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Making (Anti)sense of Oligonucleotide Manufacturing

Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines

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Achieving a Just Transition

Amanda Doyle explains why the energy transition must be fair for workers in high carbon industries

Type: Feature

Improving Cost Estimating for Maintenance Turnarounds

We must do better, says Gordon Lawrence

Type: Feature

Materials Utilisation

The importance of materials efficiency in the fight against the climate crisis

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Green transition loan awarded to Wood

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has awarded the first ever green transition loan – worth £430m (US$585m) – to engineering and consultancy firm Wood to accelerate new clean growth export opportunities.

Type: News

IPCC climate change report signals ‘code red for humanity’

THE frequency and intensity of extreme weather events associated with human-caused climate change is going to get worse as the world reaches 1.5oC of warming in the next 20 years, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, there is, it says, still time to limit the damage.

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Sanofi to buy Translate Bio to advance mRNA therapeutics

SANOFI will acquire its partner Translate Bio in a US$3.2bn deal to further develop mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.

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Acorn CCS partners sign MoUs for carbon capture

THE partners in the UK’s Acorn CCS project have signed three new memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for carbon capture collaborations.

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John Ross Grace, 1943–2021

Obituary of John Grace, one of the leading chemical engineers in Canada, known worldwide for his work in fluidisation and fluid-particle systems.

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Continuing in a Crisis

Robert Walker explains the lessons he learned in successfully enabling critical gas supplies to continue throughout the pandemic

Type: Feature

Giving a Client Value: Whatever That Is

John Downer explains how teams can understand and provide value to projects for clients

Type: Feature

A Lego Technic Cupcake Production Line

In the third of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute to society, Peter Swanson shares his experiences of getting schoolchildren into chemical engineering

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Remaining Relevant in a Changing World

New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett

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Time to Transfer?

James Colley offers sound advice on careers transition when you need to switch sectors

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Catapulting the Hydrogen Economy: Catalytic Membrane Reactors

Humbul Suleman and colleagues explain how refinements to a decades-old technology can provide clean, cheap hydrogen

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Sanofi invests in mRNA vaccine centre

SANOFI will invest about €400m (US$472m) annually in a first-of-its-kind vaccines mRNA Center of Excellence, to help accelerate end-to-end vaccine R&D.

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COP26 programme announced

THE COP26 Presidency Programme has been announced and will focus on different themes each day, ranging from zero-emissions transport to gender equality in climate action.

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Shell starts up Europe’s largest PEM ‘green’ hydrogen electrolyser

SHELL has started operations at what it claims is Europe’s largest polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser, producing “green” hydrogen at its Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, in Germany.

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IChemE allows free access to 25 new books

ICHEME members can now access 25 additional technical textbooks through Knovel, with titles added in 2021 including new publications on digitalisation, major hazard management, and clean energy.

Type: News