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How to Perform a First Pass Water System Sustainability Analysis
Stephen Hall and Sarah Kutz examine strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of water purification systems, including membrane-based water for injection generation and optimised flow rates, while exploring sustainability approaches and alternative designs
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Chemical Engineers: RedR Needs You
What RedR is doing to help in disaster zones, and how you can help
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THE paramount importance of good safety performance is a message we need to continue to hammer home to our chemical engineering students, and since my last article (The Chemical Engineer 899), I have been involved in a number of discussions on how we teach safety at Loughborough University.
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What can chemical engineers do to boost the efficiency of palm oil milling?
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As engineers, we need to break out of our technical bubble and ensure our message is heard
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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.
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Richard Jansen-Parkes looks at the life of Lewis Urry, inventor of the alkaline battery and father to the Energizer Bunny
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The Minor Works Contract (Orange Book) has been updated to bring it in line with the UK’s Construction Act.
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Steve Rae: Piper Alpha Survivor
A personal perspective from Steve Rae, a survivor of Piper Alpha who has made it his duty to ensure that the legacy of the disaster continues to be re-visited
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Applying chemical engineering in the construction industry
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process facilities. It recently hired Chartered Chemical Engineer Adrian La Porta. I met with him to discuss what a chemical engineer can contribute to the construction industry and how Bryden Wood is leading change in the industry.
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Spontaneous Combustion of Tortilla Chip Waste: an Unknown Known?
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
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Process Hengineering, You Say?
How a team of process engineers turned waste calcium hydroxide into valuable animal feed
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Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane technology that can create emulsions with monodisperse droplets. The membrane has applications in a wide range of industries.
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Redundant Asset Management Planning
The chemical industry's five biggest considerations for redundant assets
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Jarka Glassey and Claudia Flavell-While explain plans to achieve the Institution’s learned society ambitions
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How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
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Vanda Jones discusses how you can cut your compressed air energy consumption
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Net Zero: Alternatives to Hydrogen
An alternative view for how the UK can achieve net zero for housing and other users, without the wholesale use of hydrogen.
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A Circular Economy for Plastics
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
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