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Worker killed in Texas chemicals plant fire
ONE worker has been killed and two seriously injured in a chemicals plant fire in Texas, US.
Type: News
Briar Chemicals fined £1m following fatal accident
BRIAR Chemicals has been fined £1m (US$1.4m) following the death of a contractor at its site in Norwich, UK, in 2018.
Type: News
Husky receives approval for refinery rebuild
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400m rebuild of its refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, US. Work is to begin immediately.
Type: News
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capability
Type: Feature
Carry on Teaching: Higher Education During a Pandemic
Amanda Jasi surveys students and teachers to understand how Covid-19 has impacted university life and how successful the forced changes have been
Type: Feature
Steel’s New Chapter in the Race to Go Green
As blast furnaces fall silent, new technologies promise a greener future for steel. But as Sam Baker reports, the challenge is as much about people and places as it is about engineering
Type: Feature
RESEARCHERS at MIT have developed a novel method for epoxide synthesis which could offer a safer and more sustainable alternative.
Type: News
ARTHUR Lindsay Mallen, a keen mentor to both young and not-so-young professionals and a longstanding and highly respected volunteer for IChemE in Australia, has died aged 91.
Type: News
Brazil dam collapse prosecutors investigate collusion
THE lead prosecutor investigating the cause of the fatal dam collapse at a mine in Brazil has alleged that collusion between the operator and auditor compromised safety and allowed dangerous conditions at the dam to go unaddressed.
Type: News
How can the oil majors best measure energy transition and routes to net zero?
Type: Feature
IChemE’s New Major Hazards Management Agenda
IChemE groups will speak with one voice, says Margaret Donnan
Type: Feature
Five Questions for Kwasi Kwarteng about the UK's Hydrogen Strategy
Tom Baxter asks five questions about the UK Government's new Hydrogen Strategy.
Type: Feature
Rules of Thumb: Centrifugal Pump Efficiency
Tom Baxter looks at how focusing on fluid efficiency can maximise cost savings while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Type: Feature
Creating useful products from desalination waste
ENGINEERS at MIT, US have proposed a method that could use desalination waste to produce useful chemicals, including chemicals that can make desalination more efficient. This could potentially provide an economically and ecologically beneficial method for the disposal of desalination waste.
Type: News
Researchers inject vegetables with melatonin using microneedles to extend shelf life
RESEARCHERS from the US and Singapore have developed a method to extend the shelf life of vegetables by injecting them with biodegradable microneedles containing the hormone melatonin.
Type: News
FDB boosts contract drug production five-fold
Joins Merck at Brinny site in commercial-scale play
Type: News
Beverly Coulter explains how she introduces process engineering concepts to new undergrads via the Chocolate Chip Cookie Challenge
Type: Feature
