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Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center: So Much Achieved and Much More to Do

On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at the growing success of the safety center forged in her memory

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Harnessing sunlight to convert CO2 to fuels

Amanda Doyle speaks to Solistra Co-founder Alexandra Tavasoli about the company's process that uses a photoreactor to convert CO2 to fuel and feedstocks.

Type: Feature

CO2 as a commodity, not waste: turning emissions into cost-competitive chemicals

Etosha Cave, Co-founder of clean technology company Opus 12, speaks about the company's process for turning CO2 emissions into cost-competitive products.

Type: Feature

Developing a Justification for a DCS Migration

Why modern distributed control systems are increasingly important

Type: Feature

Chemical engineers talk fire safety

FIRE safety is important to all of us, both in residential buildings and on industrial sites, and chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a risk-based approach. Two chemical engineers, Dame Judith Hackitt and Erin Johnson, have applied those skills to buildings safety, by compiling reports for the UK parliament.

Type: News

Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards

A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top prize at the IChemE Global Awards 2018, held in Manchester UK on 1 November.

Type: News

BASF announces four research projects for reducing CO2 emissions

BASF has outlined four R&D activities that will allow the company to achieve CO2-neutral growth until 2030 as part of its carbon management programme.

Type: News

Wylfa suspension could lead to a UK energy crisis

HITACHI has announced the decision to suspend indefinitely its UK nuclear power station construction project Wylfa Newydd, on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Experts have warned that this could lead to a UK energy crisis.

Type: News

Action is needed to fight growing science scepticism

3M, the US-based materials firm, has released the results of an annual survey which show that public scepticism for science is growing, prompting calls for greater outreach by the science community to help gain support.

Type: News

South Africa unveils 2030 power plan

SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) on the country’s energy generation up to 2030. The IRP aims to diversify the energy mix while attempting to address the serious problem of insufficient energy capacity.

Type: News

Rio Tinto will spend US$1bn on reducing emissions

RIO Tinto has announced that it will spend US$1bn over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint as part of plans to get to net zero by 2050.

Type: News

Industry pushes to keep staff safe and plants running

Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic

Type: News

Transition to low-carbon world needs to be faster, says DNV GL report

ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to exhaust the remaining CO2 budget by 2028, according to DNV GL’s 2020 Energy Transition Outlook.

Type: News

Engineers tell government how PPE could be reused in the UK

SERIOUS consideration should be given to decontaminating and reusing PPE to alleviate shortages and improve sustainability, according to a briefing paper that the UK Government requested from engineers.

Type: News

Remaining Relevant in a Changing World

New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett

Type: Feature

Acorn CCS partners sign MoUs for carbon capture

THE partners in the UK’s Acorn CCS project have signed three new memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for carbon capture collaborations.

Type: News

Careers in Chemical Engineering: Maria Papathanasiou

Yasmin Ali speaks to Maria Papathanasiou about how she ended up using mathematical modelling to answer questions around juggling the Covid-19 vaccine with the flu vaccine, and how the global supply chain would function if a need for regular boosters arises.

Type: Feature

UK Government props up industry to prevent CO2 shortage

THE UK Government has been forced to step in and pay for industry to keep producing CO2 after a rapid rise in energy prices forced fertiliser manufacturers to shut down operations.

Type: News

Handle with Care

Low temperature embrittlement is a common, but poorly understood hazard. Paul Denham looks at prevention and mitigation of its risks

Type: Feature

IChemE at COP26

IChemE participated in three events at the climate summit

Type: Feature