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Volunteers publish guide to help public understand fill and finish and drug product release

Members of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering UK Affiliate (ISPE UK) and IChemE’s Pharmaceutical Special Interest Group have published the following guide aimed at explaining to the public the process of fill and finish, and drug product release.

Type: News

Wastewater leak causes concern for Florida marine life

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contaminated wastewater into a local creek leading to Tampa Bay, Florida’s largest open-water estuary. Researchers are currently investigating the effects.

Type: News

Santos greenlights Australia’s largest oil and gas investment in close to a decade

SANTOS has sanctioned a US$3.6bn investment in the Barossa gas project off Australia’s Northern Territory, extending the life of the Darwin LNG plant and marking the largest investment in the country’s oil and gas sector since 2012. Concerns about the climate impacts of the project have prompted one group to label the project “a carbon bomb”.

Type: News

Protecting Intellectual Property in the Chemical Engineering Field

Chloe Flower looks at new strategies for a developing sector

Type: Feature

Safety Lessons from Home Alone

David Jamieson explains what Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits can teach us about inherent safety

Type: Feature

Renewables – not fossil fuels – are strongest link in the energy supply chain, new study finds

RESEARCHERS have developed a method to thoroughly assess the risks associated with fuel supply chains, showing in a UK case study that renewables are less risky than fossil fuels and nuclear power, in contrast to previous studies which imply that renewables carried a greater risk.

Type: News

Farewell to 2021, and what to read while we’re away

WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent queries like 'what lessons can engineers learn from the Christmas classics Die Hard and Home Alone', we’ve got you covered.

Type: News

Working Hard. Having Fun. Making History

Fiona Ragan talks about her role in process control at Amazon

Type: Feature

The Hydrogen Economy Needs You

Emma Houchell talks about her role at Air Products, helping develop technology for the burgeoning hydrogen economy.

Type: Feature

Brine to batteries: lithium extraction technology that’s sustainable and efficient

Amanda Doyle speaks to Teague Egan and Amit Patwardhan of clean technology company EnergyX about the company's membrane technology that extracts lithium from brine pools.

Type: Feature

Energy: Using Hydrogen for Glass

Andrew Keeley and Mike Haden talk about decarbonising the glass manufacturing process using hydrogen as a fuel

Type: Feature

Safety is my job: Mike Rantell

Robin Turney speaks to Mike Rantell about his role in safety at Novartis

Type: Feature

Question Time: Built Environment & Transport

A panel of experts speaking at IChemE’s Centenary webinar urged attendees to think and work together creatively to overhaul the built environment and transport as we move into a more heterogenous future.

Type: Feature

Question Time: Health

Experts discuss the role of chemical engineers in the future health system

Type: Feature

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

Pee, Purple, Potions & Pills

Martin Pitt looks at the origins of the pharmaceutical industry

Type: Feature

The Breakfast Club

Early innovations from the food and drinks industry have done much to influence other industries and sectors. Martin Pitt thinks about it over a breakfast of cereal with cold milk and sugar

Type: Feature

Where Beauty Meets Safety

Thiago Ramos talks about his role at L’Oréal, coordinating and implementing the company’s health and safety management system

Type: Feature

INWED: ‘At the end of the day, we are all engineers’

HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign which celebrates women in engineering, and encourages young women and girls to consider the career opportunities that engineering offers.

Type: Feature

UK dye recycling startup recognised by the fashion industry while a demonstrator launches for textile circularity

DYERECYCLE, a startup of Imperial College London, UK working to recover and reuse dyes in the fashion and textile industry, has received a €200,000 (US$223,415) grant as part of a Global Change Award given by the H&M Foundation. The award recognises the potential of the dye recycling company’s technology to transform the industry.

Type: News