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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…Smallpox screensaver
Added: 6 Feb 2003
Using the idle time of computers like yours and mine, researchers at the University of Oxford aim t…Safe or sorry
Added: 3 Feb 2003
Most products are certified as safe by the companies that actually make them. But is this 'self-cer…Sticky stuff
Added: 3 Feb 2003
Insights into particle behaviour could help laboratory equipment maker Varian and Canada's Alberta …Bacteria can eat pesticide
Added: 3 Feb 2003
Researchers have found that two microorganisms are capable of breaking down Endosulfan, a chlorine-…