History of Nuclear Engineering Part 3: Atoms for Peace
In 1953, Dwight D Eisenhower (1890–1969) began his US presidential term with a widely applauded “...
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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...
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 2: Building the Bomb
The story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build nuclear weapons is usually told about ph...
Integrating Cybersecurity into the Chemical Engineering Curriculum
With cybersecurity now a core subject for many higher education institutions, the National Univer...
Book Review: Process Plant Design
Robin Smith; ISBN: 9781119689980; Wiley; 2023; US$72.00 (eBook); US$89.95 (print)
Become Natech Savvy
Aimee Russell highlights the issues you probably haven’t thought about when it comes to extreme w...
Better Safe Than Sorry (Whatever Safe Is)
Trevor J Hughes on why reducing risk will only come from engineers challenging cringeworthy ‘ma...
Adapting Hazard Studies for Extreme Weather
The original HAZOP methodology developed by ICI has been expanded over time. Mike McKay and Georg...
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 1: Radioactivity
For just over 100 years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Marti...
Process Safety Leadership Site Visits
Performed well, leadership visits play a vital role in supporting a positive safety culture at a ...
Rules of Thumb: Distillation
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 ru...
A Taste of Industry before Uni
Susan Ojo tells Adam Duckett about how her industrial placement is benefiting her studies
Volunteer Spotlight: Adriana Vargas-Colwill CEng MIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
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...
Understanding Flammable Gases: Composition and Safety
Hazardous environment consultancy Armadex highlights the importance of safety data sheets (SDSs) ...
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 ...
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Health and Safety for Beauty Products
In the latest in her series highlighting the breadth of career opportunities in chemical engineer...
Viewpoint: Heating Homes with Hydrogen – a Hazard that Should be Avoided
Tom Baxter’s TCE article “Home Hydrogen: Is it Safe?” generated a lot of interest from the chemen...
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...
Taking a Look Back at Control: Part 2
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, concluding with electr...
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 ...
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 ...
Students, educators, and generative AI in peaceful coexistence
Stuart Prescott addresses the strengths and weaknesses of generative AI in an education setting
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...
Ethics and AI: Concepts and Relevance for Chemical Engineers
John McDermid considers the ethical implications of using AI in a chemical engineering setting
Boksburg Blast Victims Deserve Investigation Report That is Not Buried
Forty-one people died when a road tanker exploded in the Boksburg suburb of Johannesburg in 2022....
Should Green Ammonia be the Hydrogen Carrier of Today?
With decarbonisation on the agenda worldwide, engineers are looking for new ways to use hydrogen ...
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...
Public Engagement for a Sustainable World
Alexandra Meldrum and Amit Verma share how IChemE members have been working to shape policy and p...
Book Review: In the Shadow of Piper Alpha
Ian Maloney; ISBN: 9781913836160; Tippermuir Books; £5.00; 2022
Managing Cybersecurity Risks
Tristan Hunter and Deaglan Gahan share some of the strategies to prevent and mitigate cybersecuri...
A Safer Management of Ammonia
Seshu Dharmavaram discusses his research into anhydrous ammonia and how better management of it c...
Hazards 33: Helping Turn Good Practice into Common Practice
Eamon Chandler, chair of the Hazards 33 conference technical committee, previews the key themes t...
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Safely Delivering Industrial Gases
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Caroline Smither tells Yasmin Ali about her work helpin...
INWED 2023: Marlene Kanga on the Satisfaction of Engineering a Safer Society
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Marlene Kanga talks to Orla Douds about the satisfactio...
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...
Distillation Improvement Opportunities Part 1: Introduction - Your Greener Prospects
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportu...
Why Should Cybersecurity Matter to You?
IChemE has launched fact files on the importance of cybersecurity in the process industries. Hele...
Opportunities Knock
Adam Duckett on opportunities for communication and digitalisation
Embracing the Challenges of Ethical Engineering
Robert Peeling, chair of IChemE’s Congress, recounts the ethical lessons he has learned throughou...
Book Review: Petroleum Refining: Design and Applications Handbook
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 9781119794868; Wiley-Scrivener; 2022; eBook US$236; Print $295
Trust: The Safety Silver Bullet
Human factors expert W Ian Hamilton reflects on the process of fixing trust in order to fix safet...
Where Beauty Meets Safety
Thiago Ramos talks about his role at L’Oréal, coordinating and implementing the company’s health ...
Virtual Reality: Levelling Up Process Safety Training
Process safety engineer Martin Wardrope looks closely at how virtual reality is being used to dev...
A Short History of Unintended Consequences
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Safety is my job: Sophie Horne
Robin Turney speaks to Sophie Horne about her role in the water industry
Challenger: Home for Christmas
Mark Yates examines the engineering behind Apollo, and highlights the continuing importance of sc...
Safety is my job: Mike Rantell
Robin Turney speaks to Mike Rantell about his role in safety at Novartis
Safe Flow Meter Installation and Flow Monitoring in Hazardous Environments
Neil Hannay offers some practical advice
Home Hydrogen: Is it Safe?
Tom Baxter looks at the evidence
What Just Happened?
Ivan Vince takes a look back at Buncefield, and the need for a new breed of ‘remembrancers’
Ethics: No Room for Relativity
Malcolm Staves explains the importance of applying the highest safety standards regardless of reg...
Book Review: Synthesis and Operability Strategies for Computer-Aided Modular Process Intensification
Efstratios Pistikopoulos and Yuhe Tian; ISBN: 9780323855877; Elsevier; 2022; US$190
Safety Moments: What to Expect from Hazards 32
IChemE Past President Ken Rivers on what to expect from the coming Hazards event
Question Time: Food & Water
IN the sixth webinar of IChemE’s Centenary series, experts discuss how chemical engineering can ...
Ethics Series: A Circle of Trust
Joan Cordiner discusses the world of professional ethics
Get Hydrogen Ready
How to shift to hydrogen power – safely.
Bidding Farewell to the Forever Chemicals
Paul Stevenson discusses options for remediation of PFAS contamination
Safety: Walkabout talkabout
Fiona Macleod illustrates Trevor Kletz’ thoughts on accident investigation
Viral Safety Challenges in Bioprocessing
David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing
Safety: My Five Lessons from Five Decades of Engineering
Tom Baxter shares safety lessons learned from across his career
Safety: Protecting Plants Against the Environment
Adam Duckett speaks to Steven Fitzgibbon about natural hazard risk reduction
Safety Talk, Safety Action
Adam Duckett on taking action to improve safety
Safety: Chemical Accident Investigation
The UK needs its own ‘Chemical Safety Board’, says Keith Plumb
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
Safety is my job: Muhammad Naeem Ullah
Robin Turney speaks to Muhammad Naeem Ullah about his work as a process safety specialist at the ...
Rules of Thumb: Flammable Liquids: Open or Closed?
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Risk: We've Got it Covered
Mariné Botha and Rachel Ramskill share their experiences of working in risk engineering in the Mi...
Safety is my job: Paul Feltoe
Robin Turney speaks to Paul Feltoe about his role in process safety consulting
Ethics Series: Did you sleep well?
Speaking the truth when others don’t want to hear has to be part of our DNA as engineers, says Da...
Rules of Thumb: Safety Considerations for Pumps
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Safety Critical Task Analysis
Andrew Livingston, Shaista Bibi and Conor Crowley provide practical advice on this key risk manag...
Delta Force
Trish Kerin explains the power of using Delta HAZOP, a new method for revalidating previous HAZOPs
Safety is my job: Fiona Barclay
Robin Turney speaks to Fiona Barclay about her role in keeping people safe at Clair Ridge
Words from the Wise
David Edwards brings bite-sized process safety wisdom from Trevor Kletz to a new generation
An Introduction to Safety is my Job
Members of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention SIG introduce a series that showcases the roles in p...
The Bomb in Your Pocket?
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
Making Medicines: Safely
Naomi Atkinson talks about her role in ensuring safe and compliant manufacture of therapeutics an...
Book Review: Process Safety Calculations Second Edition
Renato Benintendi; ISBN: 9780128235164; Elsevier; 2021; €190.75
COMAaaaargH! COMAH Reports Gone Wrong
How to avoid some common pitfalls in the production and use of a COMAH report; from Robert McGreg...
Closing the Plastics Loop
Ivan McCormack discusses his role in the recycling sector, developing a chemical process to clos...
Future Fit
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
Safety Gaps: Good Practice is Still Not Common Practice
Ken Rivers, Chair of the COMAH Strategic Forum, shares his views on how IChemE can help improve s...
Handle with Care
Low temperature embrittlement is a common, but poorly understood hazard. Paul Denham looks at pre...
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...
Are You Best in Class at Process Safety Management?
Jack Wishart discusses how benchmarking can be used to measure and drive improvements in process ...
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
Hans Up! Why we Should Channel our Inner Gruber During a HAZOP
In the fifth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from the movie Die ...
How Are You Feeling Today? No, How Are You REALLY Feeling?
In International Week of Happiness at Work, we look at why asking ourselves (and others) how we'r...
Trapping a Slippery Foe
Alfonso Rodriguez and Charlie Espinosa explain innovations to map and remove mercury contaminatio...
Celebrating IChemE as a Learned Society
Alexandra Meldrum recalls our learned society’s achievements and previews what’s to come
Readers of the Lost Safety Case
In the fourth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from Indiana Jones
Tangled up in Blue
Tom Baxter argues against using blue hydrogen to produce electricity
Book Review: Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform
Andrew Hopkins and Deanna Kemp; ISBN: 9781922509048; Wolters Kluwer; 2021; US$65
Giving a Client Value: Whatever That Is
John Downer explains how teams can understand and provide value to projects for clients
IChemE’s New Major Hazards Management Agenda
IChemE groups will speak with one voice, says Margaret Donnan
Robust Management of Change. It’s about time
In the third article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from the movie Back...
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...
Safety Lessons from Home Alone
David Jamieson explains what Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits can teach us about inherent sa...
Making Sure Risks are ALARP
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise explain why it’s so important to consider real-world situations in ris...
Risk: Tools of the Trade
Andy Brazier asks are you satisfied that everything ‘reasonably practicable’ has been done to red...
The Greatest Teacher, Accidents Are
A bow-tie diagram could have saved the Death Star, says David Jamieson
Book Review: Trevor Kletz Compendium: His Process Safety Wisdom Updated for a New Generation
Andy Brazier, David Edwards, Fiona Macleod, Craig Skinner, Ivan Vince; ISBN: 9780128194478; Elsev...
Call and Response
Adam Duckett on member feedback
What Safety Studies Have You Got on Your Menu?
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise introduce a series looking at ALARP
Safety by Design: Making Bigger, Better
Joe Willmot shares the methodologies and data required to achieve a robust and safe scaleup from ...
How Can We Help Address the Harmful, Enduring Legacy of Bhopal?
Last year, IChemE’s President Stephen Richardson took the unusual step of writing to India’s Prim...
Deconstructing Runaway Reactions Using Dynamic Modelling
James Close, John Barker and Georges Melhem use a case study to explain the importance of underst...
New EU Safety Data Sheet Requirements
Aidan Bushell explains changes for Dust Explosions (Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/878)
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Then and Now
Geoff Gill reviews how the accident played out, and the huge engineering challenges involved in m...
Fukushima in Numbers
The Fukushima disaster in numbers
LOPA Versus Covid
Ali Mokhber, Christopher Ross, and Pablo Garcia-Trinanes describe how layers of protection analys...
How on Earth
Adam Duckett on Fukushima and the future of nuclear
Book Review: Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care
Clive Lloyd; ISBN: 9780367509538; CRC Press; 2020; US$64.95 (Hardback), US$20.65 (ebook)
Let's Talk Nuclear
Zsuzsanna Gyenes makes the case for the much-maligned energy source
LPB: Access All Areas
Key safety resource is now free for members, says Fiona Macleod
Solids Flow: Prevent the Problem
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
New Nuclear
Ian Scott discusses the development of the waste-burning stable salt reactor (SSR)
Accentuate the Positive
How we can learn important safety lessons from success as well as failure
Ensuring the Safety of Food
Tony Hasting looks at the options for quality assurance
Digital Transformation for Maintenance
How risk-based inspection and maintenance has kept workers safe during Covid-19
New UK DEKRA Organisation: One-stop shop for High Hazard Process Industries
DEKRA announces the merger of its UK Process Safety and Organisational Reliability businesses
Skill Up
Adam Duckett on the opportunity to boost your skills
How Strong are your Barriers?
What can be learned from inspections of loss of containment audit and assurance systems in the UK...
Book Review: A Guide to Hazard Identification Methods, Second Edition
Frank Crawley; ISBN: 9780128195437 (paperback); Elsevier; 2020; £117.30
All the Dominoes Fall
A long-term moral perspective to process safety is needed, says Marc Reid
A Clean Bill of Health
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
Design Fire Fighting
What do you do when you unexpectedly lose a crucial piece of your refinery complex? Shahidan Lail...
Success for Recipes
Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety
HAZOP in a World of Covid
Conor Crowley looks at how his team has adapted to conduct good HAZOPs amidst pandemic and lockdown
Book Review: What Went Wrong? 6th Edition
Trevor Kletz & Paul Amyotte; ISBN: 9780128105399 (Hardcover) 9780128105405 (eBook); Butterworth-H...
Witness to the Beirut blast
Safety expert Wassim Naddi on Lebanon’s disregard for safety and the need for change.
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
Hydrogen: Informing a Safe Decision to Achieve Net Zero
A review of the safety implications of a wider use of hydrogen, and the efforts under way to addr...
PPE Challenge Accepted
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
All You Can Eat
What contribution do chemical engineers make in ensuring our food is safe?
The Heat is On
Keith Plumb explains the importance of design of pressure relief systems for stirred tank vessels
After the spill: an introduction to the series
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
After the spill: research for safer offshore operations
A decade on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, James Pettigrew discusses the efforts to bring t...
After the spill: well incident response
Scott Powell and Scott Vickers look at how industry's emergency response measures have evolved in...
After the spill: safety standards and metrics
Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, US offshore drilling safety improvements remain elusive
Deepwater Horizon: As it Happened
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
H21: The Story So Far
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
Cross-industry Learning from High Hazard Sectors
How we choose to learn can determine whether we will repeat similar situations, says Gabor Posta
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
Rainbow in Flames
Process engineer Ramin Abhari's latest graphic novel aims to raise awareness about laboratory safety
Pure and Simple
Miguel Johansson Finguerut describes his work on community water projects in central Mexico
Addressing the Grand Challenges
Claudia Flavell-While looks at learned society priorities
The Imperfections of Accident Analysis
Four key ideas that help us understand the real world of work.
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Matt Longley
From working in water treatment to paving the way for film productions including Harry Potter
Just Add Water
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Net Zero and Safety
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie...
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...
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...
Book Review: Organising for Safety; How Structure Creates Culture
Andrew Hopkins AFIChemE; ISBN: 9781925894158; Wolters Kluwer; 2019; £57.22
Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center: So Much Achieved and Much More to Do
On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at t...
Automatic for the People
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Book review: The Dyes – Scotland’s dyestuff pioneers and a century of chemical manufacturing in Grangemouth
John Blackie; ISBN: 978-1-9993700-0-8; Dyes Publishing; 2019; £15
Chemical Decommissioning: Safety Challenges
What are the most significant safety hurdles in chemical decommissioning?
Separations under Control
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
Policy Perspective
Nooryesha Choudhury explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
Reflections on Banqiao
On the anniversary of the Banqiao Dam disaster of 1975, Fiona Macleod reflects on a visit to the ...
Houston…We Have a Checklist
Why the humble checklist was essential during the Apollo space programme.
Management of Change: Getting it Right
Management of Change: Getting it Right (or at least not getting it badly wrong)
From Black Books to Learning
The challenge of learning from incidents: from awareness to identify, transfer, and sustain
Discussions on safety
IChemE’s annual Hazards conference was held from 22–24 May in Birmingham, UK. More than 350 peopl...
QRA: Ten Golden Rules
Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determin...
Degrees of Separation
Andy Brazier explains why process isolation is more complicated than you might think
LPB: Learning from Incidents
A look at how the Loss Prevention Bulletin and its Editorial Panel operate
Maintaining Chronic Unease
Fighting complacency and drift by using process safety performance indicators to establish and ma...
Refinery Safety Failures – Attitude or Engineering?
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
The New Normal
Don’t let your organisation drift into failure through normalisation of deviance
Comics and Chemical Engineering
How story telling can help in preventing accidents.
The Chemical Detective
Amanda Doyle meets Fiona Erskine to discuss her explosive thriller
Valve Safety & the Environment
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
Safety First
Allyson Woodford shares her personal journey with process safety
Mercury Falling
Teaching artisanal gold miners to go mercury-free using a century-old technique.
Operating Discipline: Maintaining the Basis of Safety
Examining the concept of operational discipline as the means by which we can maintain the basis o...
The Basis of Safety
Why your plant is safe, and how to maintain it
Limits of LOPA
Limitations and misuse of layers of protection analysis
Process Safety Models: Cheese, Chains or Cords?
Harvey Dearden offers an alternative to the 'Swiss cheese' model for representing process safety....
Hazard Identification: Planning for Success
A look at the hazard and operability study (HAZOP).
Managing ALARP in Major Engineering Projects
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
HAZZZZOP?
Believe it or not, the role of HAZOP scribe has much to offer up-and-coming chemical engineers
Process vs Personal Safety
Process safety and personal safety need to be managed in very different ways
Safety Investigations are Prone to Bias
Bias can have a significant safety effect, both in the causes of accidents and in the way we inve...
Do The Bump (Test)
The importance of regular testing of portable gas detectors
Big Bangs - and How to Avoid Them
Highlights from the Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on fireworks and explosives.
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
Spontaneous Combustion of Tortilla Chip Waste: an Unknown Known?
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
Applying chemical engineering in the construction industry
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process ...
Data is Best
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
The Long View on Longford
20 years on from Australia’s infamous gas explosion, what have we learned, and what should we do ...
What Goes Around Comes Around
Cyber threats to process safety: industry must share lessons
Industrial Aftermath: Project Ends Toxic Pesticide Legacy
Mag Sim of Pure Earth takes us inside the collaborative effort that cleaned up a polluted industr...
Step Up and Share
As lessons emerge following the Grenfell Tower review, chemical engineers have a duty to share th...
Dame Judith Hackitt and Erin Johnson talk fire safety
Chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a ri...
Using Bow Ties to Classify Barriers
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
What is it Like Being a Chemical Engineer in Parliament?
Erin Johnson, Ashok Kumar Fellow, talks to IChemE’s Rachael Fraser
Do Share
Adam Duckett says we must do all we can to share the lessons of Piper Alpha
Piper Alpha Perspectives: Introducing the Series
Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series laun...
Piper Alpha: The Disaster in Detail
Fiona Macleod, chair of the Loss Prevention Bulletin Editorial Panel, and Stephen Richardson, an ...
Malcolm Banks: Safety Technologist
Robots, big data, wearables, and rig-floor automation are being developed for a transformative bo...
Sam Ash: Apprentice
Personal perspective from Sam Ash, a young technician working offshore
Jo Reynolds: Geophysics Graduate
Insight from a young geophysicist joining the sector, working for BP's offshore operations.
Chris Flint: Energy Regulator
HSE director Chris Flint discusses the need for all of us to seek to improve the approach to regu...
Shahana Buchanan: IChemE Special Interest Group Chair
Shahana Buchanan, chair of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention Special Interest Group discusses how...
Shakeel Ramjanee: Offshore Safety Engineer
An offshore safety engineer describes how, as he approaches the ten-year mark of his career, Pipe...
Phil Eames: Process Safety Trainer
Phil Eames recounts ICI’s response to the Piper Alpha tragedy and offers up a video that all youn...
Piper Alpha Perspectives
ON 6 July 1988, 167 men died in the Piper Alpha disaster. This series revisits the accident and ...
Terry Cooper: Preventer of Major Accidents
Terry Cooper is a chemical engineer by training. This article is an adapted version of a speech h...
Drew Rae: Podcaster
Disastercast host Drew Rae offers up a challenging view on the danger of convincing ourselves tha...
Trish Kerin: IChemE Safety Centre Director
A personal perspective from IChemE Safety Centre's Director
Dame Judith Hackitt: Grenfell Tower Fire Investigator
Dame Judith Hackitt remembers Piper Alpha and in light of the Grenfell Tower fire reminds us ther...
Steve Rae: Piper Alpha Survivor
A personal perspective from Steve Rae, a survivor of Piper Alpha who has made it his duty to ensu...
Deirdre Michie: Trade Association Chief
Deirdre Michie reflects on the success of Oil & Gas UK's Safety 30 conference.
Lord Cullen: Piper Alpha Investigator
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk gave this speech at the opening of Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference i...
Conor Crowley: Process Safety Consultant
People often say they remember where they were when they heard President Kennedy was shot, when P...
Deep Impact
Adam Duckett, on life-changing moments, regrets, and the red thread of safety
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
To Shrug or Not to Shrug
How turning a blind eye can have serious cumulative effects on process safety
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
Tastes Good, Can’t Hurt? It Ain’t Necessarily So
The Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on food processing uncovers hazards you might find s...
It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
Shale Gas: Friend or Foe?
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
On the Level
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
Beyond ALARP
Why considered, informed, respectful dialogue is needed
Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
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...
Trevor Kletz – A lifetime spent saving lives
Trevor Kletz, the father of inherent safety, explains his remarkable career
Ditch the Deluge
An argument for using insulation rather than fixed firewater deluge to protect bulk LPG storage t...
The ‘Watermelon’ Effect: Does a green dashboard mean a healthy facility?
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ sugg...
Health and Safety: Diverse and Inclusive
Employers should know that robust D&I initiatives will lead to better H&S
How to Sample Heat Transfer Fluids
A practical guide to taking a representative sample, and doing so safely.
A Critical Safety Moment
Adam Duckett on Trump’s move to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board
News
US polluters will pay for PFAS contamination cleanup following EPA ruling
PFAS polluters have been targeted by new legislation introduced by the US labelling two widely us...
East Palestine train derailment: Norfolk Southern agrees to $600m payout
FREIGHT train operator Norfolk Southern (NS) has agreed to pay a settlement of US$600m to residen...
US environmentalists call for ‘total ban’ on PFAS usage in response to new standard
THE LONG-AWAITED US standard for PFAS in drinking water has been met with a lukewarm response fro...
IChemE Matters – April 2024
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for ...
Training and materials choices blamed for fatal Texas blast
POOR materials selection and staff training failures contributed to an explosion and fire at a KM...
Huge blast at oil terminal in Guinea's capital kills at least 18 people
AT LEAST 18 people are dead and 178 have been injured following a huge explosion, and subsequent ...
Safety issues to the fore at IChemE-hosted roundtable on battery energy storage systems
SAFETY concerns surrounding lithium-ion batteries dominated a recent IChemE-hosted roundtable dis...
UK’s Redcar ‘hydrogen village’ trial cancelled due to insufficient feedstock supply
THE UK government will not be proceeding with a controversial hydrogen trial in Redcar. Northern ...
IChemE Matters – December 2023/January 2024
Nigel Hirst, Trish Kerin and Alexandra Meldrum have their say on the issues affecting IChemE members
Hazards conference: energies and skills impacts come into sharp focus
Safety professionals urged to consider transition, natech, and non-technical skills
Jennifer Aitken, 1973–2023
Obituary of Jennifer Aitken, process safety advocate and popular member of IChemE's Pharma Specia...
OSHA says worker death at factory in Massachusetts, US, could have been prevented
AN EXPLOSION that killed a worker at a pharmaceutical plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, US, co...
Oxford’s rapid Covid test wins top prize at IChemE Awards
THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process ...
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...
46 miners killed in methane gas explosion at ArcelorMittal mine in Kazakhstan
A METHANE explosion at a mine in Kazakhstan run by ArcelorMittal Temirtau has killed 46 workers. ...
Two workers at Fukushima nuclear site hospitalised after being splashed with contaminated fluid
TWO contractors are under observation in hospital after they were exposed to contaminated liquid ...
Worker dies in Melbourne chemicals plant blast
A MAN has died in an explosion at a chemical plant in Melbourne, Australia.
US ammonia tanker spill kills five, injures seven
ANHYDROUS ammonia released from a tanker during a traffic incident in Teutopolis, US, is believed...
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...
Aurecon follows in the footsteps of AstraZeneca and Shell to become 100th member of the IChemE Safety Centre
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has welcomed its 100th member to the consortium – the engineering ...
Dominican officials accuse plastics company of causing explosion that killed 31 people
AUTHORITIES in the Dominican Republic are pursuing a criminal case against a plastics company fol...
Seabed watchdog accuses deep-sea miner of ignoring risk procedures after spill in Pacific
NAURA OCEAN RESOURCES (NORI), the company which sparked debate into deep sea mining in 2021, has ...
IChemE Safety Centre celebrates 50th company member
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) celebrated a key milestone this month as it welcomed fire engineer...
CSB releases final report on fatal 2020 explosion at Optima Belle
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has released its final report on the ...
Government rejects plans for Whitby 'hydrogen village' trial due to local opposition
WHITBY in Cheshire will no longer be considered as the location for the UK's first hydrogen villa...
Worker found dead after an explosion at a pharmaceuticals plant in Massachusetts, US
A WORKER has been killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a pharmaceutical plant in Newb...
Five killed in chemical plant explosion in China
FIVE people have been killed, one is missing, and another is being treated for injuries in hospit...
Mill owner accused of wilful violation of safety standards following worker’s death
THE US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has accused a mill owner of wilful vi...
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 ...
Seven killed in US chocolate factory explosion
THE death toll following an explosion at a US chocolate factory on 24 March has risen to seven. T...
Report: oxygen plant explosion in Bangladesh kills at least six
AT least six people have been killed and “several” injured in an oxygen plant explosion in south-...
Freeport LNG receives approval for partial restart
THE US’s Freeport LNG has received regulatory approval to partially restart commercial operations...
Search for survivors continues at fatal Chinese mine collapse site
A LARGE-scale rescue effort is ongoing after reports of an open-pit coal mine collapse in China, ...
One killed in US metals plant explosion
ONE person has died and at least a dozen others were injured in an explosion at a metals plant in...
CSB identifies six key safety issues that led to 2018 Superior refinery explosion
FAILURE to learn from a similar incident investigation released less than a year prior is among s...
Fire at Chinese plant kills 38
A FIRE which broke out yesterday at a goods factory in China has killed 38 people and injured two...
One reported dead after Petronas pipeline explosion
LOCAL news reports that one person is dead, and as many as three are injured, following an explos...
Analysis finds cause of major LNG exporter facility fire
A FIRE which resulted in the shutdown of major US LNG export facilities in June has been found to...
Cracks found in feedwater pumps at Finland’s OL3 nuclear plant
CRACKS of a few centimetres have been identified in all four of the feedwater pumps of the Olkilu...
IChemE Safety Centre Director wins Leader of the Year Award
TRISH Kerin, Director of the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC), has won the Women In Safety Leader of th...
Explosion at BP refinery in the US kills two
TWO workers have died after sustaining injuries in a fire at a BP-operated refinery in Toledo, Oh...
Large fire breaks out at UK chemical storage unit
FIREFIGHTERS have responded to a large fire at a chemical storage unit in Staffordshire, UK after...
Marlene Kanga to present at joint Chemeca and Hazards Australasia event
CHARTERED chemical engineer Marlene Kanga, who successfully campaigned for World Engineering Day,...
New ‘forever chemical’ elimination method ‘might be the start of something practically interesting’
A TEAM of multinational researchers has developed a novel method for breaking down environmentall...
Thomas Michael O’Connor, 1953–2022
THOMAS Michael O’Connor, who dedicated his life to educating chemical engineers about the importa...
Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster
FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to p...
Carlsberg fined £3m for fatal ammonia leak
CARLSBERG has been fined £3m (US$3.6m) after one contractor died and another was seriously injure...
Toxic gas leak kills 13 in Jordan
A LEAK of toxic chlorine gas at Aqaba’s Red Sea port has killed 13 people and injured more than 3...
Dame Judith Hackitt to speak at Hazards 32
Former IChemE President Dame Judith Hackitt will reflect on the importance of cross-sector hazard...
One killed in Chinese petrochemical plant fire
ONE person was killed by a fire which broke out at an ethylene glycol facility belonging to the s...
Freeport LNG to remain offline until September
Freeport LNG, which shut down after a fire earlier this month, has announced that its Texas, US p...
Six people missing following blast at Chinese pesticide site
At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical fa...
Shutdown of US LNG exporter after fire raises supply concerns
ONE of the US’s largest LNG export facilities has shutdown after a fire, raising supply concerns ...
Chemical blasts in Bangladesh kill at least 41 people, say reports
A CHEMICAL blaze and explosions at a container depot in Bangladesh have killed at least 41 people...
News reports fatal chemical blasts in India
NEWS sites have reported fatal chemical incidents in India’s Hapur district, in the state of Utta...
€100m needed for Chernobyl invasion repairs
€100m (US$107m) is needed for repairs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the Russian ...
UKAEA shows X-rays could support safe, reliable fusion power
SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully shown that X-ray scanning ...
Six dead after ‘worst industrial fire in Slovenia’s recent history’
SIX people are dead following an explosion and fire yesterday at the Melamin chemical plant in Ko...
Aussie reactor trial seeks to coax coal miners to capture methane
A NOVEL reactor that neutralises methane emissions produced in coal mines will be trialled by Sou...
IAEA steps in to make Chernobyl safe
NUCLEAR experts have arrived at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to help make it safe afte...
CSB releases safety video on paper mill incident
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about the 2020 fatal incident ...
Russia blames Ukraine for oil depot blaze
AN oil storage depot has been set on fire in a Russian city north of the Ukrainian border. The lo...
Shelling causes ammonia leak at Ukraine facility
RUSSIAN shelling in northern Ukraine has led to an ammonia leak at a chemical facility, with near...
IPCC calls for stronger adaptation to worsening climate hazards
THE IPCC has said that human-caused climate change is already resulting in detrimental effects on...
Russia shells Ukrainian nuclear plant; no radiation released
RUSSIAN forces have shelled the site of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. A fire broke out a...
One killed and one critically injured after explosion at facility in Illinois, US
AN explosion occurred at a facility that manufactures building materials on 21 January, killing o...
Chemical engineers feature in second season of engineering safety programme
SIX chemical engineers have featured as experts in the second series of Disasters Engineered.
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...
Fire destroys UK plastics factory
A PLASTICS factory near Hull in the UK has been destroyed by a fire.
UK HSE cybersecurity expert to present at Hazards 31
HAZARDS 31 will feature a talk by cybersecurity expert Sarabjit Purewal – from the UK’s Health an...
Renewables – not fossil fuels – are strongest link in the energy supply chain, new study finds
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to thoroughly assess the risks associated with fuel supply ch...
Briar Chemicals fined £1m following fatal accident
BRIAR Chemicals has been fined £1m (US$1.4m) following the death of a contractor at its site in N...
IAEA reviews Fukushima water release
OFFICIALS from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Japan to review the pla...
Fire at Leamington Spa plastics facility
A FIRE and subsequent explosions occurred at a plastics facility in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire,...
Five dead and two missing after fire on Pemex offshore oil platform
A FIRE at a Pemex offshore oil platform has resulted in the deaths of five workers, with two stil...
Explosion at South African power plant
AN explosion at a power station in South Africa has caused extensive damage to the facility’s gen...
Claimants to appeal fatal Samarco disaster ruling in UK court
THE Court of Appeals, the most senior court in England and Wales, has ruled to allow proceedings ...
Two workers killed in acetic acid leak
TWO workers have been killed by an acetic acid leak at a LyondellBasell plant in Texas, US.
Climate-related incidents need to be accounted for in process safety
ENVIRONMENTAL and scientific advisory groups have called on the US Environmental Protection Agenc...
At least two killed in explosion at German chemical disposal site
AN EXPLOSION at a hazardous chemical disposal site in Germany has killed at least two people, wit...
Engineers’ report says proper building ventilation crucial to control Covid
THE Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), along with partners including IChemE, have released a r...
Fire at Thailand chemicals facility
AN EXPLOSION and fire at a chemicals facility in Bangkok has killed one person and injured more t...
US refinery shutdown serves as a lesson for process safety
“PROCESS safety is more than just life preservation, it’s about making sure that we look after th...
Explosion at Illinois lubricants facility
AN explosion occurred at a facility in Rockton, Illinois, US, on 14 June. The subsequent fire has...
Oil spill preparations underway for stricken ship off Sri Lanka
EXPERTS have begun modelling how oil might spill from a cargo ship that caught fire off the coast...
CSB releases final report on hydrogen sulfide release at Texas waterflood station
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its final report on the 2019 hydrogen sulfide rel...
Novel wearable gas sensor
RESEARCHERS at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea have develo...
Fire at Aussie power plant set to knock out unit for 12 months
A FIRE at the Callide coal-fired power plant in Queensland, Australia has caused blackouts across...
Safer and more efficient alkylation process now at commercial scale
CHEVRON and Honeywell have started commercial operation of a new alkylation process using an ioni...
Firefighter injured at US chemical plant explosion
ONE firefighter was injured while responding to a large fire at a chemical plant in Affton, St Lo...
Regulator stops Tepco nuclear plant restart over security issues
TEPCO has been prevented from restarting units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata...
Wastewater leak causes concern for Florida marine life
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contami...
Fire occurs at oil refinery in Mexico
A FIRE broke out at the Lazaro Cardenas oil refinery in Minatitlan, Mexico, resulting in seven pe...
Five seriously injured in Indonesian refinery explosion
AN EXPLOSION, which occurred at 00:45 local time on 29 March at an Indonesian refinery, has serio...
Energy and medical research experts to share Covid-19 safety lessons at IChemE Hazards conference
ICHEME has announced that process safety experts from the energy and medical research sectors wil...
Richardson: Make systems thinking education mandatory
ICHEME President Stephen Richardson has recommended to a House of Lords select committee that sys...
Concerns over stockpile of hazardous waste at New Zealand aluminium smelter
CONCERNS have been raised over a stockpile of hazardous waste at Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point aluminiu...
IChemE Safety Centre holds webinar to mark International Women’s Day
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) held a webinar on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Safety to m...
IChemE releases special issue of LPB to mark Fukushima anniversary
ICHEME has released a special edition of Loss Prevention Bulletin (LPB) to mark the tenth anniver...
New Kletz book compiles safety pioneer’s lessons for a new generation
ICHEME has published a new book showcasing the works of process safety pioneer Trevor Kletz.
Brazil dam collapse victims take TÜV SÜD to court
TWO years after the fatal collapse of a Vale dam, victims have brought landmark action against TÜ...
Lebanon Prime Minister charged with negligence over Beirut explosion
AN investigating prosecutor has charged Lebanon’s acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three for...
Worker dies in US chemical plant explosion
AN explosion at a chemical facility in Belle, West Virginia, US has killed one worker and injured...
Fire at Texas oil storage tank injures seven
SEVEN contractors were injured after a fire and explosion occurred at a crude oil storage tank in...
Four killed in explosion at UK water treatment site
FOUR people have died and another has been injured in an explosion at a UK water treatment works.
Fire at Indian gas well extinguished after five months
A FIRE which broke out at a gas well in India, in June, has now been “doused completely”, accord...
Two killed in Indian reactor explosion
ON 5 November, in the early hours of the morning, two people were killed as a result of a reactor...
CSB releases update on TPC explosion
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its factual update on the explosion that took pla...
EU project targets nuclear accident combustion risk
A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of sever...
Prelude will not resume full production this year, says Shell
SHELL has said its huge floating LNG production plant – the Prelude FLNG facility – is not expect...
Criminal charges dropped against Arkema for chemical plant fire
A US court has dismissed charges against Arkema relating to the peroxide fire and harmful emissio...
Chemical engineers urge industry action to break cycle of accidents
INDUSTRY has to do more to ensure that it is learning lessons to help prevent it from repeating t...
Explosion occurs at Florida chemical facility
AN explosion occurred at a chemical facility in Florida, US, on 8 September in a storage area for...
Hunterston B begins operating after two-year shutdown
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving a...
Another fire breaks out at Beirut port
A FIRE has broken out at a warehouse in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, just over a month after an a...
Fire at Louisiana chemical plant following damage from Hurricane Laura
A CHEMICAL plant in Louisiana, US, caught fire after damage from Hurricane Laura caused a chlorin...
Chevron ordered to inspect Gorgon for cracks
ON 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Austr...
Initiative launches first global standard for safer mining waste storage
ON 5 August, the Global Tailings Review (GTR) initiative established the first global standard fo...
Ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut kills at least 135 people
AN explosion at a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate in Beirut, Lebanon, has killed at least 135 ...
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...
Partnership to further develop chemical safety database
THE Pistoia Alliance and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical So...
International group publishes safety guidelines for mining waste storage
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has publish...
Atkins awarded contract for nuclear project
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
Norilsk Nickel fined US$2.1bn for Arctic oil spill
NORILSK Nickel has been fined US$2.1bn by Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor for the ...
Researchers awarded funding to develop reusable facemasks to help meet PPE shortfall
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in fundi...
EPA takes a step to exempt ‘forever chemical’ release
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environm...
Refinery fire in South Africa kills two
A FIRE at Milnerton Refinery in South Africa has killed two employees and injured seven.
Bayer pays US$10bn to settle Roundup cancer lawsuits
BAYER has announced a US$10bn settlement for thousands of lawsuits claiming that that its Roundup...
Explosion at UK oilseed plant injures three
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
Fire erupts at Indian gas well
A FIRE has broken out at an Indian gas well which has been leaking for weeks.
10 dead after chemicals factory explosion in India
10 workers have now died following an explosion on 3 June, at a chemicals factory in India, repor...
Oil tank collapse likely caused by melting permafrost
AROUND 21,000 t of diesel has leaked into a Russian river near Norilsk, which is inside the Arcti...
Researchers source and develop PPE to protect surgeons
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK, have sourced and developed personal respirator equipm...
Italian blast seriously injures two workers
ON 15 May, an explosion at a chemicals plant in an industrial zone in Venice, Italy seriously bur...
Hundreds hospitalised after styrene gas leak in India
A GAS leak at an Indian chemical factory has killed at least 11 people and hospitalised hundreds....
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...
Explosion at US paper mill
AT around noon local time, on 15 April, an explosion occurred at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, US. ...
UK relaxes rules to speed up sanitiser production
THE UK Government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have relaxed rules over the manufactu...
Engineering capability review raises safety concerns
FATALITIES and accidents at work are likely to increase, and a better understanding of engineerin...
One dead in Spain chemical plant explosion
AN explosion at a small chemicals plant in Barcelona, Spain has killed one and injured 13 others,...
Canada awards Lister for his contributions to nuclear and safety
DEREK LISTER has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to nuclear ...
Fire at South Korea facility injures 56
A FIRE has occurred at Lotte Chemical’s naphtha cracker in Seosan, South Korea, injuring at least...
Fire occurs at Marathon Petroleum refinery in California
A LARGE fire has been reported at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Carson, California, followin...
Vale knew Brazil dam was unstable more than a decade before collapse, says report
ACCORDING to the summary of a report by an independent consulting committee created by Vale, the ...
Steve Rae to give Trevor Kletz lecture
PIPER Alpha survivor Steve Rae will share the story of how his survival has led to a lifelong dri...
Judge accepts fatal dam collapse charges
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
BASF and JenaBatteries cooperate to develop innovative power storage technology
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
Vale to invest in technology to reduce dam use and increase safety
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale is to invest in technology to reduce tailings dam use and increase op...
Queensland mining industry needs to improve safety to avoid deaths
AN expert report says that 12 deaths are likely to occur over any five-year period within the Que...
Atkins wins Shell technical safety contract
ATKINS has been awarded a five-year contract to provide technical safety and human factors servic...
Three killed in Texas oil well blowout
AN oil well blowout in Texas, US, has killed three people.
Nouryon and Semiotic Labs partnership will improve plant reliability
NOURYON has signed a framework agreement with Semiotic Labs to implement technology that will pre...
16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
Vale launches project to recover area affected by fatal dam collapse
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale has launched a pilot project for the environmental recovery of the ar...
Explosion at Spanish ethylene oxide plant
AN explosion at an ethylene oxide facility in Tarragona, Spain, has killed three people and injur...
IChemE Fellows feature as experts in TV documentary about engineering safety
THREE IChemE Fellows will feature as experts in a new ten-part television documentary series abou...
Fire at Scottish Borders chemical plant
A FIRE occurred at Rathburn Chemicals in the Scottish Borders, UK, on 10 January.
CSB releases final report on explosions at Midland Resource Recovery facility
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found that a lack of hazard identification processes contr...
Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factor...
New evacuation a week after Texas chemical plant explosion
A WEEK after the explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) facility in Port Neches, Texas, ...
UPDATE: Explosion at Texas chemicals facility
A SECOND major explosion at a chemicals facility in Port Neches, Texas, has resulted in the evacu...
Explosion at Texas chemicals facility
THREE people have been injured in an explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) Group facili...
New Interim Director appointed at Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
STEWART Behie has been appointed as the Interim Director at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety ...
US rolls back Chemical Disaster Rule
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded most of the Chemical Disaster Rule – w...
Dam collapse tragedy could have been prevented
BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the taili...
CSB releases update on Philadelphia refinery fire
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its factual update on the refinery fire that occu...
US CSB release update on Texas chemicals plant explosion
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which ...
Milestone for molten salt nuclear reactors
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
Husky receives approval for refinery rebuild
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400...
Fire breaks out at a French chemicals plant
A FIRE broke out at a Lubrizol chemicals factory in Rouen, France, in the early hours of 26 Septe...
Malaysian students awarded new IChemE SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineer...
New safety digest released by CSB
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety digest about the importance of worke...
Australian mining leads the way in tailings safety
THE Australian minerals industry has released a communiqué, which reinforces its position as a gl...
Two die in explosion at former SSI UK steelworks site
TWO contract workers have been killed after an explosion at a former SSI UK steelworks site in So...
Fracked natural gas well blowout still burning after two weeks
A BLOWOUT at a fracked natural gas well in Louisiana, US, has been burning for two weeks and is e...
IChemE’s new interactive case study to improve student laboratory safety
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has produced a new free interactive case study to help chemical en...
Blast at Indian pharmaceutical plant injures 16
A REACTOR exploded at a pharmaceutical plant in India injuring 16 workers, according to reports.
Removing hydrofluoric acid from damaged refinery
WORK has begun on removing 30,000 bbl of modified hydrofluoric acid at the damaged Philadelphia E...
ExxonMobil plant explosion injures 37
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
Gas plant explosion in China kills 15
A GASIFICATION plant in China’s central Henan province has exploded, killing 15 people and seriou...
Fire at Petronas gas processing plant
PETRONAS Gas (PGB), a subsidiary of Petronas, has confirmed that a fire which broke out at one of...
Two dead and one missing after explosion at Indian chemicals plant
AN explosion and fire at Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection in Dera Bassi, India, has killed tw...
CSB calls for new onshore drilling rules after blowout kills five
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has urged regulators to develop safety standards for onshore o...
43 people killed at Glencore mine
A LANDSLIDE at Glencore’s largest copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC...
Valero fined £5m following fatal Pembroke refinery explosion in 2011
VALERO Energy has been fined £5m (US$6.4m) following an explosion at its Pembroke refinery in Wal...
IChemE launches interactive safety case studies
ICHEME has launched two interactive safety case studies – Chemical Plant and Underground Pipeline...
Agfa-Gevaert wins Process Intensification Award
THE 2019 Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation has been awarded by the European...
Explosion at Illinois silicones plant
AN explosion and fire at a US silicones manufacturing plant has killed three people with one othe...
US CSB calls for review to improve HF safety
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), has released a letter calling on the...
ExxonMobil stops unplanned flaring at UK plant
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it has ceased unplanned flaring at its Fife Ethylene Plant (FEP) at...
Two injured following Tata Steel explosion
IN the early hours of today, two people were injured at an explosion at the Tata steelworks plant...
Update: Criminal measures taken against 26 following fatal Chinese chemicals explosion
LOCAL authorities in China have taken “criminal coercive measures” against 26 people following a ...
Three killed in Mongolia chemicals explosion
THREE people have been killed and five injured at a privately-owned chemical plant in China’s Inn...
Threads that change colour in response to certain gases
A NEW method for dying threads could be used to create smart clothing that changes colour in the ...
Workers start to remove Fukushima fuel rods
TEPCO has begun work to remove 566 highly-radioactive fuel rod assemblies from reactor building n...
Fire at Petronas refinery in Malaysia
AN explosion and fire occurred at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor, Malaysia, a re...
Update: Three employees had “significant responsibility” for Chinese chemicals plant explosion
THREE employees of Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Company are said to have “significant responsibilit...
Worker killed in Texas chemicals plant fire
ONE worker has been killed and two seriously injured in a chemicals plant fire in Texas, US.
Three more Brazil dams at critical alert
VALE has put three more of its Brazilian mine tailings dams on the highest level of alert – level...
Operations halted at Vale
A court decision has ordered Vale to stop activities at 13 of its mine tailings containment struc...
Update: 78 confirmed dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
ON 25 March the death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant rose to 78, report...
Brazil dam in critical alert
ON 22 March Vale raised the alert level of its Sul Superior Dam of the Gongo Soco mine located in...
Update: 47 dead after Chinese chemicals plant explosion
THE death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has now reached 47, reports st...
Six killed in Chinese chemicals plant explosion
FOLLOWING an explosion at a Tianjiayi chemicals plant in Yancheng, eastern China, six people are ...
Employees re-arrested after fatal Brazil dam collapse
ACCORDING to Reuters, last week a Brazilian court ordered the arrest of 11 Vale employees and two...
Fire extinguished at US chemicals depot
AFTER three days fighting a fire that was spreading through a chemicals storage depot in Texas, U...
US storage depot ablaze
EIGHT chemicals storage tanks are ablaze at a major petrochemicals depot on the US Gulf Coast.
Kevin Dixon-Jackson (1947-2019)
KEVIN Dixon-Jackson, a longstanding member of IChemE’s Hazards conference organising committee, p...
ECHA publishes comprehensive plastic additive inventory
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a comprehensive inventory of all of the high-v...
Chemical engineer briefs UK politicians on chemical weapons
CHEMICAL engineering postgraduate Jeni Spragg has produced a report to help UK parliamentarians m...
Employees removed following Brazil dam collapse
FOLLOWING the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam the company has decided to remove severa...
DowDuPont cleaves off safety consultancy
DOWDUPONT is spinning off its safety and sustainability consultancy DuPont Sustainable Solutions ...
Brazil dam collapse prosecutors investigate collusion
THE lead prosecutor investigating the cause of the fatal dam collapse at a mine in Brazil has all...
Brazil approves dam safety bill
THE Brazilian Senate has passed a bill to tighten dam safety, reports Reuters. This follows the c...
A matter of cost
The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to e...
Plenary speakers announced for Hazards Australasia
THREE plenary speakers have been announced for IChemE’s Hazards Australasia 2019 process safety c...
Brazil bans upstream dams
BRAZIL has decided to ban tailings dams built by the upstream method. The decision follows the fa...
Employees arrested after Brazil dam breach
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of ...
IChemE seeks applications for new student safety medal
ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations abo...
IChemE names safety prize in Sam Mannan’s honour
SAM Mannan, a safety expert who died last year, will have a prize named in his honour at IChemE’s...
Vale ‘knew’ Brazil dam was at risk of collapse, report says
REUTERS says it has seen an internal document that shows that Vale knew last year that its dam in...
Update: 165 people confirmed dead after Brazil dam breach
165 people have now been confirmed dead following the collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Bra...
Update: 157 confirmed dead after dam breach in Brazil
TWO weeks after the collapse of a Vale tailings dam 157 people have been confirmed dead, 134 of w...
Update: 134 confirmed dead after Brazil dam breach
FOLLOWING the collapse of a Vale dam in Brazil, 134 people have now been confirmed dead, with 120...
Update: Number killed in Brazil dam breach reaches 99
AFTER the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil, 99 people have been reported dead...
Fatal dam breach in Brazil leaves hundreds missing
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
Oil tanker fire off the coast of Hong Kong kills one
A FIRE that broke out on an oil tanker off the coast of Hong Kong has killed one, injured seven, ...
Explosion at Chinese chemicals facility kills three
AN explosion at a chemicals facility in the Xinjiang region in China has killed three people and ...
Explosion at natural gas facility injures four
AN explosion at MarkWest natural gas processing facility in Pennsylvania, US, has injured four pe...
HSE feedback on HCR challenge
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator, has ...
Walt Disney’s safety manager to speak at Hazards 29 conference
MIKE Bell, worldwide safety and health manager at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, will deliver the...
Chemical gas leak causes deadly explosive chain reaction
CHEMCHINA has released a statement stating that a blast which killed 23 and injured 22 was caused...
Impossible to clean Husky oil spill
Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News r...
Explosion at hazardous waste facility kills one
AN explosion at a US Ecology facility in Idaho, US, has killed one worker and injured three.
Protecting future energy infrastructure from natural hazards
ICHEME has supported the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in publishing research identifying h...
IChemE Safety Centre director wins Trevor Kletz Merit Award
TRISH Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has been awarded the Trevor Kletz Merit Award ...
RAEng and Lloyd’s Register launch £15m safety initiative and call on others to join
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$1...
Hackitt and Daniels honoured by Imperial College
FORMER IChemE Council members Dame Judith Hackitt and Ed Daniels have been awarded honorary degre...
Chemicals coalition calls on EU leaders to allow UK to remain within REACH
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit t...
Worker killed at South Africa power plant
ONE worker has been killed and another seriously injured after a pipe supplying pressurised steam...
Eleven die in fire at India steel plant
ELEVEN people have been killed in a fire at a steel plant in Bhilai, India.
Explosion shuts down Canada’s largest refinery
AN explosion has shut down Canada’s largest refinery, operated by Irving Oil in Saint Paul, New B...
Pioneering SMR technology enters manufacturing phase
NUSCALE Power has selected BWX Technologies (BWXT) to manufacture NuScale’s small modular reactor...
One person killed at chemical factory explosion in Alabama
AN EXPLOSION has occurred at the Umicore Speciality Chemicals plant in Arab, Alabama, killing one...
M Sam Mannan 1954–2018
M SAM MANNAN, a chemical engineer and pioneer of process safety, passed away on 11 September 2018.
Explosion at Indian petrochemicals facility kills six
THE explosion of a methane tank at the Mohit petrochemical factory in Bijnor, India, earlier toda...
Landmark Piper Alpha Cullen report now free to download
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the He...
Attempt to hasten compliance with chemical safety law overruled
THE US’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not have to comply with the Chemical Disaster ...
Alliance seeks partner to boost lab safety
PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic part...
Courts block Trump administration from further delays of chemical safety law
A FEDERAL appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop delaying an...
Fire at chemical plant on Stanlow refinery site
A fire broke out yesterday at a chemical plant on the same site as the Stanlow oil refinery in Ch...
Two die in furnace at Dubai aluminium plant
Two workers have died at an industrial furnace fire at an Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) smelter...
Monsanto ordered to pay US$289m to cancer patient
A JURY has ruled in favour of a terminally ill cancer patient who claimed that Monsanto’s glyphos...
Man killed in explosion at UK military plant
ONE man has been killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at a military hardware plan...
Arkema and employees indicted for toxic cloud
ARKEMA, its CEO and the manager of the plant in Texas that caught fire after Hurricane Harvey bat...
IChemE succeeds in lobbying HSE to make Piper Alpha report free
ICHEME has successfully lobbied the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to waive the £70 (US$91) cost...
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...
Accident at Briar Chemicals kills one
EMERGENCY services were called to reports of an explosion at 15:10 local time on 27 July at Briar...
Explosion at chemical plant in Ohio
AN explosion and fire occurred at the Emerald Performance Materials chemical plant in Akron, Ohio...
12 injured in Cairo chemicals blast
TWELVE people have been injured in an explosion at a chemicals storage site in Egypt.
19 killed in blast at Chinese chemicals plant
AN explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has killed 19 people and injured 12 others.
Oil and gas wastewater spread on roads releases harmful toxins
WASTEWATER from oil and gas facilities can be spread on roads for dust suppression or de-icing, b...
Fire at Kemaman Bitumen Company refinery injures four
A FIRE at the Kemaman Bitumen Company (KBC) refinery in Malaysia has destroyed two crude oil tank...
Chemicals blast kills one in Japan
AN EXPLOSION at a chemicals plant in Japan on 2 July has killed one worker and injured at least a...
EPA limiting evaluation of chemical risks
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revised how it determines risks associated with ...
Chemical engineers talk fire safety
FIRE safety is important to all of us, both in residential buildings and on industrial sites, and...
Initiative seeks to unlock potential of health and safety data
HSE has teamed up with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation to develop new techniques aimed at sifting...
Militia causes catastrophic damage at Libyan oil port
AN ARMED assault has caused catastrophic damage to two oil storage tanks at the Ras Lanuf termina...
Update: Chester engineering faculty faces relocation due to proximity to oil refinery
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its science and engineering fac...
Chester engineering faculty faces relocation due to proximity to oil refinery
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its £120m (US$160m) science and...
Piper Alpha conference: Chrysaor CEO issues list of challenges to oil industry
PHIL KIRK, CEO of Chrysaor, has issued challenges to the oil industry community at a UK conferenc...
Piper Alpha conference: oil industry urged to maintain a chronic sense of unease
THE oil and gas community has been urged to “maintain a chronic sense of unease” at a conference ...
One killed and four injured at Turkish explosives factory
A blast at a state-owned explosives factory in Ankara, Turkey, on 24 May has killed one and injur...
Texas chemical plant fire injures 21
A fire at the Kuraray America chemical facility in Pasadena, Texas, US, on 19 May has injured 21 ...
CSB releases final report and video on Arkema fire
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its final report and an updated animation on the ...
IChemE awards engineers for their work on process safety
SEVEN chemical engineers have been awarded medals for their outstanding contributions to process ...
Fire at US speciality chemicals plant
A CHEMICAL plant in Louisiana, US, has caught fire, with no injuries reported.
Offshore industry has come “perilously close to disaster”, warns HSE
HSE has warned the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators that they must do more to tackle hydrocarb...
One seriously injured in Wisconsin refinery blast
AN explosion at a Husky Energy-owned oil refinery in the US has reportedly injured at least 15 pe...
Explosion hits Valero’s Texas City refinery
AN explosion and fire has hit Valero Energy’s 225,000 bbl/d Texas City refinery, with no injuries...
Piper Alpha Monopoly sparks backlash
THE release of an edition of Monopoly that marks the anniversary of the tragic Piper Alpha oil pl...
Chemical companies review lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Har...
Explosion at Unipetrol chemical plant in Czech Republic
AN EXPLOSION at a Unipetrol refinery is reported to have killed six people and injured others.
Two injured, one feared dead in Texas chemicals blast
TWO workers have been injured and one remains missing following an explosion at a chemicals plant...
Siempelkamp develops new process for nuclear decontamination
A PROCESS for the chemical decontamination of nuclear reactor cooling systems has been developed ...
Three killed in chemicals blast at Indian industrial site
AT least three people are dead after an explosion in a chemical factory in the Maharashtra Indust...
Fire safety will be discussed at Hazards Australasia 2018
FIRE safety will be a key topic at IChemE’s process safety conference Hazards Australasia 2018, w...
Trialling hydrogen in the UK gas network
AN ENERGY trial at Keele University, UK, will assess the feasibility of adding hydrogen to the ga...
Can oil-eating microbes clean up spills in the Arctic?
MICROBES that use oil as a food source offer the only way to degrade oil after a spill, however a...
Fire engulfs Taiwan refinery
AN explosion at an oil refinery in Taiwan set off a fire yesterday that took hours to extinguish.
Five people missing after Oklahoma rig explosion
FIVE people are missing after an oil and gas drilling rig near Quinton in Oklahoma, US, exploded ...
New method weeds out flipping drugs
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially...
New safety video from CSB highlights tank fill dangers
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about a 2016 incident in Kansa...
Huge oil tanker ablaze off China
AN oil tanker is on fire and at risk of exploding after colliding with a freight ship off the eas...
Nexen charged after oil sands explosion deaths
CANADA’s Alberta province has brought eight charges against Nexen Energy after an on-site explosi...
One dead, 21 injured in Austrian gas hub explosion
ONE person has been killed and 21 are injured after a huge explosion and fire at the Baumgarten N...
INEOS shuts Forties pipeline
INEOS has closed its Forties oil pipeline, which transports 40% of the UK’s oil production, aroun...
One dead, one injured in Maersk oilfield accident in Norway
A MAERSK Drilling employee has died after falling into the sea during maintenance work on the Mae...
CSB’s Sutherland to give fourth Kletz Lecture
VANESSA SUTHERLAND, chair and CEO of the US Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board (CSB)...
People should stay in their homes after a nuclear accident
MASS relocation of residents following a major nuclear accident is largely unnecessary, according...
Japan chemical factory blast kills one man, wounds 11
ONE man has been killed and another 11 injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at the Arakawa...
Bioengineering opportunities and risks
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
Mystery ruthenium-106 cloud over Europe
ROSATOM, the Russian state nuclear company, has denied that a radioactive cloud of ruthenium-106 ...
New theory could re-write Chernobyl history
RESEARCHERS in Sweden have published new analysis of the Chernobyl disaster which suggests that t...
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...
Cutting long-lived nuclear waste
THE half-life of nuclear fission products could be reduced from hundreds of thousands of years to...
Detecting water leaks with ‘smart paper’
A SMART paper laced with conductive nanomaterials could be used to easily locate water leaks in a...
India power station blast kills 26, injures 80
AN explosion at the Unchahar power station in Utter Pradesh, India has killed 26 people and injur...
One missing after Louisiana rig explosion
A WORKER is missing and five have been taken to hospital in Louisiana, US, after an oil platform ...
IChemE to publish guide on natural hazard infrastructure threats
AN ENGINEER-focussed guide to help better understand the threats presented by UK natural hazards ...
Major hydrochloric acid leak in Hull
A VAPOUR cloud formed over the Port of Hull, UK, after a leak of hydrochloric acid from a tank, a...
Two injured in Nottingham gas explosion
TWO men have been seriously injured in a gas explosion at the Colwick Industrial Estate in Nottin...
Free safety data for Hurricane Harvey relief
A PROVIDER of environment, health, safety (EHS) and sustainability software has offered free acce...
Safety concerns raised about Arkema Crosby
ARKEMA’S organic peroxide plant in Crosby, which has already suffered reported explosions and a s...
Chemical fire reported at Arkema Texas plant
ARKEMA has reported a chemical fire at its organic peroxide (OP) plant in Crosby, Texas, amid flo...
Chemical fire expected at flooded Texas plant
A CHEMICAL fire or explosion is expected within days at Arkema’s organic peroxide plant in Crosby...
US CSB safety warning after Hurricane Harvey
A SAFETY alert has been issued by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), ur...
Should maintenance KPIs be standardised?
PETROFAC is conducting a safety study that could recommend that the upstream oil and gas industry...
Hackitt to lead major UK fire safety review
FORMER IChemE president Dame Judith Hackitt is to lead a major independent inquiry into fire safe...
Norilsk Nickel mine explosion kills four
AN explosion at Norilsk Nickel’s Zapolyarny mine in the far north of Russia has killed four people.
Industry 4.0 in R&D
BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product develo...
IChemE’s PSEP impact factor up 40%
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
