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Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation columns in an industrial setting
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Quantified Risk and Uncertainty Analysis
Bayesian belief networks provide a powerful means for analysing uncertainty in terms of accident risk, and aid key decision making
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Education students differently, with a more scenario- and problem-based engineering curriculum
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With the rapid growth in chemical engineering student intake, we need to think carefully, and quickly, about what we teach them
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IN 1976, George Box opined: “All models are wrong, some are useful.” How do we assure that a model is not sufficiently wrong that it is useful? A useful model is one that adequately predicts the results under the conditions and scale required for design or a process simulation. Most models of course are not derived at design scale. We are inevitably working outside the envelope of model derivation. So how do we build confidence that the extrapolation is adequately correct that the results may be trusted?
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Ban the Steam Engine and Build Ten Hinkleys
As products improve and prices fall, the take-up of petrol-electric hybrids and 'pure' electric vehicles (EVs) might come much sooner. Today’s ‘conventionals’ will become obsolete long before they’re banned.
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HAZARD and operability (HAZOP) is a well understood, respected and employed technique in the process (and other) industries. It offers systematic rigour in challenging the design and operating intent of a new, modified, or established facility and provides a foundation for further analysis and risk assessment.
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Dudley Maurice Newitt – Chemical engineering meets James Bond
Claudia Flavell-While goes on the trail of Dudley Maurice Newitt – a developer of spy gadgetry and the real-life inspiration for James Bond's Q
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Has Carbon Utilisation Captured its Audience?
A look into public awareness and acceptance of carbon capture and utilisation
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An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project. David Jobe, director of Carbon Capture and Chemical Services at Saskpower speaks to Adam Duckett
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Lord Cullen: Piper Alpha Investigator
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk gave this speech at the opening of Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 5 June. The conference marked the anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, which Lord Cullen investigated on behalf of the government. The 106 recommendations made in his landmark 1990 report reshaped offshore safety culture
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Terry Cooper: Preventer of Major Accidents
Terry Cooper is a chemical engineer by training. This article is an adapted version of a speech he delivered at Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 6 June. The conference marked the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster.
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Carbon Capture and Storage: Are We There Yet?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
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Why operators turn advanced controls off (and how to prevent them from doing so)
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Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, about its efforts to accelerate process intensification
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THE cheap, abundant and seemingly limitless energy supply of the 20th Century driven by fossil fuel consumption led to unprecedented economic growth and improvements in quality of life. But much like financial debt, the long-term cost will ultimately be higher than the short-term gain. Society has reaped the short-term benefits of fossil fuel consumption and the environmental bailiffs are now at the door.
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Teaching artisanal gold miners to go mercury-free using a century-old technique.
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