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Trump picks Liveris as manufacturing advisor
Chemical engineer to bring industry back to America
Type: News
IN March, UK Chancellor George Osborne announced a sugar tax on fizzy drinks will be implemented in 2018.
Type: Feature
Csaba Horváth – Degrees of Separation
Claudia Flavell-While explores the contribution of separation scientist Csaba Horváth
Type: Feature
Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane technology that can create emulsions with monodisperse droplets. The membrane has applications in a wide range of industries.
Type: Feature
The potential of big data, the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 to transform performance in the process industries.
Type: Feature
Carbon Capture and Storage: Are We There Yet?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
Type: Feature
The Fire at Hickson & Welch, 21 September 1992
This September is the 25th anniversary of the accident at Hickson & Welch (H&W) which killed five people in a jet fire which lasted for no more than 100 seconds. This short article is a review and reminder of the key lessons that came out of the accident, hopefully to ensure they are not forgotten as time passes.
Type: Feature
IT’S no secret that each year, eye-watering amounts of food go to waste. With that as a starting point, in 2014 we formed TerraServ, a South African company based in the town of Secunda. The aim was fairly simple, to develop processing of waste sugary foodstuffs – discarded mostly for ‘cosmetic’ reasons – into bio-ethanol based products such as hand sanitisers and cleaning products, under the EcoEth brand.
Type: Feature
How to Limit Amine Systems Failures
A review of incident trends reveals ways to reduce risks to production
Type: Feature
Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk
Type: Feature
Kenneth Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.
Type: Feature
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
Type: Feature
Cooling Down the Effects of Refrigerants
THE sense of euphoria surrounding the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol has somewhat subsided now. Last October the news broke that 170 countries had successfully negotiated an amendment to the Montreal Protocol Treaty and agreed to get rid of 90% of hydrofluorocar-bons (HFCs), and it was indeed time to celebrate. HFCs typically have a global warming potential 10,000 times higher than carbon dioxide, and with this treaty 0.5oC of future global temperature rise can be avoided. Good news for those hoping to see actions taken to stop or at least slow down the rising global temperature.
Type: Feature
Hybrid Airship: No Roads, No Problem
MORE than two-thirds of the world’s land area and more than half the world’s population have no direct access to paved roads. This lack of infrastructure presents incredible challenges for the resource extraction industries and has left many identified deposits undeveloped, including the Ambler region of Alaska, deposits in sub-Saharan Africa, and regions in the Andes.
Type: Feature
Waldo Semon – Rubber, PVC and... bubblegum?
Waldo Semon has a lot to answer for, finds Claudia Flavell-While
Type: Feature
