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UK energy research receives funding boost

Added: 13 Nov 2012

One of the Research Councils’ biggest investments in research to support energy efficiency policy a…

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Auditor slams Sellafield clean-up projects

Added: 9 Nov 2012

London – Decommissioning work at Sellafield, the UK’s largest and most hazardous nuclear site, has …

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Environmentalists urged to support Thames Supersewer

Added: 8 Nov 2012

London –  A US wastewater expert has urged London to embrace the Thames Tunnel as the only solution…

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Corac deal to advance gas-pressure electricity technology

Added: 7 Nov 2012

London `- Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed a deal with corporate partners in the UK and U…

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Euro6m grant for fuel cell project at Industrial Chemicals

Added: 7 Nov 2012

London – Industrial fuel cell power company AFC Energy and Industrial Chemicals Ltd (ICL) have earn…

GSK process is year's top advance

Added: 3 Nov 2012

London – GlaxoSmithKline has taken top prize in the IChemE 2012 Awards for a process technology tha…

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Smart filter strains oil out of water

Added: 1 Nov 2012

Researchers at Michigan University have developed a smart filter with a shape-shifting surface that…

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UK shortlists candidates for £1bn CCS fund

Added: 31 Oct 2012

London – The government has revealed the four bidders to have been shortlisted for the next phase o…

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Hitachi buys UK's Horizon nuclear project

Added: 30 Oct 2012

Japan’s Hitachi has signed a £700m deal to buy Horizon Nuclear Power from Germany’s E.On and RWE.

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Skills Show signs up Dragons' Den star

Added: 30 Oct 2012

London – Theo Paphitis - star of BBC Two TV’s Dragons’ Den and one of the UK’s most high profile sh…

AMEC for UK nuclear lab project

Added: 30 Oct 2012

London - AMEC has been awarded a five-year contract by the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) f…

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UK against mandatory reporting of cyber attacks

Added: 26 Oct 2012

London – The UK government will, next year, launch a collaborative initiative with industry to help…

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EC to investigate Pembroke power plant approval

Added: 26 Oct 2012

London – The European Commission has launched an investigation into the UK Government’s approval of…

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UK aims to be more pharma-friendly

Added: 26 Oct 2012

London – The UK government has launched a new consultation, which sets out proposals to make the c…

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Processing butyric acid from biomass

Added: 26 Oct 2012

Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will test production of butyric acid from bioma…

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Pores in graphene could lead to better membranes

Added: 25 Oct 2012

Researchers from MIT Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have discovered tiny pores in graphene th…

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Green light for £1.6bn North Sea project

Added: 24 Oct 2012

London - The UK government has approved a Talisman Energy project that, it says, will extend the li…

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Chemical-enzymatic process makes use of vegetable oil

Added: 24 Oct 2012

The Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes in Leuna has set up pilot plant to pr…

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Modelling secure CO2 storage

Added: 24 Oct 2012

Numerical Rocks AS, a small Norwegian company, has been studying how carbon dioxide moves and becom…