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Fuelling the World with Biomass
Our reliance on gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel shows little sign of declining despite the push to net zero. Could replacing crude oil in hydrocarbon liquids with cellulosic biomass feedstocks provide the solution?
Type: Feature
Magnox rebrands to Nuclear Restoration Services as its decommissioning portfolio expands
Magnox has become Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) ahead of taking ownership of closing EDF nuclear sites.
Type: News
Engineers plotted onto iconic London Underground map for National Engineering Day
You can now travel from Dame Julia Higgins to Nigel Hirst via Dame Judith Hackitt thanks to a reimagined London underground map charting the contributions made by engineers, including several IChemE members, in shaping the world.
Type: News
46 miners killed in methane gas explosion at ArcelorMittal mine in Kazakhstan
A METHANE explosion at a mine in Kazakhstan run by ArcelorMittal Temirtau has killed 46 workers. The tragedy, which occurred at the firm’s Kostenco coal mine on Saturday, is the country’s worst mining disaster for more than a decade.
Type: News
Engineering Net Zero Part 6: Skilling Up
David Simmonds looks at who we need to deliver our energy transition, from the local technician to the grid designer
Type: Feature
Amgen buys Horizon Therapeutics for US$27.8bn
US BIOTECH company Amgen has completed its US$27.8bn acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics after a legal challenge by the US antitrust watchdog was dropped.
Type: News
IChemE Matters – November 2023
Nigel Hirst on the merits of mentoring; Allyson Woodford previews Chemeca 2023 and readers respond to UK climate policy shift
Type: News
Modelling with Excel Part 9: Digitising a Chart
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale-up from an equipment-based viewpoint using the example of agitated tanks
Type: Feature
Life as an Early Career Engineer
The National Early Careers Committee (UK & Ireland and Malaysia) sheds some light on the challenges and opportunities that different career paths can bring
Type: Feature
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 6: Safety Implications from New Technologies
Roger Stokes and Michael Moosemiller outline the safety issues associated with conventional distillation towers and consider how newer technologies might behave differently with respect to safety
Type: Feature
Volunteer Spotlight: Steve Flynn CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Getting Your First Job as a Chemical Engineer: A Step by Step Guide
Vince Pizzoni has cast his eye over more than 40,000 CVs, conducted 10,000 interviews and recruited several hundred personnel. Now a career coach and business mentor, if anyone should know the dos and don’ts of graduate job hunting it is him!
Type: Feature
Taking a Look Back at Control: Part 2
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, concluding with electrical and computer systems
Type: Feature
UK government unveils £650m fusion programme as JET moves towards decommissioning
THE UK government has announced the £650m (US$789.9m) Fusion Futures Programme, part of its strategy to cement the nation as a technology leader. Measures under the programme include developing a new fuel cycle testing facility focused on commercialisation, creating more than 2,200 training positions, and funding to develop infrastructure for private fusion companies.
Type: News
Lanxess to cut 870 jobs amid German chemical industry downturn
GERMAN speciality chemicals group Lanxess plans to cut 870 jobs worldwide. The firm has blamed a deepening crisis in the country's chemicals sector due to rising energy prices brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Type: News
US awards US$7bn for seven hydrogen hubs to boost clean energy economy
THE BIDEN administration has announced that seven hydrogen hub proposals are to receive US$7bn in ‘Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’ funding to boost the domestic development and production of hydrogen.
Type: News
Engineers successfully trial single process to produce zero emissions steel and cement
ENGINEERS working on a process to produce zero-emission cement as a byproduct of recycling steel say the first trial has shown encouraging results.
Type: News
ExxonMobil gambles US$60bn on shale oil buyout
EXXONMOBIL has placed a US$60bn bet on US shale oil with the purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources.
Type: News
NEARLY three years after the rollout of mRNA vaccines across the world, research pioneers Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for foundational discoveries that allowed their rapid development amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Type: News
