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IChemE can help to increase availability of Covid-19 treatment drugs
THE IChemE Covid-19 Response Team is supporting efforts to increase the availability of drugs that can help treat the disease and make it less deadly. Preventative vaccines are not expected to be widely available before 2021, making small-molecule drugs important for treating the disease in the meantime.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Judy Raper
Yasmin Ali speaks to Judy Raper, Dean and CEO of TEDI-London, a startup providing engineering higher education in London.
Type: Feature
AstraZeneca to begin manufacturing coronavirus vaccine candidate immediately
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) to provide up to US$383m in funding. The partnership aims to produce 300m doses of the candidate, AZD1222, by mid-2021.
Type: News
How Chemicals Companies Can Drive Operational Resilience with the Digital Twin
Paige Marie Morse explains how companies have been using digital technologies to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic
Type: Feature
Vale ordered to put aside US$1.47bn for dam collapse damages
BRAZILIAN mining company Vale has been ordered by a judge to put aside around R$7.93bn (US$1.47bn) for potential fines related to the fatal collapse of a mining waste dam last year, which killed at least 259 people.
Type: News
Researchers source and develop PPE to protect surgeons
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK, have sourced and developed personal respirator equipment to help address a shortage and protect surgeons and medics in the UK during operations on coronavirus patients. The equipment has been successfully used for high-risk surgeries procedures at NHS hospitals.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Lina Aglén
Yasmin Ali interviews Lina Aglén, Lead Engineer at FairHeat
Type: Feature
HyNet: Demonstrating an Integrated Hydrogen Economy
HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality
Type: Feature
Helping Hands in the Health Crisis
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus
Type: Feature
Bulk Solids Flow: Know What you’re Dealing With
A look at what should go into a proper Basis of Design document for a solids handling system
Type: Feature
H2 and NH3 – the Perfect Marriage in a Carbon-free Society
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
Type: Feature
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fight Covid-19
Type: Feature
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
Type: Feature
What contribution do chemical engineers make in ensuring our food is safe?
Type: Feature
Raj P Chhabra and Basavaraj Gurappa; ISBN: 9780081010983 (Paperback); 9780081012208; (eBook; Butterworth-Heinemann; 2019; £84.95
Type: Feature
TOTAL has become the latest oil major, along with BP, Shell, and Repsol, to pledge to reach net zero emissions in its operations worldwide by 2050.
Type: News
CCS pilot phase successfully completed on Norwegian waste-to-energy plant
FORTUM Oslo Varme’s Klemetsrud site in Oslo, Norway, has successfully validated carbon capture technology at its pilot plant, which is a significant step forward in Norway’s planned full-scale carbon capture and storage project.
Type: News
BRITISH plant biologist Dame Ottoline Leyser has been appointed as new CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the national funding agency that invests in science and research in the UK.
Type: News
Italian blast seriously injures two workers
ON 15 May, an explosion at a chemicals plant in an industrial zone in Venice, Italy seriously burned two workers and sent clouds of smoke and flames into the sky, reports Reuters.
Type: News
Using wood waste to produce biochemicals: green chemistry for a green future
Amanda Doyle speaks to Florence Gschwend, CEO and Co-founder of Lixea, about the company's new process to turn wood waste into biochemicals, bioplastics, and biofuels.
Type: Feature
