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How can the oil majors best measure energy transition and routes to net zero?
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
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Practical Process Control Part 9: Resolving Potential Level Control Problems
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers to exploit untapped opportunities for improvement
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Energy majors to invest A$350m in new gas drilling projects for Australian east coast
OIL AND GAS giants ExxonMobil and Woodside have approved a A$350m (US$220m) investment to launch new offshore gas drilling projects in the Bass Strait to supply the eastern states of Australia.
Type: News
Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center: So Much Achieved and Much More to Do
On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at the growing success of the safety center forged in her memory
Type: Feature
Shell invests to accelerate UK energy transition
BY 2030, Shell aims to increase its supply of UK oil and gas demand to 15% while reducing emissions and invest £100m (US$121.7m) to help 15,000 people get skilled jobs, as part of ambitions expected to accelerate the company’s energy transition in the UK.
Type: News
Chris Best addresses the role blowdown systems play in plant design and why they are essential in order to ensure process safety
Type: Feature
New fund seeks to boost investment and diversity of South Africa energy
A R1.5bn (US$102m) investment fund has been launched in South Africa to boost investment in the country’s energy sector and encourage more black participants, especially women, in the sector.
Type: News
Yvonne Owens talks about her role as Whey Intake Process Manager at Ireland's largest dairy processor
Type: Feature
Bioengineering opportunities and risks
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bioengineering sector have been outlined in a new report.
Type: News
Australia looks to deploy A$2bn emissions reduction fund
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of technologies that reduce emissions and increase efficiency and productivity. This follows the release of an expert panel review aiming to identify new opportunities for low-cost abatement.
Type: News
Engineering Net Zero Part 9C: Strategy Options for our Future Energy System
David Simmonds continues his mini-series by looking at some of the unintentional consequences of strategy decisions, and recommends hybrids as a long-duration DSR measure.
Type: Feature
BP and Microsoft join forces on Industry 4.0 and clean energy
BP and Microsoft are working together to advance their net zero ambitions and the digital transformation of energy systems.
Type: News
Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top prize at the IChemE Global Awards 2018, held in Manchester UK on 1 November.
Type: News
New supercomputers will put the UK 'first in the queue' when it comes to R&D and managing AI risks
UK INDUSTRIAL researchers have been promised a boon on the fringes of the Bletchley AI Summit thanks to new supercomputers called Isambard-AI and Dawn being built in Bristol and Cambridge. Their proponents say the supercomputers will allow a huge step forward in AI and the simulation capabilities needed to accelerate the development of fusion power and drugs, while testing the risks of new powerful AI models.
Type: News
New energy record is ‘resounding confirmation in global fusion quest’
FUSION researchers have achieved a record-breaking sustained burst of energy that they say is the clearest indication in a quarter of a century that fusion technology can produce abundant low-carbon energy.
Type: News
Rules of Thumb: Process Control Valves
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Type: Feature
Energy: Hydrogen from offshore wind
Amanda Doyle speaks to Widya Wahyuni about using wind to power seawater electrolysis
Type: Feature
Jin Xuan, Jinfeng Liu and Chunfei Wu pick out their highlights from the first 12 months of Digital Chemical Engineering, and Carbon Capture Science & Technology
Type: Feature
IChemE Sets Out Stance on Climate Change
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process through which it was established
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