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Snapshot – Birmingham takes the fifth
Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top spot again.
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Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane technology that can create emulsions with monodisperse droplets. The membrane has applications in a wide range of industries.
Type: Feature
The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to experts about what must be done to improve safety and prevent repeats
Type: News
An alternative CO2 capture process
SCIENTISTS at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US have developed a simple, alternative process that could be used to remove CO2 from coal-burning power plant emissions. The process requires 24% less energy than industrial benchmark techniques.
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Who owns what, what risks can arise, and how to protect your business.
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BRAZIL has decided to ban tailings dams built by the upstream method. The decision follows the fatal collapse of such a dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 25 January. So far 169 people have been reported dead and 141 people are missing.
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Employees arrested after Brazil dam breach
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of one of the company’s tailings dams on 25 January in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. BBC News reports that 17 employees have already been detained for questioning this month.
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Careers in Chemical Engineering: Bob Langer
Yasmin Ali interviews Bob Langer about his journey from playing with chemistry sets to pioneering drugs delivery systems
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Permian growth prompts Exxon to build third unit at Beaumont refinery
EXXONMOBIL has started building a third crude unit at its Beaumont refinery in Texas, US, in a move that will expand processing capacity by more than 65%.
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GO dough: transforming graphene oxide
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to turn graphene oxide into a mouldable dough, making it safer to transport and easier to work with.
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Update: Number killed in Brazil dam breach reaches 99
AFTER the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil, 99 people have been reported dead, 57 of whom have been identified. 257 people remain missing. The collapse occurred on 25 January.
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Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, about its efforts to accelerate process intensification
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What Have Chemical Engineers Been Earning in 2018?
IChemE members were asked to reveal the salaries and benefits they received in 2018, to develop the Institution’s understanding of the key trends in chemical engineers’ earnings. Data was gathered from countries with the highest concentration of IChemE members. More than 2,200 members took part in the survey in Australia, Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa and the UK.
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It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing processes, to reduce hazardous effects on the environment, and to ensure that we have sufficient natural resources for the future. Platinum group metals (PGMs) are widely used within consumer and industrial products, and include platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium and ruthenium. They occur naturally but are scarce and, therefore, highly valuable.
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev’s periodic table, biochemistry graduate Jane Stewart has created a periodic table using the technique of macramé
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IChemE releases report on the role of chemical engineering in the biosector
ICHEME’s BioFutures Steering Group has released a report with recommendations on how the Institution can better engage with chemical engineers in the emerging biosector as well as develop opportunities for growth.
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3D-printed sponge could reduce side effects of chemotherapy
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, have developed a 3D-printed ‘drug sponge’ which could help reduce the side effects of chemotherapy by absorbing excess drugs.
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Process Safety Models: Cheese, Chains or Cords?
Harvey Dearden offers an alternative to the 'Swiss cheese' model for representing process safety. The ‘suspended load’ might be considered as more complete in representing the idea of an integrated system.
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