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Viewpoint: Take the Guesswork out of Chemical Engineering
Tim Duignan looks at how AI accelerated simulation will transform chemical engineering, freeing chemical engineers up to tackle more complex challenges
Type: Feature
The Design Process: Environmental Management in Design – Do More with Less
In the final article in his series aimed at giving new graduates a better understanding of the current design process, Tom Baxter reviews common standards and discusses the most obvious opportunities to boost sustainability during your future industrial design projects
Type: Feature
First global plastics analysis
A WORLD-first study of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made has shown that 8.3 Gt has been produced, and is now mostly in landfills or the environment.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 2: Determining Process Dynamics
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Type: Feature
Precision Pays Off: How Nanotechnology Promises to Improve Cancer Tests
Chemical engineer Paula Mendes talks to Adam Duckett about her big ambitions for tiny tech
Type: Feature
Compressed air users urged to stop wasting energy
THE British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has launched a campaign to help companies cut their compressed air energy usage by 10%, in a bid to save £147.5m (US$192.6m) in waste electricity costs.
Type: News
EnergyX partners with ProfMOF to improve lithium extraction technology
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has announced a partnership with ProfMOF to further enhance technology for reducing the impact of lithium mining.
Type: News
3D printing to improve membrane technology
Method will allow rapid prototyping and testing
Type: News
Improved chemical looping process for greener fossil fuels
ENGINEERS at Ohio State University, US, are developing a chemical looping process which can create clean energy, liquid fuels and chemical feedstocks from fossil fuels without releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.
Type: News
Novel process for cost-effective biofuel recovery
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a cost-effective and energy-efficient process for extracting biofuels that could make them a viable alternative to fossil fuels for transport.
Type: News
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 2: Improvements Through the Use of Dividing Wall Columns
Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary distillation columns. Robert Piszczek and colleagues from ExxonMobil look at the opportunities for process engineers
Type: Feature
Future Advances in Process Automation
Andrew Ogden-Swift reviews the pressing challenges
Type: Feature
Engineering Net Zero Part 7: Energy Security and Affordability
In his penultimate feature on achieving net zero, David Simmonds considers the structure of the energy market and how it needs to change to meet the UK's net zero ambitions.
Type: Feature
Energy-from-waste industry faces stricter rules following UK incineration crackdown
ENGLAND’S burgeoning energy-from-waste industry is expected to face a raft of new requirements as part of a government crackdown on waste disposal practices.
Type: News
Nouryon and Semiotic Labs partnership will improve plant reliability
NOURYON has signed a framework agreement with Semiotic Labs to implement technology that will predict when maintenance is required on pumps and other equipment.
Type: News
A new process for converting plastic waste to fuel
A NEW process has been developed that uses supercritical water to transform polypropylene plastic waste into fuel and other products.
Type: News
Continuous Improvement for the Process Industry
Ian Madden explains how to tell if continuous improvement is happening in your organisation
Type: Feature
Constantine Tsounis, Bijil Subhash, and Khushal Polepalle chart their journey from undergrad design project to sustainable startup
Type: Feature
Spray coating solar cells improves efficiency
A NEW technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells improves their efficiency and solves previous fabrication challenges.
Type: News
