All Environment


Dust monitoring

Added: 18 Aug 2005

The Sigrist VisGuard from Siemens Automation and Drives, allows operators to monitor levels of dust…

Attractive biodiesel

Added: 18 Aug 2005

A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia is working to make biodiesel manufacturing more…

DTI studies CO2 segregation plan

Added: 18 Aug 2005

The DTI has announced a £40 million package to investigate the feasibility of storing carbon dioxid…

Optimising paper production

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Faced with rising raw material and energy costs, pulp and paper producers are having to optimise th…

King Coal

Added: 18 Aug 2005

UK-developed clean-coal technologies clearly still have an important role to play both here and abr…

Electrical microbes

Added: 17 Aug 2005

Bacteria used to clean up contaminated land and to generate electricity from organic wastes produce…

Burning waste

Added: 15 Aug 2005

Finnish researchers have developed a process for incinerating the water purification resin used in …

Waste plastic makes steel

Added: 12 Aug 2005

An Australian researcher has shown the steel industry that they can use waste plastic bottles to ma…

Paper is best

Added: 11 Aug 2005

Vital details of radioactive waste stored at Windscale have been recorded on permanent paper rather…

Clean up operation

Added: 4 Aug 2005

The UK Environment Agency has served an enforcement notice on Wollaston, Northamptonshire-based che…

Oil spill

Added: 4 Aug 2005

A simple tank-and-siphon system for removing oil from oily water and protecting the environment is …

Buying filters

Added: 2 Aug 2005

Parker Hannifin has made a cash offer to buy the UK-based filtration and separation group Domnick H…

Emerson acquires Solartron Mobrey

Added: 28 Jul 2005

Emerson has acquired Solartron Mobrey from The Roxboro Group of the ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns …

Catalyst support structures

Added: 28 Jul 2005

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed porous support materia…

Londonderry air

Added: 15 Jul 2005

The UK is heading for the European Court of Justice after failing to adequately treat wastewater di…

MTBE – a cause of cancer?

Added: 14 Jul 2005

A US Environmental Protection Agency draft risk assessment says MTBE is a likely human carcinogen, …

Cool olefins

Added: 5 Jul 2005

A Canadian consortium is developing a technology that will allow olefins to be manufactured more ef…

Biodiesel comes to Iowa Falls

Added: 16 Jun 2005

Cargill is to construct a 37.5-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant and 30-million-pounds-per-year…

Asset management

Added: 10 Jun 2005



Good asset management is synonymous with having a well-maintained plant in the first place, and…