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Impeller importance
Added: 24 Sep 2004
Wastewater and sewage pumps are at the heart of water treatment plants but their efficiency depends…On-site options
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Hannah Scott argues the time is ripe for small companies to consider the potential cost savings of …Encouraging entrepreneurs
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The European Community needs to encourage its entrepreneurs to build on the successes of the Member…Seaside specialism
Added: 24 Sep 2004
A small business based in an unassuming South Coast town is tapping into a newly-developing market …Citral switch
Added: 24 Sep 2004
BASF has opened the world's first continuous plant for citral, with a capacity of 40 000tpa…
Greenhouse gas absorption
Added: 24 Sep 2004
Researchers from Penn State University in Pennsylvania have now found a process which can speed the…Hydrogen storage
Added: 24 Sep 2004
One of the main stumbling blocks to the acceptance of fuel cells is how to store large quantities o…Nanotech cleans up
Added: 24 Sep 2004
The proteins which carry iron around the bloodstream are being used to make nanoparticles t…
Chemical conspiracy
Added: 23 Sep 2004
Degussa UK Holdings has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $1.5 million fine for its participation…Plastic waste fraud
Added: 16 Sep 2004
A UK Government investigation has revealed that some reprocessors and exporters of plastic packagin…Boiling reactor
Added: 16 Sep 2004
The German firm Uhde has been awarded a contract by the Belgian chemical company LVM for a new eth…Innovative biodiesel
Added: 13 Sep 2004
AMEC has been awarded a $1.9 million contract to design a $24 million commercial scale biod…
Environmental hell for nematodes
Added: 7 Sep 2004
CSIRO and the BOC Group have inked a deal to commercialise a new environmentally-safe fumigant for …HPPO by 2008
Added: 7 Sep 2004
BASF and Dow are proceeding with plans to construct a new plant at BASF's Verbund site in A…
Fuel cells bloom with sunflower oil
Added: 25 Aug 2004
Researchers in England have discovered a method for producing hydrogen from sunflower oil, a develo…Lubricating the drive
Added: 25 Aug 2004
A University of Illinois PhD candidate has developed an entirely new lubricant, based on an inexpen…Formaldehyde is carcinogenic
Added: 25 Aug 2004
A working group, convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part o…
Filters with nanotubes
Added: 24 Aug 2004
Novel filters developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Banaras Hindu University can remove…Absorbing corrosion-causing chemicals
Added: 24 Aug 2004
Engineers at Ohio State University have incorporated clay and other chemicals into a paint that pre…