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Paris Agreement targets can’t be reached with negative emission technologies
A REPORT has evaluated the potential of negative emission technologies (NETs) in the context of meeting the Paris Agreement. The report concluded that NETs cannot remove sufficient carbon from the atmosphere and that focus should remain on cutting carbon emissions.
Type: News
COMAaaaargH! COMAH Reports Gone Wrong
How to avoid some common pitfalls in the production and use of a COMAH report; from Robert McGregor, Sarah Bickerstaffe, Stephen Beedle, and Conrad Ellison
Type: Feature
New Form of Contract for EPCM Services: Blue Book
John Challenger explains why IChemE has launched this completely new and unique form of contract
Type: Feature
Engineering Net Zero Part 9A: The Role of Balancing in our Energy System
David Simmonds extends his Engineering Net Zero series by visualising the workings of a renewables-based UK power system
Type: Feature
Practical Process Control Part 25: Distillation - Part 2
In the last issue, we highlighted the importance of adjusting both cut and fractionation variables in response to column disturbances or setpoint changes. Here, we examine the problems that arise from their interaction
Type: Feature
How Place-Based Learning is Changing the Way We Teach the Energy Transition
Tony Heynen explains how social frameworks are helping students develop appropriate energy solutions in remote Indigenous communities in Queensland, Australia
Type: Feature
Two Decades After Buncefield, Leadership Remains the True Safety System
Twenty years after Buncefield, all original signatories to the Process Safety Leadership Principles signed again. Gus Carroll explains why this continuity of commitment matters more than ever
Type: Feature
Mountains or Oceans: how Shell uses scenarios to assess the company’s strategies for the future
Type: Feature
Why we must harness the power of horizontal innovation in the formulation sector
Type: Feature
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Type: Feature
The National Hydrogen Strategy and its aims of building a clean, innovative, and competitive hydrogen industry
Type: Feature
A Project to Develop and Protect
Matthew Duchars and John Challenger describe the plans to design and build a facility that the UK would use for emergency vaccine production
Type: Feature
Manisha Patel highlights topics made available to IChemE members via the Career Solutions webinar series
Type: Feature
IPCC calls for stronger adaptation to worsening climate hazards
THE IPCC has said that human-caused climate change is already resulting in detrimental effects on people and the planet. It calls for urgent action to accelerate climate resilient development and risk management across all industry sectors – including energy, water, and mining – to account for worsening climate hazards.
Type: News
Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how real-time data and dynamic insights can drive sustainable change
Type: Feature
Engineering Net Zero Part 9C: Strategy Options for our Future Energy System
David Simmonds continues his mini-series by looking at some of the unintentional consequences of strategy decisions, and recommends hybrids as a long-duration DSR measure.
Type: Feature
Piper Alpha: The Disaster in Detail
Fiona Macleod, chair of the Loss Prevention Bulletin Editorial Panel, and Stephen Richardson, an expert witness in the Piper Alpha, review the causes of the Piper Alpha disaster, the findings of the investigation, and challenge you, the reader, to answer a series of questions about safety where you work.
Type: Feature
The problem of methane emissions at Malaysia's palm oil mils can be turned on its head - if the industry buys in to biogas
Type: Feature
THE cheap, abundant and seemingly limitless energy supply of the 20th Century driven by fossil fuel consumption led to unprecedented economic growth and improvements in quality of life. But much like financial debt, the long-term cost will ultimately be higher than the short-term gain. Society has reaped the short-term benefits of fossil fuel consumption and the environmental bailiffs are now at the door.
Type: Feature
