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IChemE releases ChERD Centenary Special

In a centenary special issue of the journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design, experts offer their views on the future of separations, 3D-printing, CFD and much more besides.

Type: Feature

How Can We Help Address the Harmful, Enduring Legacy of Bhopal?

Last year, IChemE’s President Stephen Richardson took the unusual step of writing to India’s Prime Minister about the aftermath of the accident in Bhopal. Ken Patterson and Fiona Macleod discuss the background to the letter and ask for members’ help in bringing this tragedy to a final end

Type: Feature

IChemE Fellows awarded 2021 Australia Day Honours

LAST week, chemical engineers and Fellows of IChemE Chris Fell and the late Graeme Paul were recognised with Australia Day Honours.

Type: News

Fire at South Korea facility injures 56

A FIRE has occurred at Lotte Chemical’s naphtha cracker in Seosan, South Korea, injuring at least 56 people.

Type: News

Shelling causes ammonia leak at Ukraine facility

RUSSIAN shelling in northern Ukraine has led to an ammonia leak at a chemical facility, with nearby residents told to shelter in place.

Type: News

Brewing Up a Storm: The Origins of Biotechnology Part 2

In this two-part contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt focuses on the interesting developments in biotechnology

Type: Feature

CSB identifies six key safety issues that led to 2018 Superior refinery explosion

FAILURE to learn from a similar incident investigation released less than a year prior is among six key safety issues that contributed to the 2018 explosion at the Superior refinery in Wisconsin, US, says the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB).

Type: News

Addressing the Grand Challenges

Claudia Flavell-While looks at learned society priorities

Type: Feature

Pump Action

Tips for selecting a pumping system for chemical treatment and comparing different dosing systems

Type: Feature

WSP Lifts Top Prize at 2024 IChemE Global Awards

Clean water system picks up Outstanding Achievement award on a night celebrating the best in chemical engineering innovation, writes Aniqah Majid

Type: Feature

The Forgotten Founder of IChemE

Martin Pitt celebrates the life of John W Hinchley

Type: Feature

CSB releases final report on hydrogen sulfide release at Texas waterflood station

THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its final report on the 2019 hydrogen sulfide release at the Aghorn Operating waterflood station in Texas, which caused the deaths of two people.

Type: News

Final report into 2019 PES fire released

THE FINAL report into a massive fire and subsequent explosions that took place in June 2019 at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been released by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB).

Type: News

Breaking the Mould

Michaël Kolk explains why chemical firms should unleash the power of convergence

Type: Feature

Jacobs buys CH2M for US$3.27bn

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP has bought CH2M HILL for a total of US$3.27bn, including net debt, creating a merged company worth US$15bn.

Type: News

IChemE invites nominations for 2025 medals and prizes

ICHEME is urging chemical and process engineers from across the globe to highlight the world-leading contributions of their colleagues with nominations for the Institution’s 2025 medals and prizes.

Type: News

Celebrating IChemE as a Learned Society

Alexandra Meldrum recalls our learned society’s achievements and previews what’s to come

Type: Feature

Question Time: Sustainability

Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment

Type: Feature

Jacobs Douwe Egberts is new Corporate Partner

JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) in Banbury, UK, has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.

Type: News

Princeton creates instant hydrogel from spaghetti-like fibres

RESEARCHERS at Princeton University have discovered a way to make hydrogel in an instant and chemical-free way by forcing polymer fibres and water through a syringe.

Type: News