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New safety digest released by CSB
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety digest about the importance of worker participation to improve safety and prevent accidents.
Type: News
Redundant Asset Management Planning
The chemical industry's five biggest considerations for redundant assets
Type: Feature
Working Hard. Having Fun. Making History
Fiona Ragan talks about her role in process control at Amazon
Type: Feature
We Are the Universal Engineers
Rosey Deverall talks about her roles in nuclear safety and decommissioning
Type: Feature
The Sustainability Hub: Why? What? Who? & How?
Trish Melton looks at IChemE’s new Sustainability Hub for members
Type: Feature
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for our circular economy webinar series and readers voice Natech concerns
Type: News
The Implications of Generative AI
Adam Duckett sees a bright future for chemical engineering and generative AI, but there are caveats
Type: Feature
David Bogle looks at trends for developing chemical engineers in Europe
Type: Feature
Texas set for world’s greenest refinery
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest refinery in Texas, US.
Type: News
CEMEX receives funding to develop carbon capture in cement industry
CEMEX has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a pilot carbon capture unit.
Type: News
Method makes olefins under mild conditions
CHEMISTS in the US and South Korea have developed a technique to produce olefins, a vital chemical feedstock, under mild conditions using a base metal catalyst.
Type: News
Ineos signs major petchem deals with Sinopec
GLOBAL chemicals firm Ineos has signed three back-to-back deals with Chinese chemical giant Sinopec, worth a combined value of £5.7bn (US$7bn).
Type: News
Kenneth Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.
Type: Feature
Kathryn Richardson talks about her role as Area Environment Manager at the Environment Agency in England
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
Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes one of the major obstacles to processing chemicals with light.
Type: News
Raffaella Ocone and Nina Baker seek out the stories of chemical engineering’s female forerunners
Type: Feature
Martin Pitt continues to look at the history of chemical engineering and IChemE
Type: Feature
ExxonMobil starts up new ethane cracker
EXXONMOBIL has announced that its new 1.5m t/y ethane cracker has commenced operations at its integrated chemical and refining complex in Baytown, Texas.
Type: News
INWED 2023: Marlene Kanga on the Satisfaction of Engineering a Safer Society
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Marlene Kanga talks to Orla Douds about the satisfaction of keeping communities safe through a career in engineering
Type: Feature