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National Grid awards “shutdown” contracts
Added: 11 Sep 2014
National Grid is in the process of awarding contracts to major energy users such as process facilit…
Biogas boost for food processors
Added: 11 Sep 2014
Food and drink processors with anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities were yesterday given a boost by …
There’s something about AD
Added: 3 Sep 2014
This summer saw a flurry of acquisitions in the UK’s anaerobic digestion market. John McKenna looks…
Cavendish Fluor to run 12 nuclear sites
Added: 1 Sep 2014
A joint venture of Fluor and Babcock subsidiary Cavendish Nuclear was today formally awarded the co…
The death of biomass conversions
Added: 27 Aug 2014
The government’s legal victory over Drax has rendered future conversions of coal plants to biomass …
Drax CCS pipeline work awarded
Added: 5 Aug 2014
Technip subsidiary Genesis has been hired by National Grid to carry out design work for a pipeline …
Just 6% of engineers are women
Added: 31 Jul 2014
On average just 6% of engineers in the UK are female, with the highest proportions occuring in the …
Distillery secures Green Bank funding
Added: 30 Jul 2014
A Scottish distillery has secured finance to build a biomass boiler from the Green Investment Bank …
Subsidy wins for biomass and AD
Added: 25 Jul 2014
Biomass and anaerobic digestion (AD) plants will be able to compete for £155 million annually under…
UK plans national radioactive storage site
Added: 24 Jul 2014
Plans for a single geological disposal facility (GDF) to hold all of the UK’s radioactive waste wer…
Foreign investment up in process sectors
Added: 21 Jul 2014
Nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in the UK is going to projects in the process sectors, acc…
Energy efficiency portal
Added: 16 Jul 2014
Fluke has developed an Energy Efficiency portal on its UK website to help maintenance professionals…
Process champions moved in reshuffle
Added: 15 Jul 2014
Two key allies of the process industries were today removed from their posts by Prime Minister Davi…
Submersible pumps to hit £11bn
Added: 14 Jul 2014
The value of the global submersible pump market is likely to reach $18.9 billion (£11 billion) by 2…
Biomass pre-processing study launches
Added: 11 Jul 2014
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) today launched a programme assessing the impact of pre-proc…
Minister offers assurance on biogas tariffs
Added: 10 Jul 2014
The government is seeking to avoid the stalling of biogas projects under development by offering as…
Drax CCS secures Euro funding
Added: 9 Jul 2014
Drax’s White Rose Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) project has received €300 million in funding from …
Pharma leads manufacturing fall
Added: 9 Jul 2014
UK manufacturing has suffered biggest fall in output since January 2013, with pharmaceuticals among…
AD sector 'guilty of poor pump maintenance'
Added: 8 Jul 2014
Many of the country’s anaerobic digestion (AD) plants are ignoring maintenance of their mixing syst…
Capita acquires process project manager
Added: 4 Jul 2014
Capita today announced it had acquired project management firm Projen, a specialist in process sect…
