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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…

It's a gas

Added: 17 Feb 2003

Researchers at the University of Warwick are leading a programme called 'Hydrofueler' to connect pe…

Greener blacktop

Added: 14 Feb 2003

Shell claims that its 'WAM-Foam' enables asphalt to be produced at lower temperatures, providing sa…

Storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks

Added: 14 Feb 2003

A space-saving method for storing spent nuclear fuel has dramatically heightened the risk o…

An alternative to zeolite?

Added: 10 Feb 2003

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have synthesised a large family of semiconduc…