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Challenger: Home for Christmas

Mark Yates examines the engineering behind Apollo, and highlights the continuing importance of science and R&D teams on the ground

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A Clean Bill of Health

James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs

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Solving the Right Problems

Process modelling has come (and will continue to go) a long way

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Looking for Trouble

When it comes to human factors, there are lessons the process industries can lean from incidents in other sectors.

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Visual Hazop

HAZARD and operability (HAZOP) is a well understood, respected and employed technique in the process (and other) industries. It offers systematic rigour in challenging the design and operating intent of a new, modified, or established facility and provides a foundation for further analysis and risk assessment.

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Cyber Security: Be Prepared

CYBER security is increasingly a central factor in modern risk management in industry.

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How to Build a Retina

Chemical synthesis of a retina, and how it can ‘see’ the world around it

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Brownfield and Beyond

Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur

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The Rum Diary

Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia

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Chemical Engineering in the Kitchen

Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amanda Jasi speaks to Nevin Stewart, inventor of Juice and Strain

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Carbon Capture and Storage: Are We There Yet?

Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari

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Deal or No Deal – Brexit and UK Energy Policy

A look at the the likely impact of a Brexit deal/no deal on the UK’s energy sector

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Hydrogen Transport

Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk

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COP26 Latest

Follow our latest news coverage during the crucial UN climate conference in Glasgow

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Engineering Net Zero Part 8: Electricity plus Hydrogen, not Electricity or Hydrogen

David Simmonds concludes his online series with a call for greater systems analysis to develop a credible hybrid plan for net zero energy

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Reducing Emissions from Upstream Oil and Gas

From the reservoir rock that contains the hydrocarbons to the downstream refinery gate, Tom Baxter provides a walk-through of unit operations and equipment, identifying opportunities to save energy at your process facilities

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How to LOPA

Layers of protection - know your onions

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Branching Out

Demand for paper is declining - but can the recovery of biomaterials add value to the industry?

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Re-engineering Food Engineering

In the UK alone, the food sector accounts for 19% of total manufacturing turnover and generates a gross value addition of £28bn (US$35bn) to the UK economy, which – according to a recent report published by the Institute of Physics1 – is bigger than the automotive and aerospace industries put together! You might wonder how can the food industry, which is such a key industrial sector within our economy, does without properly trained and qualified food engineers?

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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.

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