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Refinery Safety Failures – Attitude or Engineering?
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
Type: Feature
Pollution Protection for the People
In the second of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute to society, Clare Sheppard shares her work on urban air quality in Australia
Type: Feature
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 rules invaluable for distillation troubleshooting
Type: Feature
Chemical Plants: Surviving the Coronavirus Storm
Joan Cordiner looks at how operations have adapted to the pandemic
Type: Feature
Moving the Dial to Decarbonise
David Wong and colleagues discuss how the world’s aluminium smelters could enable the rapid uptake of renewables in global power systems
Type: Feature
IChemE Sets Out Stance on Climate Change
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process through which it was established
Type: Feature
Zsuzsanna Gyenes makes the case for the much-maligned energy source
Type: Feature
The future of energy needs chemical engineers, and lots of them, say Jacob Brown, Titi Oliyide, Laurent Petithuguenin, and James Sweeney
Type: Feature
Gordon Lawrence discusses the importance of prescriptive scope criteria in a turnaround premise document
Type: Feature
Controlling Your Maintenance Turnaround Scope, from Kick-Off to Closeout
Gordon Lawrence discusses the need to keep scope to a manageable size and avoid excessive scope growth.
Type: Feature
Teaching: Educating Chemical Engineers on Digitalisation
Esther Ventura-Medina, Joanne Tanner and Brent Young explain why digital literacy is so important
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
The Engineering Mindset Part 2: Complex or Complicated? What Defines A Complex System?
Using the petrochemicals industry, Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how a complexity-based approach provides a critically different perspective and insight that can be applied to pretty much any sector, market, or organisation
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett speaks to the University of Warwick researchers who are recoding microbes into competitive chemical factories
Type: Feature
Starbons offers new method of carbon capture
New approach is greener as it is made from waste
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Judy Raper
Yasmin Ali speaks to Judy Raper, Dean and CEO of TEDI-London, a startup providing engineering higher education in London.
Type: Feature
Policies essential for hydrogen to reduce global emissions, says BNEF
NET-ZERO goals and policies are needed to allow hydrogen to help address hard-to-abate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce global emissions by up to a third, according to global study and research company BloombergNEF (BNEF).
Type: News
Partnership to develop large-scale decarbonisation project in the Humber
PHILLIPS 66, Uniper, and Vitol have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Humber Zero, a decarbonisation project that will initially remove 8m t/y of carbon dioxide (CO2), with the potential to increase to 30m t/y. The project is part of efforts to transform the Humber region into the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040.
Type: News
