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Adam Duckett discusses innovation in the food and drinks sector and an issue focussed on efficiency
Type: Feature
Webinar: the importance of design of experiments within chemical engineering
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is applied to improve and ensure robust industrial processes.
Type: Feature
Hydrogen: Making the Case through Life Cycle Analysis
How decisions on hydrogen’s role in energy systems might be made; industry collaboration and long time-horizon life cycle analysis could be the first step.
Type: Feature
Webinar: Improve the Accuracy of Your Final Analysis
ON 10 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a free webinar to discuss techniques to improve the reliability of analytical techniques. A recording of this webinar is now available to stream at the link below.
Type: Feature
Quantified Risk and Uncertainty Analysis
Bayesian belief networks provide a powerful means for analysing uncertainty in terms of accident risk, and aid key decision making
Type: Feature
BP, Shell lead energy trading blockchain plan
A CONSORTIUM including energy companies BP, Shell and Statoil is developing a blockchain-based digital platform for energy commodities trading.
Type: News
Carbon-neutral Steelanol plant to start production within weeks
ARCELORMITTAL, BHP, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) have signed a funding agreement that will see the trio work together on a multi-year trial of carbon capture technology at steelmaking plants owned by ArcelorMittal. Once captured, the CO2 at one facility in Europe will then be used to produce bioethanol.
Type: News
Built Environment: A Plant-Based Alternative
What if autonomous vehicles could safely transport containers of raw materials around our production plants? John Barratt discusses how an established tracking system used in TV and movies is being adapted for the process industries.
Type: Feature
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
Round and round: Newcastle University and Wastefront team up to improve tyre recycling
NEWCASTLE University and rubber recycling firm Wastefront, will use a new UK tyre recycling plant to improve the recovery of carbon black to help produce new tyres from old ones
Type: News
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 1: Introduction - Your Greener Prospects
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportunities to improve the efficiency of distillation operations
Type: Feature
Improve the Accuracy of Your Formulations
Discover how smart balances coupled with database storage can boost process and product development
Type: Feature
Webinar: The Digital Transformation of Process Engineering
ON 28 October, The Chemical Engineer is hosting a webinar to discuss the digital transformation of process engineering.
Type: Feature
Fight corrosion with simulation
CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the advent of simulating the participating electrochemical reactions that occur and transport processes that affect them. The same principles can be used to simulate, design and optimise industrial electrodeposition processes.
Type: Feature
The Design Process: From Concept to Heat and Mass Balance
Tom Baxter kicks off a four-part series giving new graduates a better understanding of how the design process works in industry, from concept to execution
Type: Feature
Book Review: Chemical Engineering Process Simulation
Type: Feature
Protecting future energy infrastructure from natural hazards
ICHEME has supported the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in publishing research identifying how natural hazards can be characterised to help improve energy system infrastructure design and inform investment decisions.
Type: News
Safety: Protecting Plants Against the Environment
Adam Duckett speaks to Steven Fitzgibbon about natural hazard risk reduction
Type: Feature
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed a novel, more powerful method for analysing chemical mixtures that is able to assign a record-breaking 244,779 unique molecular compositions within a single petroleum sample. The method could enable analysis of challenging samples in a number of fields.
Type: News
