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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…

Biogas

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…

Dairy Crest

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…

Shell targets shale, but not in EU

Added: 1 Nov 2011

Shell Chemicals is planning to tap into THE enormous potential of shale gas as part of efforts to b…

New water quality monitoring service

Added: 1 Nov 2011

The Environment Agency (EA) has created a new agency, called the National Water Quality Instrumenta…

Environmental monitoring: Joined up power plants

Added: 1 Nov 2011

The appetite for the development of new waste-to-energy and biomass incineration plants is increasi…