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Biomass

Renewables group slams "unhelpful" biomass/CHP plan

Added: 20 Sep 2012

London – The Government’s latest consultation for biomass power and CHP introduces new levels of co…

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Recycler trims £50k off energy bill

Added: 17 Sep 2012

A plastics recycling company is set to save nearly £50,000 a year on energy costs following the fit…

Drax Power Plant

Burning matters

Added: 14 Sep 2012

Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…

Biofuel

Renewable group responds to Industrial Strategy

Added: 13 Sep 2012

The Renewable Energy Association’s head of external affairs Leonie Greene comments on BIS Secretar…

Magnetically separating oil and water

Added: 12 Sep 2012

MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could…

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TU Delft combines water treatment technologies

Added: 12 Sep 2012

TU Delft has combined technologies for the treatment of waste water with bacteria, Nereda and Anamm…

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Nano-velcro measures toxic metals in fluids

Added: 11 Sep 2012

Researchers have developed a method of measuring water-born toxic chemicals using a strip of glass …

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Oxy-combustion to help CEMEX cut energy costs

Added: 10 Sep 2012

London - Air Products is to provide five CEMEX cement plants in Spain with its Prism on-site oxygen…

A lab-scale microbial fuel cell

Biofuel waste recycled for electricity

Added: 7 Sep 2012

Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is c…

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Hydrogen monitoring improves Syngas efficiency

Added: 5 Sep 2012

London – Syngas (synthesis gas) is manufactured from feedstocks containing carbon, such as coal, he…

AD

TEG secures £21m for AD plant

Added: 3 Sep 2012

Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dag…

CCS

Process industries to present vision of CCS

Added: 3 Sep 2012

The Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) industrialists are brief Northeast MPs in…

Micropump

Micropump aids glass manufacturing process

Added: 24 Aug 2012

Today’s building designs require manufacturers to continually develop materials which meet the chal…

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Glass could improve disposal of nuclear waste

Added: 23 Aug 2012

A method of storing nuclear waste normally used only for High Level Waste (HLW), could provide a be…

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Research to investigate impact of biofuel processes

Added: 23 Aug 2012

Aston University Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) has been awarded £424,000 of research funds, as pa…

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Nanosensor array detects harmful substances

Added: 22 Aug 2012

The University of California has enabled a US company to develop a novel sensor that can detect sma…

Viridor Parkway

Virtual plants link renewable power to Grid

Added: 17 Aug 2012

Southampton, UK – Small and distributed energy resources (DERs), such as wind farms and solar panel…

Biofuel

Ensus to restart biofuels facility

Added: 15 Aug 2012

London – Ensus is to restart its bioethanol plant on Teesside in late August, the company has annou…

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Work starts on "world's largest" renewable energy plant

Added: 14 Aug 2012

London, UK –  Air Products has started work on the site of a pioneering renewable energy plant in t…

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Microbes convert energy to pure methane

Added: 10 Aug 2012

Microbes that convert electricity into methane gas have been discovered by scientists from Stanford…