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Precision Pays Off: How Nanotechnology Promises to Improve Cancer Tests
Chemical engineer Paula Mendes talks to Adam Duckett about her big ambitions for tiny tech
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Martin Pitt considers the chemical engineering history of common salt
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What we have Learned from our Mentor/Mentee Journey
Chemical engineering graduates Rory Foster and mentee Fred Barrett share insights into their mentorship journey at RPS Consulting Services, where new graduates are paired with experienced mentors to support career development and chartership goals
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Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 3: FEED and Detailed Design
In part three of his four-part series, Steven King concentrates on front-end engineering design (FEED) and detailed design, bridging the gap between concept and construction
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Engineering Net Zero Part 9: Strategies for Clean Energy
David Simmonds builds on his ENZ series, visualising the UK power system, and explores the unintended consequences of current strategies for 2050
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How to Perform a First Pass Water System Sustainability Analysis
Stephen Hall and Sarah Kutz examine strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of water purification systems, including membrane-based water for injection generation and optimised flow rates, while exploring sustainability approaches and alternative designs
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The Power of Trust: Building Strong Relationships in the Workplace
Faye Litherland explains how personal connections and shared experiences can transform your professional interactions and lead to better collaboration and outcomes
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Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how real-time data and dynamic insights can drive sustainable change
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Costain wins contract to upgrade Capenhurst uranium enrichment site
COSTAIN has won a contract from Urenco to engineer new and upgraded infrastructure at its Capenhurst site in Cheshire, UK.
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Elsevier launches new AI service designed to speed up R&D
ICHEME’s journals publisher Elsevier has launched a new AI tool to help engineers extract, summarise, and compare information from millions of peer-reviewed papers and book chapters to speed up their R&D.
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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.
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Engineering Net Zero Part 9B: Modelling of our Energy System
David Simmonds offers a tool to simplify the presentation of the long-duration balancing measures needed for UK's future power system.
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Engineering Net Zero Part 9A: The Role of Balancing in our Energy System
David Simmonds extends his Engineering Net Zero series by visualising the workings of a renewables-based UK power system
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Sainsbury’s launch fleet of food waste-powered delivery trucks
FOOD logistics trucks for Sainsbury’s will soon be powered by the company’s own food waste in an innovative scheme to build a circular supply chain.
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Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 2: Feasibility and Pre-FEED
In the second of this four-part series, Steven King highlights the importance of the stages, what is involved in the delivery and how they set the bedrock for a successful project
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The Engineering Mindset Part 5: Complex or Complicated? Practical principles or prescriptive targets
Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how an approach focused on direction and principles, rather than numerical targets and specific policies, fosters new opportunities and solutions, providing a framework everyone can use to guide their actions
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Breaking Down Barriers: Innovations in PFAS Destruction
A ‘silver bullet’ technology remains elusive, but Jens Blotevogel and Pradeep Shukla say the development of diverse technologies like electrochemical treatment, thermal and non-thermal plasma destruction, and supercritical water oxidation provides a powerful arsenal for tackling these persistent pollutants
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PFAS Monitoring: Novel Approaches for Air and Water Detection
As the extent of PFAS contamination becomes clearer, Sarit Kaserzon looks at the application of new technologies in revolutionising how we monitor these persistent chemicals
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Engineering a Future Without PFAS: The Path to Sustainable Alternatives
The shift from PFAS is both a regulatory need and an opportunity for industries to lead in sustainability. Environmental scientists from Stockholm University argue that engineers will be crucial in developing PFAS-free solutions that maintain performance and safety
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