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Zero to Hero

Tolulope Martin gives three reasons why you should think of applying a zero-based approach to your engineering budgets

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The Hydrogen Economy Needs You

Emma Houchell talks about her role at Air Products, helping develop technology for the burgeoning hydrogen economy.

Type: Feature

Tata Steel fined £1m for toxic release

TATA STEEL has been fined £1m (US$1.3m) after five employees were exposed to a toxic gas release at its Scunthorpe site in the UK.

Type: News

PMI invests US$320m in smoke-free factory

CIGARETTES giant Philip Morris (PMI) has unveiled plans to build a US$320m facility to produce smoke-free products in Dresden, Germany.

Type: News

UK offers £5m funding for North Sea exploration

NORTH Sea oil and gas exploration will receive £5m (US$6.7m) in funding from the UK government in 2018/2019 to find potential new deposits.

Type: News

Australia to set new national energy policy

A NEW proposal from the Australian government seeks to remove renewable energy subsidies and promote power from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, hydro or batteries.

Type: News

Saudi Aramco confirms interest in potential stake at SABIC

SAUDI Aramco is evaluating the possibility of buying a stake in petrochemical company SABIC, which could attract potential investors for Aramco’s planned initial public offering.

Type: News

University of Canterbury student wins New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2019

ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, the 2019 New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year prize.

Type: News

IChemE Member attends palace ceremony for Queens Award

ICHEME Member Irteza Piracha has attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after the company he leads won a Queen’s Award for International Trade.

Type: News

Petronas agrees partnership to develop oil industry chemicals

PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research, develop and sell chemicals for the oil and gas sectors.

Type: News

Researchers awarded funding to develop reusable facemasks to help meet PPE shortfall

RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in funding for a project to develop a reusable mask for medical workers and others which can be disinfected using heat while being worn.

Type: News

Shell and Petronas agree to invest in Sarawak sour gas development

SHELL and Petronas have taken a final investment decision to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas project off the coast of Malaysia to bolster feedstocks for LNG production.

Type: News

Fight corrosion with simulation

CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the advent of simulating the participating electrochemical reactions that occur and transport processes that affect them. The same principles can be used to simulate, design and optimise industrial electrodeposition processes.

Type: Feature

Flixborough 50 Years On: Stirring Memories and Sharing Memories

Paul Okey visits the Flixborough 1974 Exhibition with his dad to discover the stories behind the disaster and the impact it had on those affected

Type: Feature

Open Heart Surgery

Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies

Type: Feature

A century of chemical engineering at UCL

ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of the chemical engineering department as it celebrates its one hundredth birthday, and outlined why the role of chemical engineers is more important today than it has ever been. He was speaking at the annual dinner arranged by the chemical engineering department’s student-run Ramsay Society.

Type: News

Walt Disney’s safety manager to speak at Hazards 29 conference

MIKE Bell, worldwide safety and health manager at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, will deliver the Trevor Kletz Memorial Lecture at IChemE’s Hazards 29 conference in 2019.

Type: News

Lowering emissions from ammonia production with electrolysis

A NEW method to produce ammonia via electrolysis can improve the process while also lowering emissions.

Type: News

Former IChemE President’s donation will help promote sustainability

FORMER IChemE President Ian Shott has announced a £200,000 (US$279,000) donation to IChemE to be used to promote the role that chemical engineers have in addressing societal challenges.

Type: News

First carbon capture laundry product on the market

A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim is the first cleaning product containing a surfactant made from captured carbon.

Type: News