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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

Type: Feature

Taking Aim

Malcolm Wilkinson and members of IChemE’s Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the future of the oil and gas industry

Type: Feature

Ethics: No Room for Relativity

Malcolm Staves explains the importance of applying the highest safety standards regardless of regional rules

Type: Feature

Digital Twins in the Chemical Process Industries

Joanne Tanner and Colin Newbery discuss the hype and the hope for digital twins

Type: Feature

Petronas dominates 2023 IChemE Global Awards as full list of finalists revealed

MALAYSIAN energy group Petronas is in the running for more than ten IChemE Global Awards, accolades that celebrate professional excellence, positive environmental impact, process safety, societal benefit, and other key qualities.

Type: News

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

Making Wind Power More Sustainable

Designed to withstand decades of strong winds and harsh weather conditions, wind turbine blades are built to last – a problem when it comes to recycling. Kerry Hebden spoke to two innovative companies with contrasting solutions

Type: Feature

History of Nuclear Engineering Part 3: Atoms for Peace

In 1953, Dwight D Eisenhower (1890–1969) began his US presidential term with a widely applauded “Atoms for Peace” address. Martin Pitt reflects on how that worked out

Type: Feature

Glass In all its Glory: Part 1

We look through it and maybe overlook it, but glass is a vital 200m t/y material for the world today. Martin Pitt looks at its development and impact on society

Type: Feature

Creating a Sustainable Future – The Role of Material Selection

The one challenge that engineers of all stripes need to deal with is material selection.

Type: Feature

Engineers Showcase Skills in Solar Hackathon

Exciting ideas emergy in a new competition to boost solar power

Type: Feature

Qualifications Commission

Part 2: Building long-term sustainability for IChemE professional qualifications volunteers

Type: Feature

Snapshot - Picture that!

ICHEME member Omar Matar has won a scientific research photography competition for his image of a dancing jet of water.

Type: Feature

Dame Judith Hackitt and Erin Johnson talk fire safety

Chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a risk-based approach. Chemical engineers Dame Judith Hackitt and Erin Johnson, have applied those skills to buildings safety by compiling reports for the UK parliament, and met in Westminster to discuss their experiences of writing the reports, how they applied their chemical engineering backgrounds, and their surprise at the current disorder of the construction industry.

Type: Feature

One-step crystallisation for zeolites

Could lead to commercial production of membranes

Type: News

Hydrogel membrane improves virus filtration

Could improve drinking water safety

Type: News

Victoria to quash Loy Yang industrial action

State moves to protect power supplies

Type: News

ExxonMobil shareholders back climate report

62.3% force firm to disclose climate mitigation risk

Type: News

NASA releases pictures of Libyan oil fires

IS militant clashes causes storage tank fires

Type: News

UK makes big push for small nuclear reactors

£250m competition announced in 2016 budget

Type: News