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IChemE releases ChERD Centenary Special
In a centenary special issue of the journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design, experts offer their views on the future of separations, 3D-printing, CFD and much more besides.
Type: Feature
Continuous Improvement for the Process Industry
Ian Madden explains how to tell if continuous improvement is happening in your organisation
Type: Feature
TODAY is International Women in Engineering Day, and while 16% of engineering students are female, women still only make up 9% of the engineering workforce in the UK, according to the Women’s Engineering Society. So are girls giving up on STEM during education, rather than pursuing a career in industry? How can female engineering students stay motivated?
Type: News
BASF commercially produces metal-organic frameworks for CO2 capture in world first
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hundred tons per year, after completing a scaleup project on behalf of CO2 capture and removal company Svante Technologies.
Type: News
New MOF makes plastic manufacturing more energy efficient
RESEARCHERS have developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing iron-peroxo (Fe2(O2)) sites which could reduce the amount of energy required for extracting ethylene, the key ingredient in polyethylene plastic.
Type: News
Martin Pitt looks back on the history of drinking water and chemical engineers’ contribution to it
Type: Feature
IChemE announces results of Congress elections
IChemE has announced the names of 32 volunteers who have been elected to the new member advisory body.
Type: News
Bayer pays US$10bn to settle Roundup cancer lawsuits
BAYER has announced a US$10bn settlement for thousands of lawsuits claiming that that its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer.
Type: News
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order for the country to rejoin the Paris Agreement, along with other orders intended to confront the climate crisis and attempt to “undo the damage” of the last four years.
Type: News
Integrating Capital Projects into a Turnaround Event
Early, timely input and support is key, says Gordon Lawrence
Type: Feature
Wood secures SABIC engineering design contract
WOOD has secured a contract with SABIC to design a world-class petrochemicals research centre in Saudi Arabia.
Type: News
One dead in Spain chemical plant explosion
AN explosion at a small chemicals plant in Barcelona, Spain has killed one and injured 13 others, according to reports.
Type: News
The Pharmaceutical Industry: Engineering Frustrations
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineers, and suggest a new model to provide patients greater access to medicines
Type: Feature
A Lego Technic Cupcake Production Line
In the third of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute to society, Peter Swanson shares his experiences of getting schoolchildren into chemical engineering
Type: Feature
Ahead of the coming Trustee elections, we asked the six candidates to introduce themselves and share their ambitions for IChemE
Type: Feature
Engineers urge UK action on sewage to guard against sickness outbreaks
IMMEDIATE action to bolster maintenance of the sewage system and sensors to allow real-time monitoring of water quality are among engineering experts’ recommendations to reduce the risk of harmful organisms polluting UK’s waterways and making people sick.
Type: News
Operations suspended at Barrick gold mine
Spilled process solution caused temporary shutdown
Type: News
Noor Al-Rifai and Rene Holm look at the use of nanosuspensions as long-acting injectables
Type: Feature
Employees removed following Brazil dam collapse
FOLLOWING the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam the company has decided to remove several employees from office and forbid others from performing “dam safety monitoring and/or risk management activities”.
Type: News
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Type: Feature
