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Thyssenkrupp sells stake to Czech billionaire in green steel reprogramme

GERMAN engineering conglomerate Thyssenkrupp saw its share price rise more than 10% after announcing a major partnership with Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský.

Type: News

Rules of Thumb: Control Valve Lift

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

Type: Feature

Predicting Direct Air Capture Performance, Come Rain or Shine

Process engineer Adam Ward is modelling DAC at Imperial College London. He explains his research to Aniqah Majid, the challenges of scaling carbon capture technology and why the UK’s famously unpredictable weather has a major bearing on performance

Type: Feature

Navigating the AI Frontier: Bias, Ethics, and the Vital Collaboration Between Engineers and Policymakers

Graham Herries on the guardrails that must be established to ensure the fair and responsible integration of this AI into our society

Type: Feature

Engineers urge UK action on sewage to guard against sickness outbreaks

IMMEDIATE action to bolster maintenance of the sewage system and sensors to allow real-time monitoring of water quality are among engineering experts’ recommendations to reduce the risk of harmful organisms polluting UK’s waterways and making people sick.

Type: News

Flixborough 50 Years On: Remembering Flixborough by Someone Who Wasn’t Alive in 1974

In the engineering industry, it is often asked if major incidents could ever happen again. Early-career engineer Martin Wardrope says it is important we still think they can

Type: Feature

Reader feedback

We asked our reader feedback panel to tell us how they have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. 232 readers from across the world and IChemE membership grades responded

Type: Feature

Volunteer Spotlight: Johan Alimin Samad

Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers

Type: Feature

Public Engagement for a Sustainable World

Alexandra Meldrum and Amit Verma share how IChemE members have been working to shape policy and public conversation

Type: Feature

Walking the Walk

THE importance of increasing the participation of women in the workforce, especially in science and engineering sectors, has been recognised around the world as being essential for economic growth, for innovation, developing new industries, and for the knowledge economy.

Type: Feature

US$4.2bn Bahrain refinery expansion contract awarded

BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY (Bapco) has awarded a US$2.4bn expansion contract for its Sitra oil refinery to a consortium of TechnipFMC, Samsung Engineering and Tecnicas Reunidas.

Type: News

Agfa-Gevaert wins Process Intensification Award

THE 2019 Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation has been awarded by the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) to Agfa-Gevaert for a new flow process which does not require liquid bromine in the production of photoinitiators for printing plates.

Type: News

Wood secures Equinor contract

WOOD has secured a US$42m contract from Equinor to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services at the Kollsnes gas processing plant in Øygarden, Norway.

Type: News

A Digital-Twin Approach to Distillation Control Education

Isuru Udugama, Michael Taube, and Brent Young discuss the educational benefits of real-time industrial process simulators

Type: Feature

3D printing of living cells using in-air microfluidics

A TECHNIQUE has been developed that allows two fluids to be combined mid-air by using two jets of material. This can be used to encapsulate living cells for potential use in tissue engineering.

Type: News

UK steel industry gets £7m funding for alloy development

SWANSEA University, in partnership with Tata Steel and Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick, has been awarded £7m (US$9.2m) by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop and test new steel alloys.

Type: News

Baker Hughes to supply key technology for Malaysia’s first CCS project

ENERGY technology company Baker Hughes is working with Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE) to supply turbocompression equipment to Petronas’ Kasawari offshore carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project in Malaysia

Type: News

Chemical engineer briefs UK politicians on chemical weapons

CHEMICAL engineering postgraduate Jeni Spragg has produced a report to help UK parliamentarians make evidence-based decisions on chemical weapons policy.

Type: News

Engineers will suck CO2 from the ocean

CHEMICAL engineers at Brunel University London are developing a pilot plant to strip CO2 from seawater that will then suck emissions out of the atmosphere.

Type: News

Reflect and Project

Adam Duckett recaps an inspirational year

Type: Feature