The Engineer - Home
The titanic challenge of decarbonising heavy industry. Download the latest The Engineer magazine as an interactive issue or PDF file. Request a free printed copy here.
Jewel in the crown: Rolls-Royce's single-crystal turbine ...
Sep 19, 2017 · An ancient form of metalworking is being used by Rolls-Royce to create a single-crystal turbine blade for jet engines. Casting is one of the oldest and most basic methods of metalworking. If you can make a fire hot enough to melt a metal, and manufacture a crucible to melt it in and a mould that can withstand the heat, you can cast complex ...
Octopus raises the temperature with Cosy heat pump
Sep 15, 2023 · Customers who require new radiators, piping or a hot water tank should be able to adopt the system for a cost of around £3,000, according to Octopus. “This paves the way to heat pumps for everyone,” Octopus Energy Group CEO and founder Greg Jackson said at the Energy Tech Summit in London, run in partnership with Wired. “This is a huge ...
Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
Mar 2, 2022 · This appetite for change is one of the key findings of The Engineer’s latest annual salary survey. According to this year’s survey, which attracted responses from almost 800 engineers across 11 different sectors, the mean average salary for UK engineers now stands at £58k which marks a modest 2.3 per cent increase on last year’s figure.
Articles - The Engineer
Sponsored post: From vintage to virtual - why your manufacturing needs a tech makeover before it becomes a relic!
Late, great engineers: Frank Whittle: Founder of the jet age
May 6, 2022 · Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS died of lung cancer at the age of 89 on 9 August 1996 at home in Columbia, Maryland. British aviation engineer and legendary pilot Frank Whittle was the main player in the development of the jet engine that was to change the face of 20th century aviation. Written by Nick Smith.
The Big Project: London Array
Jun 25, 2012 · The developers, themselves called London Array, are a joint venture company 50 per cent owned by DONG Energy, Denmark’s biggest energy company, which is itself 76 per cent owned by the Danish government. A further 30 per cent is owned by E.On Renewables and 20 per cent by Masdar, the Abu Dhabi state-owned renewable energy company.
Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world
Mar 29, 2022 · Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world. In-Depth. With the development of his eponymous engine, Rudolf Diesel was to have a profound effect on the way industry, transportation and international freight shaped the 20th century. Written by Nick Smith. Diesel engines play a part in the lives of us all.
ITM Power gears up for green hydrogen revolution - The Engineer
Mar 7, 2022 · ITM Power’s new electrolyser gigafactory - a 134,000 square foot monster that opened in 2021 - is just a stone’s throw from Forgemasters, Sheffield’s last remaining steel furnace. According to Graham Cooley, ITM’s long time CEO, another of Steel City’s most famous names has even closer ties to the new HQ. “We’re on the site that ...
Your questions answered: tidal lagoons - The Engineer
Apr 23, 2015 · In-Depth. Ton Fijen answers your questions on the development of tidal lagoon schemes in Britain. Stuart Nathan reports. In recent years, much of the development of tidal energy has focused on turbines that sit directly in the tidal flow in regions where the tides are strong and fast. But this was not the first way in which tides were used for ...