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Telstar to build two pharma plants

Added: 9 Oct 2012

Barcelona, Spain - Telstar will direct the full execution of two new pharmaceutical plants for the …

Eni chemicals plant

Eni to convert Venice refinery into bio-refinery

Added: 26 Sep 2012

Venice, Italy – Eni is investing Euro100 million to convert its Venice refinery to produce only bio…

Bayer CropScience to invest Euro7bn

Added: 20 Sep 2012

Monheim, Germany - Bayer CropScience (BCS) has unveiled plans to invest Euro7 billion between 2011 …

Drax Power Plant

Burning matters

Added: 14 Sep 2012

Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…

A lab-scale microbial fuel cell

Biofuel waste recycled for electricity

Added: 7 Sep 2012

Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is c…

AD

TEG secures £21m for AD plant

Added: 3 Sep 2012

Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dag…

cooking oil

Waste oil cuts cost of bioplastics

Added: 3 Sep 2012

‘Bioplastics’ that are naturally synthesised by microbes could be made commercially viable by using…

Microbes

Teaching microbes to produce fuel

Added: 29 Aug 2012

Scientists at MIT have modified the soil bacterium, Ralstonia Eutropha, to turn carbon dioxide or w…

Professor Tony Bridgwater

Research to investigate impact of biofuel processes

Added: 23 Aug 2012

Aston University Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) has been awarded £424,000 of research funds, as pa…

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BASF, Cargill and Novozymes in biotech advance

Added: 20 Aug 2012

London – BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have signed an agreement to develop technologies to produce ac…

Heart surgery

Engineer sans frontiers

Added: 17 Aug 2012

When process engineers apply their skills to other fields, remarkable results can be achieved. Elli…

Fish factory

Reusing co-streams from fish and oil plant processing

Added: 13 Aug 2012

Researchers are developing together new ways of using the substantial co-streams from fish and oil …

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Legionella outbreaks spark industry response

Added: 2 Aug 2012

London - The recent outbreaks of legionella in Stoke-on-Trent and Edinburgh have led to a spike in …

Biofuel

Bio-industries must tackle feedstock issues

Added: 31 Jul 2012

Boston, Massachusetts – The bio-based materials and chemicals sector needs to tap newer, non-food …

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Collaboration to produce butadiene from biomass

Added: 24 Jul 2012

Versalis, Eni’s chemicals subsidiary in the production of elastomers, together with Genomatica and …

CPI

Bridging the divide

Added: 23 Jul 2012

The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

David Willetts

Research hub to address burning bioenergy issues

Added: 17 Jul 2012

David Willetts has launched a research hub dedicated to exploring bioenergy processes and techniques

Extinguishing fire using sound

Added: 16 Jul 2012

DARPA has demonstrated techniques to extinguish small flames using electric and acoustic suppression

Legionelle scare

HSE serves 'legionella' notices on two process companies

Added: 13 Jun 2012

Edinburgh, UK – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served two process companies, North Briti…

Milk production factory

Biosensor detects one-billionth of a gram in minutes

Added: 1 Jun 2012

A new class of biosensor can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in 40 mi…