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Book Review: People, Planet, Profit: Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Businesses
Kit Oung; ISBN: 9781637421819; Business Expert Press; 2022; US$17.99
Type: Feature
Chemical campaigners warn against lagging UK restrictions
CONCERNS of a widening gap between the EU and UK on hazardous chemical regulation have emerged following the publication earlier this month of UK REACH's priorities for the upcoming financial year.
Type: News
Obituary of John Grace, one of the leading chemical engineers in Canada, known worldwide for his work in fluidisation and fluid-particle systems.
Type: News
Book Review: Recycling of Plastics
Norbert Niessner; ISBN: 9781569908563; Hanser Publications; 2022; US$249.99
Type: Feature
Worker found dead after an explosion at a pharmaceuticals plant in Massachusetts, US
A WORKER has been killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a pharmaceutical plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, US, decimating a building, and sending a vat flying nine metres into a parking lot. This is the facility’s third incident since 2020.
Type: News
Chemical Engineer - What's in a Name?
An occasional contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, Martin Pitt looks at the origins of the name Chemical Engineer
Type: Feature
Remembering Roger Brian Keey, a pioneer in drying technology and Chemeca Award winner
Roger Keey, a pioneer in drying science, died last year aged 89. Shusheng Pang, who went on to follow in Keey’s footsteps as director of Canterbury University’s Wood Technology Research Centre, and Timothy Langrish, who undertook undergraduate studies and a Postdoctoral Fellowship under Keey, look back at the groundbreaking work of their former colleague.
Type: Feature
Remaining Relevant in a Changing World
New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett
Type: Feature
We Are the Universal Engineers
Rosey Deverall talks about her roles in nuclear safety and decommissioning
Type: Feature
Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award
SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering Award for developing a digital twin of a crucial nuclear waste processing plant which has enabled them to radically improve its performance and extend the life of the facility.
Type: News
Sellafield Digital Twin Project Clinches Top IChemE Award
Adam Duckett reports from this year’s Awards ceremony
Type: Feature
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
Type: Feature
IChemE Fellows feature as experts in TV documentary about engineering safety
THREE IChemE Fellows will feature as experts in a new ten-part television documentary series about engineering safety incidents, to be aired on the UK Discovery Channel.
Type: News
UK government unveils £14.6bn alternative to Horizon Europe funding programme
THE UK government has published its “Pioneer” programme, a long-term strategy to support research and innovation in the UK should talks with the EU surrounding membership with the Horizon Europe scheme end in failure
Type: News
UK government announces a further £341m to speed up Sizewell C development
THE UK government has announced that it will provide an additional £341m (US$432m) to speed up preparations and make the Sizewell C nuclear site “shovel-ready”, as it seeks to create a new generation of nuclear power stations in the country.
Type: News
Royal Society launches fellowship to support underrepresented black researchers
THE Royal Society is piloting a Career Development Fellowship (CDF) aimed at kickstarting the research careers of groups underrepresented in UK STEM academia. The pilot will initially focus on researchers from black heritage backgrounds, but if successful, it may be broadened to researchers from other underrepresented groups, the Society said.
Type: News
UK's ambition to become leader in scientific development receives £473m funding boost
UK RESEARCHERS are set to benefit from the world’s most powerful electron microscope, a mass spectrometry research network, digital access to historic nature specimens, and access to a new US particle accelerator. All form part of a £473m (US$594.7m) funding boost from national funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Type: News
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
Unions hold on to hope as Tata Steel begins decommissioning Port Talbot blast furnace
TATA STEEL UK has begun decommissioning blast furnace 5 in Port Talbot, Wales. The closure, described as “the end of an era”, means unions have now switched their focus to safeguarding jobs and preventing a further blast furnace closure.
Type: News
