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The Novelist Looking for a Chemical Engineering Reaction
Aniqah Majid finds out how a workshop promoting literacy to chemistry students is aiming to fuel a surge of highly communicative chemical engineers
Type: Feature
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch – Feed the World
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than the Haber-Bosch process.
Type: Feature
UoQ’s A$13m research centre wants to lead the way on greener plastics
THE University of Queensland, in Australia is leading a new training centre that aims to become a hub for world-leading research in green plastic.
Type: News
Understanding powder testing techniques and their application
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Adam Duckett speaks to Tina Düren and Bernardo Castro Dominguez about the University of Bath’s new master’s focusing on the application of AI in engineering
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THERE is a recurring number that despite magnificent developments in technical safety doesn’t seem to go away. That number is 80, and it relates to the percentage of incidents that in some way has been contributed to by a human. It is a recurring average across industry and in different settings. Looking on the bright side, it means that there is huge scope to make a significant improvement.
Type: Feature
Process and chemical engineer Ramin Razmi charts his journey from research to industry in the dairy sector
Type: Feature
UK’s state-backed vaccine manufacturing centre sold
THE UK’s emergency vaccine manufacturing innovation centre (VMIC) has been sold to US manufacturer Catalent, sparking concerns about lost opportunities for innovation, training and pandemic preparedness.
Type: News
What can be learned from inspections of loss of containment audit and assurance systems in the UK offshore oil and gas industry? Ashley Hynds discusses
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ITM and BOC get gov funding for integrated electrolyser
THE UK Government has backed the construction of an electrolyser in Scotland that will be integrated with the UK’s largest onshore wind farm to produce and store hydrogen from renewable power.
Type: News
MPs meet with IChemE to discuss how to avoid green skills crisis
ENGINEERS called on UK lawmakers to help fix a looming skills crisis that threatens to derail net zero ambitions during a meeting hosted by IChemE at parliament this week.
Type: News
Beverly Coulter explains how she introduces process engineering concepts to new undergrads via the Chocolate Chip Cookie Challenge
Type: Feature
Embracing the Challenges of Ethical Engineering
Robert Peeling, chair of IChemE’s Congress, recounts the ethical lessons he has learned throughout his career and offers a selection of ethical exercises for you to undertake individually or with your teams
Type: Feature
A Digital-Twin Approach to Distillation Control Education
Isuru Udugama, Michael Taube, and Brent Young discuss the educational benefits of real-time industrial process simulators
Type: Feature
Mentors and mentees alike need to understand what good practice looks like, as the results of getting it wrong can be damaging
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Bow-tie diagrams can extract valuable information from HIRA reports and make good use of it in ongoing process safety management
Type: Feature
Engineering ethics has much to do with communication, thought and decision-making
Type: Feature
PREDICTIONS about the downfall of the UK oil and gas industry have abounded in recent years, as existing, easy-to-access reserves have become depleted, and the oil price has collapsed, meaning that many remaining reserves are becoming less economical to exploit. Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost, and there’s little doubt that the industry is struggling, particularly in the North Sea.
Type: Feature
Parika Ale explains why she believes that – in some ways at least – the global pandemic has been the secret saviour of innovation and equality.
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