE UK government has pledged to invest up to £20bn (US$24.2bn) from its spring budget to support carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) across the nation. It has also launched Great British Nuclear, a public body which will help nuclear provide 25% of UK electricity by 2050.
Type: News
LABELLED as a strategy that will “scale up affordable, clean, homegrown power” while building “thriving green industries in Britain”, the UK government’s new Powering up Britain plan conversely acknowledges that existing climate policies will not enable the UK to meet its Sixth Carbon Budget.
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