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GEOFFREY (“Geoff”) Hewitt, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, passed away peacefully on 18 January 2019.
Type: News
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
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
IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to the Institution’s future
Type: Feature
Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy
Type: Feature
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
From studying undergraduate biochemical engineering at UCL, to distilling gin in Finland
Type: Feature
Demand for paper is declining - but can the recovery of biomaterials add value to the industry?
Type: Feature
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
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
Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies
Type: Feature
