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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…
GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…
EU to triple banned-chemicals list
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturers and distributors across a broad range of industries which place products on …
Three big issues in 2012
Added: 23 Jan 2012
London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…
German biogas plant pumps up the volume
Added: 19 Jan 2012
Kronprinzenkoog, Germany – Biogas producer Biogas Kruse has increased its biomethane generation by…
Engineers turn destructive plant into valuable carbon
Added: 18 Jan 2012
Glasgow, UK – Researchers in Scotland and Cuba are ridding the Caribbean nation of a major ecologic…
Biochemical plants in chimneys
Added: 11 Jan 2012
?RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN are to expand their joint CO2 -to-chemicals research in …
Statoil contract to develop real-time environmental monitoring system
Added: 16 Dec 2011
Oslo – Statoil has awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies a contract, worth NOK150 million over t…
Autumn Statement: "Government has eventually listened to industry”
Added: 6 Dec 2011
London – The UK chancellor’s Autumn Statement includes a number of measures in areas including envi…
Hanson Cement prevents emissions rules halting UK plant
Added: 23 Nov 2011
Clitheroe, UK – Hanson Cement has resolved an inherent design fault on the bearing assembly of a la…
Shell, SSE agree carbon capture and storage project
Added: 11 Nov 2011
London – SSE plc and Shell UK Ltd have agreed to jointly develop a proposed carbon capture and stor…
Digester mixing system advances biogas production at Heinz Bakenhus
Added: 11 Nov 2011
Grossenkneten, Germany – Landia’s digester mixing system, which combines sludge recirculation with …
Brazil biomass producer targets Europe
Added: 7 Nov 2011
São Luís, Brazil – Suzano Renewable Energy, part of the Suzano Pulp and Paper company, has recently…
Leeds 'sludge team' targets nuclear waste
Added: 2 Nov 2011
Leeds, UK – It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Researchers from the University of Leeds ha…
CCS axe threatens future of coal
Added: 1 Nov 2011
The UK government has decided not to construct carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities at the L…
Clean coal must stay high on the agenda
Added: 1 Nov 2011
With its capacity to reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired power stations by up to 90%, carbon captu…
Creaming off the cost
Added: 1 Nov 2011
One of the UK’s ten largest food companies, Dairy Crest has started up two biomass boilers at its D…
Why energy-saving plans are failing to go the distance
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Depending on the relative cost of enery at the time, energy-efficiency programmes and capital inves…
