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Tune Your PID Loops!

Putting the ‘manual’ into automatic control

Type: Feature

Thomas Midgley – A troubled legacy

From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley

Type: Feature

What Does Being a Learned Society Mean?

Join the discussion and share your views

Type: Feature

Capturing CO2 with C-Capture

C-Capture started as a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK in 2009 and is now working on the carbon capture project at Drax Power Station in Yorkshire. I spoke to Chris Rayner, founder of C-Capture, about the company’s environmentally friendly solvent technology, the project at Drax, and plans for the future.

Type: Feature

Not a disaster movie?

The Chemical Engineer visits the cinema to see how Hollywood tackles the subject of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy

Type: Feature

CPD Sampling

Revalidating professional status

Type: Feature

Making Feedback Powerful

Tips on giving and receiving feedback

Type: Feature

Modelling Communication

A look at mathematical modelling of how we get our message across.

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Hazard Identification: Planning for Success

A look at the hazard and operability study (HAZOP).

Type: Feature

Common Working Practices Risk Home Office Enforcement Action

While hiring engineers from overseas is helping to ease skills shortages in the UK, employers need to check they are not falling foul of their compliance duties.

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Is UK CCS dead? Or can it be resuscitated?

Panel of experts assess its status

Type: News

What we need from a UK Industrial Strategy

Process industry cluster calls for systems thinking

Type: News

Ban the Steam Engine and Build Ten Hinkleys

As products improve and prices fall, the take-up of petrol-electric hybrids and 'pure' electric vehicles (EVs) might come much sooner. Today’s ‘conventionals’ will become obsolete long before they’re banned.

Type: Feature

What makes a good awards entry?

Top tips on how to make your Awards entry work for you

Type: Feature

Our Hard Work Starts Now

Chemical engineers are ideally placed to turn the words in the Paris Agreement into actions on climate change

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Carbon Capture or Kettle Smart?

Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions than CCS.

Type: Feature

Lewis Urry – A Powerful Man

Richard Jansen-Parkes looks at the life of Lewis Urry, inventor of the alkaline battery and father to the Energizer Bunny

Type: Feature

Funding Available for Sellafield Cleanup Innovators

Sellafield Ltd is seeking game-changing solutions from chemical and process engineers to address the challenges of post operational clean out of nuclear plants.

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Lean Forward

We should sell Lean Manufacturing to the food industry, says Ian Madden

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Clean Hydrogen. Part 1: Hydrogen from Natural Gas Through Cost Effective CO2 Capture

Producing hydrogen with carbon capture via the Low Carbon Hydrogen (LCH) process

Type: Feature