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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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Stop! Impostor Syndrome

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

Type: Feature

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

Type: Feature

QRA: Ten Golden Rules

Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determine cost beneficial options

Type: Feature

Hydrogen: Deployment Barriers

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

Type: Feature

Engineering Pharma

Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutical projects

Type: Feature

Solids Flow: Prevent the Problem

Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks

Type: Feature

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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Warm Up Acts

Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating

Type: Feature

Viral Safety Challenges in Bioprocessing

David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing

Type: Feature

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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Built Environment: A Plant-Based Alternative

What if autonomous vehicles could safely transport containers of raw materials around our production plants? John Barratt discusses how an established tracking system used in TV and movies is being adapted for the process industries.

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The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Solving Them

Elaine Loving and Tom Stroud outline the scientific and technical challenges that must be met for the potential of fusion energy to be realised

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New narrative needed for CCS

Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industries – not just oil and gas – was a key conclusion at CCUS 2019: Capturing the clean growth opportunities, held in London earlier this month.

Type: Feature

Climate Crisis Explainer

Amanda Doyle discusses COP26 and why it is important

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Fly Me O2 The Moon

Mark Symes and Beth Lomax explain the thinking behind how to make oxygen on the Moon

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IChemE launches energy and resource efficiency guide

ICHEME has launched an energy and resource efficiency guide which outlines how engineers and organisations can reduce energy and waste in order to tackle climate change.

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Lean Forward

We should sell Lean Manufacturing to the food industry, says Ian Madden

Type: Feature