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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…

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…