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GKN drives down energy costs

Added: 15 Sep 2011

Telford, UK — GKN is saving £20,000 a year in energy costs from the installation of ABB low voltage…

Industry's "first" condition monitoring iPhone app

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Dewsbury, UK —Parker Filtration, part of Parker Hannifin claims to have released the industry’s fir…

Real-time process optimisation market looking stronger

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Dedham, Massachusetts - Demand for real-time process optimisation and training (RPO) market is to g…

Swedish mill adds new analyser technology

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Mörrum, Sweden – Södra Cell’s Mörrum mill in southern Sweden is currently installing a new Metso Ka…

Invensys control system for Saudi refinery

Added: 16 Aug 2011

London – Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Co. (SATORP) — a JV between Saudi Aramco and T…

US majors target Israeli wastewater-to-electricity technology

Added: 15 Aug 2011

Caesarea, Israel – Energy Technology Ventures – a joint venture between GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPh…

Tata Steel checks oxygen costs at Scunthorpe plant

Added: 10 Aug 2011

Scunthorpe, UK – Tata Steel’s Scunthorpe steel plant produces carbon steel by the basic oxygen meth…

Foster Wheeler taps Emerson to automate world's largest biomass boiler

Added: 4 Aug 2011

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania – Foster Wheeler has selected Emerson technology to control a new biomass b…

Yorkshire Water advances telemetry project

Added: 3 Aug 2011

London – Capula has recently completed delivery on phase two of a Yorkshire Water programme to impr…

Leaving your comfort zone

Added: 27 Jul 2011

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Technology crossover is a recurring theme in the latest issue of Process Engineering: highlighting …

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Steaming ahead at Dalkia biomass plant

Added: 22 Jul 2011

Energy services company Dalkia, owned by Veolia Environnement and EDF, has recently commissioned on…

ASCO units to control valves at Russia refinery

Added: 22 Jul 2011

St Petersburg, Russia – Surgutneftegas is to use actuator control systems from ASCO Numatics to con…

Manager kicks a hornets' nest

Added: 21 Jul 2011

Patrick Raleigh reports from the ACE conference in Manchester, where a wireless challenge was throw…

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Smartphone calling

Added: 20 Jul 2011

Patrick Raleigh explains how the latest smartphone apps are widening the maintenance capabilities o…

BASF Fina facility plans for wireless

Added: 18 Jul 2011

BASF Fina Petrochemicals LP a joint venture between BASF and Total Petrochemicals USA Inc has estab…

GAMBICA calls for greater VSD awareness

Added: 1 Jul 2011

London – GAMBICA is flagging up the importance of variable speed drives and related energy-saving m…

Software-skills gap bites

Added: 1 Jul 2011

An industry-wide shortage of software-experienced engineers and over-extended equipment vendors are…

Which camera?

Added: 1 Jul 2011

In recent years, a huge range of infrared cameras has come on to the market for applications includ…

Energy issues form the backdrop to OE11 event

Added: 1 Jul 2011

David Clough sets the scene for a show that puts the sustainability of the oil and gas industry fir…

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F1 technology technology for nuclear plants

Added: 1 Jul 2011

Technology developed for motor racing will be used to monitor nuclear pump operation in a feasibili…