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Overshadowed by his brother Wernher, Magnus von Braun still had a fateful role to play. Claudia Flavell-While recounts the story
Type: Feature
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale operations using lab-scale reactors
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Everything is interdependent, say Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray
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The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to experts about what must be done to improve safety and prevent repeats
Type: News
Catapulting the Hydrogen Economy: Catalytic Membrane Reactors
Humbul Suleman and colleagues explain how refinements to a decades-old technology can provide clean, cheap hydrogen
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The Right Approach to Digitalisation
Iwona Kandpal reports on support for SMEs as they increase their use of digital tech
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Engineering Net Zero Part 2: How We Can Give Consumers Choice in the Push for Green Transport
David Simmonds discusses the need to accelerate flexibility when it comes to cleaner transport options
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Mentors and mentees alike need to understand what good practice looks like, as the results of getting it wrong can be damaging
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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
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In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale-up from an equipment-based viewpoint using the example of agitated tanks
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The push for fewer emissions and greater profitability are driving the development of more efficient distillation column internals. Izak Nieuwoudt, Neil Sandford, and Pat Quotson look at the opportunities for process engineers
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Former US congressman Donald Rumsfeld gave this answer to a question relating to evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups
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How the various aspects of theory are essential in arriving at a reactor design in practice.
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Breaking Down Barriers: Innovations in PFAS Destruction
A ‘silver bullet’ technology remains elusive, but Jens Blotevogel and Pradeep Shukla say the development of diverse technologies like electrochemical treatment, thermal and non-thermal plasma destruction, and supercritical water oxidation provides a powerful arsenal for tackling these persistent pollutants
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Nicolas Leblanc – Revolutionary discoveries
One of the first chemicals to be produced at industrial scale, a product that laid the foundation for much of the modern chemicals industry, is sodium carbonate, commonly known as soda ash or, simply, soda.
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… for Bob Gore, one giant leap for outdoor lovers. Claudia Flavell-While looks at the history of Gore-Tex
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Engineering Net Zero Part 3: Turning up the Heat for Consumers
David Simmonds argues that there is no one-size-fits-all energy efficient solution to heating our homes – not that consumers would necessarily want that anyway
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The Chemical Engineer: A Retrospective
Jamie Cleaver journeys through the life of TCE, exploring its contribution to our technical challenges, our professional identity and our community, amid massive scientific developments, societal changes, and a few changes in style
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