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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…Microbes make bleaching greener
Added: 3 Jun 2003
A newly discovered enzyme may be the key to transforming industrial bleaching from environmentally …Bacteria and catalysts
Added: 22 May 2003
Bacteria could soon have a major role to play in recycling precious metals from spent autom…
Hydrogen to power Freeport
Added: 8 May 2003
Dow Chemical is working with GM to determine whether GM's hydrogen fuel cells can be used t…
Do you comply with ATEX?
Added: 2 May 2003
The ATEX directives, regulating equipment in atmospheres containing hazardous liquids, gases or dus…Plastic recycling
Added: 22 Apr 2003
Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University are develo…Greenhouse gasses reduced
Added: 28 Mar 2003
Emissions of the 'basket' of six greenhouse gases, weighted by global warming potential, are fallin…How to play the energy game
Added: 12 Mar 2003
If, as Harold Wilson once said, 'a week is a long time in politics', what are we to make of…
Food for thought
Added: 12 Mar 2003
Environmental legislation is now high on the corporate agenda for the UK food and drink industry. H…FutureGen aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions
Added: 28 Feb 2003
The US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has announced plans for the US to build FutureGe…
