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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

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

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

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

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

Question Time: Celebrate, Communicate, Inspire

As IChemE wraps up its Centenary year, Adam Duckett looks to the important contributions needed next

Type: Feature

Book Review: Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering: Volume 2A: Particulate Systems and Particle Technology, 6th Ed

Raj P Chhabra and Basavaraj Gurappa; ISBN: 9780081010983 (Paperback); 9780081012208; (eBook; Butterworth-Heinemann; 2019; £84.95

Type: Feature

IChemE Matters – May 2025

Emails out mailouts in for the policy team, DiscoverChemEngLIVE and new Fellows

Type: News

IChemE launches new digitalisation journal

ICHEME has launched a new journal to publish new interdisciplinary research across chemical engineering and digital sciences and technologies.

Type: News

IChemE launches Knowledge Hub

ICHEME has launched its Knowledge Hub, which is a virtual library of thousands of resources for process engineers.

Type: News