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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…

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…