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Why we Need to Engage with Primary School Children – and How to do it Effectively
Joy Parvin has 32 years of working in primary schools’ outreach under her belt. She reflects on w...
Blyth Decision Means UK’s Industrial Reboot Loses Another Site of National Importance
Northumberland County Council today approved plans to put a data centre on a site previously earm...
Our Research Focus: Going with the Flow Chemistry
Christian Holtze and Klaus Hellgardt on how the newly established IConIC consortium is aiming to ...
Internet of Things: A New Era for Biomanufacturing?
Duygu Dikicioglu and Lidia Borgosz explore the opportunities and challenges that will determine...
Making Wind Power More Sustainable
Designed to withstand decades of strong winds and harsh weather conditions, wind turbine blades a...
Life After End of Life
The limited lifespans of wind turbines and solar panels mean many of the vital materials involved...
Back to the Future
Adam Duckett on engineers and readers predicting and shaping the future
Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
Fuelling the World with Biomass
Our reliance on gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel shows little sign of declining despite the push to...
Engineering Net Zero Part 6: Skilling Up
David Simmonds looks at who we need to deliver our energy transition, from the local technician t...
The Challenges of Developing a Fusion Power Plant: and How Chemical Engineers are Helping Make STEP a Reality
In part two of our series on fusion energy, Jack Acres highlights the core challenges of developi...
Engineering at the Vanguard of Clean Power
Adam Duckett on the ever-evolving timescale for fusion power
Life as an Early Career Engineer
The National Early Careers Committee (UK & Ireland and Malaysia) sheds some light on the challeng...
Our Research Focus: Achieving Zero Harmful Discharge to Sea
Benaiah Anabaraonye discusses the Danish Offshore Technology Centre’s role in developing and acce...
Vendor Viewpoint: How RotoDynamic Technology enables clean olefin production
Coolbrook CEO Joonas Rauramo charts the path to fully electrified steam cracking, a game-changing...
Engineering Net Zero Part 5: Consuming the Planet's Resources
David Simmonds explores the picnic basket of our energy transition, our increasing dependency on ...
The Implications of Generative AI
Adam Duckett sees a bright future for chemical engineering and generative AI, but there are caveats
The Future of Chemical Engineering in the Era of Generative AI
Jin Xuan and Thorin Daniel imagine a future when HAZOP sessions take hours not months, P&IDs are ...
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...
AI’s Journey to Becoming the Best Process Safety Engineer in the Room
David Jamieson believes AI can revolutionise process safety, but says there is still some way to ...
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...
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
CAPE Crusaders: Exploring Career Opportunities in Computer-Aided Process Engineering
ESCAPE-33 attendee Tom Cowley provides his key takeaways from the IChemE-hosted panel discussion ...
A Digital-Twin Approach to Distillation Control Education
Isuru Udugama, Michael Taube, and Brent Young discuss the educational benefits of real-time indus...
Public Engagement for a Sustainable World
Alexandra Meldrum and Amit Verma share how IChemE members have been working to shape policy and p...
Managing Cybersecurity Risks
Tristan Hunter and Deaglan Gahan share some of the strategies to prevent and mitigate cybersecuri...
How Digitalisation Drives Resource Efficiency for the Chemicals Industry
Anahita Khanlari says digitalisation can help boost efficiencies with minimal investment
The Rise of AI
Adam Duckett on the rise of artificial intelligence
A Tool for Learning: Classroom Use-cases for Generative AI
Christopher Honig, Shannon Rios and Eduardo Oliveira offer three exercises that teachers can use ...
Why Should Cybersecurity Matter to You?
IChemE has launched fact files on the importance of cybersecurity in the process industries. Hele...
Data Science and Digitalisation for Chemical Engineers
Matthew Proctor and Leo Chiang discuss how the proliferation of data and ways to use it is impact...
Opportunities Knock
Adam Duckett on opportunities for communication and digitalisation
Next-generation Predictive Tools for Multiphase Systems
Omar Matar explains how researchers are combining machine learning and physics-driven approaches ...
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 ...
Digi-Bridging Biochemical Engineering Education
Preparing students for the digitally-enabled workplace, Duygu Dikicioglu and Gary Lye discuss the...
Virtual Reality: Levelling Up Process Safety Training
Process safety engineer Martin Wardrope looks closely at how virtual reality is being used to dev...
New Year, New Opportunities
Adam Duckett on new opportunities
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
Sellafield Digital Twin Project Clinches Top IChemE Award
Adam Duckett reports from this year’s Awards ceremony
Reflect and Project
Adam Duckett recaps an inspirational year
IChemE releases ChERD Centenary Special
In a centenary special issue of the journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design, experts off...
Chemical Engineering Matters in a time of Global Challenges
Alexandra Meldrum outlines coming updates to IChemE’s technical roadmap
Digital Twins in the Chemical Process Industries
Joanne Tanner and Colin Newbery discuss the hype and the hope for digital twins
Mind the Gap
Mo Zandi, Jarka Glassey and Brent Young discuss the emergence of Chemical Engineering Education 4.0
Small APC, Big Benefits
British Sugar’s James Caws and consultant Howard Boder explain how small-scale advanced process c...
Improving Health Outcomes Across the Scale
Adam Duckett on opportunities to improve health
It shouldn’t happen to a pressure transmitter
Pressure transmitters are frequently exposed to conditions that can prematurely destroy or compro...
One Year On
Jin Xuan, Jinfeng Liu and Chunfei Wu pick out their highlights from the first 12 months of Digita...
Question Time: Food & Water
IN the sixth webinar of IChemE’s Centenary series, experts discuss how chemical engineering can ...
Built Environment: A Plant-Based Alternative
What if autonomous vehicles could safely transport containers of raw materials around our product...
Book Review: People, Planet, Profit: Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Businesses
Kit Oung; ISBN: 9781637421819; Business Expert Press; 2022; US$17.99
Question Time: Safety
Experts gathered to discuss new safety challenges for a sustainable era. Kerry Hebden reports
Safety: Digitalising Process Safety
Helen Kilbride and Krisshala Sinanan discuss the benefits and challenges
Digitalisation: Integrating it in Education
Jarka Glassey talks to Amanda Doyle about the vital work of CHARMING
Remote tools: Undergraduate labs, under control
Joanne Tanner speaks to Amanda Doyle about lockdown labs and their future
Centenary Themes: Education
At-a-glance information on what's in the second of our centenary theme specials
Question Time: Education
Experts from academia and industry discuss the challenges in chemical engineering education and w...
Digitalisation for Pharma
Tony Margetts explains the industry’s challenges around connecting and collecting
Put on Your 3D Glasses
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over...
Teaching: Educating Chemical Engineers on Digitalisation
Esther Ventura-Medina, Joanne Tanner and Brent Young explain why digital literacy is so important
Improve the Accuracy of Your Formulations
Discover how smart balances coupled with database storage can boost process and product development
The Right Approach to Digitalisation
Iwona Kandpal reports on support for SMEs as they increase their use of digital tech
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Chris Jansen
Yasmin Ali speaks to Worley's Chris Jansen about his work in robotics strategies development, hel...
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...
Future Fit
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
Risks of Cyber-attacks are Closer Than They Appear
In the sixth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from the movie Ju...
Fight corrosion with simulation
CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the ...
DRAM It!
Joshua Pearce explains the use of open-source hardware to use recyclables as feedstock for custom...
Celebrating IChemE as a Learned Society
Alexandra Meldrum recalls our learned society’s achievements and previews what’s to come
Industrial Cyber Attacks on the Rise
Adam Duckett discusses the rising threat of cyber attacks
Digital Risk Management: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
Joanne Tanner and Tristan Hunter introduce a new member-led series on digitalisation, and in this...
Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
Patents and The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ed Round discusses what the patent landscape reveals about the future of manufacturing
Developing a Justification for a DCS Migration
Why modern distributed control systems are increasingly important
Describe, Diagnose, Predict and Prescribe – make it Data not Drugs!
Researchers and industry have developed a guide to data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing
Oils & Fats: Essential Engineering
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
Webinar: Robust Design Optimisation of a Multistage Compressor for Surge Avoidance
ON 13 January, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how simulation software can be u...
Accelerating Innovation with DOE
JMP invites engineers to explore an alternative way of experimenting that can increase your effec...
Engineering Pharma
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutica...
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
Webinar: The Digital Transformation of Process Engineering
ON 28 October, The Chemical Engineer is hosting a webinar to discuss the digital transformation o...
Digital Transformation for Maintenance
How risk-based inspection and maintenance has kept workers safe during Covid-19
Opening Up Instrumentation
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and ...
Webinar: the importance of design of experiments within chemical engineering
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is a...
HAZOP in a World of Covid
Conor Crowley looks at how his team has adapted to conduct good HAZOPs amidst pandemic and lockdown
Chem Plants Dream of Electric Bleeps
Simon Jagers and Gerben Gooijers show how you can raise plant reliability using current and volt...
Six Keys to Recovery for the Chemicals Industry
Six digital technologies that can be implemented now to achieve greater visibility and insights f...
Defending the Control Room: Layer by Layer
A look at the security threats facing control and safety systems, and the layers of protection to...
Climate Change, Hazards and Digitalisation
Sam Wilkinson discusses IChemE’s ongoing Learned Society activity
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...
Accelerating Innovation
JMP discusses how to encourage organisations to take a new approach to innovation
Transforming Innovation for Startups
JMP discusses how Design of Experiments (DOE) can help startups bring new and better products to ...
Under Pressure: Digital Twins
How structural digital twins can transform the maintenance and inspection of pressure vessels.
On the Road to Digital
Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations,...
Monitoring in Mining
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based techn...
Triumph Out of Adversity
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonst...
Just Add Water
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Spiralling Up
IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE
The Grandest Challenges
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Dry Run
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
A Flawless Start
Demystifying the art of successful commissioning
Automatic for the People
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Future Advances in Process Automation
Andrew Ogden-Swift reviews the pressing challenges
Where Next for AI in Drug Discovery?
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
Strategy 2024
IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to t...
DigiTwin: Moving closer to autonomous management
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), D...
Webinar: how Tata Steel is speeding up development with data analytics
ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experime...
Webinar: discover how BASF is analysing data to improve yield
ON 18 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how chemicals major BASF has use...
Transforming Asset Maintenance
Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says M...
Breaking the Mould
Michaël Kolk explains why chemical firms should unleash the power of convergence
Little Wonder
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
Enhanced Cybersecurity Improves Plant Productivity?
It is crucial that organisations do not allow cybersecurity and operational digitisation projects...
Speeding up Development with Data Analytics
Constant pressure to innovate? Boost development productivity with data analytics
Smart Maintenance
The potential of big data, the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 to transform perfor...
Bioprocessing insights on getting the most from your data
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
Data is Best
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
What Goes Around Comes Around
Cyber threats to process safety: industry must share lessons
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...
Malcolm Banks: Safety Technologist
Robots, big data, wearables, and rig-floor automation are being developed for a transformative bo...
Get more from your data, increase yields and reduce costs
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
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
Lessons in Safety
Effective communication a key theme as experts gather to discuss safety
Investing for a Digital Future
Financing options available for chemical companies looking to fund their own digital revolution
Fighting the Fight
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Growing the digital plant
Technology transfer: how digital trends in the consumer market might benefit process plant operat...
Get Nimble
Adam Duckett says it is time to get nimble and experiment
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...
Coming Soon…
The promise of AI for industrial automation
Making connections
Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest i...
The Rise and Evolution of the Connected Worker
Connected technologies offer the potential to achieve a step change for industrial markets akin t...
The chemical sector and its digital journey
THERE has been a lot of media attention regarding the term Industry 4.0, what it means, and how i...
Digital Pioneers
Evonik's chief digital officer discusses his expectations for digitalisation at the specialty che...
Peering into the Future
A crystal ball view of the chemical process industry
Control - on the Move
Wearables can bridge the gap between industry today and true industry 4.0
The Next Big Thing
The next big breakthrough in chemical process technology will only be achieved by adopting a rigo...
News
UK awards AI projects £1.73m to help decarbonise energy and transport
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) projects that could help optimise renewables and increase industrial...
Imperial College and Liverpool Uni to lead AI chemistry hub
A NEW UK research hub has received £12m (US$15m) in funding to investigate how AI can accelerate ...
AI put to work in push for rapid battery development
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is helping slash the time it takes to develop batteries, with Umicor...
50 technologies that could change the world
BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED AI, data stored in DNA, and power beamed from space are among 50 emerging t...
New supercomputers will put the UK 'first in the queue' when it comes to R&D and managing AI risks
UK INDUSTRIAL researchers have been promised a boon on the fringes of the Bletchley AI Summit tha...
IChemE Matters – September 2023
Nigel Hirst, Anousha Khan and Alexandra Meldrum have their say on the issues affecting IChemE mem...
Transforming the workforce with digital technologies
Automation execs share thoughts on how to help workers adapt
BASF strengthens R&D capabilities with a more powerful supercomputer
BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany, which it says is the...
Engineering options that can prevent sewer overflows
WITH industry forced to apologise for dumping untreated sewage into rivers, changes upstream incl...
The importance of engineers and not strangling AI
SIR PATRICK VALLANCE reflects on five years as the UK’s chief scientific advisor.
IChemE publishes cybersecurity fact files and urges chemical engineers to manage hacking risks against industry
ICHEME has launched a series of fact files to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity ...
Government announces new £370m Science and Technology Framework to boost UK innovation
THE UK government has announced a raft of measures to ‘cement the UK’s place as a science and tec...
BioNTech to fully acquire AI company InstaDeep
BIONTECH is fully acquiring artificial intelligence (AI) provider InstaDeep in a deal worth about...
UK to fund AI emissions reduction projects
THE UK Government has launched a new programme backed by £1.5m (US$1.9m) to support the use of ar...
Harmony Energy debuts battery energy storage project
INVESTMENT firm Harmony Energy has announced that its huge battery energy storage project based a...
Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award
SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in C...
Chemical engineer warns lawmakers about UK’s cyber weaknesses
THE UK is routinely targeted by cyber attackers, with China and Russia posing the greatest state-...
UK funding body announces sustainable smart factory competition winners
NATIONAL funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced the winners of £13.7m (US...
Partners push digitalisation for processes
IMPERIAL College London and China’s Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) are ...
Imperial College and BASF strengthen partnership that seeks innovative chemicals development
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
Taskforce suggests recommendations to digitally unite energy sectors
The Offshore Energy Data Strategy (OEDS) Taskforce has in a new report, set out a series of recom...
UK data hub to boost manufacturing
ULSTER University, UK is leading a new £50m (US$62.9m) data innovation hub and testbed expected t...
Steel industry gathers to discuss sustainability
INDUSTRY workers and researchers from across the steel sector gathered for the virtual bi-annual ...
Farewell to 2021, and what to read while we’re away
WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent quer...
Ineos FPS uses AI to reduce emissions
INEOS Forties Pipeline System (FPS) has deployed AI technology to enable it to further reduce emi...
Shell invests in upgrader as it pivots towards circular chemicals at Singapore site
SHELL will build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit at its Pulau Bukom site in Singapore as part o...
Partners launch digitally-forward plant project
METHACRYLATE manufacturer Rӧhm has partnered with engineering consultant Wood to launch a signifi...
Siemens and BioNTech commit to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine scale-out, starting in Singapore
SIEMENS and BioNTech say they will build a Covid-19 vaccine facility in Singapore, as part of eff...
Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
Richardson: Make systems thinking education mandatory
ICHEME President Stephen Richardson has recommended to a House of Lords select committee that sys...
IChemE awards engineers who 3D print reactors
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
Plastic Energy’s push to close loop on plastics wins top IChemE Award
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
BP and Microsoft join forces on Industry 4.0 and clean energy
BP and Microsoft are working together to advance their net zero ambitions and the digital transfo...
PSE and Siemens join partnership to advance continuous drug manufacturing
THE UK’s Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre has expanded its partners to include PSE, Siem...
Singapore site to pioneer digital twin technology for Shell
SHELL has announced that its manufacturing site in Pulau Bukom, Singapore, home of Singapore’s fi...
Air Liquide buys world’s largest oxygen operation
AIR LIQUIDE is buying the world’s largest oxygen production site – from Sasol in South Africa – a...
BASF lends supercomputer to fight against Covid-19
BASF has been using its supercomputer to help identify molecules that might help in the fight aga...
Partners join forces to supply turnkey biotech plants
SIEMENS has formed a partnership with process plant designer Exyte to quickly deliver turnkey bio...
Communication troubles are holding back UK biotech
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
BP on continuous hunt for methane leaks
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
Using AI to improve drug development
SCIENCE and technology company Merck is collaborating with Iktos to use Iktos’ artificial intelli...
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...
BP invests in AI to accelerate upstream projects
BP has invested US$5m in artificial intelligence technology in a bid to speed up projects.
GPS pioneers win prestigious QEPrize
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
Perkins report finds scant progress on engineering skills
FIVE years on from the publication of his engineering skills review for the UK Government, former...
Exxon partners with IBM to advance quantum computing
EXXONMOBIL has become the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community t...
BASF selects Zhanjiang for new integrated chemicals complex
BASF has picked Zhanjiang as the site for its new US$10bn chemicals complex in China.
BASF announces strategy to boost growth but keep emissions flat
BASF has outlined a strategy to outpace average global chemical sales while stagnating emissions.
ABB warns chemical firms must invest in digitalisation
ABB has warned that unless the leaders of chemical companies embrace the Industrial Internet of T...
ABB signs deal with Yitai Group
ABB has signed an agreement with Chinese coal production company Yitai to apply ABB’s technologie...
