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Digitalisation progress in pharmaceutical manufacturing has been too slow. David Margetts looks at what can engineers do to speed up adoption
Type: Feature
The big data revolution is happening, and we must harness its potential to develop formulated products better, faster and cheaper than ever before
Type: Feature
Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies
Type: Feature
Waste to jet fuels project set for take off
Velocys is a company that has developed technology to convert feedstocks such as household waste into aviation fuel, and plans are underway for a commercial-scale plant in Immingham, UK. I spoke to Neville Hargreaves, Vice President of Waste to Fuels at Velocys, about how the company can contribute to the decarbonisation of the aviation industry with its renewable jet fuel.
Type: Feature
UK nuclear faces prospect of Euratom exit
Expert warns leaving would be a “tactical own goal”
Type: News
Under pressure to take shortcuts, when should engineers draw the line?
Type: Feature
IT’S no secret that each year, eye-watering amounts of food go to waste. With that as a starting point, in 2014 we formed TerraServ, a South African company based in the town of Secunda. The aim was fairly simple, to develop processing of waste sugary foodstuffs – discarded mostly for ‘cosmetic’ reasons – into bio-ethanol based products such as hand sanitisers and cleaning products, under the EcoEth brand.
Type: Feature
Safety Investigations are Prone to Bias
Bias can have a significant safety effect, both in the causes of accidents and in the way we investigate them.
Type: Feature
Rigs-to-Reef: Policy Waters Muddied
UK Government needs to take a lead on forming evidence-based policy on rigs-to-reef decommissioning of oil rigs
Type: Feature
Vattenfall sells German lignite assets
Business suffers due to Germany’s renewables focus
Type: News
AS FAR as humans go, doctor-turned-investor Gregory Bailey is pretty good at spotting patterns and trends.
Type: News