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Singapore likes environmentally friendly cars

Added: 25 Oct 2001

The Singapore Economic Development Board has signed a letter-of-intent with BP Singapore for the de…

BioDeNOx demonstrated in Grand Haven

Added: 19 Oct 2001

Grand Haven Board of Light & Power based in Grand Haven, MI and Corus Consulting have signed an agr…

HSC aims to cut injuries

Added: 18 Oct 2001

The Health and Safety Commission is aiming to reduce dramatically the number of working day…

Setting a new standard for process safety

Added: 18 Oct 2001

Safety is a priority for the process industries, as Sira's David Lewis reminds us in this update on…

Bubbles bring water problems

Added: 18 Oct 2001

Research carried out by a US graduate student has identified that air bubbles can cause ser…

BOC promotes supercritical waste process

Added: 18 Oct 2001

BOC and Swedish firm Chematur Engineering are joining forces to promote the use of supercritical wa…

Eliminate nitrates

Added: 18 Oct 2001

A process known as 'Eliminate' reduces nitrate levels in water without generating more, potentially…

Hard questions follow on the heels of Toulouse blast

Added: 18 Oct 2001

Stuart Nathan reports on the aftermath of the massive explosion at Grande Paroisse's ammonium nitra…

CIA announces 'best ever' safety results

Added: 18 Oct 2001

The UK chemical industry has reported its best-ever safety results for 2000, with accidents…

Paving the way to a greener future

Added: 9 Oct 2001

At Staffordshire University, researchers are converting crushed glass collected from bottle banks i…

Reprocessing plant gets green light

Added: 5 Oct 2001

British Nuclear Fuels Limited has been given approval by the UK Government to use the Sellafield Mi…

Foam manufacturers to try-out new recycling technology

Added: 3 Oct 2001

The Dow Chemical Company and Mobius Technologies are to install a proprietary polyurethane …

Optimising PET recycling

Added: 28 Sep 2001

Schmalbach-Lubeca has developed a new recycling system for the production of new beverage bottles f…

Novel membrane makes filtration cheaper

Added: 24 Sep 2001

University of Arkansas researchers have developed a novel membrane that can reduce the cost and imp…

Research focuses on icy challenges

Added: 21 Sep 2001

The special challenges confronting oil producers working in the Arctic will be the focus of…

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…