Cloud Computing and Chemical Engineering

Joanne Tanner and Tobias Cleaver-Ross discuss the benefits and challenges of cloud computing and collaboration in the chemical and process industries.

Digital Risk Management: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility

Digitalisation is transforming chemical engineering, creating a multitude of opportunities and challenges for IChemE members across all sectors. This is why digitalisation has been selected as one of three priority topics by the IChemE Learned Society Committee (LSC).

On the Road to Digital

The chemicals sector is continuing to perform strongly across all regions and we expect that trend to continue for the foreseeable future. Consultancy Roland Berger’s study Chemical Winners 2018 – Focus on Profits examines the financial performance of 170 chemical companies in the US and Europe and provides an industry overview. It found that 2018 was another strong year for the sector.

Teaching: Educating chemical engineers on digitalisation

Esther Ventura-Medina, Joanne Tanner and Brent Young look at the range of digitalisation skills and technologies relevant to chemical engineering, and give an overview of some of the education options and the work that is already under way.

Safety: Digitalising Process Safety

What impact has digitalisation had on process safety in the process industries? Helen Kilbride and Krisshala Sinanan discuss the benefits and challenges.

Digital Twins in the Chemical Process Industries

Joanne Tanner and Colin Newbery discuss the hype and the hope for digital twins.