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Imperial College London opens carbon capture plant
Added: 19 Apr 2012
London – Imperial College London has officially opened a carbon capture pilot plant within the chem…
Could climate change start a new golden age for UK engineering?
Added: 16 Apr 2012
Leicester, UK – The UK’s task of reducing emissions will contribute to a surge in engineering jobs …
Lakeside energy-from-waste plant hires and 'fires'
Added: 16 Apr 2012
Slough, UK - Lakeside EFW has employed a mobile water treatment service to reduce maintenance downt…
Bespoke handling equipment lifts waste at UK nuclear plant
Added: 12 Apr 2012
Dungeness, UK – A piece of handling equipment devised by Penny Hydraulics has been used at the Dung…
Alstom, BOC Drax back relaunched carbon capture competition
Added: 5 Apr 2012
London – Alstom, Drax and BOC have welcomed the launch of the revised carbon capture and storage (C…
Babcock Dounreay Partnership takes over at Dounreay
Added: 2 Apr 2012
London - The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has formally awarded Babcock Dounreay Partners…
Contracts & Projects: Environment
Added: 27 Mar 2012
Current project activity in the environmental sector
Energy-intensive industries can shape £250m scheme
Added: 13 Mar 2012
London – Businesses impacted by rising energy prices are being invited to provide information and d…
Drax axes 'new biomass' plans
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – ?Drax Group PLC has scrapped plans to build a dedicated 300MW biomass plant at its 4,000MW…
Contracts & Projects Tracker: February 2012
Added: 5 Mar 2012
Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality systems for the new Nuclear AMRC, which was…
Project improves efficiency of energy harvesters
Added: 5 Mar 2012
Teddington, UK- Scientists working as part of the Metrology for Energy Harvesting Project have deve…
Scottish Water wastewater project cuts flooding risk
Added: 27 Feb 2012
Campbeltown, UK – Scottish Water has completed a £23-million environmental improvement project to p…
Pilot plant produces biogas from food waste
Added: 20 Feb 2012
Stuttgart, Germany – Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biot…
Ensus still hopeful of reopening Wilton biofuels plant
Added: 14 Feb 2012
London – Ensus has dismissed reports that it is about to permanently close its biofuels plant at Wi…
UK fund targets carbon abatement technologies
Added: 10 Feb 2012
London – The UK government is to provide grant funding totalling nearly £3 million to four major co…
Bite-size anaerobic digestion for SMEs
Added: 10 Feb 2012
London – While anaerobic digestion (AD) offers a way of reducing carbon emission, providing energy …
Yorkshire Water starts work on £30m 'poo-power' scheme
Added: 3 Feb 2012
Bradford, UK – Yorkshire Water has started work on a £30-million project to install the UK’s first …
EU project targets biomass-to-chemicals processes
Added: 3 Feb 2012
Closing the gap between laboratory and the industrial practice for the production of chemicals from…
Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project
Added: 31 Jan 2012
Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …
BOC joins Alstom, Drax on flagship CCS project
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – Industrial gases provider BOC is joining Alstom and Drax as a co-developer on the 426 MW o…
