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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
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
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
Type: Feature
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
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
