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Phosphate Rocks Chapter 1: Demolition
Chapter 1 in the serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry
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Practical Process Control Part 22: Monitoring
In the last article we looked at the assessment of a potential inferential. Here we cover techniques for monitoring its performance and automatically updating it to maintain its accuracy
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Can HiiROC’s Zero-emission Hydrogen Pass the Tyre Test?
A startup hydrogen producer in Humberside, UK is promising to make the fuel with zero emissions. Sounds great – but the byproduct raises concerns in the long-term, writes Sam Baker
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Phosphate Rocks Chapter 29: The Blinding
Chapter 29 in the serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry
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The challenges of managing interfaces and integration at a complex, world-scale refinery and petrochemicals project.
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With water accessibility increasingly under threat, technology leads the mining industry's efforts towards water-free mining
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Introducing your nominees for IChemE’s 2018 trustee vacancies
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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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