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Differential pressure

Added: 10 Jun 2005

Accurately determining the level of water/hydrocarbon interfaces is critical to the operation of eq…

Biofuel boiler

Added: 10 Jun 2005

Aker Kvaerner has won a contract to supply a biofuel-fired boiler plant for paper and board plant i…

‘Complacency’ exacerbated Thorp leak

Added: 9 Jun 2005

The leakage of radioactive liquor into the fuel clarification cell at the Thorp nuclear fuel reproc…

Mercury control

Added: 7 Jun 2005

The US Department of Energy has issued a license to private industry to commercially develop a prom…

Rubber remediation

Added: 20 May 2005

The Irish firm Midwest Transport is to pay WESCO a $700,000 one-time licensing fee to exclusively m…

Whales force gas rerouting

Added: 11 May 2005

Sakhalin Energy is to move three of its offshore pipelines to avoid feeding grounds for the endange…

Green gallery

Added: 11 May 2005

The ET2005 exhibition and conference, to be held at the National Exhibition Centre from 24-26 May, …

Sampling for CEMS

Added: 11 May 2005

As with any analytical system, continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) are only as good as t…

Focus on environment

Added: 11 May 2005

Emissions of greenhouse gases and VOCs (volatile organic compounds) are becoming ever more tightly …

Managing energy

Added: 11 May 2005

With rising energy prices, the advent of emissions trading and deregulation of utilities suppliers,…

Cryogenics for cleaner air

Added: 11 May 2005

Luc Rijnbeek explains how cryogenic solvent recovery technologies can improve environmental perform…

Winfrith decommissioning contract

Added: 11 May 2005

UKAEA has awarded a £6million contract to decommission the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor at …

Market forces

Added: 10 May 2005

The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme proved controversial from the off. Stuart Nathan repo…

Coal to liquids boost

Added: 10 May 2005

Foster Wheeler is to participate in a feasibility study for two 80 000 bpd coal-to-liquids faciliti…

A clean source of power

Added: 4 May 2005

Cleaning up wastewater and generating electricity at the same time — it might seem too good to be t…

Poisoned Irish blubber

Added: 14 Apr 2005

A Dutch researcher has discovered that one isomer of the toxin HBCD accumulates in dolphins and por…

A question of delivery

Added: 11 Apr 2005

With fuel cells now beginning to arrive on the roads, Neil Whitwell looks at how suppliers are opti…

Running on hydrogen

Added: 8 Apr 2005

A $380million research programme will evaluate fuel cells and the development of an infrastructure …

Nuclear project

Added: 8 Apr 2005

Aker Kvaerner is to build a facility to remove, sort and transfer nuclear waste from the Dungeness …

BP begins Texas City investigation

Added: 8 Apr 2005

Investigations have begun into the explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery in March, which killed 15 …