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Precise Liquid Flow Measurement to Optimise Your Batching System

Neil Hannay outlines the key considerations when specifying a suitable flow meter for the design of a batching system

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Grangemouth set to cease refining operations as ‘major questions’ asked

GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland could cease operations in 2025 and become a fuel import terminal or biorefinery, its owner Petroineos has announced, putting hundreds of jobs at risk.

Type: News

UK government announces £4.5bn funding among package of measures to bolster manufacturing

The UK government has announced £4.5bn (US$5.6bn) in funding for the nation’s “world-leading” clean energy, automotive, aerospace, and life sciences sectors.

Type: News

Chemical spill injures five at Western Australian alumina refinery

TWO PEOPLE were hospitalised, and three others also injured, after a spill of caustic solution at aluminium major Alcoa’s Pinjarra refinery in Western Australia.

Type: News

Equinor and Captura partner to scale up direct ocean capture

INTERNATIONAL energy company Equinor has partnered with Captura to develop the direct ocean capture company’s technology at industrial scale.

Type: News

New supercomputers will put the UK 'first in the queue' when it comes to R&D and managing AI risks

UK INDUSTRIAL researchers have been promised a boon on the fringes of the Bletchley AI Summit thanks to new supercomputers called Isambard-AI and Dawn being built in Bristol and Cambridge. Their proponents say the supercomputers will allow a huge step forward in AI and the simulation capabilities needed to accelerate the development of fusion power and drugs, while testing the risks of new powerful AI models.

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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

Rules of Thumb: Scale-up

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