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Energy Saviours: Part 5

Tom Baxter looks at the parasitic load challenge of CCS

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Documenting Your Turnaround Estimate

Gordon Lawrence discusses the value of a basis of estimate document for a maintenance turnaround team

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Are You Best in Class at Process Safety Management?

Jack Wishart discusses how benchmarking can be used to measure and drive improvements in process safety performance in the energy industry

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Step on the Gas (Storage)

David Simmonds asks how do we achieve energy security and what’s the role of gas storage?

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Put on Your 3D Glasses

Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over the next 5–10 years

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The £300 Industrial Secret that Changed the World

Martin Pitt looks at how acquiring gunpowder know-how shaped the world as we know it

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A Tool for Learning: Classroom Use-cases for Generative AI

Christopher Honig, Shannon Rios and Eduardo Oliveira offer three exercises that teachers can use to help their students get to grips with ChatGPT

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How to Assess Functional Safety

Achieve safer, more efficient and more transparent projects whilst reducing project cost and overrun

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How to Measure Powder Flow

Understanding powder testing techniques and their application

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How to Reduce Human Failure

THERE is a recurring number that despite magnificent developments in technical safety doesn’t seem to go away. That number is 80, and it relates to the percentage of incidents that in some way has been contributed to by a human. It is a recurring average across industry and in different settings. Looking on the bright side, it means that there is huge scope to make a significant improvement.

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The chemical sector and its digital journey

THERE has been a lot of media attention regarding the term Industry 4.0, what it means, and how it will revolutionise manufacturing in terms of flexibility, productivity, efficiency and customer interaction.

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Sixty Years and Going Strong

Celebrating six decades of UCD Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering

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Three Problems and the Nanoscale Solution

Functional nanomaterials could tackle some of the world’s biggest problems

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About the Size of It

Can CO2 utilisation play a role in climate change mitigation?

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Diversification

Or how to create opportunities in the oil and gas industry

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Interreg FCE – Funding Cross-Channel Collaboration

Funding up for grabs for Anglo-French projects

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Process Safety Models: Cheese, Chains or Cords?

Harvey Dearden offers an alternative to the 'Swiss cheese' model for representing process safety. The ‘suspended load’ might be considered as more complete in representing the idea of an integrated system.

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Limits of LOPA

Limitations and misuse of layers of protection analysis

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The Basis of Safety

Why your plant is safe, and how to maintain it

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The New Normal

Don’t let your organisation drift into failure through normalisation of deviance

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