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Optimising paper production

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Faced with rising raw material and energy costs, pulp and paper producers are having to optimise th…

King Coal

Added: 18 Aug 2005

UK-developed clean-coal technologies clearly still have an important role to play both here and abr…

Waste plastic makes steel

Added: 12 Aug 2005

An Australian researcher has shown the steel industry that they can use waste plastic bottles to ma…

Paper is best

Added: 11 Aug 2005

Vital details of radioactive waste stored at Windscale have been recorded on permanent paper rather…

Buying filters

Added: 2 Aug 2005

Parker Hannifin has made a cash offer to buy the UK-based filtration and separation group Domnick H…

Emerson acquires Solartron Mobrey

Added: 28 Jul 2005

Emerson has acquired Solartron Mobrey from The Roxboro Group of the ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns …

Catalyst support structures

Added: 28 Jul 2005

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed porous support materia…

Cool olefins

Added: 5 Jul 2005

A Canadian consortium is developing a technology that will allow olefins to be manufactured more ef…

Asset management

Added: 10 Jun 2005



Good asset management is synonymous with having a well-maintained plant in the first place, and…

Differential pressure

Added: 10 Jun 2005

Accurately determining the level of water/hydrocarbon interfaces is critical to the operation of eq…

Biofuel boiler

Added: 10 Jun 2005

Aker Kvaerner has won a contract to supply a biofuel-fired boiler plant for paper and board plant i…

Mercury control

Added: 7 Jun 2005

The US Department of Energy has issued a license to private industry to commercially develop a prom…

South Hook control contract

Added: 11 May 2005

Yokogawa has won a £4 million lump sum turnkey contract to provide instrumentation and controls for…

Winfrith decommissioning contract

Added: 11 May 2005

UKAEA has awarded a £6million contract to decommission the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor at …

Managing energy

Added: 11 May 2005

With rising energy prices, the advent of emissions trading and deregulation of utilities suppliers,…

Market forces

Added: 10 May 2005

The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme proved controversial from the off. Stuart Nathan repo…

Coal to liquids boost

Added: 10 May 2005

Foster Wheeler is to participate in a feasibility study for two 80 000 bpd coal-to-liquids faciliti…

A clean source of power

Added: 4 May 2005

Cleaning up wastewater and generating electricity at the same time — it might seem too good to be t…

A question of delivery

Added: 11 Apr 2005

With fuel cells now beginning to arrive on the roads, Neil Whitwell looks at how suppliers are opti…

Running on hydrogen

Added: 8 Apr 2005

A $380million research programme will evaluate fuel cells and the development of an infrastructure …