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Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that allows homes and businesses to process waste into gas for heating
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Closure of Altona refinery fuels concerns about Australian manufacturing
EXXONMOBIL is closing its Altona refinery in Victoria, Australia. The decision comes hot on the heels of BP’s plans to shut the Kwinana refinery and has elevated concerns about fuel security and the future of downstream manufacturing in Australia.
Type: News
Experts concerned about hydrogen plans form independent advisory group
A COALITION of volunteer engineers, concerned about the misapplication of hydrogen, have formed a new group to provide independent advice to governments about plans for the hydrogen economy. We spoke with Tom Baxter – one of the Hydrogen Science Coalition's founders – to understand why he feels the group is necessary and what it aims to achieve.
Type: Feature
Flixborough 50 Years On: Stirring Memories and Sharing Memories
Paul Okey visits the Flixborough 1974 Exhibition with his dad to discover the stories behind the disaster and the impact it had on those affected
Type: Feature
Modelling with Excel Part 6: Monte Carlo Simulations
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Doug Hall
Yasmin Ali speaks to US-based Doug Hall – inventor, whiskey maker, and founder of Eureka! Ranch.
Type: Feature
IChemE presents awards to ten chemical engineers
ON 23 May IChemE presented ten chemical engineers with medals for their outstanding contributions to the profession. The awards were presented by IChemE President Ken Rivers, at a special ceremony in front of friends, family, and colleagues at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, UK.
Type: News
IChemE medals committee chair encourages nominations to recognise professional excellence
MEMBERS of the chemical engineering profession are being urged to celebrate the outstanding work of their colleagues bywith nominating themons for an IChemE medal. by the incoming chair of the Institution’s Medals and Prizes Committee, Mark Simmons.
Type: News
Learned society responds to Covid-19
It is a key part of our professional engineering responsibility that we use our skills and expertise to support challenges such as tackling the Covid-19 pandemic where we can. So, it is very encouraging that volunteers have come together to form IChemE’s Covid-19 Response Team
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UK HSE cybersecurity expert to present at Hazards 31
HAZARDS 31 will feature a talk by cybersecurity expert Sarabjit Purewal – from the UK’s Health and Safety Executive – about the challenges in this area for those managing and preventing major hazards in chemical and process industries.
Type: News
Nigel Hirst announced as next Deputy President as IChemE voting opens
NIGEL Hirst will be IChemE’s next Deputy President, while David Edwards will join the Board of Trustees as Honorary Treasurer.
Type: News
Soil Survivor: Using Nanotech for Regenerative Agriculture
Amanda Jasi speaks to researchers using nanotechnology to help preserve, replenish and analyse soil
Type: Feature
WE ALL know that chemical engineering is the “boundaryless profession”. Our industry improves processes in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, food and drink, energy, consumer goods, petrochemical, inorganic chemical and plastics industries, and so enhances the lives of billions of people all over the world.
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Unlocking Trade for Low Carbon Technologies
WE often hear the adage that money talks. And this is certainly true when it comes to tackling climate change. Money can influence what is done and how, and this makes it essential that we effectively communicate all positives and negatives of climate mitigation strategies to a wide audience.
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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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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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