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Collaboration to produce butadiene from biomass
Added: 24 Jul 2012
Versalis, Eni’s chemicals subsidiary in the production of elastomers, together with Genomatica and …

Bridging the divide
Added: 23 Jul 2012
The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

MPs urge rethink of 'botched' Energy Bill
Added: 23 Jul 2012
London - The Government’s draft Energy Bill could impose unnecessary costs on consumers, lead to le…

UK water sector taps infrastructure spend
Added: 19 Jul 2012
London – The UK’s regulated water industry is continuing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on…

2,000 actuators for RWE coal plant
Added: 19 Jul 2012
Altdorf, Germany – SIPOS Aktorik has received confirmation of an order for the commissioning and DC…

Rotork units for Shanghai water project
Added: 17 Jul 2012
Shanghai, China – Valve gearboxes manufactured by Rotork Gears have been supplied for the operation…

Research hub to address burning bioenergy issues
Added: 17 Jul 2012
David Willetts has launched a research hub dedicated to exploring bioenergy processes and techniques

UK industries pay world's highest 'carbon' costs
Added: 16 Jul 2012
London – UK energy and climate change policies add more to its energy-intensive industries’ electri…

Don Valley first in line for CCS funding
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Brussels – The EC has placed the 650MW Don Valley project at Stainforth in South Yorkshire at the t…

Operating procedure key to process safety
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Article based on Honeywell white paper. Contributors: Subhankar Dey - Senior Marketing Specialist, …

Fukushima: Could accidents be 'Made in Britain'?
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Given the scale of devastation suffered by Japan as a result of last year’s earthquake and tsunami …

Subitec secures funding for photobioreactors
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Subitec has secured €4.5m to launch its technology on the global market

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

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…

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…

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…

Capturing the electrical charge between plastics
Added: 10 Jul 2012
Triboelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing friction between surfaces

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…

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…