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ChemEng: 100 Years at Cape Town

Jim Petrie and Jenni Case celebrate a centenary of chemical engineering

Type: Feature

2018 Year of Engineering to boost STEM uptake in UK

THE UK government has launched a new initiative to boost the uptake of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) amongst school pupils in the UK, 2018 Year of Engineering.

Type: News

Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing: An Evolving Industry

David Gemmell discusses how chemical engineers play their part in modern-day biopharma

Type: Feature

Process Patents: Are They Worth It?

What protection does a process patent provide? And how easy are they to enforce?

Type: Feature

Qualifications Commission

Part 2: Building long-term sustainability for IChemE professional qualifications volunteers

Type: Feature

Engineering Net Zero Part 2: How We Can Give Consumers Choice in the Push for Green Transport

David Simmonds discusses the need to accelerate flexibility when it comes to cleaner transport options

Type: Feature

Ethics: No Room for Relativity

Malcolm Staves explains the importance of applying the highest safety standards regardless of regional rules

Type: Feature

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

Data Science and Digitalisation for Chemical Engineers

Matthew Proctor and Leo Chiang discuss how the proliferation of data and ways to use it is impacting the role of chemical engineers

Type: Feature

The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Helping to Make Fusion Energy Sustainable

In the final part of our series on fusion energy, Mirjana Damjanovic and Lewis Simmons highlight the significant challenge of decommissioning and repurposing a fusion powerplant

Type: Feature

Industry 4.0 in R&D

BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product development to safety.

Type: News

Engineering Net Zero Part 3: Turning up the Heat for Consumers

David Simmonds argues that there is no one-size-fits-all energy efficient solution to heating our homes – not that consumers would necessarily want that anyway

Type: Feature

End of the Road for Wythenshawe Test Rig

How the UK’s least known nuclear facility has played a key part in keeping the lights on

Type: Feature

Question Time: Energy

Experts gather to discuss how the discipline can contribute to the energy transition

Type: Feature

IChemE publishes cybersecurity fact files and urges chemical engineers to manage hacking risks against industry

ICHEME has launched a series of fact files to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity in the process industries and explain how chemical engineers can help to reduce this widespread and increasing risk.

Type: News

Shakeel Ramjanee: Offshore Safety Engineer

An offshore safety engineer describes how, as he approaches the ten-year mark of his career, Piper Alpha still resonates with him as it first did when he sat in his university lecture theatre a decade ago.

Type: Feature

Practical Process Control Part 4: Tuning a PID Controller

Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes

Type: Feature

Keeping Safety in Mind

THE paramount importance of good safety performance is a message we need to continue to hammer home to our chemical engineering students, and since my last article (The Chemical Engineer 899), I have been involved in a number of discussions on how we teach safety at Loughborough University.

Type: Feature

Male, pale and stale?

NWED 2016 looks at status of female engineers

Type: News

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

Type: Feature