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The Loch Ness Monster and Plant Safety
Martin Pitt recalls his time spotting monsters, and warns that just because they are hard to spot, it doesn’t mean death and destruction aren’t around the corner.
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The Challenges of Eliminating Nitrous Oxide from the Water Sector
Nitrous oxide emissions from water resource recovery facilities have long been under-estimated say Amanda Lake, Aprilia Vellacott, and Liu Ye. Reducing them offers an opportunity for chemical engineers to make a real difference
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How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
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We Only Get Them When We’re Good!
In the fifth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to society, Tony Ginsberg shares the joy and shared benefits of volunteering to support science and maths classes at a local primary school
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Digital Twins in the Chemical Process Industries
Joanne Tanner and Colin Newbery discuss the hype and the hope for digital twins
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Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
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Tristan Hunter and Deaglan Gahan share some of the strategies to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity breaches
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What I Wish I knew as an Undergraduate
Laura Grindey, Paul Jenkinson and Sameen Barabhuiya of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee offer the benefit of hindsight
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Many of us feel impostor syndrome at some point in our careers. To help generate more understanding around the phenomenon, Laura Grindey and Martyna Cepaite from IChemE’s National Early Careers Group surveyed chemical engineers about their experiences
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Rocket Science: From the Mongols to the Moon and beyond
Rocket science is a famously difficult area, but it’s more than the physics of force and trajectories. Martin Pitt takes a chemical engineering view of its history
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Switching to Green Energy in the Food Manufacturing Industry
How Robert Barrack and process engineering staff at Aurecon NZ provided their client with a concept to fully electrify their food manufacturing plant
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Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determine cost beneficial options
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What is standing in the way of hydrogen deployment and what has been overcome to enable development?
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Chemical Plants: Surviving the Coronavirus Storm
Joan Cordiner looks at how operations have adapted to the pandemic
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Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutical projects
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Solids Flow: Prevent the Problem
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
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Safety by Design: Making Bigger, Better
Joe Willmot shares the methodologies and data required to achieve a robust and safe scaleup from lab to manufacture
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Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating
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Viral Safety Challenges in Bioprocessing
David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing
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The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralised food production
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