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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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Hydrogen Lessons from Huawei: Unlocking UK Growth
The journey of Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s 5G network provides lessons to be learnt for the nation’s nascent hydrogen industry.
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Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capability
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Deconstructing Runaway Reactions Using Dynamic Modelling
James Close, John Barker and Georges Melhem use a case study to explain the importance of understanding inhibitor effectiveness for process safety
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Producing Hydrogen While Storing CO2 in the Oceans
Mike Kelland and Greg Rau talk to Amanda Doyle about their clean-tech goals
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Negotiators agree on rulebook for Paris Agreement at United Nations meeting
A SET of rules for enacting the Paris Agreement to limit climate change was agreed by 196 countries at the UN’s 24th Conference of Parties climate summit (COP24). However the final rulebook has sparked criticism over vague language and a lack of serious commitments.
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Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factors, including a steep slope design and high water level, combined to create the conditions for failure that led to the fatal collapse of a Vale tailings dam last year.
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