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Ahead of the coming Trustee elections, we asked the six candidates to introduce themselves and share their views on IChemE and its future roles
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Engineering Net Zero Part 2: How We Can Give Consumers Choice in the Push for Green Transport
David Simmonds discusses the need to accelerate flexibility when it comes to cleaner transport options
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Mentors and mentees alike need to understand what good practice looks like, as the results of getting it wrong can be damaging
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In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale-up from an equipment-based viewpoint using the example of agitated tanks
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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
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The push for fewer emissions and greater profitability are driving the development of more efficient distillation column internals. Izak Nieuwoudt, Neil Sandford, and Pat Quotson look at the opportunities for process engineers
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Kenneth Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.
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Managing ALARP in Major Engineering Projects
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
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Engineering Net Zero Part 5: Consuming the Planet's Resources
David Simmonds explores the picnic basket of our energy transition, our increasing dependency on China, and how hydrogen can help us deliver an electrified economy
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Engineering Net Zero Part 6: Skilling Up
David Simmonds looks at who we need to deliver our energy transition, from the local technician to the grid designer
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