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OSU researchers secure funding to explore white hydrogen in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) researchers have secured shale-backed funding to investigate the state’s natural hydrogen reserves.

Type: News

Rules of Thumb: Vapour Pressure and Viscosity Equations

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

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

Let's Talk Nuclear

Zsuzsanna Gyenes makes the case for the much-maligned energy source

Type: Feature

A Life in Lithium

The future of energy needs chemical engineers, and lots of them, say Jacob Brown, Titi Oliyide, Laurent Petithuguenin, and James Sweeney

Type: Feature

Turnaround Scope Optimisation

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

Full-bore Biotech

Adam Duckett speaks to the University of Warwick researchers who are recoding microbes into competitive chemical factories

Type: Feature

The Process Scaleup Journey Part 1: From Innovation to Commercialisation

CPI has helped over 1,000 businesses bridge the gap from beaker to bulk but scaling up isn’t as simple as making it bigger – it’s where many innovations falter. In this first article of a new series, CPI’s Alex Smith explores the key questions every team should ask before they scale up

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The Process Scaleup Journey Part 2: Using Modelling to De-risk Scaleup

CPI has helped over 1,000 businesses bridge the gap from beaker to bulk. In the second in the series, Kristi Potter explains why starting smaller can lead to smarter choices, lower costs and better control

Type: Feature

Refinery Safety Failures – Attitude or Engineering?

How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents

Type: Feature

Starbons offers new method of carbon capture

New approach is greener as it is made from waste

Type: News

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

Rules of Thumb: Distillation

Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 rules invaluable for distillation troubleshooting

Type: Feature

Old King Coal Part 1: Coal Fuel

In this new series, Martin Pitt outlines coal’s historic place, first as the basis for solid fuels, then gaseous fuels, chemicals, colours and pharmaceuticals

Type: Feature