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Transforming Asset Maintenance
Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says Matthew Hurst
Type: Feature
Life as an Early Career Engineer
The National Early Careers Committee (UK & Ireland and Malaysia) sheds some light on the challenges and opportunities that different career paths can bring
Type: Feature
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and IChemE
Macsene Isles-Ahite shares her vision for ED&I in IChemE and the chemical engineering profession.
Type: Feature
Stemming the flow of plastic waste
EUROPE has proposed a law banning or restricting single-use plastics, the UN has released a policy roadmap on how to restrict the use of plastic, and there have been a wave of pledges from people and companies worldwide to phase out the plastic that is causing extreme damage to the environment.
Type: News
Experts warn global Covid vaccine could take until late 2023
DESPITE global efforts to develop and deploy a successful Covid-19 vaccine to end the current pandemic, analysis of vaccine development and manufacture scaleup point to a Covid-19 vaccine achieving global coverage in late 2023. While vaccine efforts continue, it is recommended that other mechanisms should be employed to help manage the crisis.
Type: News
Australia's new Labor government has work to do, and chemical engineers can help, says Alexandra Meldrum
Type: Feature
Amanda Jasi speaks to the innovators developing direct air capture technologies hoping to be next in line to move us towards a net zero future
Type: Feature
Patrick Vallance is named UK chief scientific adviser
THE UK government has announced that it has appointed Patrick Vallance as its chief scientific adviser.
Type: News
You may not be able to control the world, but you can control the flow of your bulk solids, says Grant Wellwood
Type: Feature
Hydrogen: Making the Case through Life Cycle Analysis
How decisions on hydrogen’s role in energy systems might be made; industry collaboration and long time-horizon life cycle analysis could be the first step.
Type: Feature
The Muon: A Particle that Punches above its Weight
Peter Walmsley explains the role of muon tomography in waste management at the Sellafield site
Type: Feature
Teaching: Educating Chemical Engineers on Digitalisation
Esther Ventura-Medina, Joanne Tanner and Brent Young explain why digital literacy is so important
Type: Feature
Informal, interactive mentoring sessions can help to raise safety awareness in all areas of an organisation
Type: Feature
BP commits to net zero by 2050
NEW BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney has pledged that BP will reduce its emissions to net zero by 2050 or sooner, and has announced a new structure for the company.
Type: News
ExxonMobil gambles US$60bn on shale oil buyout
EXXONMOBIL has placed a US$60bn bet on US shale oil with the purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources.
Type: News
Volunteers publish guide to help public understand fill and finish and drug product release
Members of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering UK Affiliate (ISPE UK) and IChemE’s Pharmaceutical Special Interest Group have published the following guide aimed at explaining to the public the process of fill and finish, and drug product release.
Type: News
Energy: Using Hydrogen for Glass
Andrew Keeley and Mike Haden talk about decarbonising the glass manufacturing process using hydrogen as a fuel
Type: Feature
Richard Cousins reviews the key lessons from a member CPD sampling exercise, and what comes next
Type: Feature
Book Review: What Went Wrong? 6th Edition
Trevor Kletz & Paul Amyotte; ISBN: 9780128105399 (Hardcover) 9780128105405 (eBook); Butterworth-Heinemann; 2019; £64.36
Type: Feature