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Empirisys Launch Memorial Fund to Inspire Future Data Scientists

Grant in memory of Alex White, who died at 29 from meningitis, aims to support students pursuing careers in process safety and data science

Type: Feature

No Operation is an Island

Adam Duckett discusses siloed operations

Type: Feature

UCL chemical engineering department receives Gold Athena Swan award for gender equality efforts

UNIVERSITY College London’s chemical engineering department has been awarded gold status as part of the Athena Swan Charter, in recognition of its commitment to gender equality.

Type: News

Rules of Thumb: Flow Parameters

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

Type: Feature

How Your Magazine is Made: Printing

To capture the key stages of how your copy of TCE is manufactured, Adam Duckett hot-footed it to Precision Colour Printing armed with a camera and a whole host of questions

Type: Feature

Plans to shut UK ammonia plant spark new CO2 supply concerns

CF FERTILISERS UK (CF) has announced plans to halt ammonia production at its Billingham complex due to “market conditions”, renewing industry concerns about CO2 supply.

Type: News

About the Size of It

Can CO2 utilisation play a role in climate change mitigation?

Type: Feature

Woodside agrees US$2.35bn deal for OCI clean ammonia plant

WOODSIDE is buying a low-carbon ammonia plant in the US for US$2.35bn as it looks to expand into a growing market for cleaner energy and chemical feedstocks.

Type: News

Chevron to buy Hess in US$53bn all-stock deal

AMERICAN oil giant Chevron is buying oil and gas producer Hess in an all-stock deal worth US$53bn. This is the second major oil buy-up this month, following ExxonMobil’s agreement to acquire US shale firm Pioneer Natural Resources in a deal worth US$59.5bn.

Type: News

The Internet of Things disruption and you

Prepare for the green transformation IoT will bring

Type: News

UK fusion research centre granted contract extension

JOINT European Torus (JET), a fusion energy research centre in the UK, has had its contract extended until 2020, and an additional €100m (US$113m) of funding guaranteed from the EU.

Type: News

Shell to sell stake in German Schwedt refinery to UK's Prax Group

SHELL has agreed to sell its 37.5% stake in the PCK Schwedt oil refinery, one of the largest crude oil  processing locations in Germany, to Prax Group, an independent energy firm headquartered in London.

Type: News

Alvin Nienow wins Peter Dunnill Award

ICHEME Fellow Alvin Nienow has received the Peter Dunnill Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of bioprocessing.

Type: News

AI discovers routes for recycling chemical waste

RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover routes for recycling waste into useful products.

Type: News

Green investor partners with spinout for novel fluid flow characterisation technology

UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered to commercialise a smart, AI-based system expected to optimise fluid production in chemical, fast-moving consumer goods, food, and oil and gas sectors.

Type: News

Nominations open for new IChemE member advisory body

ICHEME is calling on its members to put themselves forward for its new member advisory board, Congress.

Type: News

ABB warns chemical firms must invest in digitalisation

ABB has warned that unless the leaders of chemical companies embrace the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), they risk delivering disappointing shareholder return and could put their companies in “serious jeopardy”.

Type: News

Sleipner partnership to release CO2 storage datasets

EQUINOR and its partners are to release datasets from the Sleipner field, the world’s first offshore CCS plant. The move is aimed at advancing innovation and development in the area of CO2 storage.

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Shell invests in upgrader as it pivots towards circular chemicals at Singapore site

SHELL will build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit at its Pulau Bukom site in Singapore as part of plans to refocus its refinery sites to produce circular chemicals.

Type: News

IChemE members join group advising government on net zero plans

ICHEME members are working with representatives of the wider engineering discipline to advise the UK Government on how it can achieve its net zero emissions target, with a strong emphasis on the need to adopt a systems approach.

Type: News