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How Soap was Born: From Mud and Urine to Modern Detergents

Martin Pitt comes clean about the history of soap

Type: Feature

Demystifying and Debunking ML Part 2: Data and Feature Engineering

Hugh Stitt, Joe Emerson, Carl Jackson and Robert Gallen focus on understanding input data and why quality, pre-processing and feature engineering drive 80% of ML modelling effort

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

Crossing the Line?

The difficulties in separating diligence from negligence

Type: Feature

Book Review: A Guide to Hazard Identification Methods, Second Edition

Frank Crawley; ISBN: 9780128195437 (paperback); Elsevier; 2020; £117.30

Type: Feature

Rules of Thumb: Pump and System Curves

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

Type: Feature

Seven Soft Skills to Help with Tough Engineering Jobs

How to increase your chances of doing well in leadership positions

Type: Feature

Rules of Thumb: Process Control Valves

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

Type: Feature

Condemnation as Trump Quits Climate Pact

Fears move could harm industry, investment & jobs

Type: News

Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 4: Hybrid Schemes and Analysis

Izak Nieuwoudt reviews the hybrid schemes that can help process engineers reduce the energy use of their distillation processes

Type: Feature

UK Government releases long-awaited net zero strategy

THE UK Government has outlined how it plans to reach net zero by 2050 in its Net Zero Strategy. The plans include the approval of two carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) industrial clusters, however there is criticism that the strategy still falls short in many areas.

Type: News

Health: What’s the Formula for Sustainability in Pharma?

Zeb Ahmed discusses the growing demand for sustainable built assets

Type: Feature

The Power of Assertiveness

How might we use the power of assertive behaviour to good effect?

Type: Feature

The Art of Facilitation

It's not about you and your ideas: how to be effective at facilitation

Type: Feature

Solar reactor uses storage to produce fuel day and night

A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock. The reactor could potentially be used to produce hydrogen for fuel cells, without any carbon emissions.

Type: News

Microplastics Explainer

MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are, where they come from, and what we can do to help prevent them? To find out, read our Earth Day explainer.

Type: Feature

ChemEng Culture: Piper Alpha revisited

Director Laura Blount discusses the making of Disaster at Sea, the BBC documentary that retells the 1988 tragedy through survivor testimony, dramatised inquiry scenes and the enduring lessons for safety and humanity

Type: Feature

A Virtual Meeting at 10 Downing Street

Tom White, IChemE Trustee and CEO of C-Capture, presses Boris Johnson for support on scaleup

Type: Feature

Global Status of CCS report warns ‘more to be done’

THE Global CCS Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to meeting the Paris climate change targets, but while significant advances have been made in the past year, there is a long way to go.

Type: News

Top ten bio-based chemicals for UK economic growth

A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals where the UK is primed to go from demonstration to industrial-level production.

Type: News