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Process Safety Models: Cheese, Chains or Cords?
Harvey Dearden offers an alternative to the 'Swiss cheese' model for representing process safety. The ‘suspended load’ might be considered as more complete in representing the idea of an integrated system.
Type: Feature
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator, has fed back to industry on its hydrocarbon release (HCR) challenge.
Type: News
Modelling with Excel Part 8: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 2
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
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
Rio Tinto says steel industry will need ‘every technology in the book’ to decarbonise
MINING company Rio Tinto says the steel industry will need “every technology in the book” to decarbonise, after announcing its plan to develop a R&D facility for its low-carbon ironmaking process in Western Australia.
Type: News
Wylfa suspension could lead to a UK energy crisis
HITACHI has announced the decision to suspend indefinitely its UK nuclear power station construction project Wylfa Newydd, on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Experts have warned that this could lead to a UK energy crisis.
Type: News
Taskforce suggests recommendations to digitally unite energy sectors
The Offshore Energy Data Strategy (OEDS) Taskforce has in a new report, set out a series of recommendations to digitally unite the offshore oil, gas and renewable sectors, in a bid to help the UK achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Type: News
European consortium launches CO2 capture demonstration project
A EUROPEAN consortium of 11 research and industry stakeholders has launched a project to demonstrate an innovative, and potentially energy- and cost-saving CO2 capture process.
Type: News
Process Safety Leadership Site Visits
Performed well, leadership visits play a vital role in supporting a positive safety culture at a site. Ashley Hynds introduces DNV’s toolkit which promotes effective engagement, helping leaders see what’s really happening on the frontline
Type: Feature
New catalyst for hydrogen production
A CATALYST composed of nickel and iron has been developed that will make the production of hydrogen more energy efficient and cost effective. Hydrogen is an important fuel source as the only emission from a hydrogen fuel cell is water vapour.
Type: News
ChemEng intake rises for first time since 2015
THE NUMBER of students starting a UK undergraduate degree in chemical, process, and energy engineering has risen by 6.6%, the first increase since 2015.
Type: News
Nestlé reduces water consumption in South African dairy factory
NESTLÉ South Africa is transforming its Mossel Bay dairy factory into a “zero water” site by re-using water recovered during the milk evaporation process.
Type: News
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for our circular economy webinar series and readers voice Natech concerns
Type: News
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
Amazon locks in additional 476 MW of clean power from Iberdrola
SPANISH energy giant Iberdrola has agreed to supply Amazon with an additional 476 MW of clean power for its global operations, boosting their contracted supply to more than 66,000 GWh.
Type: News
Mariné Botha and Rachel Ramskill share their experiences of working in risk engineering in the Middle East
Type: Feature
Australian minerals and hydrogen research gets A$59m funding boost
A FLOATING device that uses sunlight to produce hydrogen from wastewater and a leaching process aimed at boosting the value of low-grade iron ores are among a series of engineering projects that Australia is funding to boost its key industries.
Type: News
Denham and East Kimberley earmarked for green hydrogen facilities in Western Australia
WESTERN Australia’s push to become a major exporter of renewable hydrogen is rapidly gathering pace following plans for two new green hydrogen facilities: Denham and the East Kimberley clean energy project.
Type: News
Turning the Dial – How Can We Bring More Women into Engineering?
Overturning some common perceptions and creating a more flexible working environment is essential to boosting diversity and tackling the industry’s skills gap. An outline of the key challenges that businesses, industry groups and the Government must tackle.
Type: Feature
INEOS Energy sells its Norwegian oil and gas business
INEOS Energy has announced that it is selling its oil and gas business in Norway to PGNiG Upstream Norway for US$615m.
Type: News
