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Making the Grade: Assessing the Assessment Capabilities of ChatGPT-3

Peter Neal and Sarah Grundy put ChatGPT to the test to understand how it can reshape education

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Johnson Matthey and bp license process to make jet fuel from farm waste at US$4bn plant

JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) and bp have licensed their Fischer-Tropsch process to a huge new US$4bn US plant that will turn agricultural waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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UK government must do more to avert worrying outlook for UK chemicals sector, think tank warns

TENS of thousands of jobs in the UK chemical sector are at risk due to lagging decarbonisation policies, including a lack of support for industrial electrification, a think tank has warned.

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Site Inductions: Giving Visitors What They Need

Fed up with being bombarded with irrelevant information, Harvey Dearden says site inductions should be approached from the perspective of the visitor rather than as a company disclaimer “get out of jail free” card

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Carbon Capture or Kettle Smart?

Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions than CCS.

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Hydrogen as a Fuel for Gas Turbines

The journey towards developing a 100% hydrogen-fuelled Gas Turbine

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Turning Points for IX

John Bewsey describes a new ion exchange process for cleaning up acid mines and brackish water

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Next-generation Predictive Tools for Multiphase Systems

Omar Matar explains how researchers are combining machine learning and physics-driven approaches in multiphase systems to develop open-source toolkits for the wider community

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Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering

Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett

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Mammoth undertaking: Climeworks starts up world’s largest direct air capture plant

THE world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant – Mammoth – has started operations in Iceland where it is working to draw 36,000 t/y of CO2 from the atmosphere.

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Mammoth Undertaking

As Climeworks starts up the world’s largest direct air capture plant, Adam Duckett looks at the engineering challenges involved

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How to Size and Rate Horizontal Three-Phase Separators

Separation is used in almost every oil and gas process. But how do you size or rate a separator and what fundamental principles should be applied?

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How to Model Accidents

Consequence analysis is extremely useful for informing designers and operators of hazardous facilities – if understood and used appropriately

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Solving the Right Problems

Process modelling has come (and will continue to go) a long way

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Producing Graphene at Scale

The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale

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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Then and Now

Geoff Gill reviews how the accident played out, and the huge engineering challenges involved in making the site safe

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A matter of cost

The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to experts about what must be done to improve safety and prevent repeats

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An Integrated Approach to Process Design and Plant Automation

Oil refining, chemical, and petrochemical companies are continuously seeking new ways to optimise, de-risk, and accelerate capital projects.

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Better by Design

Quality by design must be viewed as an opportunity, not as a regulatory burden

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Delta HAZOP: Revalidation and Focus on Major Accident Hazards

Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the UK, which won IChemE’s 2019 Global Award for Process Safety

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