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Shale fracking

Shale report highlights benefits

Added: 17 Dec 2015

The Task Force on Shale Gas has published its fourth report, which examines the economic impacts of…

Ashtead critical care

Critical care

Added: 17 Dec 2015

There are real advantages to be gained from renting specialist equipment, writes Will Russell of As…

Drax power station

Industry reacts to Paris verdict

Added: 17 Dec 2015

The UK business community has called on the government to support existing technologies, and embrac…

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Online calculator combats grit costs

Added: 17 Dec 2015

Hydro International has launched an industry tool to help assess the  full operating cost impact of…

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Government sinks £8.2m into water treatment

Added: 16 Dec 2015

Cranfield University has been awarded £8.2 million to shape the future of UK water treatment and in…

Water rules need 'urgent review'

Added: 16 Dec 2015

A report published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests European Union (EU)…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

IChemE rallies climate change cry

Added: 4 Dec 2015

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Energy Centre Board has called on governments and po…

Ebswien sewage plant, Vienna

Sewage gas to power waste plant

Added: 30 Nov 2015

Siemens technology is being used to convert the Ebswien wastewater treatment works in Vienna into a…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Government scraps CCS funding

Added: 27 Nov 2015

The UK government rocked the industrial sector this week with the news that it had scrapped its £1 …

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

UK coal-fired plants to close

Added: 18 Nov 2015

The UK’s coal-fired power stations will be shut down within the next ten years, energy secretary Am…

Think tank targets drinking water standard

Think tank targets water standard

Added: 18 Nov 2015

A new think-tank has been founded by manufacturers and trade organisations to drive a European syst…

On the level

On the level

Added: 17 Nov 2015

Level measurement can offer a line of defence against industrial spills, and regulators are taking …

Energy efficient technologies aren't always implemented

UK relegated in energy index

Added: 11 Nov 2015

A fall in the UK’s energy equity has resulted in the loss of its ‘AAA’ energy score, the annual Ene…

Forty-nine per cent of industry representatives claim skills shortages are their main barrier to gro

Engineering tops career poll

Added: 9 Nov 2015

More people would encourage a young person to become an engineer than a doctor, accountant or banke…

Saltend stench tackled with £30m investment

Utility combats odour issues

Added: 9 Nov 2015

Yorkshire Water has developed a £30 million action plan to tackle odours from its Saltend wastewate…

TV2

Teesside waste energy plant halted

Added: 5 Nov 2015

Work on the Tees Valley 2 (TV2) renewable energy plant has been suspended.

South West Water treatment works

South West Water hit with sewage fine

Added: 4 Nov 2015

South West Water was fined £214,000 by Plymouth Crown Court last week after sewage leaked into the …

New QuantumX module boosts measurements

New module boosts measurements

HBM | Added: 4 Nov 2015

HBM’s new MX460B four-channel digital pulse and frequency module can be individually configured and…

Sabic process plant

Urgent call to meet energy ‘trilemma’

Added: 30 Oct 2015

Time is running out for the government to make crucial planning decisions on the UK’s energy ‘trile…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

Multifuel power plant wins approval

Added: 28 Oct 2015

A second multifuel power station situated at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire has been approved for cons…