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Diversity: Where has it Gone?

Reflections from Uchenna Onwuamaegbu, Jamie Hoar, Heather Williams and IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee

Type: Feature

How Your Magazine is Made: Paper and Ink

Aniqah Majid goes back to basics to learn how the paper and ink used for TCE is produced

Type: Feature

Safety is my job: Sophie Horne

Robin Turney speaks to Sophie Horne about her role in the water industry

Type: Feature

Cemex to install world-first hydrogen process at UK cement plant

CEMEX is set to trial a process developed by Hiiroc that uses plasma to produce hydrogen for greener industrial heat at its cement plant in Rugby, UK.

Type: News

ChemEng: 100 Years at Cape Town

Jim Petrie and Jenni Case celebrate a centenary of chemical engineering

Type: Feature

Practical Process Control Part 11: Controlling Steam Drum Level

Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers to exploit untapped opportunities for improvement

Type: Feature

HyNet: Demonstrating an Integrated Hydrogen Economy

HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality

Type: Feature

IChemE launches Sustainability Hub

ICHEME has launched its new Sustainability Hub, giving chemical engineers access to a suite of new, on-demand training courses and knowledge resources.

Type: News

GFG Alliance buys Europe’s largest aluminium smelter

GFG ALLIANCE, the UK-based metals, mining and energy group owned by Sanjeev Gupta, has bought Europe’s largest aluminium smelter in Dunkerque, France, from Rio Tinto for US$500m.

Type: News

High energy prices threaten the future of the UK steel industry

CONTINUED high energy prices could signal the death knell for the UK’s steelmaking industry, according to steel researchers.

Type: News

What Safety Studies Have You Got on Your Menu?

Andy Brazier and Nick Wise introduce a series looking at ALARP

Type: Feature

Dry Run

Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry

Type: Feature

Cuadrilla to start fracking second well

CUADRILLA plans to frack a second well in Lancashire, UK, before its planning permission expires in November.

Type: News

Documenting Your Turnaround Estimate

Gordon Lawrence discusses the value of a basis of estimate document for a maintenance turnaround team

Type: Feature

Sleepwalking Towards a Net Zero Skills Shortage

Michael Hardisty of EngineeringUK discusses the urgent fixes the UK needs to reliably forecast the jobs required to meet the climate crisis

Type: Feature

UK partnership successfully recycles continuous carbon fibres

ENGINEERS at the UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC), along with partners, have successfully reclaimed continuous carbon fibres from a whole pressure vessel for reuse in a new vessel. NCC says this is a UK-first and represents a significant milestone in developing UK hydrogen capability.

Type: News

Why Hydrogen?

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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Recovering heat, capturing carbon and switching fuels: UK industry awarded funds to engineer out emissions

CHEMICAL companies and food manufacturers are among the latest firms to receive millions in UK government funding to implement engineering projects that will reduce emissions from energy-intensive processes.

Type: News

Ineos awards Técnicas Reunidas contract for massive European chemicals investment

INEOS has awarded Técnicas Reunidas a contract to engineer a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgium, marking the largest investment in European chemicals in the last 20 years.

Type: News

BASF to build two plastics plants at proposed site in China

BASF is to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) plant at a proposed integrated chemical production site in Zhanjiang, China. The plants will be the first to begin production at the site, which is to become BASF’s third-largest site worldwide.

Type: News