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MCerts for Europe
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Andrew Chappell of the Environment Agency on the emergence of a Europe-wide certification for emiss…

Resurrected process can convert sugar directly to diesel (Comment)
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Berkeley, California - A long-abandoned fermentation process, once used to turn starch into explosi…

Looking good in chemical protective clothes market
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London – The market for chemical protective clothing is set for robust growth over the next few yea…

Deepwater Horizon: BP reaches $4.5bn settlement with US
Added: 16 Nov 2012
London - BP is to pay fines of $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges in a deal with the…

Green light for Energos EfW plant
Added: 16 Nov 2012
London - The UK environment agency (EA) has awarded an environmental permit to energy-from-waste bu…

UK energy research receives funding boost
Added: 13 Nov 2012
One of the Research Councils’ biggest investments in research to support energy efficiency policy a…

Rittal Blue e cooling units save energy
Added: 12 Nov 2012
Rittal’s Blue e cooling units have the same nominal cooling output, physical size and cut-out dimen…

ABB’s DriveSave provides guaranteed energy savings
Added: 12 Nov 2012
ABB’s DriveSave is a risk and reward scheme for large energy consumers that identifies and guarante…

Permanent magnet AC motor redefines energy efficiency
Added: 12 Nov 2012
Regal is redefining electric motor efficiency with its Marathon SyMAX permanent magnet AC motors, w…

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 …

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…

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 …

Automation of new biopower plant
Added: 7 Nov 2012
Helsinki – Pohjolan Voima officially started up a new biopower plant in Hämeenkyrö, Finland – the c…

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…

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…

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…
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.…

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 …