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Flixborough 50 Years On: Lessons for Managers and Engineers Today
Robin Turney says the lessons learned from the disaster are still as relevant now as they were in 1974
Type: Feature
Student placements key to employment
WHEN looking for work, experience could be more influential than socio-economic background for chemical engineering students – according to an IChemE study.
Type: News
Fluor pilot plant opens at the University of Surrey
THE Fluor Pilot Plant at the University of Surrey UK, designed to give chemical engineering students manufacturing experience, is now open and being used by undergraduates.
Type: News
Nilay Shah wins RAEng’s President’s Medal
NILAY SHAH, a chemical processing and sustainability expert and Fellow of IChemE, has been named the winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s President’s Medal.
Type: News
Partnership to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology, with the aim of contributing to sustainability.
Type: News
Calls for UK to maintain EU research links as Government publishes ‘Horizon Plan B’
CHEMICAL engineers have joined calls for the UK to maintain its links with the EU’s €95.5bn (US$97bn) Horizon research funding programme, after the UK Government released plans for how it would replace the scheme if an agreement can’t be reached.
Type: News
Engineering employers must support neurodivergent people to make sector more inclusive, report says
A REPORT published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) says that there is an urgent need to make engineering and technology more inclusive for neurodivergent people.
Type: News
ISC report sets out safety roadmap
PROCESS safety incidents are not decreasing over time, and steps must be taken to reduce the repetition of previous failures – according to the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC).
Type: News
Adam Duckett is reassured by the early signals from the new UK government as parliament welcomes an IChemE Fellow into its midst
Type: Feature
Richardson set to become IChemE Deputy President
ICHEME has announced that Stephen Richardson will be presented to the AGM for election as Deputy President of the Institution in May, to become President in November 2019. Iain Martin will be presented for re-election as Honorary Treasurer.
Type: News
The Engineering Mindset Part 7: Complex or Complicated? Achieving negative carbon emissions
Chris and Penny Hamlin look at how a complexity-focused strategy can identify innovative pathways and solutions that move the chemical industry beyond net zero and to a future of negative emissions and sustainable practices
Type: Feature
MIT turns living plants into desk lamps
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS at MIT have engineered a living plant to emit green light, with the eventual hope of creating living, self-repairing, sustainable lighting solutions, like desk lamps.
Type: News
Light-controlled yeast produces biofuel
MODIFIED yeast that use light as a switch to change metabolic pathways have been used to produce the biofuel isobutanol.
Type: News
US ammonia tanker spill kills five, injures seven
ANHYDROUS ammonia released from a tanker during a traffic incident in Teutopolis, US, is believed to have killed five people and hospitalised a further seven. Hundreds of residents were also evacuated as a precaution but were allowed to return home some hours later when it was determined the danger to the area had passed.
Type: News
Young engineers call for more industry support at the 2025 YEAIS
Aniqah Majid joins the innovators competing to take home an IChemE award
Type: Feature
EFCE honours individuals and team that developed 3D-printed reactor
THE European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has today announced the winners of a series of awards, including granting former IChemE president Richard Darton its highest distinction.
Type: News
Six people missing following blast at Chinese pesticide site
At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical factory in the city of Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, according to Chinese media sources.
Type: News
Safety is my job: Fiona Barclay
Robin Turney speaks to Fiona Barclay about her role in keeping people safe at Clair Ridge
Type: Feature
Surrey students’ clean water system wins Davidson Inventors Challenge 2025
YEAR 12 students from Surrey have scooped the top prize at the Davidson Investors Challenge 2025, for their “impressive” water filtration system.
Type: News
