All Environment

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 …
Successful tests for oil conversion
Added: 18 Mar 2005
A process developed by Californian firm Ivanhoe Energy could lead to a new source of light oil, a v…
Catalyst for change
Added: 17 Mar 2005
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Brewer fined
Added: 11 Mar 2005
Carlsberg UK was fined a total of £25,000 and ordered to pay £2,001 costs by Selby magistrates on M…
A refined manifold
Added: 9 Mar 2005
Parker Instrumentation has developed a novel instrumentation manifold for BP's Grangemouth oil and …
AMEC expands environmental services
Added: 8 Mar 2005
AMEC has bought the UK-based environmental consultancy, Environmental Advice Centre (EAC), for £1.4…
Breaking it down
Added: 4 Mar 2005
Nanoparticles of gold and palladium are the most effective catalysts yet identified for remediation…
Photosynthesis for hydrogen
Added: 4 Mar 2005
Generating hydrogen is one of the major obstacles in the way of the widespread adoption of fuel cel…
Supply-side sustainability
Added: 23 Feb 2005
With the REACH regulations looming, process companies in the chemicals sector are taking stock of t…