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Deepwater Horizon: As it Happened
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
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A guide to avoiding some of the most common mistakes in pressure relief system design
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How to Design a Biological Wastewater Treatment Process
Davide Dionisi’s worked example demonstrates how sustainable wastewater treatment design can balance environmental protection, energy efficiency, and operating costs
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Food and Drink: Learning from Others
Contractors are borrowing techniques from the petchem, pharma and auto in-dustries to help food and drink re-establish itself in manufacturing
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An innovative gas-fed fermentation process provides an alternative protein source for the aquaculture industry
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How a new process to recycle carbon fibre composites led to a race-ready kayak
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Successes, regrets - and the damage being done to our children's futures
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Hybrid Airship: No Roads, No Problem
MORE than two-thirds of the world’s land area and more than half the world’s population have no direct access to paved roads. This lack of infrastructure presents incredible challenges for the resource extraction industries and has left many identified deposits undeveloped, including the Ambler region of Alaska, deposits in sub-Saharan Africa, and regions in the Andes.
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Accelerating Progress on Hydrogen Fuel Cells
A hydrogen-powered society is possible - with a little help from our engineers
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WE ALL know that chemical engineering is the “boundaryless profession”. Our industry improves processes in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, food and drink, energy, consumer goods, petrochemical, inorganic chemical and plastics industries, and so enhances the lives of billions of people all over the world.
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TWO of the biggest challenges to the chemical engineering profession over the next decade will be the search for truly sustainable feedstocks, and disposing of the ever-increasing quantities of domestic wastewater produced by urban societies.
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Carl von Linde and William Hampson – Cool inventions
Beer has a lot to answer for, and not just beer bellies. Beer is also to blame for some key technologies that underpin modern industry, and the chemical engineering processes that made them possible.
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Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies
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Transformational technologies in oil and gas. Could we learn future direction from past innovations?
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Neil Clark ventures inside University of Nottingham’s new green chemicals hub
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A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur CEO speaks to Neil Clark
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H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
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Speeding up Development with Data Analytics
Constant pressure to innovate? Boost development productivity with data analytics
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What Have Chemical Engineers Been Earning in 2018?
IChemE members were asked to reveal the salaries and benefits they received in 2018, to develop the Institution’s understanding of the key trends in chemical engineers’ earnings. Data was gathered from countries with the highest concentration of IChemE members. More than 2,200 members took part in the survey in Australia, Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa and the UK.
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Wanted: More Efficient Heat Exchange
Imagine if heat exchange of process fluids in an industrial setting was as simple as boiling a jug of water. We all know the process is not as simple as that, and companies can experience a raft of different issues and challenges that require new and innovative technical solutions. That’s what keeps chemical engineers in business.
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