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British Steel to close Scunthorpe blast furnaces after rejecting £500m government rescue package
BRITISH STEEL today announced plans to close its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, UK, with the loss of around 2,700 jobs.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 21: Validating Inferentials
In the previous article we covered the application of regression analysis to the development of inferential properties. Here we focus on their validation, prior to commissioning
Type: Feature
Precision Pays Off: How Nanotechnology Promises to Improve Cancer Tests
Chemical engineer Paula Mendes talks to Adam Duckett about her big ambitions for tiny tech
Type: Feature
Martin Pitt considers the chemical engineering history of common salt
Type: Feature
What we have Learned from our Mentor/Mentee Journey
Chemical engineering graduates Rory Foster and mentee Fred Barrett share insights into their mentorship journey at RPS Consulting Services, where new graduates are paired with experienced mentors to support career development and chartership goals
Type: Feature
Engineering Net Zero Part 9: Strategies for Clean Energy
David Simmonds builds on his ENZ series, visualising the UK power system, and explores the unintended consequences of current strategies for 2050
Type: Feature
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
The Power of Trust: Building Strong Relationships in the Workplace
Faye Litherland explains how personal connections and shared experiences can transform your professional interactions and lead to better collaboration and outcomes
Type: Feature
Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how real-time data and dynamic insights can drive sustainable change
Type: Feature
Costain wins contract to upgrade Capenhurst uranium enrichment site
COSTAIN has won a contract from Urenco to engineer new and upgraded infrastructure at its Capenhurst site in Cheshire, UK.
Type: News
Elsevier launches new AI service designed to speed up R&D
ICHEME’s journals publisher Elsevier has launched a new AI tool to help engineers extract, summarise, and compare information from millions of peer-reviewed papers and book chapters to speed up their R&D.
Type: News
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
Engineering Net Zero Part 9B: Modelling of our Energy System
David Simmonds offers a tool to simplify the presentation of the long-duration balancing measures needed for UK's future power system.
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
Sainsbury’s launch fleet of food waste-powered delivery trucks
FOOD logistics trucks for Sainsbury’s will soon be powered by the company’s own food waste in an innovative scheme to build a circular supply chain.
Type: News
Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 2: Feasibility and Pre-FEED
In the second of this four-part series, Steven King highlights the importance of the stages, what is involved in the delivery and how they set the bedrock for a successful project
Type: Feature
The Engineering Mindset Part 5: Complex or Complicated? Practical principles or prescriptive targets
Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how an approach focused on direction and principles, rather than numerical targets and specific policies, fosters new opportunities and solutions, providing a framework everyone can use to guide their actions
Type: Feature
Engineering a Future Without PFAS: The Path to Sustainable Alternatives
The shift from PFAS is both a regulatory need and an opportunity for industries to lead in sustainability. Environmental scientists from Stockholm University argue that engineers will be crucial in developing PFAS-free solutions that maintain performance and safety
Type: Feature
Destroying PFAS… and environmental anxiety
Luke Henderson talks to Adam Duckett about his work scaling up a plasma torch system to destroy PFAS
Type: Feature
