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Safety in Numbers

THE field of process safety is constantly evolving. This goes right from the early 1800s – when Éleuthère Irénée du Pont recognised the importance of leadership commitment and had his managers and their families live at the gunpowder factory, thus ensuring they had a focus on safety – to modern-day technological developments in the design of instrumented protective systems.

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What makes a good awards entry?

Top tips on how to make your Awards entry work for you

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Chemeng Centenarians

Celebrating 100 years of chemical engineering at the University of Queensland

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Imagine Chemistry: a New Kind of Innovation Challenge for an Industry that Needs Shaking Up

AkzoNobel is calling on chemical engineers to enter its R&D challenge and help provide the missing ingredient needed to boost company innovation

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The Orange Book: Updated

The Minor Works Contract (Orange Book) has been updated to bring it in line with the UK’s Construction Act.

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Old-school Chemical Engineering

A look at chemical engineering in the 1950s, when chemical engineering was done at a more basic level.

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Mixing Music and Science

IChemE members on location, explaining chemical engineering to a unicorn, trainee Jedi knights and a caveman’s little helper

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Growing and Surviving

Amanda Jasi visits the University of Greenwich, where a new lab has opened to support chemeng student learning

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The Chemical Detective

Amanda Doyle meets Fiona Erskine to discuss her explosive thriller

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Careers in Chemical Engineering: Jonathan Cable

Yasmin Ali interviews Jonathan Cable to find out more about his path to archiving

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QRA: Ten Golden Rules

Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determine cost beneficial options

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Archaeological Engineering

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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Transformational Technologies

Transformational technologies in oil and gas. Could we learn future direction from past innovations?

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Thomas Midgley – A troubled legacy

From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley

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Increasing Ethylene Conversion and Plant Reliability

Effective use of control valves at critical points can increase conversion and reliability in olefin production plants

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Victor Mills – A 'Pampered' Career

Claudia Flavell-While charts the contribution of P&G’s Victor Mills

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Reality Check

How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at Orema demonstrates his latest technology to Neil Clark

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Tomio Wada – My Grandad the Pocket Calculator

Claudia Flavell-While explores the surprising ancestry of modern electronic gadgets, and how a chemical engineer called Tomio Wada made it all happen

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Nathaniel Wyeth – Got a lot of bottle

Richard Jansen-Parkes looks into the life and times of Nathaniel Wyeth, inventor of the PET bottle

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Lessons in Safety

Effective communication a key theme as experts gather to discuss safety

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