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Spiralling Up

IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE

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Making a Clean Getaway

With our energy systems going through profound change, Adam Duckett asked chemical engineers who have transitioned from oil and gas to greener pursuits for insights that could help others make the switch

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How to Perform a First Pass Water System Sustainability Analysis

Stephen Hall and Sarah Kutz examine strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of water purification systems, including membrane-based water for injection generation and optimised flow rates, while exploring sustainability approaches and alternative designs

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Dry Run

Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry

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Accelerating novel vaccine inactivation method

SEEKING to accelerate a novel method for producing inactivated vaccines to market and ensure competitivity, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation has partnered with a specialist machinery manufacturer and an information analysis company. The novel method could make vaccine production faster, safer, and cheaper.

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Safety: Digitalising Process Safety

Helen Kilbride and Krisshala Sinanan discuss the benefits and challenges

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GPTs for Process Control: First Principles Thinking

GenAI seems important, but it’s not always clear how to use it. A good way in is to start with what GPTs can do, then layer on your own expertise. Christopher Honig, Muxina Konarova and John D Hedengren present ideas to get you thinking

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Turning Points for IX

John Bewsey describes a new ion exchange process for cleaning up acid mines and brackish water

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Calling All Students: Help us Revive Frank Morton Sports Day!

Martyna Cepaite and Paul Jenkinson call on students to help ensure a great sporting tradition thrives

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Rules of Thumb: Flow Parameters

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

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UK government considers investment in new nuclear power plant in Wales

BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that the UK government will take a £5bn ($US6.7bn) stake in a new nuclear power station on Anglesey in North Wales.

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Chevron Phillips and Qatar Petroleum to build world’s largest ethane cracker

Qatar Petrochemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical have signed agreements to jointly develop petrochemicals projects in the US and in the Middle East, which will include building the world’s largest ethane cracker in the US.

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Simple method improves membrane CO2 separation performance

AN international team of researchers has, for the first time, shown that the carbon dioxide (CO2) separation performance of an existing polymer can be “significantly” improved by first submerging the material in water.

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UK sets target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035

THE UK has set a new legally-binding target of cutting emissions by 78% from 1990 levels by 2035, building on its previous target of cutting emissions by 68% by 2030.

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Scientists disrupted by Iberian blackout pitch ten principles for chemistry resilience

WHAT do you do when a severe blackout throws your scientific conference (and the whole Iberian peninsula) into turmoil? You use the experience to write a research paper about the ten principles needed for chemicals and chemistry resilience, of course.

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My ChemEng Career Path: Ahmad Ameer Mohamad

TCE talks to Ahmad Ameer Mohamad, an executive (technology delivery) at Petronas about how to bring lab experiments to-scale and what students gain from an IChemE membership

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The diagnostics challenge

Testing provides the essential information needed for key decisions such as when to relax lockdowns, but many countries including the UK are struggling with a shortage of diagnostics capacity.

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Managing Cybersecurity Risks

Tristan Hunter and Deaglan Gahan share some of the strategies to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity breaches

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Rules of Thumb: Scale-up

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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Who Will Win Your Vote in the Trustee Elections?

With voting set to close at 09:30 BST on 16 May, you are running out of time to help decide IChemE’s contested trustee elections. We asked the seven candidates to introduce themselves and their ambitions for IChemE.

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