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IChemE medal winners announced
ENERGY experts and dedicated volunteers are among 26 chemical engineers being recognised by IChemE for outstanding contributions to the profession in industry and academia.
Type: News
Boksburg Blast Victims Deserve Investigation Report That is Not Buried
Forty-one people died when a road tanker exploded in the Boksburg suburb of Johannesburg in 2022. Process safety specialist Motlatsi Mabaso asks whether the lessons learned will ever be made public.
Type: Feature
Patents are not just for new processes. Changes to existing ones can also qualify for protection, says Michael Taylor
Type: Feature
LIVE Reporting from IChemE's Hazards34 Process Safety Conference
The final day of Hazards34 is now closed. You can read our full coverage below including our audio interviews with delegates and the key insights that safety experts have been sharing over the last three days.
Type: News
IChemE Safety Centre director wins Trevor Kletz Merit Award
TRISH Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has been awarded the Trevor Kletz Merit Award by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) in Texas.
Type: News
UK sets up centre to advise on critical minerals, amid warnings of supply risks
THE UK has established a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre in Nottingham to help the country and its industries secure the feedstocks needed to transition to net zero and boost business. Early reports have warned that the UK is particularly vulnerable to supplies of key minerals needed for green tech and heavy industry.
Type: News
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 rules invaluable for distillation troubleshooting
Type: Feature
Waste-to-methanol facility to be constructed at Port of Amsterdam
GIDARA Energy has announced that it will construct an advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam that will convert waste into methanol.
Type: News
Sasol appoints Wood as engineering partner
INTEGRATED chemicals and energy company Sasol has appointed Wood as its engineering partner in a five-year partnership framework agreement, under which Wood will support Sasol’s portfolio of assets in South Africa.
Type: News
Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing: An Evolving Industry
David Gemmell discusses how chemical engineers play their part in modern-day biopharma
Type: Feature
Partners build facility to test hydrogen transmission
NATIONAL Grid is partnering with gas distribution companies, safety organisations, and academia, to build a first-of-its-kind offline hydrogen test facility in the UK. The facility is expected to help understand how hydrogen gas could be used in future to heat homes and deliver green energy to industry.
Type: News
King’s speech draws fire from environmentalists as oil and gas claims branded “distraction tactics”
“IT SIMPLY won’t do what the prime minister claims,” said Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, after the king’s speech unveiled a planned bill to mandate annual oil and gas licensing in the North Sea.
Type: News
Martin Killcross; ISBN: 9780128240496; Butterworth-Heinemann; 2021; £99
Type: Feature
LSC member quits over climate change concerns
TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Institution’s position on climate change is too weak. In response, LSC Chair Jarka Glassey has said that IChemE is materially taking action to help members address climate change and that a formal position formed through wider consultation with members will take time to develop.
Type: News
Cleantech uses ‘reversable rusting’ to develop 100-hour battery
A MASSACHUSETTS energy firm has developed an iron-based battery that can store electricity for four days using a novel method called “reverse rusting”.
Type: News
BP helps to ‘future proof’ students’ skills
BP has launched the Skills Refinery, an online global portal developed to help improve student employability. In addition, a global challenge will be instituted in which the inaugural winning team will win a trip to the 2019 One Young World Summit in London.
Type: News
A shot of whisky and some chemical feedstocks please
WHISKY waste could provide high-value feedstocks such as lactic acid for the pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries as researchers push to scale up a separations process.
Type: News
