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IChemE launches Sustainability Hub

ICHEME has launched its new Sustainability Hub, giving chemical engineers access to a suite of new, on-demand training courses and knowledge resources.

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The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Solving Them

Elaine Loving and Tom Stroud outline the scientific and technical challenges that must be met for the potential of fusion energy to be realised

Type: Feature

AI discovers routes for recycling chemical waste

RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover routes for recycling waste into useful products.

Type: News

Fire at US speciality chemicals plant

A CHEMICAL plant in Louisiana, US, has caught fire, with no injuries reported.

Type: News

Heriot-Watt receives IChemE accreditation at three campuses

HERIOT-WATT University has had its chemical engineering programmes at its campuses in Dubai and Malaysia accredited by IChemE.

Type: News

IChemE members honoured at Chemeca 2017

MEMBERS of IChemE were presented with awards of excellence at Chemeca 2017, to celebrate their contributions to the chemical engineering community in Australia and New Zealand.

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A Lego Technic Cupcake Production Line

In the third of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute to society, Peter Swanson shares his experiences of getting schoolchildren into chemical engineering

Type: Feature

Managing vaccine manufacture scaleup

Withthe UK Government having announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the country to manufacture a vaccine at scale for Covid-19, we caught up with biochemical engineer Adam Hawthorne to discuss the expected challenges.

Type: Feature

Neste and Technip join forces for ‘copy and paste’ liquefaction for plastics recycling

IN A BID to reduce the upfront costs for the chemical recycling of plastics, Neste, Alterra and Technip have formed a partnership to sell standardised modular process plants.

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Two dead in Chinese chemical plant explosion

Five more injured by wastewater treatment equipment

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Chemical engineers explore upcycling microfibres released from washing clothes

UNIVERSITY of Surrey and UK-based washing technology group, Xeros Technology, have teamed up to accelerate research into upcycling the microfibres captured from laundering clothes into a useful and valuable carbon material.

Type: News

Report finds gender bias in chemical sciences publishing

THE Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released a report showing that a number of subtle biases against women exist throughout each stage of the publishing process.

Type: News

Recognising Future Leaders

How the Salters' Institute recognises and supports outstanding young chemists and chemical engineers.

Type: Feature

IChemE invites Ashok Kumar Fellowship applications

ICHEME is inviting UK postgraduate students in chemical or process engineering to apply for the Ashok Kumar Fellowship, which would see them working alongside policymakers in Parliament.

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UN report calls for urgent action to tackle chemical pollution

INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without urgent action, says a UN report.

Type: Feature

Engineers: Raise Your Voice

More chemical engineers are needed in industrial policy, says Chris McDonald

Type: Feature

IChemE calls final-year students and postgrads to apply for three-month Fellowship in UK Parliament

FINAL year and postgraduate chemical engineering students are being urged to apply for the Ashok Kumar Fellowship to be in with a shot of spending three months at the UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST).

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UK chemical engineers want to remain in EU

IChemE referendum survey says 75% would vote to stay

Type: News

Jonathan Vincent awarded Young Ambassador award by CIA

JONATHAN VINCENT has been awarded the Young Ambassador of the Year Award by the UK’s Chemical Industries Association (CIA).

Type: News