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Shallcross awarded Chemeca Medal

DAVID SHALLCROSS has been awarded the Chemeca Medal for his contributions to the chemical engineering profession.

Type: News

Gladden to lead EPSRC

CHEMICAL engineer Lynn Gladden will be the next executive chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Type: News

Ashok Kumar Fellowship awarded to Sheffield PhD student

THIS year’s Ashok Kumar Fellowship has been awarded to Amber Keegan, a PhD student in chemical engineering and chemistry at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Type: News

Keith Guy, 1943–2016

Obituary

Type: News

Researchers awarded funding to develop reusable facemasks to help meet PPE shortfall

RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in funding for a project to develop a reusable mask for medical workers and others which can be disinfected using heat while being worn.

Type: News

IChemE’s PSEP impact factor up 40%

PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by an IChemE journal, having increased by 40% over the past year.

Type: News

Worley appointed project manager for Stanlow hydrogen project

WORLEY has been awarded the project management services contract for Vertex Hydrogen’s low-carbon hydrogen plant, located at the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, in Ellesmere Port, UK.

Type: News

SNC-Lavalin partners with Florexx International Investments to build UAE refinery

SNC-Lavalin has signed an agreement with Florexx International Investments to construct an advanced topping refinery in the United Arab Emirates.

Type: News

Troubled Waters and Systems Thinking

Adam Duckett on low-water marks and engineering highly-complex systems

Type: Feature

IChemE journal bags the institution’s highest Impact Factor yet as its other journals also claim success

ICHEME’s Sustainable Production and Consumption journal has received the institution’s highest Impact Factor (IF) yet after seeing a 36% increase from 8.921 last year to 12.1 in 2023. This is the first time IChemE has received a score in double digits. Other IChemE journals also saw success this year.

Type: News

Solid States

You may not be able to control the world, but you can control the flow of your bulk solids, says Grant Wellwood

Type: Feature

Tokamak Energy partners up to accelerate commercialisation of fusion energy

UK-BASED fusion energy company Tokamak Energy and Japanese-headquartered Sumitomo Corporation have agreed to collaborate on delivering fusion energy to Japan and worldwide, aiming to jointly design, build, and operate fusion power plants.

Type: News

Research Bias

Raffaella Ocone and Nina Baker seek out the stories of chemical engineering’s female forerunners

Type: Feature

Business leaders: EU exit risks UK economy

17 major chemical engineering employers want to stay

Type: News

Jacobs to support UK nuclear facility refurbishment

JACOBS has been awarded an estimated £10m (US$11.4) contract to act as a full lifecycle delivery partner, supporting renewal projects at various facilities run by the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL).

Type: News

20% power boost for NuScale’s small nuclear reactor

NuScale Power has announced that its small modular reactor (SMR) can generate 20% more power than originally planned.

Type: News

Hundreds of schoolchildren visit IChemE to be inspired by chemical engineers

ICHEME has hosted more than 300 schoolchildren at its UK headquarters where they met with real-life engineers and took on engineering challenges, to inspire them about the prospects of a career in chemical engineering.

Type: News

Table of Contents

Alisha Nadeem shares the periodic table she created to chart developments within chemical engineering

Type: Feature

Pioneering professor awarded IChemE medal

ICHEME has awarded the Andrew Medal to Freek Kapteijn, Professor and Section Head of Catalysis Engineering at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Type: News

Sheffield plans continuous powder processing plant

THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, which will be used for teaching purposes.

Type: News