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The challenges of managing interfaces and integration at a complex, world-scale refinery and petrochemicals project.
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With water accessibility increasingly under threat, technology leads the mining industry's efforts towards water-free mining
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Introducing your nominees for IChemE’s 2018 trustee vacancies
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A guide to avoiding some of the most common mistakes in pressure relief system design
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Food and Drink: Learning from Others
Contractors are borrowing techniques from the petchem, pharma and auto in-dustries to help food and drink re-establish itself in manufacturing
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How a new process to recycle carbon fibre composites led to a race-ready kayak
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Accelerating Progress on Hydrogen Fuel Cells
A hydrogen-powered society is possible - with a little help from our engineers
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WE ALL know that chemical engineering is the “boundaryless profession”. Our industry improves processes in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, food and drink, energy, consumer goods, petrochemical, inorganic chemical and plastics industries, and so enhances the lives of billions of people all over the world.
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Carbon capture and storage costs money, so why bother? On the CCS Safari, Helen Tunnicliffe found out
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Neil Clark ventures inside University of Nottingham’s new green chemicals hub
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What Have Chemical Engineers Been Earning in 2018?
IChemE members were asked to reveal the salaries and benefits they received in 2018, to develop the Institution’s understanding of the key trends in chemical engineers’ earnings. Data was gathered from countries with the highest concentration of IChemE members. More than 2,200 members took part in the survey in Australia, Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa and the UK.
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Wanted: More Efficient Heat Exchange
Imagine if heat exchange of process fluids in an industrial setting was as simple as boiling a jug of water. We all know the process is not as simple as that, and companies can experience a raft of different issues and challenges that require new and innovative technical solutions. That’s what keeps chemical engineers in business.
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C-Capture started as a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK in 2009 and is now working on the carbon capture project at Drax Power Station in Yorkshire. I spoke to Chris Rayner, founder of C-Capture, about the company’s environmentally friendly solvent technology, the project at Drax, and plans for the future.
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Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations, says Paige Marie Morse
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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
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Zainuddin Manan describes routes to increasing graduates’ employability
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Oils & Fats: Essential Engineering
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
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UK nuclear faces prospect of Euratom exit
Expert warns leaving would be a “tactical own goal”
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A Low-Temperature Heat Highway to Zero Carbon
In the first in a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute to society, Mike Haines shares a study he has carried out for his local council on the promise of greener heating
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Making (Anti)sense of Oligonucleotide Manufacturing
Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines
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