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Geoffrey Hewitt: 1934–2019

GEOFFREY (“Geoff”) Hewitt, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, passed away peacefully on 18 January 2019.

Type: News

Let it Rain

Research is underway to enhance cloud seeding - in a bid to boost freshwater supplies

Type: Feature

The ‘Watermelon’ Effect: Does a green dashboard mean a healthy facility?

Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ suggesting that everything is under control, and yet digging below the surface reveals signs of ‘red’ indicating ill-health in the arrangements to prevent major accidents.

Type: Feature

CCS: Carbon Capture and Strategy

Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up a full-chain, full-scale CCS project

Type: Feature

Greener Medicines

Chemical engineers and chemists are working together to create a sustainable future at AstraZeneca

Type: Feature

Lord Cullen: Piper Alpha Investigator

Lord Cullen of Whitekirk gave this speech at the opening of Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 5 June. The conference marked the anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, which Lord Cullen investigated on behalf of the government. The 106 recommendations made in his landmark 1990 report reshaped offshore safety culture

Type: Feature

The Unbearable Lightness of Hydrogen

The problem of hydrogen storage

Type: Feature

Strategy 2024

IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to the Institution’s future

Type: Feature

Digging Deeper

Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy

Type: Feature

A Battery Olympics

Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technologies together. Hugh Sutherland, Head of Development at ZapGo speaks to Neil Clark

Type: Feature

Securing a Safe Future for Gas

Hydrogen: a way to provide safe, sustainable and clean energy to satisfy rising demand and meet carbon emission reduction targets?

Type: Feature

BioSNG: Fuelling the Future with Trash

Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas

Type: Feature

Spirited Away

From studying undergraduate biochemical engineering at UCL, to distilling gin in Finland

Type: Feature

Branching Out

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

Type: Feature

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.

Type: Feature

Buses Full of Beans

The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affairs speaks to Neil Clark

Type: Feature

Screening Heat Exchangers for High Pressure Differential Relief

An insight into the Energy Institute’s guidance on pressure relief in shell and tube heat exchangers with high differential pressures.

Type: Feature

Destruction of the 'Black Lagoon'

How one chemical engineer balanced contracting work with family life back in the 1980s

Type: Feature

Engineering Net Zero Part 7: Energy Security and Affordability

In his penultimate feature on achieving net zero, David Simmonds considers the structure of the energy market and how it needs to change to meet the UK's net zero ambitions.

Type: Feature

Open Heart Surgery

Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies

Type: Feature