Practical Process Control Part 21: Validating Inferentials
In the previous article we covered the application of regression analysis to the development of i...
Features
How to Perform a First Pass Water System Sustainability Analysis
Stephen Hall and Sarah Kutz examine strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of water purificati...
MSE Filterpressen’s Membrane Chamber Press Paving the Way for Sustainable Construction
The RCO Recycling Center in eastern Switzerland is setting a new benchmark in environmental respo...
Is all the Ti in China?
China's dominance over the refining of many critical minerals shows how looming trade wars could ...
Transitioning Away from PFAS is a Profound Opportunity for Chemical Engineers
Pradeep Shukla, guest editor of a special series on PFAS, brings together a team of experts to ex...
Engineering a Future Without PFAS: The Path to Sustainable Alternatives
The shift from PFAS is both a regulatory need and an opportunity for industries to lead in sustai...
Practical Process Control Part 20: Regression Analysis
Inferential properties, or soft sensors, are key to modern process control. Myke King explains re...
Closing the Loop: A Circular Economy Approach to Critical Mineral Sustainability
Michael Akindeju explores key circular economy strategies to reduce reliance on virgin resource e...
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 ...
How to Design a Biological Wastewater Treatment Process
Davide Dionisi’s worked example demonstrates how sustainable wastewater treatment design can bala...
Practical Process Control Part 19: Split-ranging
Myke King explains the history of split-ranging and looks at more effective alternatives
The Design Process: Environmental Management in Design – Do More with Less
In the final article in his series aimed at giving new graduates a better understanding of the cu...
Greening the Dairy Industry
From methane reduction to water efficiency, David Pearce and Peter de Jong look at how dairy farm...
Why You Shouldn’t be Afraid of Sales
Nigel Hirst argues that despite their wariness of sales roles, chemical engineers actually make t...
Switching to Green Energy in the Food Manufacturing Industry
How Robert Barrack and process engineering staff at Aurecon NZ provided their client with a conce...
Practical Process Control Part 18: Fired Heaters - Part 2
Following on from his look at duty controls, Myke King shows how to control fired heater (or boil...
Bhopal – my United Nations experience
This article originally appeared in Loss Prevention Bulletin 299, a special issue marking the 40t...
Why Bhopal Remains Toxic 40 Years on
40 years since the tragedy that killed thousands, the Indian government has moved forward plans t...
Durapipe celebrates 70 years of bringing innovative products to market
Fluid management solutions provider Durapipe has been providing the water and chemical industry w...
Heat Vision
Pippa Corbett takes a closer look at the potential of heat networks, recent market transformation...
The Design Process: Process Safety – Keep the Stuff in the Pipe
In the third in a series of articles aimed at giving new graduates a better understanding of the ...
Practical Process Control Part 17: Fired Heaters - Part 1
In the first of a two-parter on fired heaters, Myke King shows how to implement duty controls
Design Issues
358 issues since she first helped produce The Chemical Engineer magazine, Alex Revell recounts ju...
The Design Process: Front End Engineering Design
In the second in a series of articles aimed at giving new graduates a better understanding of the...
How Your Magazine is Made: Printing
To capture the key stages of how your copy of TCE is manufactured, Adam Duckett hot-footed it to ...
The Design Process: From Concept to Heat and Mass Balance
Tom Baxter kicks off a four-part series giving new graduates a better understanding of how the de...
Using open-source tech and ChatGPT to create virtual analysers of chemical dosage
A new online dashboard of chemical concentrations for an offshore oil production facility used op...
The Loch Ness Monster and Plant Safety
Martin Pitt recalls his time spotting monsters, and warns that just because they are hard to spot...
Why the Lessons of the Fulcrum Fiasco must not be Wasted
Fulcrum BioEnergy shut down its flagship waste-to-fuel plant in May. Alex Howard looks at the imp...
Making Innovation Pay in a Sustainable Way
CPI is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Graeme Cruickshank looks at how the technology innovatio...
Carbon Capture – is it Worth it?
Aniqah Majid talks to industry experts about the state of CCUS in the UK and finds out why econom...
Practical Process Control Part 14: Pressure Compensated Temperatures
Myke King shows how to pressure compensate distillation column tray temperature controllers
Mammoth Undertaking
As Climeworks starts up the world’s largest direct air capture plant, Adam Duckett looks at the e...
Predicting Direct Air Capture Performance, Come Rain or Shine
Process engineer Adam Ward is modelling DAC at Imperial College London. He explains his research ...
Devoting Energy to Energy Efficiency: The Role of an Energy Lead in Process Industry
The appointment of an energy lead at a dss+ downstream oil and gas client significantly improved ...
Air Apparents
Amanda Jasi speaks to the innovators developing direct air capture technologies hoping to be next...
Direct Air Capture: The State of Play and What’s to Come
An introduction to direct air capture
Unlocking New Opportunities for Seamless Instrument Integration in Chemical Applications
ABB's David Bowers looks at how new technologies, including cloud computing, edge computing, and ...
Practical Process Control Part 13: Signal Conditioning
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Keep Calm and Dry Tea: Designing an ATEX-Compliant Tea Leaf Dryer
Tea may be renowned for its soothing qualities, but tea leaves have the potential to cause catast...
Let’s Go Round Again: Closing the Loop on Problem Plastics
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to J...
Our Research Focus: Going with the Flow Chemistry
Christian Holtze and Klaus Hellgardt on how the newly established IConIC consortium is aiming to ...
Book Review: Process Plant Design
Robin Smith; ISBN: 9781119689980; Wiley; 2023; US$72.00 (eBook); US$89.95 (print)
Rules of Thumb: Distillation
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 ru...
Liquid Metal: a Catalyst for Change?
Requiring temperatures into the hundreds of degrees to work, solid catalysts prove incredibly ene...
Capturing Science to Capture Attention
MIT photographer Felice Frankel talks to Adam Duckett about her new guide to help engineers bette...
Rocket Science: From the Mongols to the Moon and beyond
Rocket science is a famously difficult area, but it’s more than the physics of force and trajecto...
Engineering Net Zero Part 7: Energy Security and Affordability
In his penultimate feature on achieving net zero, David Simmonds considers the structure of the e...
Making Wind Power More Sustainable
Designed to withstand decades of strong winds and harsh weather conditions, wind turbine blades a...
Rules of Thumb: Centrifugal Pump Efficiency
Tom Baxter looks at how focusing on fluid efficiency can maximise cost savings while also reducin...
Life After End of Life
The limited lifespans of wind turbines and solar panels mean many of the vital materials involved...
The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Helping to Make Fusion Energy Sustainable
In the final part of our series on fusion energy, Mirjana Damjanovic and Lewis Simmons highlight ...
Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
Christmas Past: A Historical Christmas Stocking
Martin Pitt reminisces on Christmases past, and brings with him a sackful of facts and figures
My Job at Stanlow in 2023
Andy Barker’s award-winning essay on life at the Stanlow refinery in 2023, written 50 years previ...
Precise Liquid Flow Measurement to Optimise Your Batching System
Neil Hannay outlines the key considerations when specifying a suitable flow meter for the design ...
Engineering Net Zero Part 6: Skilling Up
David Simmonds looks at who we need to deliver our energy transition, from the local technician t...
Rules of Thumb: Scale-up
In the latest instalment of this practical series, Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale...
Practical Process Control Part 8: Determining Tuning Constants for Tight and Averaging Level Control
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 6: Safety Implications from New Technologies
Roger Stokes and Michael Moosemiller outline the safety issues associated with conventional disti...
The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Fuel Cycle: and How Chemical Engineers are Solving Them
Elaine Loving and Tom Stroud outline the scientific and technical challenges that must be met for...
Internet of Things and its Implications for the Process Industries
Deaglan Gahan explains the basics of the internet of things (IoT) and puts the technology in cont...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 5: Optimisation and Control – An Industrial View
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation ...
Taking a Look Back at Control: Part 1
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, kicking off with mecha...
Pulse Sensors for Flow Measurement Devices and Applications
Neil Hannay explains how to understand flow meter sensor and pulse output types for efficient sys...
When Measurement is Money
Derek Scott explains how to ensure the robustness of systems that determine the income and tax bi...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 4: Hybrid Schemes and Analysis
Izak Nieuwoudt reviews the hybrid schemes that can help process engineers reduce the energy use o...
Modelling with Excel Part 7: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 1
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Practical Process Control Part 6: Derivative Action
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Rules of Thumb: Bulk Material Sampling
In the latest instalment of this practical series, Eric Maynard highlights five considerations ...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 3: Improvements Through the Use of Novel Mass Transfer Internals
The push for fewer emissions and greater profitability are driving the development of more effici...
Modelling with Excel Part 6: Monte Carlo Simulations
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
How Digitalisation Drives Resource Efficiency for the Chemicals Industry
Anahita Khanlari says digitalisation can help boost efficiencies with minimal investment
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 2: Improvements Through the Use of Dividing Wall Columns
Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary dis...
The Rise of AI
Adam Duckett on the rise of artificial intelligence
CO2 Capture: Putting the Sea into CCS
Amanda Jasi and Kerry Hebden talk to companies developing technologies to capture CO2 from the ocean
Modelling with Excel Part 5: Visualising Batch Processes with Gantt Charts
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 1: Introduction - Your Greener Prospects
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportu...
Practical Process Control Part 5: The I-PD Algorithm
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Practical Process Control Part 4: Tuning a PID Controller
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Our Research Focus: Securing the future of water
Kariappa Karumbaiah explains how Hydroxsys hopes to place innovative membrane technology at the...
Modelling with Excel Part 4: Batch Heating and Cooling
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Brewing Up a Storm: The Origins of Biotechnology Part 2
In this two-part contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt focus...
Wastewater Treatment: When Renting Might be the Better Option
Plant operators are increasingly looking at ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of the...
The Chemical & Process Engineering Expo, CHEMUK, returns this May
The UK trade show for process, control, and plant engineers returns on 10 and 11 May and is free ...
Modelling with Excel Part 3: Physical Properties
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Chemical Looping Diversity: Biofuels, Power, CCS and Chemicals
Adam Duckett and Amanda Jasi speak to engineers who are developing a variety of chemical looping ...
Brewing Up a Storm: The Origins of Biotechnology Part 1
In this contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt turns his focu...
Practical Process Control Part 3: PID Algorithm Versions
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Our Research Focus: Converting batch production to continuous processing
Nikolay Cherkasov explains how complex compounds for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals can be pro...
Air Storage: Weatherproofing Renewables- Reliant Grids
Amanda Jasi looks at projects that are compressing air to store energy
Cutting Through the Noise of Green Hydrogen Projects
Alex Howard and Jonathan Upton offer criteria for determining which projects are likely to succeed
Pumped Up
Steve Schofield offers strategies to optimise pump systems and identify energy savings
Imprinted!
Grant Wellwood says soft sensors offer process engineers intriguing new ways to monitor and bolst...
Pore Performance: One 3D-printing firm's ambition to re-engineer membranes
Adam Duckett interviews Tom Pugh and Andrew Walker about Evove’s push to improve separations
Our Research Focus: Déjà Vu
Humbul Suleman and Rizwan Nasir ask if VHS tapes can help to develop better membranes for CO2 rem...
Safe Flow Meter Installation and Flow Monitoring in Hazardous Environments
Neil Hannay offers some practical advice
Rules of Thumb: Heat Exchanger Selection
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Small APC, Big Benefits
British Sugar’s James Caws and consultant Howard Boder explain how small-scale advanced process c...
It shouldn’t happen to a pressure transmitter
Pressure transmitters are frequently exposed to conditions that can prematurely destroy or compro...
Flowmeters: Making the Right Choice
Flowmeters are essential measurement devices across industry and considering all the parameters a...
Rules of Thumb: Pressure Drop Due to Friction
Stephen Hall offers practical tips on calculating pressure loss due to friction.
Built Environment: A Plant-Based Alternative
What if autonomous vehicles could safely transport containers of raw materials around our product...
100 Years? Piece of Cake
Séamus Higgins and Ellie Cooke look at a century’s evolution of food and processes, in the form o...
Safety: My Five Lessons from Five Decades of Engineering
Tom Baxter shares safety lessons learned from across his career
Rules of Thumb: Flammable Liquids: Open or Closed?
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Rules of Thumb: Radar Level Measurement
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Rules of Thumb: Pneumatic Conveying
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Chemical & Process Engineering Expo, CHEMUK 2022, returns this May
The CHEMUK 2022 EXPO returns on 11 and 12 May 2022 at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.
Rules of Thumb: Vapour Pressure and Viscosity Equations
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Put on Your 3D Glasses
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over...
Improve the Accuracy of Your Formulations
Discover how smart balances coupled with database storage can boost process and product development
Rules of Thumb: Safety Considerations for Pumps
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Nitrate: An Emerging Solution
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
Rules of Thumb: Vent condenser with Non-condensables
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
The Bomb in Your Pocket?
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
The Right Approach to Digitalisation
Iwona Kandpal reports on support for SMEs as they increase their use of digital tech
Are You Ready for Digital?
The new digital age in our workplace isn’t coming, it’s already here, says Craig Smith
The Muon: A Particle that Punches above its Weight
Peter Walmsley explains the role of muon tomography in waste management at the Sellafield site
Separation Anxiety
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicompon...
Cloud Computing and Chemical Engineering
Joanne Tanner and Tobias Cleaver-Ross discuss the benefits and challenges of cloud computing and ...
Measuring Up
Thomas Machin talks about his pride in developing and delivering novel process measurement techno...
Webinar: Improve the Accuracy of Your Final Analysis
ON 10 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a free webinar to discuss techniques to improve the ...
Book Review: Petroleum Refining Design and Applications Handbook Volume 2
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 978111947641; Wiley-Scrivener; 2021; US$295
Microwave Processing – Beyond Food
Sam Kingman, Chris Dodds, Adam Buttress and Daniel Groszek discuss new technology that offers a h...
Rules of Thumb: Jet Mixing
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Fight corrosion with simulation
CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the ...
Optimising Safety for the Renewable Energy Sector
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
Webinar: Deliver your project on time and in budget – secure treated water
ON 6 October, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss the practical advantages of using...
DRAM It!
Joshua Pearce explains the use of open-source hardware to use recyclables as feedstock for custom...
Book Review: Chemical and Process Plant Commissioning Handbook 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Plant System Equipment Installation and Commissioning
Martin Killcross; ISBN: 9780128240496; Butterworth-Heinemann; 2021; £99
Rules of Thumb: Load Cells
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Attractive Solutions
Alessandro Viola explains how magnets can filter out metal particle contamination in pharmaceutic...
Trapping a Slippery Foe
Alfonso Rodriguez and Charlie Espinosa explain innovations to map and remove mercury contaminatio...
Rules of Thumb: Affinity Laws
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Rules of Thumb: Time to Drain a Tank
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Continuing in a Crisis
Robert Walker explains the lessons he learned in successfully enabling critical gas supplies to c...
A Lego Technic Cupcake Production Line
In the third of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute...
Integrating Capital Projects into a Turnaround Event
Early, timely input and support is key, says Gordon Lawrence
Rules of Thumb: Orifices
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Warm Up Acts
Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating
From Wastewater to Resource
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down th...
Rules of Thumb: Solids Transfer - Bins & Silos
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Book Review: Analysis and Design of Membrane Process: A Systems Approach
Mingheng Li; ISBN: 9780735421813; AIP Publishing; 2020; US$135
Reducing the Daily Grind
Liza Forbes, Kym Runge, Mike Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench and Luke Vollert discuss a froth-free flot...
A Low-Temperature Heat Highway to Zero Carbon
In the first in a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute...
Rules of Thumb: Process Control Valves
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Developing a Justification for a DCS Migration
Why modern distributed control systems are increasingly important
Rules of Thumb: Flow Parameters
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Book Review: Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography: Principles and Practical Applications
Oliver Jones; ISBN: 978-981-15-6189-4; Springer Singapore; 2020; US$59.99 (softcover)
Handle with Care
Nikodem Siwek explains how to get the most from your pH measurement devices
Rules of Thumb: Pump and System Curves
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
The Net Zero House
Can net zero housing help the UK meet targets? Tom Baxter does the math
Solids Flow: Prevent the Problem
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
Oils & Fats: Essential Engineering
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
Engineering Pharma
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutica...
Rules of Thumb: Chromatography Systems
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Looping the Loop
Digitalisation and automation are great for control loop optimisation - but we still need humans,...
Digital Therapeutics
How far has the technology come, asks Parminder Bansal
Carbon Capture: But Not as We Know It
Rotating packed beds can play a part in making carbon capture smaller and cheaper
Rules of Thumb: Control Valve Lift
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Ensuring the Safety of Food
Tony Hasting looks at the options for quality assurance
Rules of Thumb: Tanks and Vessels
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Moving the Dial to Decarbonise
David Wong and colleagues discuss how the world’s aluminium smelters could enable the rapid uptak...
Skill Up
Adam Duckett on the opportunity to boost your skills
Quickly, More Vaccines
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capab...
Opening Up Instrumentation
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and ...
A Clean Bill of Health
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
Success for Recipes
Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety
Energy Saviours: Part 5
Tom Baxter looks at the parasitic load challenge of CCS
Chem Plants Dream of Electric Bleeps
Simon Jagers and Gerben Gooijers show how you can raise plant reliability using current and volt...
Solids Flow: Piece by Piece
Everything is interdependent, say Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray
How Chemicals Companies Can Drive Operational Resilience with the Digital Twin
Paige Marie Morse explains how companies have been using digital technologies to adapt to the cor...
PPE Challenge Accepted
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
Helping Hands in the Health Crisis
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
Bulk Solids Flow: Know What you’re Dealing With
A look at what should go into a proper Basis of Design document for a solids handling system
Palm Oil: Better with Enzymes
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
A Project to Develop and Protect
Matthew Duchars and John Challenger describe the plans to design and build a facility that the UK...
The Heat is On
Keith Plumb explains the importance of design of pressure relief systems for stirred tank vessels
Teaming up for Vaccines
CPI discusses the importance of bringing an engineering mindset to collaborate with biologists on...
H21: The Story So Far
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
Getting the Measure of Temperature
Jonathan Pearce explains how new techniques can improve process efficiency
The Lowdown on Blowdown
Chris Best addresses the role blowdown systems play in plant design and why they are essential in...
Stopping the Flow
Rory Stanley explains developments in line blinding systems for total isolation
Solid States
You may not be able to control the world, but you can control the flow of your bulk solids, says ...
Making the Change
Barry Perlmutter advises on transitioning from batch to continuous
Waste Not Want Not
Vanda Jones discusses how you can cut your compressed air energy consumption
Pure and Simple
Miguel Johansson Finguerut describes his work on community water projects in central Mexico
Pyrolysis Gets Personal
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
On the Road to Digital
Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations,...
Packing a Punch
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Monitoring in Mining
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based techn...
Just Add Water
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Delta HAZOP: Revalidation and Focus on Major Accident Hazards
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the U...
Bulk Solids Handling: Perspective on a Professional Blind Spot
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids...
Changing Rooms
Best practice on specifying, designing, commissioning and operating control rooms
The Grandest Challenges
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Going Digital for Water
How digital measurement is making waves in water and wastewater treatment
Dry Run
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Design by Modelling
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale oper...
A Flawless Start
Demystifying the art of successful commissioning
Keep it All In: How to Bund with Confidence
Kevin Wheeler explains bunding’s vital role and offers a practical summary of issues to consider ...
Hot Topic
Keith Plumb gives an overview of batch heat transfer
Future Advances in Process Automation
Andrew Ogden-Swift reviews the pressing challenges
Hydrogen: The Burning Question
Mike Menzies asks what effect does injected hydrogen have on furnace, flame and exhaust in natura...
Energy Saviours: Part 3
Tom Baxter shares more options for chemical engineers to boost energy efficiencies
Separations under Control
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
Go With the Flow
Gordon Varney and Lydia Gaunt explain how to select pumps in the water, wastewater and sewage in...
Decommissioning Challenges
The 10 biggest challenges when decommissioning a chemical site
AM: Keeping it Clean
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
Uses of Hydrogen in Industry
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
Finding your Level
A guide to selecting level measurement systems, from Alan Hunt
Back to the Future
Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy cha...
First Steps
Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system
Snapshot: Royal Mail stamp of approval for engineering excellence
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Hydrogen Transport
Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk
Take it Apart; Put it Back Together
How do you dismantle a chemical plant for re-erection at the other side of the world? Richard Van...
Degrees of Separation
Andy Brazier explains why process isolation is more complicated than you might think
A Clean Bill of Health
James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs
Transforming Asset Maintenance
Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says M...
Are Your Preventive Maintenance Routines Effective?
Michael Dixey and Pete Hibbs outline ways to optimise preventive maintenance routines
Turning up the Heat on Compressed Air Measurement
David Bowers explains how to keep compressed air use under control
Ditch the Bag Filters
Barry Perlmutter explains automated clarification technologies
Testing the Metal
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
Valve Safety & the Environment
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
No More Lost Light Gases
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for ...
Redundant Asset Management Planning
The chemical industry's five biggest considerations for redundant assets
Wanted: More Efficient Heat Exchange
Imagine if heat exchange of process fluids in an industrial setting was as simple as boiling a ju...
Monodispersion at Scale
Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane tec...
Growing and Surviving
Amanda Jasi visits the University of Greenwich, where a new lab has opened to support chemeng stu...
Choosing a Slurry Pump
Pumps are the backbone of the process industry. In a process plant, it is necessary to move mater...
Do The Bump (Test)
The importance of regular testing of portable gas detectors
Filtration – The Forgotten Process
Filtration is often overlooked during the development of new processes, but at what cost?
Smart Maintenance
The potential of big data, the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 to transform perfor...
Chemical Engineering in the Kitchen
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
The Rum Diary
Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia
Add It Up!
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Practically Speaking – Flow Control
Back to basics on theory and equipment
2-in-1 Overfill Prevention
One radar level gauge can provide two separate and independent layers of protection
Pet Projects
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Ditch the Dirt
Hydroponic technology could help us sustainably meet growing food demand
Diverter Valves: No Longer Just for Special Applications
Why we should give more thought to these versatile, durable valves
Pump Action
Tips for selecting a pumping system for chemical treatment and comparing different dosing systems
Data is Best
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
Sadara: Lessons Learned
How to stay on budget with large, complex projects
Energy Saviours
Ways for operations and design engineers to boost efficiencies
Thinking Outside the Block
Can novel uses of blockchain technology in the chemical and process industries justify its cost?
How to Build a Self-Healing Plant
A future where plants will monitor, diagnose potential issues, and even schedule a fix is not far...
Using Bow Ties to Classify Barriers
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
Malcolm Banks: Safety Technologist
Robots, big data, wearables, and rig-floor automation are being developed for a transformative bo...
Under One Roof
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
How to Build a Retina
Chemical synthesis of a retina, and how it can ‘see’ the world around it
Hands On
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
Brownfield and Beyond
Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur
The Internet of Brewing
Developing a low-cost smartphone app to help craft beer breweries and homebrewers monitor and con...
Fighting the Fight
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Friendly Foams
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
The Privilege of Being First
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
Making a Dent in the Water Crisis
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
On the Level
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
Spiralling into Affordable Healthcare
New reactor promises continuous processing of biotherapeutics
Screening Heat Exchangers for High Pressure Differential Relief
An insight into the Energy Institute’s guidance on pressure relief in shell and tube heat exchang...
Overcoming CDU Challenges
How refineries can overcome CDU challenges to boost the bottom line
Demolition Man
Expert observations of demolition dangers and how to avoid them
How to Reduce the Risk of a Dust Explosion
Unwrapping the explosion pentagon to reduce risk
Reality Check
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
Industry X.0 – The Next Stage
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
The Big Vision
Next-generation batch technologies drive productivity and profitability
Making connections
Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest i...
News
UKAEA awards £3.5m to develop the sensors engineers need to operate fusion plants
TECHNOLOGISTS developing sensors to withstand the extreme conditions inside a fusion reactor – pr...
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...
Orica saves 1m t of emissions at Australian explosives site
ORICA has installed technology at its Kooragang Island chemicals site in Australia that has saved...
Watch: ship delivers vast €150m furnaces for major chemicals plant
INEOS has released a video showing the moment two huge furnaces worth €150m (US$156m) completed a...
US researchers design water filtration system based on manta rays
RESEARCHERS in the US have developed a new water filtration design based on the feeding system in...
Cemex to install world-first hydrogen process at UK cement plant
CEMEX is set to trial a process developed by Hiiroc that uses plasma to produce hydrogen for gree...
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...
Glasgow research centre will extend life of industrial equipment
A NEW £5.5m (US$7m) research centre in Scotland will focus on how industrial equipment can be reu...
Engineers call for smaller electric car batteries and ban on vapes
USING smaller electric car batteries and stripping materials out of old wind turbines for use in ...
Sweden’s green steel pilot project a success with commercialisation now underway
ENGINEERS have declared that their attempts to produce fossil-free steel have been successful and...
Chinese nuclear reactor completes world-first passive cooling test
CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling sy...
Taking the P out of pee
ENGINEERS at the University of Surrey are investigating how phosphorous can be filtered from huma...
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Usi...
CO2 leaks: engineers join forces to understand the threat posed by greater use of CCS
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a lar...
University of Bristol switches on fastest, greenest supercomputer
THE UK’S most powerful and greenest supercomputer – Isambard-AI – has begun to come online and re...
World-first electric steam cracker demo starts operations in push to slash emissions by 90%
BASF, SABIC and Linde have started operating a demonstration plant to prove that electrically hea...
UK announces £16.6m funding to bolster semiconductor innovation for green technologies
THE UK’s semiconductor industry is set to benefit from a £16.6m (US$21m) cash injection that will...
Hinkley Point C could go £28bn over budget as EDF predicts further delays
EDF SAYS its Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant could be delayed to as late as 2031, with costs ...
Lightning strike destroys biogas tanks at Severn Trent food waste recycling facility
“STANDARDS need to be followed for this very well-known risk,” stressed IChemE Safety Centre dire...
Coolbrook primed for industry use after RotoDynamic Heater pilot tests reach over 1,000°C
COOLBROOK has successfully completed the first phase of largescale pilot testing for its RotoDyna...
Transforming the workforce with digital technologies
Automation execs share thoughts on how to help workers adapt
Eden Project starts up UK’s first deep geothermal plant in nearly four decades
THE UK’s first new deep geothermal project to begin operations in 37 years has come online in Cor...
Rio Tinto completes transition of heavy machinery to renewable diesel at US California borax site
RIO Tinto has completed the full transition of heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable di...
Engineering options that can prevent sewer overflows
WITH industry forced to apologise for dumping untreated sewage into rivers, changes upstream incl...
Recovering heat, capturing carbon and switching fuels: UK industry awarded funds to engineer out emissions
CHEMICAL companies and food manufacturers are among the latest firms to receive millions in UK go...
Sabic to assess Coolbrook’s greener cracking technology
SABIC has agreed to assess Coolbrook’s turbomachine technology which is being piloted as a greene...
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
UK set to host rare earths processing hub in push for cleantech security
THE UK is set to host a new US$195m rare earth processing hub that Pensana is building at the Sal...
Charles Darwin University will install hydrogen system to collaborate with industry
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
UK joins forces with MIT spin-out to accelerate nuclear fusion
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has joined forces with Common Fusion Systems (CFS) of the US to sp...
KBR to design Carbon Clean CCS plant for Cemex
KBR has been awarded the FEED contract for a CCS project that Cemex plans to install at a cement ...
Imperial College and BASF strengthen partnership that seeks innovative chemicals development
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
UK first: Cornish Lithium trials direct extraction of key battery metal from geothermal waters
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
Compressed air users urged to stop wasting energy
THE British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has launched a campaign to help companies cut their com...
Green investor partners with spinout for novel fluid flow characterisation technology
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered...
Turbocharging towards CO2-free cracking
ENGINEERS at Coolbrook and ABB have set their sights on replacing steam cracking technology with ...
Dow plans zero emissions ethylene complex
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, throug...
UK regulator publishes carbon capture guidance
THE UK Environment Agency has published guidance on the best available techniques (BAT) for post-...
Glass industry sketches process technology route for reaching net zero
THE UK’s glass industry has said it faces a challenging road ahead in meeting net zero targets, a...
Solvay switches soda ash plant from coal to biomass
SOLVAY says its soda ash plant in Rheinberg, Germany will become the first in the world to use 10...
Fonterra supports NZ industry switch from coal – but outlines significant challenges
FONTERRA – New Zealand’s huge dairy cooperative – has come out in support of plans to end coal us...
What is causing AstraZeneca’s vaccine production woes?
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
Stories to read while we are away
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
IChemE awards engineers who 3D print reactors
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
Repairs underway at Gorgon as ‘thousands’ of cracks found in critical equipment
REPAIRS are underway to resolve welding issues at Chevron’s Gorgon liquid natural gas (LNG) proje...
UK gas networks join forces for net zero
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to ...
Trump declares national emergency over threat to power system
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power s...
UK launches vaccine taskforce to co-ordinate scaleup
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
Engineering company increases ventilator component production
IMI Precision Engineering, a pneumatic motion and fluid control technology company, has rapidly a...
IChemE SIG calls on members for supply support in response to coronavirus
ICHEME’s Pharma Special Interest Group (SIG) has called for members to come forward and help supp...
ExxonMobil releases model methane emissions regulatory framework
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
Coronavirus: the push to produce a vaccine
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
Lancaster to make major investment in engineering
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at ...
Enapter unveils hydrogen electrolyser manufacturing facility
ENAPTER, which manufactures modular hydrogen electrolysers, has unveiled a new serial fabrication...
Record-breaking analysis
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed ...
BP on continuous hunt for methane leaks
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
Integrated power-to-liquid test facility produces first fuel
A container-based test facility has successfully produced synthetic fuel from renewable energy an...
New reactor can produce pure stream of hydrogen
A CHEMICAL reactor has been designed that can produce hydrogen as a pure product stream.
Philadelphia oil refinery to shut down following fire
REFINERY owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has announced that it is to permanently close ...
Shell plans to becomes world’s largest power firm
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
OGTC funds effort to create digital twins of pressure vessels
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to dev...
Texas set for world’s greenest refinery
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
Producing synthetic gas with a single-step process
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire has successfully demonstrated a single-step process for producing syng...
Shell sets methane reduction target
SHELL has said it will reduce methane leaks by installing new equipment at its operations, as the...
Nuvia wins contract for Dounreay Site Restoration Limited
NUVIA (UK) has won a multi-million-pound contract with Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) t...
Air Products to build a coal-to-syngas facility for Jiutai New Material
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
Drax: Stepping closer to coal-free
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
Uranium: Under the sea
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
Cabot Microelectronics to acquire KMG Chemicals
CABOT Microelectronics, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarisation (CMP) p...
Novel smart drying technology
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
Worn valve may have caused Husky refinery blast
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has said that a deteriorated valve may have caused the explosi...
Fine investment: coal miner and oil trader invest in novel coal-to-fuel developer
VITOL and Peabody Energy have invested US$20m in a firm that has developed technology that it say...
ABB warns chemical firms must invest in digitalisation
ABB has warned that unless the leaders of chemical companies embrace the Industrial Internet of T...
Green ammonia project set for launch in UK today
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
Reducing the environmental impact of palm oil production
NEW technology has been developed that will convert palm oil waste into building materials and bi...
New aluminium smelting process will cut carbon emissions
ALUMINIUM producers Alcoa and Rio Tinto have announced a new joint venture, called Elysis, which ...
Successful testing of fission reactor for future space exploration
NASA has demonstrated that its prototype nuclear fission reactor can operate safely and produce t...
Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
Water purification using sunlight and hydrogel
A WATER purification method has been developed that uses sunlight along with an inexpensive gel, ...
New 4D printer can create shape-changing objects
RESEARCHERS have developed a prototype ‘4D’ printer that allows 3D-printed objects to change thei...
Monitoring tablet production with near-infrared chemical imaging
A STUDY has shown that near-infrared chemical imaging (NIR CI) can be used for monitoring the mix...
Siempelkamp develops new process for nuclear decontamination
A PROCESS for the chemical decontamination of nuclear reactor cooling systems has been developed ...
Shell shows scale of work underway at Geismar expansion
SHELL has released photos showing its progress building the world’s largest alpha olefins product...
Solar reactor uses storage to produce fuel day and night
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
DNV GL opens centre to catalyse 3D printing in oil and gas industry
DNV GL has set up an R&D centre in Singapore to accelerate the use of 3D-printed technology by th...
Emerson to keep an eye on Covestro plants to boost operations
EMERSON will install industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies at Covestro production pla...
3D printing with holograms
“INSTANTANEOUS” 3D printing using holograms could provide an alternative to layer-by-layer additi...
Sheffield plans continuous powder processing plant
THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, wh...
Video: CSB releases detailed animation of Arkema incident
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a detailed animation of the events leading to the...
Rockwell says no to Emerson offer
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a takeover offer worth around US$28bn from Emerson Electric.
Removing silica from power plant water
COOLING tower water could be reused and recycled ten or more times by using a new silica-removing...
