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Breaking Hiring Habits

Helen Ramsay on how STEM Returners helped her build a high-performing, diverse engineering team

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Flixborough 50 Years On: Application of Inherent Safety Principles to Plant Design

Steven Murphy and Graham Ackroyd look at how applying Trevor Kletz’s concept of inherent safety avoids rather than controls hazards

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Helping Students make the most of IChemE Resources

Chemical engineering students Deborah Olowu and Sofiya Hajaludin spent a year with IChemE working as interns. Here, they share their experiences and outline the wealth of resources available to student members of IChemE

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New alliance combatting environmental plastic waste

NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and ExxonMobil, have formed an alliance to combat plastic waste. Announced yesterday in London, UK the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) aims to reduce plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean.

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Siempelkamp develops new process for nuclear decontamination

A PROCESS for the chemical decontamination of nuclear reactor cooling systems has been developed by Germany’s Siempelkamp NIS Ingenieurgesellschaft, which improves safety for workers and allows for metals to be recycled.

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Hundreds hospitalised after styrene gas leak in India

A GAS leak at an Indian chemical factory has killed at least 11 people and hospitalised hundreds. The styrene tanks had been left unattended due to India’s coronavirus lockdown.

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One killed in Chinese petrochemical plant fire

ONE person was killed by a fire which broke out at an ethylene glycol facility belonging to the state-owned China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), say news reports.

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Neste studies plastic waste processing facility

AS IT works to commercialise chemical recycling of plastic waste, Neste is conducting a feasibility study as it considers investing in liquefied waste plastic processing capacity at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.

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Embracing the Challenges of Ethical Engineering

Robert Peeling, chair of IChemE’s Congress, recounts the ethical lessons he has learned throughout his career and offers a selection of ethical exercises for you to undertake individually or with your teams

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How to Design a Reactor

How the various aspects of theory are essential in arriving at a reactor design in practice.

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A Circular Economy for Plastics

What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses

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Given Agency

With hands-on placements and a new graduate scheme, the Environment Agency is giving chemical engineering students real-world experience – and a clearer sense of how their degrees make a difference, writes Sam Baker

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Palm Oil: Better with Enzymes

How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient

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Net Zero and Safety

Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie Gilmour

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Who Will Win Your Vote?

Ahead of the coming Trustee elections, we asked the six candidates to introduce themselves and share their views on IChemE and its future roles

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Engineers publish £22bn blueprint for UK to take global lead on hydrogen heating

ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydrogen production, distribution and storage system that would create the world’s largest CO2 reduction project. If realised it would decarbonise 14% of UK heat by 2034, and all told cost £22.7bn.

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An Integrated Approach to Process Design and Plant Automation

Oil refining, chemical, and petrochemical companies are continuously seeking new ways to optimise, de-risk, and accelerate capital projects.

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BASF uses waste tyre oil as feedstock

BASF has signed an agreement with New Energy, a Hungarian technology company which has developed a rubber waste pyrolysis process, to use New Energy’s pyrolysis oil as feedstock at a chemical production site as well as to carry out a joint feasibility study.

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Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards

A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top prize at the IChemE Global Awards 2018, held in Manchester UK on 1 November.

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Practical Process Control Part 1: Introduction

Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes

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