All Power & Water


Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

£190bn of process projects in national plan

Added: 4 Dec 2013

Over £190 billion of projects featuring process technologies have been identified in the latest ver…

Sita Severnside Energy from Waste

£1.4bn deal for 34MW waste plant

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Hitachi Zosen Inova is to build a 34MW energy from waste (EfW) plant after its client SITA signed a…

Shale gas fracking

Shale impact set to be "minimised"

Added: 27 Nov 2013

Water UK and the UK Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG) will work together to help minimise the impact …

Cory Environmental opens its first AD plant in Somerset

Cory opens first AD plant

Added: 26 Nov 2013

Cory Environmental has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) plant capable of generating 500kw …

Emerson Hauneng Quinbei super critical coal power plant

UK to limit overseas coal-fired plant financing

Added: 25 Nov 2013

Secretary of State Edward Davey announced last week that the UK is to severely restrict its support…

Cyber security

Complacent companies at highest risk of cyber attack

Added: 19 Nov 2013

Companies that employ outdated technologies and inefficient risk management tactics are at a higher…

Greenpeace Warsaw coal protest

Coal industry calls for technology backing

Added: 18 Nov 2013

Leading figures in the global coal industry gathered in Warsaw today to call for governments to bac…

Chemical Plant

Avoiding blackouts…at any cost?

Added: 13 Nov 2013

Yesterday I was speaking to Dr John Roberts, who chaired the Royal Academy of Engineering group tha…

Energy efficient technologies aren't always implemented

Cost concerns limit energy efficiency investment

Added: 12 Nov 2013

Financial concerns trump environmental ones when it comes to considering investment in energy effic…

Sellafield nuclear reactor plant

Technique to cut nuclear waste "by 95%"

Added: 11 Nov 2013

Engineers from the University of Sheffield have developed a technique to reduce the volume of highe…

Centrifugal air compressor

Ingersoll Rand launches efficient centrifugal compressor

Added: 7 Nov 2013

The Centac C800 centrifugal air compressor is designed for assembly, automotive food and beverage, …

Centralised control room

Control rooms play catch-up

Added: 5 Nov 2013

They are present in most households and even my three-year old can operate one, so why are process …

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Process industries “ignoring” cyber threat

Added: 5 Nov 2013

Owners and operators of process plants are failing to take the threat of system software hacking se…

Nuclear

Energy sector growth despite uncertainties

Added: 4 Nov 2013

The UK energy sector has contributed £102bn to the UK economy since 2012, despite many power plant …

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Review calls for young engineers

Added: 4 Nov 2013

The Perkins Review will highlight the need to attract more young people to careers within the engin…

Shale gas

Lords to hear shale extraction evidence

Added: 1 Nov 2013

The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee will hear evidence next week from companies wanting t…

CCS plant

Surge in combined heat & power use

Added: 31 Oct 2013

Combined heat and power (CHP) energy generation has seen an increase in its share of the UK supply,…

Water

UK & US to work on water projects

Added: 30 Oct 2013

Engineers from UK & US universities will collaborate on the ‘clean water for all’ projects to devel…

Nuclear

Nuclear talent-sharing scheme launched

Added: 23 Oct 2013

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) and its partners have launched a schem…

EDF Hinkley Point C site preparation

Hinkley Point C nuclear deal agreed

Added: 21 Oct 2013

EDF Energy today confirmed it had reached an agreement with the UK government over subsidies and de…