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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…

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…

Burning matters
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…

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…

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…
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 …

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…

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…

Hydrogen monitoring improves Syngas efficiency
Added: 5 Sep 2012
London – Syngas (synthesis gas) is manufactured from feedstocks containing carbon, such as coal, he…

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…

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 aids glass manufacturing process
Added: 24 Aug 2012
Today’s building designs require manufacturers to continually develop materials which meet the chal…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Microbes convert energy to pure methane
Added: 10 Aug 2012
Microbes that convert electricity into methane gas have been discovered by scientists from Stanford…