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Project targets energy lost during aluminium recycling
Added: 25 Apr 2012
London - HRS Heat Exchangers is to participate in ALUSALT – a consortium seeking to develop an adva…

Anaerobic digestion system set to be commercially available
Added: 23 Apr 2012
US researchers have unveiled what they claim is the first commercially available, high-solid anaero…

EU launches biofuels research initiative
Added: 23 Apr 2012
Brussels – The European Commission has launched the the Biofuels Research Infrastructure for Sharin…

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 …