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Protecting Chemical Infrastructure: Navigating the Cyber-Threat Landscape
As cyber threats grow, engineers must integrate cybersecurity with process safety. To secure the future, chemical plants need a proactive, resilient approach. Black & Veatch’s Martine Chlela looks at what that entails
Type: Feature
Samson Yosef explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
Type: Feature
Book Review: Graphene – Important Results and Applications
George Wypych; ISBN: 978-1-927885-51-2; ChemTec Publishing; 2019; US$350
Type: Feature
Volunteer Spotlight: Roberto Moreno-Atanasio
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety
Type: Feature
Book Review: A Chemical Engineer in the Palm Oil Milling Industry
Hong Wai Onn; ISBN: 9789671818800; Hong Wai Onn; 2020; £9.37 (Amazon)
Type: Feature
Ian Scott discusses the development of the waste-burning stable salt reactor (SSR)
Type: Feature
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutical projects
Type: Feature
Roadtrip fuelled on whisky waste
PROCESS developers are celebrating a roadtrip fuelled by whisky waste.
Type: News
Biodiesel: The tip of the fatberg
A GIANT “fatberg” made of congealed insoluble matter will be converted into 10,000 L of biodiesel after it has been removed from a London sewer.
Type: News
Winners announced at eighth IChemE Singapore Awards
THE National University of Singapore (NUS), Shell and Croda were amongst the winners at the eighth IChemE Singapore Awards, held on 19 October at the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore.
Type: News
Fine investment: coal miner and oil trader invest in novel coal-to-fuel developer
VITOL and Peabody Energy have invested US$20m in a firm that has developed technology that it says will offer a cost-effective way of upgrading coal waste into oil and then blending it into fuels without using expensive liquefaction.
Type: News
Arkema and employees indicted for toxic cloud
ARKEMA, its CEO and the manager of the plant in Texas that caught fire after Hurricane Harvey battered the US last year, have been indicted for recklessly releasing chemicals.
Type: News
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a milestone step in seawater extraction of uranium.
Type: News
Vale ‘knew’ Brazil dam was at risk of collapse, report says
REUTERS says it has seen an internal document that shows that Vale knew last year that its dam in Brazil was at risk of collapse. The dam collapsed on 25 January in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and so far, 165 deaths have been confirmed whilst 155 remain missing.
Type: News
Improved process for making plastics from sulfur
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for the production of plastics from sulfur. This approach could provide a way of producing more environmentally friendly plastics, potentially with new applications.
Type: News
Brazil approves dam safety bill
THE Brazilian Senate has passed a bill to tighten dam safety, reports Reuters. This follows the collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil on 25 January. Since the collapse, 186 people have been confirmed dead whilst 122 people remain missing.
Type: News
Dual-polymer hydrogel can respond dynamically to its environment
A HYDROGEL has been developed that can bend, twist, or stick together when exposed to certain solutions, and could be used to create LEGO-style hydrogel blocks for microfluidics.
Type: News
Producing sustainable aviation fuel in the Netherlands
SUSTAINABLE aviation fuel supplier (SAF) SkyNRG will develop Europe’s first dedicated waste-to-fuel plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, capable of producing 100,000 t/y of SAF. A separate planned demonstration plant at Rotterdam The Hague Airport aims to use direct air capture to produce 1,000 L/d of fuel.
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
