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BRAZIL has decided to ban tailings dams built by the upstream method. The decision follows the fatal collapse of such a dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 25 January. So far 169 people have been reported dead and 141 people are missing.
Type: News
Book Review: Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
Dieter Helm; ISBN: 9780008404468; William Collins; 2020; £20
Type: Feature
A look at mathematical modelling of how we get our message across.
Type: Feature
CSB releases final report on explosions at Midland Resource Recovery facility
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found that a lack of hazard identification processes contributed to the tank explosions that killed three people at the Midland Resource Recovery (MRR) facility in West Virginia in 2017.
Type: News
UK students at Bradford awarded IChemE’s 2020 SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded a team of engineering students at the University of Bradford, UK, with the 2020 SIESO Medal for their innovative popup book depicting the lessons learned from the 2005 Texas City Refinery disaster. The incident killed 15 people and injured 180 others.
Type: News
Obituary Giovanni (Jan) Guidoboni CEng FIChemE, 1940–2021
Obituary of Jan Guidoboni, a long-time Fellow of IChemE, winner of the Donald Medal 1996 for “outstanding services to the field of biochemical engineering”, and hugely experienced chemical engineer
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Cameron Langford AMIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Knovel provides a wide range of resources for chemical engineers, including books, journals, and case studies and is a key benefit of IChemE membership, writes Luke Williams
Type: Feature
Obituary of John Griffiths, who was awarded IChemE's Hebden Medal for his work in the field of gasification research, development, and commercialisation, and died in June 2023, aged 83.
Type: News
IChemE Fellow recognised for efforts against Covid
ICHEME Fellow Zhanfeng Cui and his team at the University of Oxford, UK have received an award from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) for their development of a rapid viral RNA test for Covid-19 detection.
Type: News
IChemE Fellows awarded 2021 Australia Day Honours
LAST week, chemical engineers and Fellows of IChemE Chris Fell and the late Graeme Paul were recognised with Australia Day Honours.
Type: News
2.4bn lack safe toilets: Ashok Kumar Fellow
Highlights sanitation problem in UK parliament brief
Type: News
Research project to revolutionise liquid waste management
AN Engineer at Aarhus University (AU), Denmark has received a US$1.65m grant to develop technology that could revolutionise liquid waste management.
Type: News
Cow-Free: A possible future for dairy
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Type: Feature
Flixborough 50 Years On: Safety is a Team Sport
A massive gap that wasn’t filled, key players in the wrong positions and no one taking overall responsibility. Flixborough was an own goal waiting to happen, argues Trish Kerin
Type: Feature
Orsted awarded first Danish CCUS subsidy tender and signs major carbon removal offtake contract
ORSTED has announced major carbon capture and storage deals, having won a 20-year contract under which Denmark will subsidise a project to capture and store 430,000 t/y of biogenic CO2, and signed an agreement with Microsoft for 2.76m t of carbon removal.
Type: News
Wind turbine pioneers Stiesdal and Garrad win 2024 QEPrize
HENRIK STIESDAL and Andrew Garrad have been awarded the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for their pioneering work designing and optimising wind turbines.
Type: News
Book Review: Quiet Outrage: the Way of a Sociologist
Type: Feature
Electrolysis demo seeks green steel plant
Austria project will produce feedstock from water
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