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Marlene Kanga awarded Queen’s Birthday Honours
MARLENE Kanga, a chartered chemical engineer who successfully campaigned for a global engineering day, has been awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in Australia.
Type: News
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
Type: Feature
Marlene Kanga to present at joint Chemeca and Hazards Australasia event
CHARTERED chemical engineer Marlene Kanga, who successfully campaigned for World Engineering Day, will present at the 51st Chemeca, held in conjunction with Hazards Australasia. She will speak at the events’ dinner, to be hosted by IChemE, in Melbourne, Australia.
Type: News
Shott: UK chemical industry should focus on strengths
FORMER IChemE president Ian Shott says that the huge UK chemical industry must focus on its strengths – including biotechnology and process intensification if it is to grow.
Type: News
Piper Alpha Perspectives: Introducing the Series
Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series launched to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the landmark offshore tragedy
Type: Feature
LIVE Reporting from ChemEngDayUK 2025
Welcome to The Chemical Engineer magazine's live blog for ChemEngDayUK 2025 in Sheffield. Edited by Sam Baker and Aniqah Majid.
Type: News
QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical break ground on US$6bn Ras Laffan petrochemical complex
OWNERS QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have started construction on a US$6bn petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. Set to be one of the largest petrochemical production facilities in the world, it will increase the country’s capacity to 14m t/y by the end of 2026.
Type: News
Merck announces prize for Cork chemical engineering students
SCIENCE and technology company Merck celebrated 30 years at its site in Cork, Ireland, in 2018 and has marked the anniversary with a new prize for chemical engineering students at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).
Type: News
IChemE co-creates chemical engineering TV programme
ICHEME and ITN Productions’ Industry News are working to co-create Serving Society, a unique, news-style programme to improve understanding of global issues and raise awareness of the vital role of chemical engineers in delivering responsible solutions to benefit society.
Type: News
EPA takes a step to exempt ‘forever chemical’ release
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environment, has taken a step in implementing a national Act that would exempt up to 100 lb (45.4 kg) of release of persistent, potentially harmful per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Type: News
Chemical companies review lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Harvey and how a coastal protection system is vital to ensure the safety of chemical plants during future flooding.
Type: News
Membrane for low-energy chemical separation
A METAL oxide-infused membrane has been developed that offers lower-energy chemical separation than conventional methods, while also withstanding harsh chemical environments.
Type: News
Chemical fire reported at Arkema Texas plant
ARKEMA has reported a chemical fire at its organic peroxide (OP) plant in Crosby, Texas, amid flooding from Hurricane Harvey.
Type: News
Pore Performance: One 3D-printing firm's ambition to re-engineer membranes
Adam Duckett interviews Tom Pugh and Andrew Walker about Evove’s push to improve separations
Type: Feature
Easter eggsperts: chemical engineers have chocolate eco-ratings licked
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider the environmental impact of chocolate and how it can be made more planet-friendly.
Type: News
WITH The Chemical Engineer team poised to close our laptops until the office reopens on 2 January, we thought we’d share a selection box of stories to catch up on while we’re away.
Type: News
Webinar: Improving Vacuum Distillation Profitability
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to enhance the process performance of vacuum distillation in refineries. A recording of this webinar is now available to stream at the link below.
Type: Feature
Obituary of Isuru Udugama, a senior lecturer at The University of Auckland and prolific academic and engineer, who died in December 2023, aged 33.
Type: News
Sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate net-zero
LED by the University of Bath, UK, a major new collaboration between academia and industry seeks to use sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate the UK’s transition to net-zero carbon emissions.
Type: News
