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Drax green plans stuck on red
Added: 11 Aug 2011
Drax, UK – Drax burnt 600,000 of biomass in the first half of 2011, generating around 6% of the UK’…

Greenlight for Air Products' first renewable energy project in UK
Added: 10 Aug 2011
London – Air Products has secured planning permission from Stockton on Tees Borough Council for its…

Foster Wheeler taps Emerson to automate world's largest biomass boiler
Added: 4 Aug 2011
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania – Foster Wheeler has selected Emerson technology to control a new biomass b…

Sellafield award for Babcock, Balfour Beatty JV
Added: 4 Aug 2011
London – A Babcock and Balfour Beatty JV, SMF Delivery Team, has been awarded a contract by Sellafi…

Sellafield nuclear-storage plant to close
Added: 3 Aug 2011
London – The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has annouced plans to close the Sellafiel…

Yorkshire Water advances telemetry project
Added: 3 Aug 2011
London – Capula has recently completed delivery on phase two of a Yorkshire Water programme to impr…

RWE power plants near startup
Added: 29 Jul 2011
Essen, Germany – RWE has announced that two new Essent power plants that are currently under constr…

Leaving your comfort zone
Added: 27 Jul 2011

Technology crossover is a recurring theme in the latest issue of Process Engineering: highlighting …

EDF plugs into predictive maintenance software for new UK plant
Added: 25 Jul 2011
London – EDF Energy is to employ Emerson Process Management’s AMS Suite predictive maintenance soft…

Manager kicks a hornets' nest
Added: 21 Jul 2011
Patrick Raleigh reports from the ACE conference in Manchester, where a wireless challenge was throw…

F1 technology technology for nuclear plants
Added: 1 Jul 2011
Technology developed for motor racing will be used to monitor nuclear pump operation in a feasibili…

Yokogawa nets South Africa power plant contract
Added: 30 Jun 2011
Johannesburg, South Africa – South African public power utility Eskom has awarded Yokogawa Electric…

New plant helps South West Water tackle water quality issues
Added: 30 Jun 2011
Bovey Cross, UK – South West Water has installed a packaged lamella DAF plant to deal with a signif…

Centrica boss wants "honest" energy-security debate
Added: 23 Jun 2011
London – Centrica CEO Sam Laidlaw has called for an “honest and transparent” debate with Government…

Modern Water wins 'breakthrough' contract
Added: 22 Jun 2011
Guildford, UK – Modern Water plc, a UK group specialising in technologies for the production of fre…

Peel mulls waste projects at 11 UK coal sites
Added: 15 Jun 2011
London – Peel Environmental is considering plans for waste infrastructure developments for 11 UK Co…

Heliex prototype to screw down energy costs
Added: 6 Jun 2011
East Kilbride, UK – Scottish start-up company Heliex Power Ltd has unveiled an energy recovery syst…

Four workers killed in oil refinery explosion in Wales
Added: 3 Jun 2011
Pembroke Dock, UK – Four workers have lost their lives following an explosion at an oil refinery in…

Siemens systems for Brighton wastewater plant
Added: 2 Jun 2011
Brighton, UK – Siemens Water Technologies is to supply three chain and scraper systems to Southern …

United Utilities resolves costly valve problems
Added: 31 May 2011
Cheshire, UK – A framework contractor working on behalf of United Utilities contacted T-T’s divisio…