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Hydrogel

Self-healing hydrogels could help seal leakages

Added: 5 Mar 2012

San Diego, US- Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a self-healin…

Project improves efficiency of energy harvesters

Added: 5 Mar 2012

Teddington, UK- Scientists working as part of the Metrology for Energy Harvesting Project have deve…

Sensor X-ray

Norwegian researchers develop powerful radiation sensor

Added: 2 Mar 2012

Oslo, Norway- Scientists at the Norwegian Micro and Nano Laboratory have created one of the most ad…

EPSRC issues call for novel production processes

Added: 1 Mar 2012

Swindon, UK- The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has this week highlight…

Raman

Laser beams help detect chemicals over long distances

Added: 28 Feb 2012

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a method of detecting chemicals w…

Scottish Water wastewater project cuts flooding risk

Added: 27 Feb 2012

Campbeltown, UK – Scottish Water has completed a £23-million environmental improvement project to p…

MIT research could help improve plant efficiency

Added: 23 Feb 2012

Massachusetts, US- Research by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has provid…

Milk

GEA scoops Euro33m order in Australia

Added: 23 Feb 2012

Milton Keynes, UK – GEA Process Engineering has received an order for the delivery of a production …

South America contracts for Metso

Added: 22 Feb 2012

Helsinki – Metso is to deliver automation technology to two major infrastructure projects currently…

The Shell petrochemicals facility in Singapore

Shell extends Wood Group PSN contract

Added: 22 Feb 2012

The Shell petrochemicals facility in Singapore

London - Wood Group PSN has secured a contract extension from Shell in the UK to deliver midstream …

Ferroelectric structures

Scientists develop bespoke piezoelectric material

Added: 21 Feb 2012

Atlanta, US- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a manufacturing proc…

Shell Pearl GTL

Atlas Copco highlights role on Pearl GTL

Added: 21 Feb 2012

Shell Pearl GTL

London – Atlas Copco has flagged up the involvment in the Shell-operated Pearl GTL project in Qatar…

Project hopes to produce DNA structures on a larger scale

Added: 21 Feb 2012

Southampton, UK- A team of chemists from the Universities of Southampton and Oxford have been award…

Pilot plant produces biogas from food waste

Added: 20 Feb 2012

Stuttgart, Germany – Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biot…

Shell-eating GM fungus offers low-cost process route to anti-viral drugs

Added: 17 Feb 2012

Vienna – Recent incidents, such as the SARS and Swine flu epidemics, have highlighted the need for …

Paper Mill

SAICA starts new recycled paper mill in Manchester

Added: 17 Feb 2012

Manchester, UK – SAICA’s new recycled paper mill in Partington has produced its first paper - ahead…

Emerson selected as MAC for BP project in the Caspian Sea

Added: 14 Feb 2012

London – The BP-operated Azerbaijan International Operating Co. (AIOC) has awarded Emerson Process …

Aramco, Dow tap Foster Wheeler for Saudi propylene oxide project

Added: 13 Feb 2012

Zug, Switzerland - Saudi Aramco and Dow Europe have awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procurem…

UK fund targets carbon abatement technologies

Added: 10 Feb 2012

London – The UK government is to provide grant funding totalling nearly £3 million to four major co…

Bite-size anaerobic digestion for SMEs

Added: 10 Feb 2012


London – While anaerobic digestion (AD) offers a way of reducing carbon emission, providing energy …