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INTERVIEW Professor Andrew Livingston steps down as Head of Department and is succeeded by Professor Nilay Shah. We asked him to reflect on his 8 years leading the Department. Read more
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DOUGHNUTS Researchers propose a new design of highly open liquid-crystalline structures from geometrically unique rigid nanorings. Read more
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DUATHLETES Around 60 individuals from the Department plus friends, family and colleagues from across the College took part in the 2016 London Duathlon. Congratulations to all the Duathletes! Read more
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FRESHERS Welcome to all the new students who have joined the Department. We are looking forward to getting to know you!
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SUMMER SCHOOL Our successful Summer School programme continued this year, with a record number of 62 students from around the world. Read more
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STUDENTS' CHOICE Congratulations to PhD student Lorena Fernanda dos Santos de Souza who won the Students' Choice Award at the 2016 Imperial Graduate School Symposium. Read more
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BIG PICTURE Some of the winners of our departmental student image competition were recently featured in the IChemE publication The Chemical Engineer. All winning images have also been put up all around the Department. Read more
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BEST GTA Congratulations to PhD student Elton Dias who was the overall winner of the Faculty of Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) of the year award. Read more
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SINO-UK Congratulations to PhD student Shiqi Wang who was awarded the poster prize at the 22nd Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK annual conference. The conference was held at Imperial on 10 September and the co-organisers included academic staff Dr Rongjun Chen and Professor Yun Xu. Find out more
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NO TALKING! We interviewed six of our recently graduated Class of 2016 students about their best memories and future plans. Read the interviews
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MEMORIES Members of the Class of 1963 held a reunion in the Department. They were treated to talks from Professor Stephen Richardson (former Head of Department), Anne Barrett (College Archivist), Professor Nilay Shah (Head of Department) and had tours of the Department and Imperial West. See the photos
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Network with alumni and colleagues on the Department's LinkedIn group.
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CCS+RENEWABLES A new analysis by Imperial researchers has shown that carbon capture and storage technologies are essential, in addition to renewable energy systems, if the world is to meet current climate targets. Read more
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BARRER Imperial has launched the Barrer Centre, a new research centre for excellence which aims to undertake ground breaking research, setting the agenda for materials science and engineering which leads to innovations in separation processes. Read more
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MICROECONOMICS New Imperial-led research uses a decision-making tool developed in microeconomics to identify the most efficient and sustainable chemicals. Read more
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GASIFICATION A new review paper assesses conventional and advanced biomass gasification and concludes it is a promising and economically beneficial technology. Read more
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FOAM Imperial researchers have developed a highly-efficient and cost-effective method for producing a carbon foam material with wide ranging applications. Read more
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IONOSOLV A new video protocol shows the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass with protic low-cost ionic liquids, resulting in a delignified cellulose-rich pulp and a purified lignin. Watch the video
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LOW-CARBON A new collaboration with the Australia-based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) will focus on further developing CCS technology to help meet ambitious climate change targets. Read more
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DECARBONISATION A new parliamentary report has given researchers working on CCS at Imperial College London hope for the future of the technology in the UK. Read more
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ULTRAFILTRATION Imperial researchers have developed a new green technique for making high-performance membranes with the potential to significantly cut production costs. Read more
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CLEANTECH A team from Imperial including Florence Gschwend, Agi Brandt-Talbot and Jason Hallett were awarded third place out of 87 finalists at the ClimateLaunchpad EU Finals for their technology which converts waste products into biofuels. Read more
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TRIBUTE A special issue of the AIChE Journal recognises Emeritus Professor Roger Sargent, who is widely known as the intellectual leader, father and pioneer of Process Systems Engineering. Read more
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FIChemE Congratulations to Professor Hans Michels who was elected Fellow of the IChemE, a recognition of his substantial contributions to the profession. Fellows of the IChemE are engineering professionals of distinction who have demonstrated technical excellence, leadership of their peers and are in an important position of responsibility in chemical engineering.
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MOST ACCESSED Congratulations to Dr Jason Hallett and his team for being featured in the 2015 most accessed Green Chemistry articles collection with their paper "Design of low-cost ionic liquids for lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment". Read the paper
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MEDAL Emeritus Professor Roger Sargent has been awarded the Sir Frank Whittle Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The medal is presented for outstanding and sustained achievement in engineering. Read more
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HEAT EXCHANGERS Congratulations to Laura Lanchas-Fuentes, Emilio Diaz-Bejarano, Professor Sandro Macchietto and Francesco Coletti on winning the Outstanding Paper Award in the Thermal Management and Control session at the 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics.
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NEW STAFF Dr Qilei Song has been appointed Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering and will continue his work on functional nanoporous materials. Read the interview
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DEDICATION Many congratulations to Sarah Payne, Academic Administrator for the Department, who celebrated her 30th year work anniversary on 22 September! We would like to offer our deepest gratitude to Sarah for her continued support and commitment to providing an exceptional service for all students and staff. We wish Sarah all the best and look forward to the next 30 years!
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WELCOME Welcome to Sri Kiritharan, our new Electronics and Audio Visual Technician who joins from XMA (previously known as Viglen) where he worked as an installation engineer, configuring servers and PCs. Sri has a degree in electronic engineering from Middlesex University. Please stop by and say hello to Sri in 1M12 ACEX.
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INSTA The Department now has an Instagram account. Check out our latest photos: ICChemEng!
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SPECTRAL Congratulations to PhD student Alex Wray who recently captained the England team to second place in the Roller Derby World Cup.
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APPOINTMENT Oleksiy Klymenko has been appointed Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey. Farewell and good luck to Oleksiy, we wish him all the best for the future.
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iGC The Department is hosting the 2016 European Inverse Gas Chromatography (iGC) Symposium. 18-19 October 2016, talks in C615. More information on the conference website
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STORAGE The Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering are hosting a Highlight Seminar on "Energy storage and the chemical bond". 20 October, 14:00. Gabor Seminar Room, Level 6 EEE. Find out more
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IMPFRINGE Members of Professor Sergei Kazarian's group will be taking part at the next Imperial Fringe: Criminal Investigations. 03 November, 17:00-20:00, College Main Entrance. Find out more
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ENERGY The Energy Futures Lab Autumn 2016 Energy Seminar Series has now started. Find out more
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QCCSRC The QCCSRC Clean Fossil Fuel Seminar Series is now under way. These take place every Friday at 12:00 in C615. Schedule of talks
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