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Vattenfall plans London heat network

VATTENFALL will design a heat network to supply more than 10,000 homes in London, using heat captured from Cory Riverside Energy’s energy-from-waste plant.

Type: News

ChemEng student numbers rise again in the UK

THE number of students starting UK chemical engineering courses is up 11% after applications leapt 17% in 2024.

Type: News

RAEng and Lloyd’s Register launch £15m safety initiative and call on others to join

THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$19.5m) partnership seeking to advance engineering safety around the world.

Type: News

INWED: ‘At the end of the day, we are all engineers’

HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign which celebrates women in engineering, and encourages young women and girls to consider the career opportunities that engineering offers.

Type: Feature

IChemE launches new digitalisation journal

ICHEME has launched a new journal to publish new interdisciplinary research across chemical engineering and digital sciences and technologies.

Type: News

CRI will build second Chinese plant to produce methanol from industrial emissions

CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has agreed to design a plant to produce methanol from captured carbon dioxide for Chinese chemicals producer Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals.

Type: News

Safety is my job: Sophie Horne

Robin Turney speaks to Sophie Horne about her role in the water industry

Type: Feature

John Davidson, 1926–2019

Obituary of John Davidson, often referred to as a “founding father of fluidisation” in chemical engineering and former IChemE president

Type: News

UK universities launch doctoral training centre for fusion engineers

A NEW training centre is being launched by UK universities to train the next generation of fusion engineers.

Type: News

2021 QEPrize nominations now open

NOMINATIONS for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize), the world’s most prestigious engineering accolade, opened around the world today. Winners of the £1m (US$1.2m) cash prize will be announced in February 2021.

Type: News

Volunteer Spotlight: Clare Sheppard

Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers

Type: Feature

Chemeng Centenarians

Celebrating 100 years of chemical engineering at the University of Queensland

Type: Feature

Mark McBride-Wright wins Rooke Award

Campaigning chemical engineer Mark McBride-Wright is to receive one of the Royal Academy of Engineering's most prestigious awards in recognition of his dedication to promoting diversity and inclusion and rapid cultural change in engineering and technology.

Type: News

Chinese nuclear reactor completes world-first passive cooling test

CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling systems of two large-scale nuclear reactors and showing their design can’t meltdown because it passively cools itself.

Type: News

Talking Sense

Webinar series established to promote women in engineering

Type: Feature

My Job at Stanlow in 2023

Andy Barker’s award-winning essay on life at the Stanlow refinery in 2023, written 50 years previously, won him £40. It’s fascinating to see what aspects of our lives he got right – commonplace electric powered transport, desktop computers used for engineering calculations, and automated audio-to-text transcriptions – and where he was well wide of the mark.

Type: Feature

The Boundaryless Profession

Adam Duckett discusses the breadth of chemical engineering

Type: Feature

ÅF Pöyry awarded contract for boiler project at paperboard mill

CONSULTING and engineering company ÅF Pöyry have been awarded a contract for pre-engineering services by paperboard producer Metsä Board Oyj for a recovery boiler rebuild project in Husum, Sweden.

Type: News

Adisa Azapagic awarded IChemE’s Davis Medal

ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded IChemE’s most prestigious medal for her exceptional service to chemical engineering.

Type: News

A South African Challenge

Mobilising chemical engineering resources to mitigate drought

Type: Feature