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Net Zero and Safety

Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie Gilmour

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Curbing Carbon Emissions with Green Methanol

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into methanol by direct hydrogenation of captured CO2. It now plans to deploy its technology at commercial scale and help curb emissions from the chemicals sector

Type: Feature

Delta HAZOP: Revalidation and Focus on Major Accident Hazards

Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the UK, which won IChemE’s 2019 Global Award for Process Safety

Type: Feature

Bulk Solids Handling: Perspective on a Professional Blind Spot

A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids handling and asks how can we get it right

Type: Feature

Spiralling Up

IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE

Type: Feature

The Hidden Dangers of Technology

Why checks and balances are so important

Type: Feature

New evacuation a week after Texas chemical plant explosion

A WEEK after the explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) facility in Port Neches, Texas, a voluntary evacuation order has been issued due to elevated levels of 1,3-Butadiene.

Type: News

UPDATE: Explosion at Texas chemicals facility

A SECOND major explosion at a chemicals facility in Port Neches, Texas, has resulted in the evacuation of 50,000 people.

Type: News

New narrative needed for CCS

Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industries – not just oil and gas – was a key conclusion at CCUS 2019: Capturing the clean growth opportunities, held in London earlier this month.

Type: Feature

Chemical engineers will create artificial skin bioreactor to test cosmetics

CHEMICAL engineers at the University of Surrey in the UK are developing artificial skin for Unilever to test its cosmetics products on.

Type: News

Going Digital for Water

How digital measurement is making waves in water and wastewater treatment

Type: Feature

Presidential Review: Restating and Reinvigorating IChemE

Ken Rivers reflects on his 18 months as IChemE President

Type: Feature

Step by Step

Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as valid today as it’s ever been

Type: Feature

Dry Run

Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry

Type: Feature

Carbon: Feeling the Pinch

Raymond Tan and Dominic Foo explain how pinch analysis techniques can be used to optimise decarbonisation techniques

Type: Feature

South Africa unveils 2030 power plan

SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) on the country’s energy generation up to 2030. The IRP aims to diversify the energy mix while attempting to address the serious problem of insufficient energy capacity.

Type: News

Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center: So Much Achieved and Much More to Do

On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at the growing success of the safety center forged in her memory

Type: Feature

US CSB release update on Texas chemicals plant explosion

THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which occurred at a chemicals facility in Texas, US earlier this year, caused by an isobutylene leak.

Type: News

Future of clean energy discussed at London workshop

THE Fuel and Energy Research Forum held its Workshop on Combustion-related Research and the Inaugural Clean Energy Science Lecture on 7 October in London, UK, in collaboration with IChemE’s Clean Energy SIG and other partners.

Type: News

Hydrogen: Deployment Barriers

What is standing in the way of hydrogen deployment and what has been overcome to enable development?

Type: Feature