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Auditor slams Sellafield clean-up projects

Added: 9 Nov 2012

London – Decommissioning work at Sellafield, the UK’s largest and most hazardous nuclear site, has …

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Environmentalists urged to support Thames Supersewer

Added: 8 Nov 2012

London –  A US wastewater expert has urged London to embrace the Thames Tunnel as the only solution…

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Free BIU seminar on energy costs

Added: 7 Nov 2012

Wednesday 21st November from 8.30am-12 noon at the Radisson Hotel -Manchester:

As a manufacturer do …

Dalkia wood

Automation of new biopower plant

Added: 7 Nov 2012

Helsinki – Pohjolan Voima officially started up a new biopower plant in Hämeenkyrö, Finland – the c…

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Corac deal to advance gas-pressure electricity technology

Added: 7 Nov 2012

London `- Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed a deal with corporate partners in the UK and U…

AFC fuel cells

Euro6m grant for fuel cell project at Industrial Chemicals

Added: 7 Nov 2012

London – Industrial fuel cell power company AFC Energy and Industrial Chemicals Ltd (ICL) have earn…

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Dear Energy Minister..

Added: 4 Nov 2012

Duncan Everett, managing director at Optimal Monitoring, sets out his wish-list – on behalf of indu…

GSK process is year's top advance

Added: 3 Nov 2012

London – GlaxoSmithKline has taken top prize in the IChemE 2012 Awards for a process technology tha…

Filter coating

Smart filter strains oil out of water

Added: 1 Nov 2012

Researchers at Michigan University have developed a smart filter with a shape-shifting surface that…

UK energy plans still subject to negotiation

Added: 1 Nov 2012

This week’s announcements of Hitachi’s £700-million takeover of the Horizon nuclear project from E.…

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BIU expert on the energy price outlook

Added: 31 Oct 2012

For a new Energy Management supplement PE asked BIU energy trader Andrew Anderson-Shepherd for his …

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UK shortlists candidates for £1bn CCS fund

Added: 31 Oct 2012

London – The government has revealed the four bidders to have been shortlisted for the next phase o…

Rotork at Dutch water treatment plant

Software cuts Dutch energy usage

Added: 30 Oct 2012

Cambridge UK – The Dutch ministry of transport and water works is employing an eSight energy manage…

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EC to investigate Pembroke power plant approval

Added: 26 Oct 2012

London – The European Commission has launched an investigation into the UK Government’s approval of…

Acid from biomass

Processing butyric acid from biomass

Added: 26 Oct 2012

Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will test production of butyric acid from bioma…

Tensides as needle-shaped crystals: Extracted from epoxies of domestic plants.

Chemical-enzymatic process makes use of vegetable oil

Added: 24 Oct 2012

The Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes in Leuna has set up pilot plant to pr…

CO2 storage

Modelling secure CO2 storage

Added: 24 Oct 2012

Numerical Rocks AS, a small Norwegian company, has been studying how carbon dioxide moves and becom…

Oil spill

Using paper to clean up oil spills

Added: 23 Oct 2012

A project in Slovenia is hoping to transform papermill sludge into an absorbent capable of cleaning…

ACWA Thames Water WTW

Odour control project at Thames Water

Added: 22 Oct 2012

London – Thames Water has installed odour scrubbing and activated carbon deodoriser technology from…

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Huntsman UK trials new waste-heat power system (Comment added)

Added: 22 Oct 2012

Redcar, UK – DRD Power has installed its first heat recovery system, which uses Organic Rankine Cyc…