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GPS pioneers win prestigious QEPrize
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GPS – have won this year’s Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize).
Type: News
BASF to build two plastics plants at proposed site in China
BASF is to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) plant at a proposed integrated chemical production site in Zhanjiang, China. The plants will be the first to begin production at the site, which is to become BASF’s third-largest site worldwide.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 4: Tuning a PID Controller
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Type: Feature
Better Safe Than Sorry (Whatever Safe Is)
Trevor J Hughes on why reducing risk will only come from engineers challenging cringeworthy ‘management speak’ and improving public understanding of consequence
Type: Feature
BASF strengthens R&D capabilities with a more powerful supercomputer
BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany, which it says is the largest in the world used for industrial chemical research. The 3-petaflop supercomputer takes over for a 1.75 petaflop predecessor, offering more capacity and computing to allow increasingly complex modelling, virtual experiments, and simulations.
Type: News
Cleaner Cleaners: Creating More Sustainable Surfactants
Widely recognised for the part they play in keeping things clean, surfactants act as a key component in detergents, personal care, and healthcare products. Amanda Jasi spoke to innovators working to devise and establish novel green production routes
Type: Feature
Poll: Engineers warn sale of UK vaccine centre risks health security and industry innovation
ENGINEERS have hit out at the UK Government’s reported plans to sell off the country’s emergency vaccine manufacturing facility, cautioning that a sale to private business will damage skills and scale-up opportunities, and the UK’s ability to react to future health emergencies.
Type: News
Solar paint turns wall into a fuel station
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint, thanks to a novel hydrogen-production system developed by researchers at Australia’s RMIT University.
Type: News
BP, Shell lead energy trading blockchain plan
A CONSORTIUM including energy companies BP, Shell and Statoil is developing a blockchain-based digital platform for energy commodities trading.
Type: News
Landmark Piper Alpha Cullen report now free to download
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), after IChemE lobbied to have the fee waived.
Type: News
Shell resumes production at massive floating LNG plant
SHELL has resumed production of LNG from its huge floating processing plant – Prelude – following a series of project setbacks that halted output for almost a year.
Type: News
Gordon Lawrence explains how to get your maintenance turnaround off on the right foot
Type: Feature
IChemE’s top journal reviewers recognised at WCCE10
A CEREMONY has been held in Spain to celebrate the top reviewers of IChemE’s journals.
Type: News
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the technologies available to decarbonise non-power sectors
Type: Feature
The importance of materials efficiency in the fight against the climate crisis
Type: Feature
Amanda Doyle speaks to Rahul Shendure about innovations for lower-emissions cement and storing CO2 in concrete
Type: Feature
Presidential Review: Restating and Reinvigorating IChemE
Ken Rivers reflects on his 18 months as IChemE President
Type: Feature
IChemE announces 2021 Malaysia Awards winners
SUSTAINABLE and digital innovations came out on top at IChemE’s 2021 Malaysia Awards, hosted virtually on 1 October.
Type: News
US to label cleaner construction materials to accelerate use of greener glass, concrete, and steel
THE AMOUNT of carbon embedded in construction materials could soon become much easier to spot thanks to the US government’s push to introduce labels that will bolster the use of greener steel, concrete, and glass.
Type: News
