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On the Road to Digital

Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations, says Paige Marie Morse

Type: Feature

What Matters to You?

Wendy Wilson reports on the actions from the IChemE Member Engagement survey

Type: Feature

Monitoring in Mining

Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based technology, which is used to manage potentially tragic mining failures

Type: Feature

IChemE Fellow awarded Australia Day honours

ICHEME Fellow Geoffrey Stevens, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Melbourne, has been awarded Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day 2020 Honours list.

Type: News

John Davidson, 1926–2019

Obituary of John Davidson, often referred to as a “founding father of fluidisation” in chemical engineering and former IChemE president

Type: News

16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse

BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with homicide and environmental crimes relating to the fatal collapse of a Vale tailings dam last year, which killed at least 259 people.

Type: News

World Engineering Day set for 4 March

WORLD Engineering Day for Sustainable Development will be celebrated on 4 March every year as a UNESCO international day of celebration.

Type: News

CPI partners with ImmunoBiology to produce pneumococcal vaccines that don’t require cold chain

CPI is partnering with ImmunoBiology (ImmBio) to develop a vaccine that protects against illnesses such as pneumonia but is stable when stored at higher temperatures.

Type: News

IChemE Fellows feature as experts in TV documentary about engineering safety

THREE IChemE Fellows will feature as experts in a new ten-part television documentary series about engineering safety incidents, to be aired on the UK Discovery Channel.

Type: News

LSC member quits over climate change concerns

TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Institution’s position on climate change is too weak. In response, LSC Chair Jarka Glassey has said that IChemE is materially taking action to help members address climate change and that a formal position formed through wider consultation with members will take time to develop.

Type: News

Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel

AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factors, including a steep slope design and high water level, combined to create the conditions for failure that led to the fatal collapse of a Vale tailings dam last year.

Type: News

The Imperfections of Accident Analysis

Four key ideas that help us understand the real world of work.

Type: Feature

Three chemical engineers recognised in New Year’s Honours

THREE Fellows of IChemE have been awarded in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours list. Lynn Gladden has been recognised with a Damehood, and Mark Apsey and Adisa Azapagic have been awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Type: News

NZ PM visits milk processing plant to see novel boiler and launch tree-planting scheme

NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited milk processing company Synlait for a tour of the country’s first large-scale electrode boiler and to help launch the company’s new tree planting initiative.

Type: News

‘Artificial leaf’ for carbon neutral syngas production

RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas production using a carbon neutral “artificial leaf” device, setting a new benchmark in the field of solar fuels.

Type: News

Clever Denitrification Bugs; or How Poor Communication Nearly Derailed a Major Development

How poor communication nearly derailed a major development

Type: Feature

Malaysia PM: Petronas could be sold to pay down debt

STAKES in state-energy firm Petronas could be sold to Malaysia’s oil-producing states to raise money for the Government, Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad has told Reuters.

Type: News

Steam cracking transforms waste plastic into new

A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which could be integrated into existing petrochemical facilities.

Type: News

Careers in Chemical Engineering: Matt Longley

From working in water treatment to paving the way for film productions including Harry Potter

Type: Feature

Triumph Out of Adversity

Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonstration and further development of a mobile self-cleaning water filtration unit

Type: Feature