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Recycling project offers potential to save industry £50m per annum

Added: 20 Sep 2001

A two-year project has been established to develop a cost effective automated technique for the eff…

Government sets out its terms for emissions trading

Added: 17 Sep 2001

Stuart Nathan looks at what the government's framework is for its emissions trading scheme, to run …

Photosynthesis in a beaker?

Added: 17 Sep 2001

In a step toward creating energy from sunlight as plants do, MIT researchers have invented a compou…

Tiny fuel cells power mobiles

Added: 3 Sep 2001

By using carbon nanotube technology, a Japanese consortium has developed a tiny fuel cell for mobil…

Separation system offers coal a new hope

Added: 22 Aug 2001

Researchers at the Inorganic Membrane Technology Laboratory have developed a means of separating an…

Solar kiln is kind on costs

Added: 21 Aug 2001

Researchers at the University of Arkansas have created an environmentally friendly solar powered ki…

New process may cotton on

Added: 20 Aug 2001

A textile scientist at North Carolina State University is developing a method of dyeing cotton that…

Boosting gas flow

Added: 17 Aug 2001

The US Department of Energy has selected two firms to develop advanced methods for locating low per…

Fuel cell consortium awarded $49 million by US Army

Added: 16 Aug 2001

A Power and Energy Alliance Consortium has been awarded an eight-year, $49 million dollar deal for …

Waste to methanol

Added: 16 Aug 2001

Startech Environmental has signed a strategic alliance with Hydro-Chem to produce and sell combined…

Ethanol from corn: not such a good idea

Added: 10 Aug 2001

Corn producers and some lawmakers have touted ethanol-gasoline mixtures as the answer to fossil fue…

Smooth operation

Added: 9 Aug 2001

Safety concerns and pressure from customers are leading to increasing use of food-grade lubricants,…

Eradicating CFC's with a plasma cask

Added: 1 Aug 2001

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology have developed a plasma cask design…

Recycle those scrap tyres

Added: 27 Jul 2001

An innovation by a British scientist may spark a renewed interest in pyrolysis - and help to reduce…

Bringing sewage back to life

Added: 24 Jul 2001

Haestad Methods has announced the release of SewerCAD v5, the latest version of their model…

Dow buys rigid foam

Added: 24 Jul 2001

The Dow Chemical Company has agreed to purchase the assets of the Celotex Corporation's rig…

VOC directive heralds change for UV curable wood coatings

Added: 17 Jul 2001

The EU Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) directive will have a dramatic effect on the pricing structu…

Clean air and large profits

Added: 17 Jul 2001

Biodiesel fuel containing soy oil can be safely blended with noncommercial jet fuel used in militar…

Metal pollutants show their true colours

Added: 17 Jul 2001

Researchers from Brigham Young University have created molecules that glow in the presence of certa…

Chip houses go green with lack of lead

Added: 16 Jul 2001

Europe's three largest semiconductor manufacturers are proposing a standard that provides a common …