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Viridor to establish its first food-waste AD plant
Added: 23 May 2012
London – Viridor is developing a £10-million anaerobic digestion (AD) project, which will employ te…

Dutch bioprocess pilot facility opens for research
Added: 18 May 2012
CSM, Royal DSM and Delft University are participating in a joint venture for bioprocess research

Process engineers are vital to the future of biofuels
Added: 18 May 2012
Dr Emily Ho, technical development lead on the PDX biofuel reactor, sets out the environmental chal…

KIRK progresses Tullis Russell biomass plant
Added: 17 May 2012
Glenrothes, UK – KIRK Environmental has announced that construction is well underway on its part of…

Norway advances carbon capture plans
Added: 8 May 2012
Oslo - Aker Solutions has opened a carbon capture plant at the CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM)…

SSI injects £30m into steelworks
Added: 4 May 2012
Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) has commissioned a £30m pulverised coal injection (PCI) plant at …

Keeping track of GM crops
Added: 3 May 2012
New bioluminescent technology can track and monitor GM crops in the food processing chain.

Dounreay clean-up moves offshore
Added: 3 May 2012
Work to clean up radioactive contamination that leaked from Dounreay more than two decades ago is s…

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…