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Phil Eames: Process Safety Trainer
Phil Eames recounts ICI’s response to the Piper Alpha tragedy and offers up a video that all young engineers and managers should watch
Type: Feature
Malcolm Banks: Safety Technologist
Robots, big data, wearables, and rig-floor automation are being developed for a transformative boost in offshore safety
Type: Feature
Water for the pharmaceutical industry
IChemE’s Water Special Interest Group (SIG) celebrated 30 years of existence at its Water for the Pharmaceutical Industry event held at Veolia Water Technologies in Stoke on Trent, UK.
Type: Feature
Are Your Preventive Maintenance Routines Effective?
Michael Dixey and Pete Hibbs outline ways to optimise preventive maintenance routines
Type: Feature
Solving a serious environmental problem on a maleic anhydride plant
Type: Feature
Prime Minister tours Imperial's carbon capture pilot plant
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May visited Imperial College London’s carbon capture pilot plant along with Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry. Chemical engineering academics and students recount the success of the visit.
Type: Feature
Condemnation as Trump Quits Climate Pact
Fears move could harm industry, investment & jobs
Type: News
Chemical synthesis of a retina, and how it can ‘see’ the world around it
Type: Feature
Kenneth Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.
Type: Feature
Who is Running Your Plant at 3 AM?
Safety experts John Bresland and Ian Travers review the recruitment and training of process staff from around the world.
Type: Feature
Managing ALARP in Major Engineering Projects
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
Type: Feature
With the rapid growth in chemical engineering student intake, we need to think carefully, and quickly, about what we teach them
Type: Feature
Carbon Capture and Storage: Are We There Yet?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
Type: Feature
A collaborative project is underway to develop technology and expertise in concentrated solar power.
Type: Feature
Is Spider-Man Just a Big Gecko?
How introducing a biomimetic engineering course at the University of Canterbury led to unexpected research on the ‘existence’ of Spider-Man
Type: Feature
Avoiding Modelling 'Magic Pressure Rises'
The importance of setup and critical validation of process simulation software
Type: Feature
Stripping Ammonia in Anaerobic Digesters
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Type: Feature
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
Type: Feature
Securing a Safe Future for Gas
Hydrogen: a way to provide safe, sustainable and clean energy to satisfy rising demand and meet carbon emission reduction targets?
Type: Feature
