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Dam collapse tragedy could have been prevented
BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the tailings dam at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine near Brumadinho, which fatally collapsed earlier this year. The report says that Vale withheld information which could have helped to prevent the dam collapse.
Type: News
Andy Barker’s award-winning essay on life at the Stanlow refinery in 2023, written 50 years previously, won him £40. It’s fascinating to see what aspects of our lives he got right – commonplace electric powered transport, desktop computers used for engineering calculations, and automated audio-to-text transcriptions – and where he was well wide of the mark.
Type: Feature
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation columns in an industrial setting
Type: Feature
Managing Ageing Assets as Part of the Clean Energy Transition
As the UK reduces its reliance on coal and oil, Aniqah Majid speaks to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) about risk factors to look out for as assets age and operators look to repurpose them
Type: Feature
Graham Herries on the guardrails that must be established to ensure the fair and responsible integration of this AI into our society
Type: Feature
Attention turns to vaccine production following successful trials
FOLLOWING three highly-encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials, the light at the end of the tunnel suddenly appears brighter and closer. As efforts get underway to manufacture and deliver vaccines across the world, attention now turns to a spiderweb of supply chains, bottleneck threats, and cold-chain challenges.
Type: News
Robert Walker explains the lessons he learned in successfully enabling critical gas supplies to continue throughout the pandemic
Type: Feature
Saving Time and Energy with Process-focused AI Simulations
Aniqah Majid spoke to University of Birmingham spinout Evophase about its location-specific wind turbines and how AI could change the way engineers design process equipment
Type: Feature
Engineering Net Zero Part 4: Giving Industry and Transport Operators a Choice
David Simmonds has called for more choice for domestic customers when it comes to clean transport and heating options and he believes that energy flexibility should be extended to industry, and heavy transport sectors
Type: Feature
The fundamentals and best practices behind line sizing for a single phase fluid (liquid or gas)
Type: Feature
Unravelling PFAS: Challenges and Advances in Contaminant Remediation
From industrial applications to environmental concerns, Jim Fenstermacher, Pradeep Shukla, and Prashant Srivastava explore the chemistry of PFAS, emerging capture technologies, and the ongoing efforts to mitigate their impact
Type: Feature
SIP says UK safety engineers in short supply
Report highlights skills shortfall in STEM by 2025
Type: News
Direct Air Capture: The State of Play and What’s to Come
An introduction to direct air capture
Type: Feature
Front-end lessons: green megaprojects at risk unless government learns from HS2 blunders
Tom Baxter says the UK government must learn from past engineering project mistakes or expensive CCS, hydrogen and electricity grid megaprojects could fail
Type: Feature
Nanostraws sample cells without killing them
Technique could boost cancer and stem cell research
Type: News
