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Goodbye Centenary year, and what to read while we’re away
AS our editorial team power down their computers until 3 January, here are some features you may have missed from 2022 and can catch up on while we’re away.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Adriana Vargas-Colwill CEng MIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Covestro turns to nature to divert aniline production away from fossil feedstocks
A PROCESS that uses genetically modified microorganisms to make a chemical used in insulating foam has started operating in Germany, opening the door to fossil-free production.
Type: News
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
Can chemical engineering help spirits distillers close the loop between historic roots and modern modelling methods?
Type: Feature
The Royal Mint’s Tony Baker and Julian Cox explain to Adam Duckett how a solution in a beaker was transformed into a world-first chemical plant
Type: Feature
UK government must do more to avert worrying outlook for UK chemicals sector, think tank warns
TENS of thousands of jobs in the UK chemical sector are at risk due to lagging decarbonisation policies, including a lack of support for industrial electrification, a think tank has warned.
Type: News
Raffaella Ocone set to be 84th president of IChemE
RAFFAELLA OCONE, professor of chemical engineering at Heriot-Watt University, will take up the presidency of IChemE next year after being nominated to serve as deputy from June.
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
Consortium investigates Australian P2X industry
A RESEARCH consortium led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia is investigating the potential to grow a new power-to-X (P2X) industry to benefit a range of New South Wales (NSW) infrastructure. The industry could contribute to accelerating a hydrogen economy.
Type: News
Dylan Sherman awarded 2023 Ashok Kumar Fellowship
ICHEME has awarded the 2023 Ashok Kumar Fellowship to Dylan Sherman, a final-year DPhil student in engineering science at the University of Oxford, UK.
Type: News
Ella Howells talks about her switch from oil and gas to the drinks industry
Type: Feature
Engineered yeast strain could revive interest in non-food bio-feedstocks
CHEMICAL engineers at MIT have genetically engineered yeast that are tolerant to toxic biorefining conditions, a development that offers a route for converting tricky non-food feedstocks into fuel.
Type: News
NTU Singapore launching hybrid chemeng-chemistry course to fill skills gap
IN AN EFFORT to produce graduates with chemical engineering and chemistry skillsets, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is launching a new course in process engineering and synthetic chemistry.
Type: News
AI pioneers scoop 2025 QE Prize for Engineering
SEVEN engineers behind the rise of the artificial intelligence technologies that are revolutionising industries and transforming how we live and work have been awarded the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Type: News
Air Products acquires full ownership of China gasification joint venture
AIR Products has announced that it has acquired the remaining 50% stake in a gasification joint venture from China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical.
Type: News
Major US pipeline restarts following cyberattack
AFTER a five-day shutdown, operator Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) has restarted operations at its major US fuel pipeline system, after reportedly paying a US$5m ransom to cyber-attackers.
Type: News
MIT engineers develop catalyst that converts methane into ‘useful’ polymers
CHEMICAL engineers from MIT have designed a catalyst that can convert methane into polymers, in a process they predict will turn methane “into something useful”.
Type: News
Update: Criminal measures taken against 26 following fatal Chinese chemicals explosion
LOCAL authorities in China have taken “criminal coercive measures” against 26 people following a chemical plant explosion that killed 78 people and injured more than 600, reports state news agency Xinhua.
Type: News
NuScale submits SMR design to US authority
Milestone for power generation, company claims
Type: News
