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David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
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Practical Process Control Part 16: Feedforward Control – Part 2
In the second of a two-parter, Myke King shows how to apply feedforward control
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Viewpoint: Electrification Should be the First Choice to Power Industry
While many industries have hidden behind the “hard to abate” label, advances mean deep emissions cuts are possible across most sectors. Green Alliance’s Liam Hardy says the key now is to ensure industrial electrification gets a fair hearing
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Challenger: Home for Christmas
Mark Yates examines the engineering behind Apollo, and highlights the continuing importance of science and R&D teams on the ground
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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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Terry Cooper: Preventer of Major Accidents
Terry Cooper is a chemical engineer by training. This article is an adapted version of a speech he delivered at Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 6 June. The conference marked the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster.
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Wendy Wilson, Joseph Agnew and Tom White report on the 2019 IChemE Member Engagement survey results
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Ethics Series: Educating Ethical Chemical Engineers
David Shallcross and Allyson Woodford discuss challenges and methods to teach ethics, using real-life cases
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BP Texas City: Lessons learned?
A look at how the process industries have changed, more than a decade on
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Mountains or Oceans: how Shell uses scenarios to assess the company’s strategies for the future
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A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur CEO speaks to Neil Clark
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Using drones to replace traditional rope-based visual inspections on offshore platforms
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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
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Not All Plastics Are Made Equally Recyclable
Aniqah Majid looks at the multiple plastics clogging up the waste management system and whether the UK has the infrastructure to get them back into the circular economy
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Demystifying and Debunking ML Part 2: Data and Feature Engineering
Hugh Stitt, Joe Emerson, Carl Jackson and Robert Gallen focus on understanding input data and why quality, pre-processing and feature engineering drive 80% of ML modelling effort
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Celebrating six decades of UCD Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering
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Amid the turmoil facing UK steel there is a huge opportunity
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A Sneak Peak at Air Products’ Graduate Recruitment Process
Insights on how a major employer of engineers handles its graduate recruitment process.
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