Season’s greetings (Day 212)

SantaHello everyone, if you’re lucky enough to be on holiday today enjoying the seasonal holidays, I hope you’ll spare a thought for those workers in the chemical and process industry working hard to provide the energy, food, water and medicines (especially those indigestion tablets!) we all need to make Christmas a special time of year.

It’s now tradition that IChemE makes a donation to charity rather than send Christmas cards.

This year we are supporting the Chingari Trust, a non-profit, non-political organisation that works with the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy and local communities, and the Disasters Emergency Committee Ebola Crisis Appeal.

If you’ve not seen it already on IChemE’s YouTube channel, I’ve also recorded a Christmas message.

Merry Christmas everyone!

The twelve (chemical engineering) products of Christmas (Day 209)

Seasonal lightsI have talked in my past blogs about the lack of recognition about what chemical engineering is and why it matters.

When explaining chemical engineering to people I often say look around you, everything you can see or touch wouldn’t be here without chemical engineering.

Christmas offers an excellent opportunity to showcase twelve products that you might miss the chemical engineering in, if you don’t know where to look:

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