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Partners break ground on flow processing research centre

LONG-TIME partners Calgavin and the University of Birmingham, UK have broken ground on a new, joint flow processing research centre, near the engineering company’s current base in Alcester, Worcestershire, UK.

Type: News

Heat Vision

Pippa Corbett takes a closer look at the potential of heat networks, recent market transformations, and a sustainable chemical engineering career pathway

Type: Feature

Making (Anti)sense of Oligonucleotide Manufacturing

Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines

Type: Feature

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

IChemE Member Madeleine Jones wins Karen Burt Award

MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Karen Burt Award for a newly chartered female engineer.

Type: News

The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Power Plant: and How Chemical Engineers are Helping Make STEP a Reality

In part two of our series on fusion energy, Jack Acres highlights the core challenges of developing a prototype power plant and how chemical engineering principles are being used to solve them

Type: Feature

Zero to Hero

Tolulope Martin gives three reasons why you should think of applying a zero-based approach to your engineering budgets

Type: Feature

Final deuterium-tritium tests begin at the UK-based Joint European Torus fusion facility

YESTERDAY scientists and engineers at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham site, in Oxfordshire, started running the third and final experiments using deuterium-tritium fuel at the Joint European Torus (JET) research project. The experiments will inform the design and operation of next generation fusion machines, playing a vital role in shaping future projects.

Type: News

BASF and Linde team up to serve natural gas processes

BASF and The Linde Group’s Engineering Division have announced a collaboration to serve natural gas processing applications. Work is expected to enable treatment of previously inaccessible gas compositions.

Type: News

IChemE adds new titles to members’ online library

ICHEME has added 20 new books to Knovel, its free online library for members.

Type: News

IChemE Members recognised with RAEng Major Project Award 2019

TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2019 Major Project Award for their collaboration to deliver Shah Deniz 2, a “complex major offshore, onshore and pipeline gas development project”. The award was presented at the Academy Awards Dinner, hosted in London on 11 July.

Type: Feature

Switching to Green Energy in the Food Manufacturing Industry

How Robert Barrack and process engineering staff at Aurecon NZ provided their client with a concept to fully electrify their food manufacturing plant

Type: Feature

UK protein study has potential to transform personalised medicine

A HUGE study that has been launched to find treatments for diseases by measuring how the proteins circulating in our bodies change over time has the potential to transform the application of biochemical engineering and biotechnology.

Type: News

UKAEA and Eni join forces to engineer world-leading fusion fuel facility

THE UK Atomic Energy Authority and engineering powerhouse Eni have joined forces to build the world’s most advanced tritium fuel cycle plant in a bid to strengthen the UK’s industrial leadership in fusion power.

Type: News

Oxford’s rapid Covid test wins top prize at IChemE Awards

THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process engineering award for a rapid Covid-19 test developed in the early stages of the pandemic that enabled freedom of travel.

Type: News

IChemE’s top journal reviewers recognised at WCCE10

A CEREMONY has been held in Spain to celebrate the top reviewers of IChemE’s journals.

Type: News

Richardson: Make systems thinking education mandatory

ICHEME President Stephen Richardson has recommended to a House of Lords select committee that systems thinking skills should be mandatory in engineering education for effective risk management.

Type: News

Controlled Explosion

With the rapid growth in chemical engineering student intake, we need to think carefully, and quickly, about what we teach them

Type: Feature

Mammoth Undertaking

As Climeworks starts up the world’s largest direct air capture plant, Adam Duckett looks at the engineering challenges involved

Type: Feature

Book Review: Empathic Entrepreneurial Engineering

David Fernandez Rivas; ISBN: 9783110746624 (paperback); De Gruyter; 29.50 (paperback, PDF, and ePub); 2022

Type: Feature