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Waste management: smart solutions in the spotlight

Louisa Hearn | Added: 3 May 2016

Technologies for testing and treating water and solids are coming of age in the quest to squeeze sa…

Analysis: counting the cost of Carbon Capture & Storage cuts

Louisa Hearn | Added: 28 Apr 2016

Is the lack of joined-up thinking over Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) investment a threat to the UK…

Scientists recruit cyanobacteria to create ‘clean’ chemicals

Added: 25 Apr 2016

German scientists are researching the use of cyanobacteria to provide a more sustainable method for…

Biomass wood

Collaborative group proposes natural carbon use

Added: 19 Apr 2016

Academics and industry representatives have joined forces to develop a new model for decarbonisatio…

Water industry: turning the tide

Louisa Hearn | Added: 13 Apr 2016

The water industry may need to consider a very new approach to innovation if it is to triumph over …

Scientists target PET plastic puzzle

Added: 17 Mar 2016

Researchers around the world are inching closer to halting the environmental damage caused by the p…

biogas

Case study: slurry power

Added: 23 Feb 2016

A biogas plant is generating electricity from low-temperature waste heat.

Silhouette of drilling rig in Wamsutter, Wyoming USA

BP predicts oil & gas energy ‘dominance’

Added: 11 Feb 2016

The 2016 Energy Outlook report published by BP suggests oil and gas will remain the dominant form o…

UK may struggle to meet CO2 targets after ‘disappointing’ U-turn

Louisa Hearn | Added: 10 Feb 2016

The government’s sudden decision to pull funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects coul…

Fracking

UK shale “within 10 years”

Rob Smith | Added: 2 Feb 2016

A letter leaked to Friends of the Earth (FoE) reveals government plans to implement industrial-scal…

electricity pylon energy

UK ‘facing an electricity crisis’

Added: 26 Jan 2016

A report published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests the UK is threatene…

Liz Fletcher, Beamex

Calibration: Field factors

Added: 22 Jan 2016

The case for calibrating equipment in either a workshop or the field is not always black and white,…

Process safety engineer

Process safety: cleaning house

Rob Smith | Added: 19 Jan 2016

Failure to recognise hazards in process plants could prove fatal, writes Robert Smith.

Carbon capture cuts condemned

Louisa Hearn | Added: 14 Jan 2016

Prime minister David Cameron has been accused by UK ministers of double standards following recent …

Portable SmartFID TOC analyser

Gas analyser measures solvents

Added: 12 Jan 2016

Quantitech has been appointed exclusive distributor in the UK and Ireland for ErsaTec, a manufactur…

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Green gas industry ‘could quadruple’

Added: 22 Dec 2015

Additional funding for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) budget has the potential to increase the …

Shale fracking

Shale report highlights benefits

Added: 17 Dec 2015

The Task Force on Shale Gas has published its fourth report, which examines the economic impacts of…

Ashtead critical care

Critical care

Added: 17 Dec 2015

There are real advantages to be gained from renting specialist equipment, writes Will Russell of As…

Drax power station

Industry reacts to Paris verdict

Added: 17 Dec 2015

The UK business community has called on the government to support existing technologies, and embrac…

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Online calculator combats grit costs

Added: 17 Dec 2015

Hydro International has launched an industry tool to help assess the  full operating cost impact of…