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Folayan awarded MBE in New Year Honours
ICHEME Fellow Oluwole Olawale Folayan has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King’s 2023 New Year Honours List for services to equality, diversity and inclusion in engineering.
Type: News
IChemE Fellow awarded Australia Day honours
ICHEME Fellow Geoffrey Stevens, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Melbourne, has been awarded Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day 2020 Honours list.
Type: News
UK urged to accelerate CCS plans; and concerns raised about burning biomass
A CARBON capture trade association and a cross-party committee of MPs have called on the UK Government to accelerate the roll out of carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure, as well as provide clarity on its strategy in order to incentivise investment.
Type: News
A discussion about the promise of 3D-printed membranes, and the research efforts underway that aim to bring imagination to reality
Type: Feature
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
Type: Feature
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and easier to make
Type: Feature
Carbon capture and storage costs money, so why bother? On the CCS Safari, Helen Tunnicliffe found out
Type: Feature
Three chemical engineers recognised in New Year’s Honours
THREE Fellows of IChemE have been awarded in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours list. Lynn Gladden has been recognised with a Damehood, and Mark Apsey and Adisa Azapagic have been awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Type: News
Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'
SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zero is arguably the biggest engineering project ever undertaken by mankind, says the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in a new report.
Type: News
Climate crisis explainer: what is COP26 and why is it important?
In November, the 26th UN Conference of Parties (COP) climate summit will take place in Glasgow, UK. Known as COP26, it will mark five years since the Paris Agreement, and it will be crucial that real progress is made at the summit in order to take immediate action on the climate emergency.
Type: Feature
Nanomaterials plant gives students huge responsibility
Nottingham placement students given input over design, construction and commissioning in SHYMAN project
Type: Feature
Breaking Slavery Shackles in the Supply Chain
Companies must now verify and report on robustness
Type: Feature
IChemE members on location, explaining chemical engineering to a unicorn, trainee Jedi knights and a caveman’s little helper
Type: Feature
Breaking slavery shackles in the supply chain
Companies must now verify and report on robustness
Type: News
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technologies together. Hugh Sutherland, Head of Development at ZapGo speaks to Neil Clark
Type: Feature
With enhanced recovery set to increase, the future looks bright for producers of oilfield chemicals.
Type: Feature
Paul Héroult and Charles Hall – Turning a Rarity into a Commodity
What’s the most valuable metal in the world? Today, it’s gold, the price of which has soared so much in recent years that it overtook platinum and rhodium as the most expensive metal in the world. Two hundred years ago, it was a metal that today is so cheap it’s become the ultimate disposable commodity: aluminium.
Type: Feature
