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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…

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…

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…

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…

Fraunhofer network expands
Added: 25 Jun 2012
London - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) and German applied research organisation Fraunhofer-G…

Major Dounreay hazard destroyed
Added: 19 Jun 2012
One of the most dangerous legacies of Britain’s early atomic research has been destroyed

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 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…

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…
