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Tomato and apple peel used for water treatment
Added: 19 Jul 2013
New research suggests cost-effective method of producing potable water.

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…

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…

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…

Growing case for CHP
Added: 10 Jul 2013
If carefully adopted, facilities for power generation and transfer of waste heat offer significant …

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…
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…

Protecting water networks from contamination
Added: 5 Jul 2013
An international project is developing technology to rapidly identify and deal with contaminated dr…

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…

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…
€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…

Membrane-free desalination
Added: 2 Jul 2013
University led experts have developed a technique that electrically removes salt from seawater.

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…

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…

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…

Curing electric cable insulation
Added: 17 Jun 2013
Heat transfer specialist, Fulton, has supplied the Prysmian Group with a skid-mounted electric boil…

Cutting down on carbon emissions
Added: 12 Jun 2013
A recent study led by researchers at Dartmouth College suggested logging releases harmful amounts o…
A bright future for hydrogen
Added: 11 Jun 2013
Scientists from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have produced hydrogen from sun…

£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.

Proposal to implement better BECCS
Added: 4 Jun 2013
The Institute of Chemical Engineers has discussed the contribution of bioenergy in future energy pr…