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Hundreds hospitalised after styrene gas leak in India
A GAS leak at an Indian chemical factory has killed at least 11 people and hospitalised hundreds. The styrene tanks had been left unattended due to India’s coronavirus lockdown.
Type: News
One killed in Chinese petrochemical plant fire
ONE person was killed by a fire which broke out at an ethylene glycol facility belonging to the state-owned China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), say news reports.
Type: News
Embracing the Challenges of Ethical Engineering
Robert Peeling, chair of IChemE’s Congress, recounts the ethical lessons he has learned throughout his career and offers a selection of ethical exercises for you to undertake individually or with your teams
Type: Feature
A Circular Economy for Plastics
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
Type: Feature
How the various aspects of theory are essential in arriving at a reactor design in practice.
Type: Feature
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
Type: Feature
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie Gilmour
Type: Feature
Engineers publish £22bn blueprint for UK to take global lead on hydrogen heating
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydrogen production, distribution and storage system that would create the world’s largest CO2 reduction project. If realised it would decarbonise 14% of UK heat by 2034, and all told cost £22.7bn.
Type: News
Ahead of the coming Trustee elections, we asked the six candidates to introduce themselves and share their views on IChemE and its future roles
Type: Feature
Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top prize at the IChemE Global Awards 2018, held in Manchester UK on 1 November.
Type: News
An Integrated Approach to Process Design and Plant Automation
Oil refining, chemical, and petrochemical companies are continuously seeking new ways to optimise, de-risk, and accelerate capital projects.
Type: Feature
BASF uses waste tyre oil as feedstock
BASF has signed an agreement with New Energy, a Hungarian technology company which has developed a rubber waste pyrolysis process, to use New Energy’s pyrolysis oil as feedstock at a chemical production site as well as to carry out a joint feasibility study.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 1: Introduction
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Type: Feature
Ethics Series: A Circle of Trust
Joan Cordiner discusses the world of professional ethics
Type: Feature
IChemE Matters: Chartered members earn more, survey shows
Chartered members significantly outearn their non-chartered peers according to the findings from IChemE’s latest salary survey
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Type: Feature
Making the Grade: Assessing the Assessment Capabilities of ChatGPT-3
Peter Neal and Sarah Grundy put ChatGPT to the test to understand how it can reshape education
Type: Feature
Shell joins W2C Rotterdam project
SHELL has partnered with world-leading companies to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals (W2C) facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The project represents an important step towards a more sustainable chemical industry and a circular economy.
Type: News
Researchers achieve commercially attractive carbon capture with a MOF
CHEMICAL engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland have, for the first time, achieved commercially-attractive carbon capture with a metal-organic framework (MOF).
Type: News
