Predictive Tech Part 4: Closing the Loop
Rob Peeling, CTO at Britest, looks at energy, digital twins and the future of process industry ci...
Features
Demystifying and Debunking ML Part 2: Data and Feature Engineering
Hugh Stitt, Joe Emerson, Carl Jackson and Robert Gallen focus on understanding input data and why...
Advances: Digitalisation in the Process Industries
Co-chair Zaid Rawi looks back on October’s Advances, IChemE’s biennial conference for engineering...
Predictive Tech Part 3: From Waste to Worth
James Meyer, CTO at Onunda, looks at how hydrothermal carbonisation, rotary kilns and physics-inf...
Is AI a ‘Ghost in the Machine’?
John Challenger explores how IChemE is addressing the risks of artificial intelligence in contrac...
AI in Chemical Engineering: Why Trust Matters as Much as Technology
Mo Zandi, Gihan Kuruppu and Brent Young argue that without cultural alignment, workforce engageme...
Demystifying and Debunking ML Part 1: Foundations of Machine Learning in ChemEng
Hugh Stitt, Joe Emerson, Carl Jackson and Robert Gallen introduce the first in a four-part series...
Financing the Future: Why Engineers Must Be Heard in the Net Zero Transition
At the City of London’s Net Zero Delivery Summit, finance leaders reaffirmed their role in tackli...
GPTs for Process Control: First Principles Thinking
GenAI seems important, but it’s not always clear how to use it. A good way in is to start with wh...
Bringing AI to carbon capture: how Imperial College is revolutionising plant operations
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are fast becoming in-demand skills for chemical...
Digitalisation in the Process Industries
Zaid Rawi reviews the process engineering applications set to be reshaped by digitalisation techn...
Saving Time and Energy with Process-focused AI Simulations
Aniqah Majid spoke to University of Birmingham spinout Evophase about its location-specific wind ...
Viewpoint: Take the Guesswork out of Chemical Engineering
Tim Duignan looks at how AI accelerated simulation will transform chemical engineering, freeing c...
Risk and Reward: Integrating GenAI into Educational Assessment
As GenAI improves, ideas of authorised or unauthorised use in assessment become harder to discern...
Viewpoint: Embracing New GenAI-enabled Teaching
Far from replacing teachers, Christopher Honig says GPTs could blend learning and evaluation into...
AI: Part of the Master’s Plan
Adam Duckett speaks to Tina Düren and Bernardo Castro Dominguez about the University of Bath’s ne...
Putting the AI in Feedback TrAIning
Stuart Prescott explores the use of AI tools to support students practicing and developing thei...
What You’ve Been Saying About AI
We asked the TCE Reader Feedback Panel, what impacts, positive or negative, has your use of AI ha...
Safe AI Innovation Needs Robust Regulation
Aniqah Majid joined industry leaders as they came together for an IChemE roundtable on AI’s use i...
AI Prizes and Warnings
Adam Duckett looks at the increasing adoption of AI, for better or worse
AI: Educating the Educators
The Chemeca conference in Australia had more questions than answers on how AI should best be harn...
The Implications of Generative AI
Adam Duckett sees a bright future for chemical engineering and generative AI, but there are caveats
Navigating the AI Frontier: Bias, Ethics, and the Vital Collaboration Between Engineers and Policymakers
Graham Herries on the guardrails that must be established to ensure the fair and responsible inte...
Using AI: What You've Been Saying
We asked members of TCE’s reader feedback panel to share their experiences of generative AI
Unpacking the Hype Around AI
Stuart Prescott provides some background to the emergence of AI as we kick off our look at how ge...
Ethics and AI: Concepts and Relevance for Chemical Engineers
John McDermid considers the ethical implications of using AI in a chemical engineering setting
News
IChemE Matters – December 2025/January 2026
Raffaella Ocone reflects on 30 years of AIChE meetings, Duncan Lugton talks policy and IChemE 202...
bp scraps plans for Teesside hydrogen plant following row over competing data centre
PLANS for bp’s flagship blue hydrogen production facility in Teesside, UK have been scrapped foll...
LIVE reporting from Hazards35 process safety conference
Live reporting from Hazards35, IChemE's annual process safety conference.
TCE Advances 2025 live blog
TCE is reporting live in Manchester for the Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Industr...
AstraZeneca strikes US$555m deal to commercialise AI-discovered immunology drugs
ASTRAZENECA has completed a deal worth up to US$555m to commercialise immunology therapies discov...
IChemE Matters – October 2025
Raffaella Ocone on welcoming the next generation, Duncan Lugton on strategic thinking and more
Siemens expands partnership with AI firm for “simulation-driven” manufacturing
ENGINEERING giant Siemens is set to automate its process and plant engineering capabilities throu...
Samsara Eco unveils commercial textile recycling plant using AI-engineered enzymes
A COMMERCIAL-SCALE plant that will use AI-developed enzymes to recycle waste textiles and plastic...
IChemE affiliate member showcased in OpenAI video series on education
AN ICHEME affiliate member has been selected by ChatGPT developer OpenAI to showcase how universi...
Engineers create conference to advance industrial digitalisation
Ruth Powell talks to the co-chairs of the Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Industrie...
IChemE’s Advances digitalisation conference opens for registrations
REGISTRATIONS are open for IChemE’s conference on Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process I...
Google buys fusion power
GOOGLE has agreed to buy half the power from what could be the world’s first grid-scale fusion en...
Manchester Prize winner uses AI to improve battery materials
THE FIRST Manchester Prize has been awarded to Polaron, a startup which uses generative AI to “sp...
Elsevier launches new AI service designed to speed up R&D
ICHEME’s journals publisher Elsevier has launched a new AI tool to help engineers extract, summar...
Honeywell shakeup continues with US$2.16bn buyout of pumps firm Sundyne
HONEYWELL is buying pumps and compressors manufacturer Sundyne for US$2.16bn, in a move to bolste...
IChemE calls for contributors for returning ChemEng digitalisation conference
ICHEME is inviting abstract submissions for its Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Ind...
US firm championed for sustainable investment to fund gas-powered data centres
AN INVESTMENT firm once hailed for “taking down big oil” has partnered with US oil and gas giant ...
AI pioneers scoop 2025 QE Prize for Engineering
SEVEN engineers behind the rise of the artificial intelligence technologies that are revolutionis...
L’Oreal to start using AI for sustainable ingredient research
COSMETICS giant L’Oreal has announced a partnership with IBM to develop artificial intelligence t...
UCL academics praise UK government’s new AI strategy as ‘positive shift’
ACADEMICS at University College London (UCL) who met with Sir Keir Starmer on Monday have welcome...
Eni launches Europe’s ‘most powerful’ supercomputer to aid decarbonisation efforts
ITALIAN oil giant Eni has switched on its next generation supercomputer, ranked the most powerful...
Berkeley researchers use AI and 19th century maps to find lost oil and gas wells
RESEARCHERS at the Berkeley National Laboratory in California have created a tool that uses artif...
UK’s Manchester Prize focuses on clean energy innovation in second round
ROUND TWO of the UK government’s Manchester Prize has been launched, with this year’s focus on AI...
A virtuous circle? Fusion developers relying on power-hungry AI to accelerate commercialisation
FUSION energy development is locked in step with artificial intelligence (AI), according to the f...
Robots found to perform chemical research ‘faster’ than humans
AI-DRIVEN robots can carry out complex chemistry experiments “faster” than humans, according to a...
NTU Singapore launching hybrid chemeng-chemistry course to fill skills gap
IN AN EFFORT to produce graduates with chemical engineering and chemistry skillsets, Nanyang Tech...
Siemens buys out AI software engineering firm for US$10bn
GERMAN-OWNED Siemens is set to acquire the leading American AI firm Altair for US$10bn, further e...
