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Apple peel

Tomato and apple peel used for water treatment

Added: 19 Jul 2013

New research suggests cost-effective method of producing potable water.

Jim Marshall - Water UK

Water firms seek urgent shale gas talks

Added: 18 Jul 2013

Water companies in the UK yesterday called for urgent talks with shale gas developers to head off p…

David Willetts

Autonomous systems and energy storage research secure £132m

Added: 17 Jul 2013

Funding of up to £132 million was today announced by MP David Willetts for three key areas of resea…

Drax Power Plant 2

Improving heat transfer in industrial plants

Added: 16 Jul 2013

MIT researchers have undertaken the first systematic study of the factors that control boiling heat…

CHP containerised caterpillar

Growing case for CHP

Added: 10 Jul 2013

If carefully adopted, facilities for power generation and transfer of waste heat offer significant …

CCS

No 'one-size-fits-all' approach to CCS

Added: 9 Jul 2013

Better appraisals are needed on geomechanical deformation at CCS sites, according to a study by Bri…

Tree fungus

Electricity generated from tree fungus

Added: 8 Jul 2013

The University of Freiburg has found a way to make a species of tree fungus useful for the producti…

Lidsey upgrade

Protecting water networks from contamination

Added: 5 Jul 2013

An international project is developing technology to rapidly identify and deal with contaminated dr…

Wisconsin Energy Institute

Platinum-free catalyst could cut cost of hydrogen

Added: 5 Jul 2013

Researchers have developed a catalyst that creates hydrogen fuel without the use of expensive plati…

Wood

Gasification technology enables cheap production of biomass

Added: 3 Jul 2013

A new gasification method claims to turn forest residues into biofuel for less than a euro per litr…

BASF

€9.2m project to develop sustainable syngas

Added: 2 Jul 2013

Process for industrial-scale reaction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen claims to reduce CO2 emission…

Electrochemical desalination chip

Membrane-free desalination

Added: 2 Jul 2013

University led experts have developed a technique that electrically removes salt from seawater.

WELTEC biomethane plant

Biomethane plant fires up

Added: 25 Jun 2013

Built in the shadow of the old Arneburg nuclear power plant, the refinery has the capacity to suppl…

Harnessing 'poo power' to generate electricity

Flushing out new energy resources

Added: 20 Jun 2013

Southern Water has announced the completion of CHP plants at three locations which capture biogas g…

BV Dairy

Technique purifies dairy wastewater while producing energy

Added: 18 Jun 2013

A pan-European research team is developing a modular system to purify dairy wastewater electrochemi…

Fulton boilers

Curing electric cable insulation

Added: 17 Jun 2013

Heat transfer specialist, Fulton, has supplied the Prysmian Group with a skid-mounted electric boil…

Wood

Cutting down on carbon emissions

Added: 12 Jun 2013

A recent study led by researchers at Dartmouth College suggested logging releases harmful amounts o…

Hydrogen from solar energy and rust

A bright future for hydrogen

Added: 11 Jun 2013

Scientists from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have produced hydrogen from sun…

CCS crop22

£3.25m funding aims to speed up CCS development

Added: 10 Jun 2013

EPSRC-funded research will look into how carbon dioxide can be stored underground.

LEWA Burckhardt CCS2

Proposal to implement better BECCS

Added: 4 Jun 2013

The Institute of Chemical Engineers has discussed the contribution of bioenergy in future energy pr…