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Imagining What Chemical Engineering Will Look Like in 50 Years
Duncan Barker got in touch to share a prize-winning essay that he discovered his late father Andy had written 50 years ago imagining what life at Stanlow Refinery would look like in 2023. Given he followed his father into chemical engineering, we couldn’t resist seeing if Duncan had inherited the literary gene too. Here’s his take on what life will be like at a plant 50 years from now…
Type: Feature
Deepwater Horizon: As it Happened
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
Type: Feature
COMAaaaargH! COMAH Reports Gone Wrong
How to avoid some common pitfalls in the production and use of a COMAH report; from Robert McGregor, Sarah Bickerstaffe, Stephen Beedle, and Conrad Ellison
Type: Feature
Interactive Graph Resource for Chemical Engineering Design
Interactive graphs have the potential to provide students with a more dynamic and engaging learning experience. With that in mind, The University of Manchester’s Department of Chemical Engineering has produced an interactive set of graphs that can be easily embedded into any virtual learning environment
Type: Feature
IChemE joins calls for UK immigration rethink
66 engineers refused visas in June and July 2015
Type: News
Weak energy policy threatens COP21 targets
Australia, India, South Africa face difficulties
Type: News
Air Products bids for China gas leader
Deal would strengthen position in key growth market
Type: News
After the spill: well incident response
Scott Powell and Scott Vickers look at how industry's emergency response measures have evolved in the years following Deepwater Horizon
Type: Feature
The Middlewich Job (the Pump Preservation Society)
In the fourth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to society, David Nellist explains how Europe’s last-surviving brine pump in a hand-dug shaft was saved from dereliction
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
Conor Crowley looks at how his team has adapted to conduct good HAZOPs amidst pandemic and lockdown
Type: Feature
Gordon Lawrence discusses the importance of prescriptive scope criteria in a turnaround premise document
Type: Feature
The Right Balance: Women in Engineering
Orla Douds, Anousha Khan, Martyna Cepaite and Jessica Pidgeon share their experiences of gender balance at university and in industry
Type: Feature
Algae-based ‘water bottle’ crowdfunded
Alternative to plastic raises over US$1m investment
Type: News
Uranium sale points to next-gen enrichment
Deal pivotal to laser enrichment commercialisation
Type: News
Using Bow Ties to Classify Barriers
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
Type: Feature
