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Meeting the scrapheap challenge
Added: 6 Oct 2003
Sophisticated furnace control systems, including the use of fuzzy logic, have significantly improve…Opening the floodgates to pollution?
Added: 25 Sep 2003
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a new European Directive that it says wi…
Ondeo Nalco acquired for $4.2 billion
Added: 4 Sep 2003
A consortium of private equity firms comprised of The Blackstone Group, Apollo Management and Goldm…Cleaning up coal power
Added: 15 Aug 2003
Innogy has applied to the UK Department of Trade and Industry for consent to build a Flue Gas Desul…Commission tackles fluorinated gases
Added: 13 Aug 2003
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation to reduce emissions of fluo…
Clearing the air in Kentucky
Added: 1 Aug 2003
DuPont is to pay $550,000 in civil penalties and perform eight 'Supplemental Environmental Projects…Repeat offenders take the shine off pollution reductions
Added: 30 Jul 2003
The UK Environment Agency has warned that higher fines and more prosecutions are failing to…
Pollution plume
Added: 23 Jul 2003
Proctor and Gamble Product Supply has been fined a total £28,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,914…EC declares war against heavy metal
Added: 17 Jul 2003
Yesterday, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive aimed at minimising t…
Fuel cell trials start at BOC
Added: 4 Jul 2003
BOC has recently started trials of fuel cells to power two of its facilities in the UK. The trials …Hydrogen economy could impact the stratosphere
Added: 17 Jun 2003
Leaked hydrogen gas that would inevitably result from a hydrogen economy could indirectly cause as …Chemicals of concern, or not?
Added: 16 Jun 2003
The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum has published a list of high production volume chemicals that it…Energy savings the driving force for industry schemes
Added: 5 Jun 2003
Two of the leading control companies in the UK are each offering to help process operators …
Coal-to-oil technique
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Aker Kvaerner is to join forces with ABB to build a coal liquefaction plant in Inner Mongol…
Corny solution boosts value
Added: 4 Jun 2003
A project led by the US National Corn Growers Association and Archer Daniels Midland is now develop…Low-cost gas heating
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Many small-scale process heating applications can only be met by electric heating methods, …
Biotrickling filters beat scrubbers
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Chemical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed an environmen…
Green materials
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Stuart Nathan looks at some of the advances in processing techniques which are making polymer produ…