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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…

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Government sinks £8.2m into water treatment

Added: 16 Dec 2015

Cranfield University has been awarded £8.2 million to shape the future of UK water treatment and in…

Water rules need 'urgent review'

Added: 16 Dec 2015

A report published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests European Union (EU)…

Toxic load

Toxic load: detecting hazards

Added: 9 Dec 2015

Personal protection kit is about far more than hard hats and safety gloves.

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

IChemE rallies climate change cry

Added: 4 Dec 2015

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Energy Centre Board has called on governments and po…

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates

Billionaires' club to fund clean energy

Added: 3 Dec 2015

Tech billionaires Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have joined a cast of high-profile executives in a…

David Cameron COP21

Energy crisis

Added: 2 Dec 2015

Still warm with the glow of leading one of the first countries to officially turn its back on coal-…

Soft assets - Agility

Soft assets: energy management

Added: 1 Dec 2015

Squeezing more efficiency from plant equipment is the next frontier for CMMS.

Paris COP21

CBI calls for global climate plan

Added: 30 Nov 2015

British businesses have joined the call for world leaders to forge a global action plan at the UN C…

Ebswien sewage plant, Vienna

Sewage gas to power waste plant

Added: 30 Nov 2015

Siemens technology is being used to convert the Ebswien wastewater treatment works in Vienna into a…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Government scraps CCS funding

Added: 27 Nov 2015

The UK government rocked the industrial sector this week with the news that it had scrapped its £1 …

Ineos Grangemouth

Sales slide hits chemical sector

Added: 25 Nov 2015

The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) warned last week that the UK must ”urgently address” its …

Shale fracking

Cuadrilla forced to plug shale well

Added: 24 Nov 2015

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) firm Cuadrilla has stopped exploration at its Becconsall shale gas …