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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

IChemE Matters – April 2024

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

State of the Nations

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

Building a Sustainable Future

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

Research Bias

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

Type: Feature

The Story of Oil 1822–1922

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