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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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

Plan to add 3,000 jobs at former Pfizer site
Added: 7 Nov 2012
Sandwich, UK - Discovery Park Ltd has announced plans to potentially generate 3,000 new jobs by 201…

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…
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…

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…

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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Shale gas hits US butadiene production
Added: 30 Oct 2012
New York - The relatively recent and intense exploitation of US natural gas reserves is resulting i…

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…

AMSilk advances 'Spidersilk' process
Added: 30 Oct 2012
Planegg, Germany - German technology company AMSilk has achieved a large-scale production validatio…

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…

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…

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…
Processing butyric acid from biomass
Added: 26 Oct 2012
Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will test production of butyric acid from bioma…
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…
