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UK biofuel projects to receive £25m
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Transport minister Norman Baker has announced a biofuels funding scheme to help advance waste-to-fu…
Threat to Schneider's Invensys takeover
Added: 2 Aug 2013
Schneider’s proposed £3.4 billion takeover of Invensys is still under threat of being beaten by a b…
Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn
Added: 31 Jul 2013
UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…
On the right track for safety
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Efforts to establish effective safety practices in the construction of process infrastructure seem …
Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.
Lords probe waste and the bioeconomy
Added: 26 Jul 2013
The House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee yesterday launched an inquiry into waste and t…
100MW biomass project approved
Added: 24 Jul 2013
The £250m development of a biomass power plant in the North East of England was approved by governm…
Testing the water
Added: 23 Jul 2013
Accurate monitoring is key to meeting today’s strict requirements on water and wastewater quality.
Vattenfall wipes £3bn off power plant values
Added: 23 Jul 2013
Swedish utility Vattenfall today announced it was writing SEK 29.7 billion (£2.98 bn) off the value…
Modular system for hygienic processes
Added: 16 Jul 2013
The Bürkert ELEMENT range has been expanded to include process valves with orifice diameters up to …
Improving heat transfer in industrial plants
Added: 16 Jul 2013
MIT researchers have undertaken the first systematic study of the factors that control boiling heat…
Biomass charcoal promises soil cleaning solution
Added: 16 Jul 2013
Former industrial land polluted with chemicals and heavy metals could be cleaned up for reuse by ch…
Cuadrilla expands UK shale gas exploration
Added: 10 Jul 2013
Cuadrilla is set to increase its exploration programme for shale gas in northeast England.
BATTERY+STORAGE international trade fair
Added: 9 Jul 2013
All sub-sectors in the development of modern battery and energy storage systems are exhibited at th…
No 'one-size-fits-all' approach to CCS
Added: 9 Jul 2013
Better appraisals are needed on geomechanical deformation at CCS sites, according to a study by Bri…
Is sustainable intensification the answer?
Added: 9 Jul 2013
Sustainable intensification could help meet the challenges of increasing demands for food, argues a…
Electricity generated from tree fungus
Added: 8 Jul 2013
The University of Freiburg has found a way to make a species of tree fungus useful for the producti…
Protecting water networks from contamination
Added: 5 Jul 2013
An international project is developing technology to rapidly identify and deal with contaminated dr…
Platinum-free catalyst could cut cost of hydrogen
Added: 5 Jul 2013
Researchers have developed a catalyst that creates hydrogen fuel without the use of expensive plati…
Paying the price of nuclear rewards
Added: 3 Jul 2013
Professor Stuart Haszeldine argues that a nuclear future in the UK will come at a price.
