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