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Amec Foster Wheeler becomes Gold partner
IChemE recognises commitment to future engineers
Type: News
The ‘Watermelon’ Effect: Does a green dashboard mean a healthy facility?
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ suggesting that everything is under control, and yet digging below the surface reveals signs of ‘red’ indicating ill-health in the arrangements to prevent major accidents.
Type: Feature
Rules of Thumb: Centrifugal Pump Efficiency
Tom Baxter looks at how focusing on fluid efficiency can maximise cost savings while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Maryam Farhanah
Yasmin Ali interviews Maryam Farhanah, Senior Process Engineer at Mott MacDonald.
Type: Feature
Singapore site to pioneer digital twin technology for Shell
SHELL has announced that its manufacturing site in Pulau Bukom, Singapore, home of Singapore’s first refinery, will pilot digital twin technology for the company.
Type: News
How refineries can overcome CDU challenges to boost the bottom line
Type: Feature
Nanomaterials plant gives students huge responsibility
Nottingham placement students given input over design, construction and commissioning in SHYMAN project
Type: Feature
Scepticism over the UK bioeconomy strategy
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The strategy outlines how the UK might boost growth in the bioeconomy sector and become a global leader in developing bio-based solutions.
Type: News
Eric Wood, Rick Parkman, and Annette Nolan look at how policymakers are responding to the challenges of PFAS globally
Type: Feature
GSK made Gold Corporate Partner
ICHEME has announced that healthcare company GSK is its newest Gold Corporate Partner.
Type: News
UK will increase R&D spending to OECD average
THE UK has pledged to increase R&D spending to 2.4% by 2027, bringing the country in line with the OECD average.
Type: News
Prelude will not resume full production this year, says Shell
SHELL has said its huge floating LNG production plant – the Prelude FLNG facility – is not expected to resume full production this year, following a troubled start for the pioneering facility.
Type: News
Jane Cutler becomes 80th IChemE President
JANE Cutler has become the 80th President of IChemE. She delivered an expansive Presidential address focussed on the need for chemical engineers to adapt and respond to the opportunities and challenges presented by our changing world.
Type: News
Scotland launches green jobs advice service
THE Scottish Government has launched a workforce academy with the aim of offering advice to workers preparing to transition to green jobs.
Type: News
RAEng awards £1m to boost diversity success at engineering departments
UK university engineering departments have been awarded £1m (US$1.3m) from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) for projects aimed at rapidly transforming the outcomes of under-represented groups of students.
Type: News
Scientists publish handover script to guard against AI technology harm
GOVERNANCE of AI is lagging dangerously behind the technology’s spread though society, scientists have warned, so a new “responsible handover framework” has been launched to help users spot and manage the risks.
Type: News
Australia invests A$2bn to ‘supercharge’ green aluminium industry
AUSTRALIA’s energy-intensive aluminium producers are being urged to go green, with the government introducing a A$2bn (US$1.2bn) production credit to drive the shift towards cleaner practices.
Type: News
Virtual Reality and Working Environment
In May last year, on the pages of The Chemical Engineer, I started sharing my thoughts on teaching safety, as I embarked on a new post as visiting professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the UK’s Loughborough University.
Type: Feature
Mark Symes and Beth Lomax explain the thinking behind how to make oxygen on the Moon
Type: Feature
