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Three chemical engineers recognised in New Year’s Honours

THREE Fellows of IChemE have been awarded in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours list. Lynn Gladden has been recognised with a Damehood, and Mark Apsey and Adisa Azapagic have been awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

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Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'

SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zero is arguably the biggest engineering project ever undertaken by mankind, says the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in a new report.

Type: News

Enhanced Cybersecurity Improves Plant Productivity?

It is crucial that organisations do not allow cybersecurity and operational digitisation projects to happen in silos

Type: Feature

Phosphate Rocks References

References for the TCE serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry

Type: Feature

BioSNG: Fuelling the Future with Trash

Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas

Type: Feature

Pfizer's Penicillin Pioneers – Jasper Kane and John McKeen

Pfizer's Penicillin Pioneers – Jasper Kane and John McKeen

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Creating a Sustainable Future – The Role of Material Selection

The one challenge that engineers of all stripes need to deal with is material selection.

Type: Feature

Screen Test

Are today’s methods of grading and selecting our graduate chemengers lacking?

Type: Feature

The Chemical Detective

Amanda Doyle meets Fiona Erskine to discuss her explosive thriller

Type: Feature

Go Digital for Efficient Shift Handovers

How digital systems can make shift handover processes more efficient, and safer

Type: Feature

BP Texas City: Lessons learned?

A look at how the process industries have changed, more than a decade on

Type: Feature

Closing The Poop Loop

Project puts ‘poop’ to good use, improving both sanitation and energy supply at one of the biggest refugee camps in the world

Type: Feature

The age of industry using carbon dioxide as a resource begins

COVESTRO’S Dream Production project achieved a key milestone in June as it started commercial production of plastics using ‘waste’ CO2 captured from a nearby chemical plant in Germany.

Type: Feature

Maths for Maths' Sake?

We should be wary of mathematical rigour for its own sake

Type: Feature

Safety Review

Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision

Type: Feature

PE and PP can combine with new method

Could mean common plastics can be recycled together

Type: News

Algae-based ‘water bottle’ crowdfunded

Alternative to plastic raises over US$1m investment

Type: News

Explosion at Dow site in US injures five

Blast blamed on reactive trimethylaluminium

Type: News

UK is "vulnerable" to Ebola epidemic

Lack of vaccine manufacturing capacity to blame

Type: News

Longannet power station closes for good

Possible closure announced a year ago

Type: News