IChemE Fellows awarded New Year's Honours

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ICHEME Fellows and chemical engineering professors Geoffrey Maitland and Raffaella Ocone have been recognised in The Queen's New Year's Honours list.Maitland is Professor of Energy Engineering at Imperial College London,UK and was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE)for services to chemical engineering.Ocone,Professor of Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University,UK was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE)for services to engineering.Maitland,a past President of IChemE,was recognised for his work in energy at Imperial where he has helped develop the university's leading work in carbon capture and storage.He also played a key role on the UK Government's Carbon Capture Usage and Storage(CCUS)Cost Challenge Taskforce.The taskforce's work recently led to a new government action plan for mitigating climate change,which included how the UK will develop and roll out CCUS technologies at scale and commission the UK's first ever commercial CCUS facility by the mid-2020s.