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Thomas Midgley – A troubled legacy

From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley

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Looking to the future

What should we do to prevent the next process safety catastophe?

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Donald Campbell and colleagues – Fuelling a way of life

Fluid catalytic cracking has been called ‘the most revolutionary chemical engineering achievement of the early 20th century’. Claudia Flavell-While finds out why

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Andrew Grove – The Processor Engineer

Richard Jansen looks at the life and work of Andrew Grove, a founding father of the silicon age

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Victor Mills – A 'Pampered' Career

Claudia Flavell-While charts the contribution of P&G’s Victor Mills

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Reality Check

How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at Orema demonstrates his latest technology to Neil Clark

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Bob Gore – One Sudden Yank...

… for Bob Gore, one giant leap for outdoor lovers. Claudia Flavell-While looks at the history of Gore-Tex

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Yoshio Nishi – Power Player

Claudia Flavell-While speaks with Yoshio Nishi, the Sony engineer who led the development of the ubiquitous lithium ion battery

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Nathaniel Wyeth – Got a lot of bottle

Richard Jansen-Parkes looks into the life and times of Nathaniel Wyeth, inventor of the PET bottle

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Step Up and Share

As lessons emerge following the Grenfell Tower review, chemical engineers have a duty to share their process safety knowledge across other sectors

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Acid in the Sea – or How I Missed My First Million

More tales of chemical engineering, from Jimmy Hunter

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Drones: The End of the Rope?

Using drones to replace traditional rope-based visual inspections on offshore platforms

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Commercialising Carbon Capture and Storage

If CCS is to be successfully rolled out, investors will need large-scale transport and storage infrastructure in place

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Continuous Collaboration

The Chemical Engineer visits the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC)

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Sustainability, Efficiency Win at 2016 Awards

Johnson Matthew takes home top prize; Sime Darby, PETRONAS and the National University of Singapore also triumph

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Not Just a Pretty Smell

Matthew Styles and Marc Hutchby discuss using biotechnology to make terpenes, and turning them into useful products

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The New Nuclear Option

A renaissance is at hand: smaller nuclear reactors could soon come to an industrial site near you

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Francis Bacon – Future Fuel

Meet Francis ‘Tom’ Bacon, the father of the hydrogen fuel cell; Claudia Flavell-While writes

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Slide Rules at Dawn

IChemE members Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee go head-to-head in a fight for survival on UK television

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The Rum Diary

Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia

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