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Hydrogen: Deployment Barriers

What is standing in the way of hydrogen deployment and what has been overcome to enable development?

Type: Feature

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

Type: Feature

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

Type: Feature

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.

Type: Feature

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

Type: Feature

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

Type: Feature

Fly Me O2 The Moon

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

Type: Feature

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.

Type: News

Lean Forward

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

Type: Feature

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

Type: Feature

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