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Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Type: Feature
Are You Best in Class at Process Safety Management?
Jack Wishart discusses how benchmarking can be used to measure and drive improvements in process safety performance in the energy industry
Type: Feature
Australia releases ‘technology-driven’ plan for net zero
THE Australian Government has announced a target to reach net zero emissions by 2050 via “technology not taxes”. However, the long-awaited plan does not include any legislation or targets for reducing fossil fuel use, and partially relies on future technologies.
Type: News
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
Noor Al-Rifai and Rene Holm look at the use of nanosuspensions as long-acting injectables
Type: Feature
Joshua Pearce explains the use of open-source hardware to use recyclables as feedstock for custom 3D-printed products
Type: Feature
The future of energy needs chemical engineers, and lots of them, say Jacob Brown, Titi Oliyide, Laurent Petithuguenin, and James Sweeney
Type: Feature
Alessandro Viola explains how magnets can filter out metal particle contamination in pharmaceutical manufacturing
Type: Feature
Renewables – not fossil fuels – are strongest link in the energy supply chain, new study finds
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to thoroughly assess the risks associated with fuel supply chains, showing in a UK case study that renewables are less risky than fossil fuels and nuclear power, in contrast to previous studies which imply that renewables carried a greater risk.
Type: News
UK Government props up industry to prevent CO2 shortage
THE UK Government has been forced to step in and pay for industry to keep producing CO2 after a rapid rise in energy prices forced fertiliser manufacturers to shut down operations.
Type: News
ARENA releases investment plan for low-emissions technologies
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has launched an investment plan setting out how it will support the technologies needed to transition to zero emissions.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Maria Papathanasiou
Yasmin Ali speaks to Maria Papathanasiou about how she ended up using mathematical modelling to answer questions around juggling the Covid-19 vaccine with the flu vaccine, and how the global supply chain would function if a need for regular boosters arises.
Type: Feature
Making (Anti)sense of Oligonucleotide Manufacturing
Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines
Type: Feature
Amanda Doyle explains why the energy transition must be fair for workers in high carbon industries
Type: Feature
Improving Cost Estimating for Maintenance Turnarounds
We must do better, says Gordon Lawrence
Type: Feature
Green transition loan awarded to Wood
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has awarded the first ever green transition loan – worth £430m (US$585m) – to engineering and consultancy firm Wood to accelerate new clean growth export opportunities.
Type: News
Bayer to buy novel drug discovery company for US$2bn
BAYER is acquiring biopharmaceutical company Vividion Therapeutics, which uses novel discovery technologies to unlock high value, traditionally “undruggable” targets with precision therapeutics.
Type: News
Sanofi to buy Translate Bio to advance mRNA therapeutics
SANOFI will acquire its partner Translate Bio in a US$3.2bn deal to further develop mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
Type: News
Chemical engineers collaborate for ‘cookie-cutter’ oxygen units
THREE chemical engineers at different universities around the world are collaborating to develop “cookie-cutter” portable oxygen conversion units that can be easily assembled from locally-sourced equipment, to prevent “thousands” of Covid fatalities in India.
Type: News
