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Extinguishing fire using sound

Added: 16 Jul 2012

DARPA has demonstrated techniques to extinguish small flames using electric and acoustic suppression

Flow meter research to benefit process industries

Added: 13 Jul 2012

A new type of flow meter could facilitate the measurement of multiple velocities in a pipeline

tilbury rwe

RWE studying Tilbury Power Station fire

Added: 13 Jul 2012

London – RWE is continuing to study lessons learnt from the recent fire at Tilbury Power Station an…

Saudi Aramco

New Saudi Aramco venture to target energy technologies

Added: 12 Jul 2012

Dhahran Saudi Arabia – Saudi Aramco has launched of a new corporate venturing subsidiary Saudi Aram…

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Ministers 'not trusted' to reveal power plant risks

Added: 10 Jul 2012

London – Independent regulators should take a more prominent role in communicating the risks associ…

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Capturing the electrical charge between plastics

Added: 10 Jul 2012

Triboelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing friction between surfaces

Fukushima

Fukushima disaster "made in Japan"

Added: 9 Jul 2012

Tokyo – The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “man-made” and not the unfore…

Crops

Modular biomass avoids trouble in the fields

Added: 9 Jul 2012

London – The startup of a new biomass plant in Bagnolo di Po, Rovigo in Italy, scheduled soon, coul…

Softstarts

UK units to protect Middle East pumping projects

Added: 9 Jul 2012

Great Yarmouth, UK – East Anglian electrical engineering firm Softstart UK is involved in two water…

Energy: UK "leading by example", says IEA

Added: 9 Jul 2012

London – The International Energy Agency (IEA) has applauded the UK’s long-term vision for a low-ca…

Energos efw plant

Turn up the heat on energy from waste

Added: 4 Jul 2012

London – Energy-from-waste (EfW) facilities must use their heat potential to maximise efficiency an…

Viridor Parkway

AD outshines solar and could grow 800%

Added: 27 Jun 2012

London – The UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry is punching well above its weight in terms of e…

Solar thermal

Fraunhofer network expands

Added: 25 Jun 2012

London - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) and German applied research organisation Fraunhofer-G…

Dounreay coast

Major Dounreay hazard destroyed

Added: 19 Jun 2012

One of the most dangerous legacies of Britain’s early atomic research has been destroyed

Landia AD Ireland

Chopper pump saves district heating scheme Euro60k a year

Added: 18 Jun 2012

Callan, Ireland – A community-owned district heating scheme in Ireland save around 60,000 Euros a …

Babcock Dungeness outage

Babcock completes Dungeness overhaul

Added: 18 Jun 2012

London - Babcock has completed an overhaul of the reactor gas circulators as part of a major outage…

BOC boards 2Co Energy's carbon capture project

Added: 18 Jun 2012

London – Gases and engineering company BOC is to take a 15% stake in 2Co Energy Ltd’s development o…

Emerson Barking

Wireless helps Barking Power listen out for problems

Added: 14 Jun 2012

London - Barking Power Ltd operated by Thames Power Services, has installed Emerson Process Managem…

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E.ON harvests rainwater at Castleford power station

Added: 13 Jun 2012

Castleford, UK - ELGA Process Water, part of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, has supplied a …