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Employees re-arrested after fatal Brazil dam collapse
ACCORDING to Reuters, last week a Brazilian court ordered the arrest of 11 Vale employees and two contractors from safety inspector TÜV SÜD. These workers had assessed the safety of a dam which collapsed in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil on 25 January.
Type: News
Vale knew Brazil dam was unstable more than a decade before collapse, says report
ACCORDING to the summary of a report by an independent consulting committee created by Vale, the mining company knew as far back as 2003 about the safety issues at a Brazil dam which fatally collapsed last year. Additionally, it knew that a collapse of the structure could lead to a high number of deaths but took insufficient measures to mitigate impacts.
Type: News
Transforming Innovation for Startups
JMP discusses how Design of Experiments (DOE) can help startups bring new and better products to customers faster than their competitors.
Type: Feature
Final report into 2019 PES fire released
THE FINAL report into a massive fire and subsequent explosions that took place in June 2019 at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been released by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB).
Type: News
Partners to develop and commercialise polysaccharide technology
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and commercialese DuPont’s technology for producing engineered polysaccharides.
Type: News
Removing oil from produced water
A PROCESS has been developed that can remove nearly all traces of oil in produced water.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Olivia Sweeney
Yasmin Ali interviews Olivia Sweeney about how chemical engineering led her to a career with cosmetics firm Lush
Type: Feature
UK announces £16.6m funding to bolster semiconductor innovation for green technologies
THE UK’s semiconductor industry is set to benefit from a £16.6m (US$21m) cash injection that will give them access to new equipment to develop semiconductors for green technologies.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Chris Jansen
Yasmin Ali speaks to Worley's Chris Jansen about his work in robotics strategies development, helping the business get the most out of robotics across the energy, chemicals and resources sectors.
Type: Feature
New IChemE President focusses on systems thinking and the big picture for process safety
STEPHEN RICHARDSON, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, has been appointed as the 79th President of IChemE.
Type: News
ExxonMobil will invest US$1bn expanding UK refinery
EXXONMOBIL has made a final investment decision to spend more than US$1bn expanding its Fawley refinery in the UK.
Type: News
Stored heat from the sun can provide energy on demand
ENGINEERS at MIT, US, have developed a chemical composite that can store heat from the sun during the day and release it again on demand when it is needed.
Type: News
South Africa unveils 2030 power plan
SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) on the country’s energy generation up to 2030. The IRP aims to diversify the energy mix while attempting to address the serious problem of insufficient energy capacity.
Type: News
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
Type: Feature
UNIST to develop better seawater battery
Cheap batteries have green energy storage potential
Type: News
100+ partners commit to the Circular Plastics Alliance
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the Declaration of the Circular Plastics Alliance, thereby joining the EU-wide movement to increase recycling and the EU’s uptake of recycled plastics by 2025.
Type: News
Book Review: Trevor Kletz Compendium: His Process Safety Wisdom Updated for a New Generation
Andy Brazier, David Edwards, Fiona Macleod, Craig Skinner, Ivan Vince; ISBN: 9780128194478; Elsevier; 2021; £78.15
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Lina Aglén
Yasmin Ali interviews Lina Aglén, Lead Engineer at FairHeat
Type: Feature
