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OVER 3,200 members participated in this year’s IChemE salary and member satisfaction survey. They hailed from our top 11 member countries – the UK, Malaysia, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, India, Canada, United Arab Emirates and the US.
Type: Feature
Wind turbine pioneers Stiesdal and Garrad win 2024 QEPrize
HENRIK STIESDAL and Andrew Garrad have been awarded the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for their pioneering work designing and optimising wind turbines.
Type: News
New catalyst makes propylene production more efficient
A SINGLE-atom catalyst has been developed that that can lower the carbon footprint of propylene production through increased selectivity and lower temperatures.
Type: News
Sir David Harrison, an educationalist who co-published leading literature on fluidisation, died on 27 March, aged 92.
Type: News
Pilbara Minerals raises US$62.7m in equity
AUSTRALIAN lithium mining company Pilbara Minerals has raised A$91.5m (US$62.7m) in equity. The total amount includes an agreement with China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), an energy storage company, for A$55m in exchange for an 8.5% stake.
Type: News
Flow Batteries: Chemicals Operations that Promise Grid-Scale Storage
Adam Duckett speaks to flow battery innovators about the history of the technology and what’s to come
Type: Feature
Volunteer Spotlight: Clare Sheppard
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
The age of industry using carbon dioxide as a resource begins
COVESTRO’S Dream Production project achieved a key milestone in June as it started commercial production of plastics using ‘waste’ CO2 captured from a nearby chemical plant in Germany.
Type: Feature
The £300 Industrial Secret that Changed the World
Martin Pitt looks at how acquiring gunpowder know-how shaped the world as we know it
Type: Feature
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
Starting Out: Oil and Gas in the Age of the Energy Transition
Continuing our series from the IChemE National Early Careers Group profiling early career opportunities in different sectors
Type: Feature
Continuing the IChemE National Early Careers Group series profiling early career opportunities in different sectors
Type: Feature
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
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
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
Distilling Knowledge: distillation improvement opportunities
Type: White Paper
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
