
Practical Process Control Part 4: Tuning a PID Controller
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Kariappa Karumbaiah explains how Hydroxsys hopes to place innovative membrane technology at the...
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
In this two-part contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt focus...
Plant operators are increasingly looking at ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of the...
The UK trade show for process, control, and plant engineers returns on 10 and 11 May and is free ...
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Adam Duckett and Amanda Jasi speak to engineers who are developing a variety of chemical looping ...
In this contribution to his series about chemical engineering history, Martin Pitt turns his focu...
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Nikolay Cherkasov explains how complex compounds for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals can be pro...
Amanda Jasi looks at projects that are compressing air to store energy
Alex Howard and Jonathan Upton offer criteria for determining which projects are likely to succeed
Steve Schofield offers strategies to optimise pump systems and identify energy savings
Grant Wellwood says soft sensors offer process engineers intriguing new ways to monitor and bolst...
Adam Duckett interviews Tom Pugh and Andrew Walker about Evove’s push to improve separations
Humbul Suleman and Rizwan Nasir ask if VHS tapes can help to develop better membranes for CO2 rem...
Neil Hannay offers some practical advice
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
British Sugar’s James Caws and consultant Howard Boder explain how small-scale advanced process c...
Pressure transmitters are frequently exposed to conditions that can prematurely destroy or compro...
Flowmeters are essential measurement devices across industry and considering all the parameters a...
Stephen Hall offers practical tips on calculating pressure loss due to friction.
What if autonomous vehicles could safely transport containers of raw materials around our product...
Séamus Higgins and Ellie Cooke look at a century’s evolution of food and processes, in the form o...
Tom Baxter shares safety lessons learned from across his career
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
The CHEMUK 2022 EXPO returns on 11 and 12 May 2022 at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over...
Discover how smart balances coupled with database storage can boost process and product development
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
Iwona Kandpal reports on support for SMEs as they increase their use of digital tech
The new digital age in our workplace isn’t coming, it’s already here, says Craig Smith
Peter Walmsley explains the role of muon tomography in waste management at the Sellafield site
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicompon...
Joanne Tanner and Tobias Cleaver-Ross discuss the benefits and challenges of cloud computing and ...
Thomas Machin talks about his pride in developing and delivering novel process measurement techno...
ON 10 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a free webinar to discuss techniques to improve the ...
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Sam Kingman, Chris Dodds, Adam Buttress and Daniel Groszek discuss new technology that offers a h...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the ...
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
ON 6 October, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss the practical advantages of using...
Joshua Pearce explains the use of open-source hardware to use recyclables as feedstock for custom...
Martin Killcross; ISBN: 9780128240496; Butterworth-Heinemann; 2021; £99
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Alessandro Viola explains how magnets can filter out metal particle contamination in pharmaceutic...
Alfonso Rodriguez and Charlie Espinosa explain innovations to map and remove mercury contaminatio...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Robert Walker explains the lessons he learned in successfully enabling critical gas supplies to c...
In the third of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute...
Early, timely input and support is key, says Gordon Lawrence
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down th...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Mingheng Li; ISBN: 9780735421813; AIP Publishing; 2020; US$135
Liza Forbes, Kym Runge, Mike Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench and Luke Vollert discuss a froth-free flot...
In the first in a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Why modern distributed control systems are increasingly important
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Oliver Jones; ISBN: 978-981-15-6189-4; Springer Singapore; 2020; US$59.99 (softcover)
Nikodem Siwek explains how to get the most from your pH measurement devices
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Can net zero housing help the UK meet targets? Tom Baxter does the math
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutica...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Digitalisation and automation are great for control loop optimisation - but we still need humans,...
How far has the technology come, asks Parminder Bansal
Rotating packed beds can play a part in making carbon capture smaller and cheaper
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Tony Hasting looks at the options for quality assurance
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
David Wong and colleagues discuss how the world’s aluminium smelters could enable the rapid uptak...
Adam Duckett on the opportunity to boost your skills
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capab...
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and ...
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety
Tom Baxter looks at the parasitic load challenge of CCS
Simon Jagers and Gerben Gooijers show how you can raise plant reliability using current and volt...
Everything is interdependent, say Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray
Paige Marie Morse explains how companies have been using digital technologies to adapt to the cor...
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
A look at what should go into a proper Basis of Design document for a solids handling system
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
Matthew Duchars and John Challenger describe the plans to design and build a facility that the UK...
Keith Plumb explains the importance of design of pressure relief systems for stirred tank vessels
CPI discusses the importance of bringing an engineering mindset to collaborate with biologists on...
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
Jonathan Pearce explains how new techniques can improve process efficiency
Chris Best addresses the role blowdown systems play in plant design and why they are essential in...
Rory Stanley explains developments in line blinding systems for total isolation
You may not be able to control the world, but you can control the flow of your bulk solids, says ...
Barry Perlmutter advises on transitioning from batch to continuous
Vanda Jones discusses how you can cut your compressed air energy consumption
Miguel Johansson Finguerut describes his work on community water projects in central Mexico
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations,...
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based techn...
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the U...
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids...
Best practice on specifying, designing, commissioning and operating control rooms
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
How digital measurement is making waves in water and wastewater treatment
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale oper...
Demystifying the art of successful commissioning
Kevin Wheeler explains bunding’s vital role and offers a practical summary of issues to consider ...
Keith Plumb gives an overview of batch heat transfer
Andrew Ogden-Swift reviews the pressing challenges
Mike Menzies asks what effect does injected hydrogen have on furnace, flame and exhaust in natura...
Tom Baxter shares more options for chemical engineers to boost energy efficiencies
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
Gordon Varney and Lydia Gaunt explain how to select pumps in the water, wastewater and sewage in...
The 10 biggest challenges when decommissioning a chemical site
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
A guide to selecting level measurement systems, from Alan Hunt
Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy cha...
Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk
How do you dismantle a chemical plant for re-erection at the other side of the world? Richard Van...
Andy Brazier explains why process isolation is more complicated than you might think
James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs
Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says M...
Michael Dixey and Pete Hibbs outline ways to optimise preventive maintenance routines
David Bowers explains how to keep compressed air use under control
Barry Perlmutter explains automated clarification technologies
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for ...
The chemical industry's five biggest considerations for redundant assets
Imagine if heat exchange of process fluids in an industrial setting was as simple as boiling a ju...
Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane tec...
Amanda Jasi visits the University of Greenwich, where a new lab has opened to support chemeng stu...
Pumps are the backbone of the process industry. In a process plant, it is necessary to move mater...
The importance of regular testing of portable gas detectors
Filtration is often overlooked during the development of new processes, but at what cost?
The potential of big data, the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 to transform perfor...
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Back to basics on theory and equipment
One radar level gauge can provide two separate and independent layers of protection
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Hydroponic technology could help us sustainably meet growing food demand
Why we should give more thought to these versatile, durable valves
Tips for selecting a pumping system for chemical treatment and comparing different dosing systems
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
How to stay on budget with large, complex projects
Ways for operations and design engineers to boost efficiencies
Can novel uses of blockchain technology in the chemical and process industries justify its cost?
A future where plants will monitor, diagnose potential issues, and even schedule a fix is not far...
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
Robots, big data, wearables, and rig-floor automation are being developed for a transformative bo...
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
Chemical synthesis of a retina, and how it can ‘see’ the world around it
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur
Developing a low-cost smartphone app to help craft beer breweries and homebrewers monitor and con...
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
New reactor promises continuous processing of biotherapeutics
An insight into the Energy Institute’s guidance on pressure relief in shell and tube heat exchang...
How refineries can overcome CDU challenges to boost the bottom line
Expert observations of demolition dangers and how to avoid them
Unwrapping the explosion pentagon to reduce risk
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
Next-generation batch technologies drive productivity and profitability
Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest i...
CHEMICAL companies and food manufacturers are among the latest firms to receive millions in UK go...
SABIC has agreed to assess Coolbrook’s turbomachine technology which is being piloted as a greene...
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
THE UK is set to host a new US$195m rare earth processing hub that Pensana is building at the Sal...
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has joined forces with Common Fusion Systems (CFS) of the US to sp...
KBR has been awarded the FEED contract for a CCS project that Cemex plans to install at a cement ...
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
THE British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has launched a campaign to help companies cut their com...
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered...
ENGINEERS at Coolbrook and ABB have set their sights on replacing steam cracking technology with ...
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, throug...
THE UK Environment Agency has published guidance on the best available techniques (BAT) for post-...
THE UK’s glass industry has said it faces a challenging road ahead in meeting net zero targets, a...
SOLVAY says its soda ash plant in Rheinberg, Germany will become the first in the world to use 10...
FONTERRA – New Zealand’s huge dairy cooperative – has come out in support of plans to end coal us...
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
REPAIRS are underway to resolve welding issues at Chevron’s Gorgon liquid natural gas (LNG) proje...
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to ...
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power s...
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
IMI Precision Engineering, a pneumatic motion and fluid control technology company, has rapidly a...
ICHEME’s Pharma Special Interest Group (SIG) has called for members to come forward and help supp...
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
LANCASTER University, UK is to make a major investment as part of plans to expand Engineering at ...
ENAPTER, which manufactures modular hydrogen electrolysers, has unveiled a new serial fabrication...
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed ...
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
A container-based test facility has successfully produced synthetic fuel from renewable energy an...
A CHEMICAL reactor has been designed that can produce hydrogen as a pure product stream.
REFINERY owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has announced that it is to permanently close ...
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to dev...
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire has successfully demonstrated a single-step process for producing syng...
SHELL has said it will reduce methane leaks by installing new equipment at its operations, as the...
NUVIA (UK) has won a multi-million-pound contract with Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) t...
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
LCW Supercritical Technologies and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have taken a mile...
CABOT Microelectronics, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarisation (CMP) p...
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has said that a deteriorated valve may have caused the explosi...
VITOL and Peabody Energy have invested US$20m in a firm that has developed technology that it say...
ABB has warned that unless the leaders of chemical companies embrace the Industrial Internet of T...
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
NEW technology has been developed that will convert palm oil waste into building materials and bi...
ALUMINIUM producers Alcoa and Rio Tinto have announced a new joint venture, called Elysis, which ...
NASA has demonstrated that its prototype nuclear fission reactor can operate safely and produce t...
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
A WATER purification method has been developed that uses sunlight along with an inexpensive gel, ...
RESEARCHERS have developed a prototype ‘4D’ printer that allows 3D-printed objects to change thei...
A STUDY has shown that near-infrared chemical imaging (NIR CI) can be used for monitoring the mix...
A PROCESS for the chemical decontamination of nuclear reactor cooling systems has been developed ...
SHELL has released photos showing its progress building the world’s largest alpha olefins product...
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
DNV GL has set up an R&D centre in Singapore to accelerate the use of 3D-printed technology by th...
EMERSON will install industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies at Covestro production pla...
“INSTANTANEOUS” 3D printing using holograms could provide an alternative to layer-by-layer additi...
THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, wh...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a detailed animation of the events leading to the...
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a takeover offer worth around US$28bn from Emerson Electric.
COOLING tower water could be reused and recycled ten or more times by using a new silica-removing...
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