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IChemE Member attends palace ceremony for Queens Award
ICHEME Member Irteza Piracha has attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after the company he leads won a Queen’s Award for International Trade.
Type: News
INWED: ‘At the end of the day, we are all engineers’
HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign which celebrates women in engineering, and encourages young women and girls to consider the career opportunities that engineering offers.
Type: Feature
Common Working Practices Risk Home Office Enforcement Action
While hiring engineers from overseas is helping to ease skills shortages in the UK, employers need to check they are not falling foul of their compliance duties.
Type: Feature
New report assesses gas-to-hydrogen transition
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE released a report which assesses the possibility of a transition from natural gas to hydrogen. The transition would help the UK to achieve “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Type: News
Hurricane Energy produces first oil at fractured basement field
HURRICANE Energy has produced first oil from the UK’s first fractured basement field in the North Sea.
Type: News
Producing sustainable aviation fuel in the Netherlands
SUSTAINABLE aviation fuel supplier (SAF) SkyNRG will develop Europe’s first dedicated waste-to-fuel plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, capable of producing 100,000 t/y of SAF. A separate planned demonstration plant at Rotterdam The Hague Airport aims to use direct air capture to produce 1,000 L/d of fuel.
Type: News
Prime Minister tours Imperial's carbon capture pilot plant
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May visited Imperial College London’s carbon capture pilot plant along with Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry. Chemical engineering academics and students recount the success of the visit.
Type: Feature
University of Canterbury student wins New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2019
ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, the 2019 New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year prize.
Type: News
UK sets target for net zero emissions by 2050
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the UK will legislate to reduce CO2 emissions to net zero by 2050.
Type: News
IChemE Fellows receive Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded birthday honours to IChemE Fellow Katherine Hirschfeld and Honorary Fellow Andrew Hopkins. Honours were also awarded to resigned Fellow, Mark Toner, and Kathryn Fagg, who is not an IChemE member, but is a chemical engineer who is set to speak at this year’s Chemeca.
Type: News
Webinar: discover how BASF is analysing data to improve yield
ON 18 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how chemicals major BASF has used data to improve operations and increase yield.
Type: Feature
HyDeploy: The UK’s first hydrogen demonstration Project for heat
Type: Feature
Call for evidence on CCS ahead of UK spending review
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for carbon capture and storage has issued a call for evidence on carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) ahead of the UK Government’s spending review.
Type: News
The challenge of learning from incidents: from awareness to identify, transfer, and sustain
Type: Feature
Exelon to shut down Three Mile Island
THE infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is set to shutdown due to government inaction.
Type: News
Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk
Type: Feature
Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determine cost beneficial options
Type: Feature
Dyllon Randall explains how bio-bricks can be grown from human urine
Type: Feature
Andy Brazier explains why process isolation is more complicated than you might think
Type: Feature
IEA report finds the world is at risk of a steep decline in nuclear power
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the world is at risk of a steep decline in nuclear power, and that a fall in advanced economies threatens climate goals and energy security.
Type: News
