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Testing the Metal

Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research

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Bulk Solids Handling: Perspective on a Professional Blind Spot

A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids handling and asks how can we get it right

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Materials: Making a Positive Difference

Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of our clothes

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Ethics Series - For the People: By the People

Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science

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Rules of Thumb: Scale-up

In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale-up from an equipment-based viewpoint using the example of agitated tanks

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How to Use Bow Tie Diagrams

Bow-tie diagrams can extract valuable information from HIRA reports and make good use of it in ongoing process safety management

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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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Continuous Collaboration

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

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Avoiding Modelling 'Magic Pressure Rises'

The importance of setup and critical validation of process simulation software

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Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?

How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vaccines

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A Battery Olympics

Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technologies together. Hugh Sutherland, Head of Development at ZapGo speaks to Neil Clark

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Reflections on Banqiao

On the anniversary of the Banqiao Dam disaster of 1975, Fiona Macleod reflects on a visit to the area where an estimated 230,000 people drowned

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The Chemical Engineer: A Retrospective

Jamie Cleaver journeys through the life of TCE, exploring its contribution to our technical challenges, our professional identity and our community, amid massive scientific developments, societal changes, and a few changes in style

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Prescriptive Goal Setting

I HOPE the following will not be perceived as a rant; I have no wish to offend with an intemperate polemic, but hope rather to catalyse useful debate by reporting two illustrative cases where there was an exchange of views with the regulator. Both cases relate to hazardous area installations, but that is really beside the point. There are wider questions here.

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Keeping Safety in Mind

THE paramount importance of good safety performance is a message we need to continue to hammer home to our chemical engineering students, and since my last article (The Chemical Engineer 899), I have been involved in a number of discussions on how we teach safety at Loughborough University.

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Talking Sense

Webinar series established to promote women in engineering

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Let it Rain

Research is underway to enhance cloud seeding - in a bid to boost freshwater supplies

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Join Us

The work of IChemE's Forms of Contract Committee, and how you can get involved.

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Imagine Chemistry: a New Kind of Innovation Challenge for an Industry that Needs Shaking Up

AkzoNobel is calling on chemical engineers to enter its R&D challenge and help provide the missing ingredient needed to boost company innovation

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Funding Available for Sellafield Cleanup Innovators

Sellafield Ltd is seeking game-changing solutions from chemical and process engineers to address the challenges of post operational clean out of nuclear plants.

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