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How to Design a Biological Wastewater Treatment Process
Davide Dionisi’s worked example demonstrates how sustainable wastewater treatment design can balance environmental protection, energy efficiency, and operating costs
Type: Feature
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutical projects
Type: Feature
£70m for engineers to design and build advanced nuclear fuel plants
THE UK government is offering £70m (US$90m) for engineers to design and build plants needed to manufacture advanced nuclear fuels for the country’s next generation of nuclear reactors.
Type: News
Re-engineering Food Engineering
In the UK alone, the food sector accounts for 19% of total manufacturing turnover and generates a gross value addition of £28bn (US$35bn) to the UK economy, which – according to a recent report published by the Institute of Physics1 – is bigger than the automotive and aerospace industries put together! You might wonder how can the food industry, which is such a key industrial sector within our economy, does without properly trained and qualified food engineers?
Type: Feature
Aker Solutions wins contract to design E-fuel plant
AKER SOLUTIONS has won a contract to design a plant in Norway that will use renewable power, water, and captured carbon to produce fuels and chemicals feedstocks.
Type: News
Wood to design US$40m plastic food packaging plant in Singapore
JAPANESE chemicals manufacturer Kuraray has appointed Wood to design a packaging production plant for its fully recyclable plastic in a deal worth US$40m.
Type: News
Refinery Safety Failures – Attitude or Engineering?
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
Type: Feature
ENGIE Fabricom selected to design and build novel Saltend chemical plant
ENGIE Fabricom has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a novel wood chip acetylation plant at the Saltend chemicals park in the UK.
Type: News
Inauguration of new UK engineering university
THE New Model in Technology & Engineering (NMiTE), a future engineering university, has been inaugurated in a ceremony at Hereford Cathedral, UK.
Type: News
AN ENGINEERING approach towards designing and managing complex systems could transform health and social care, according to a multi-disciplinary report.
Type: News
An Integrated Approach to Process Design and Plant Automation
Oil refining, chemical, and petrochemical companies are continuously seeking new ways to optimise, de-risk, and accelerate capital projects.
Type: Feature
Carbon Clean awards KBR design contract for Orsted’s e-methanol project
CARBON Clean has awarded KBR a contract for the detailed design of a carbon capture plant for Orsted’s FlagshipONE, an e-methanol project in Sweden.
Type: News
A century of chemical engineering at UCL
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of the chemical engineering department as it celebrates its one hundredth birthday, and outlined why the role of chemical engineers is more important today than it has ever been. He was speaking at the annual dinner arranged by the chemical engineering department’s student-run Ramsay Society.
Type: News
Sasol appoints Wood as engineering partner
INTEGRATED chemicals and energy company Sasol has appointed Wood as its engineering partner in a five-year partnership framework agreement, under which Wood will support Sasol’s portfolio of assets in South Africa.
Type: News
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham Enterprise has launched EvoPhase, AI-led technology that optimises the design of equipment, including mixers, dryers, roasters, and blenders, for processing granular materials.
Type: News
Covestro to transform process engineering workflow
PLASTICS company Covestro has signed a deal with industrial software company AVEVA, to help digitally transform its process engineering workflow using AVEVA’s process simulation platform.
Type: News
New design of lithium-air battery is step towards next generation of energy storage
A COMPLETE overhaul of the design of the lithium-air battery has led to the development of a prototype that can function for hundreds of charging cycles using air, as opposed to pure oxygen.
Type: News
The Pharmaceutical Industry: Engineering Frustrations
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineers, and suggest a new model to provide patients greater access to medicines
Type: Feature
Engineering capability review raises safety concerns
FATALITIES and accidents at work are likely to increase, and a better understanding of engineering capacity and capability is needed for engineering to intervene, says a report from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Type: News
