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Green transition loan awarded to Wood
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has awarded the first ever green transition loan – worth £430m (US$585m) – to engineering and consultancy firm Wood to accelerate new clean growth export opportunities.
Type: News
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 rules invaluable for distillation troubleshooting
Type: Feature
Microwave Processing – Beyond Food
Sam Kingman, Chris Dodds, Adam Buttress and Daniel Groszek discuss new technology that offers a high-temperature hybrid microwave reactor for large-scale industrial use
Type: Feature
Rules of Thumb: Tanks and Vessels
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Type: Feature
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 1: Introduction - Your Greener Prospects
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportunities to improve the efficiency of distillation operations
Type: Feature
Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award
SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering Award for developing a digital twin of a crucial nuclear waste processing plant which has enabled them to radically improve its performance and extend the life of the facility.
Type: News
Ruby Ray and Fabio Ruggeri describe an innovative process to produce substitute natural gas – a solution for low carbon energy
Type: Feature
Electrochemistry for greener steel
Amanda Jasi speaks to technology developers working to use electrolysis to reduce emissions from steel manufacture
Type: Feature
What we have Learned from our Mentor/Mentee Journey
Chemical engineering graduates Rory Foster and mentee Fred Barrett share insights into their mentorship journey at RPS Consulting Services, where new graduates are paired with experienced mentors to support career development and chartership goals
Type: Feature
Volunteer Spotlight: Azzam Younes
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
The final Council meeting for 2016/17 was hosted in Birmingham on 10 May, alongside the successful Hazards 27 conference.
Type: News
Sir David Harrison, an educationalist who co-published leading literature on fluidisation, died on 27 March, aged 92.
Type: News
Oil and gas innovation to benefit Japanese nuclear sector
RAWWATER Engineering Company, which developed specialist alloys for the oil and gas industry that are being adapted to support Sellafield decommissioning challenges, has announced a contract that will take it into the Japanese nuclear sector.
Type: News
Wood commits to reducing its GHG emissions
GLOBAL engineering and consultancy company Wood has pledged to set a science-based target to reduce its direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% compared to 2019 levels, by 2030.
Type: News
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
Managing vaccine manufacture scaleup
Withthe UK Government having announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the country to manufacture a vaccine at scale for Covid-19, we caught up with biochemical engineer Adam Hawthorne to discuss the expected challenges.
Type: Feature
Scientists win Nobel prize for developing Li-ion batteries
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, who each made essential contributions to the development of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.
Type: News
UK launches vaccine taskforce to co-ordinate scaleup
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the country to manufacture a vaccine at scale for Covid-19.
Type: News
Adam Duckett on the turbulent crucible in which IChemE was formed
Type: Feature
