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Closing the loop

Added: 2 Feb 2004

The last link in the control chain, the performance of control valves can have a dramatic impact on…

Monitoring mill effluent

Added: 2 Feb 2004

Paper mills use enormous volumes of water, much of which is discharged under strict IPPC regulation…

Design into business

Added: 2 Feb 2004

The new generation of intensified reactor designs are beginning to move from the laboratory to the …

Aspen and UOP team up on refinery simulation

Added: 2 Feb 2004

Aspen Technology has announced an agreement with UOP, the process licensor to the petroleum refinin…

An A list alliance

Added: 30 Jan 2004

Aveva has teamed up with Autodesk in a strategic alliance to provide extended design software solut…

WWF wrestles with toxic chemicals

Added: 30 Jan 2004

Seals, whales, falcons, and polar bears are among a range of wildlife at risk from chemicals used i…

Explosive limit

Added: 30 Jan 2004

Extreme conditions sometimes call for unorthodox solutions. Stuart Nathan reports on how Dynamit No…

Bacteria clean up by breathing rust

Added: 30 Jan 2004

New insights into how bacteria interact with minerals could help scientists 'design' microo…

GSK fights US tax bill

Added: 30 Jan 2004

GlaxoSmithKline insists that it will fight a multi-billion dollar tax claim from the US Internal Re…

Fixing the cracks

Added: 30 Jan 2004

Polymers which can repair themselves would be a valuable commodity - and a team led by Jeff Moore o…

Fieldbus field mounted display

Added: 27 Jan 2004

The Rosemount 752 remote indicator provides an operator with a useful multi-function display on a F…

BOC offloads US packaged gas business

Added: 27 Jan 2004

Britain's BOC Group announced today that it intends to sell its US packaged gas business to…

Monitoring minerals and metals

Added: 26 Jan 2004

The new Landscan Pro LSP6 series process imager could help Production Engineers in minerals process…

Power stations sold for $746 million

Added: 19 Jan 2004

El Paso Merchant Energy has agreed to sell 25 power stations to Northern Star Generation, a wholly …

Centrica adds to offshore assets

Added: 19 Jan 2004

Centrica announced today that its subsidiary, Centrica Resources, has reached agreements with Chevr…

Robot baker

Added: 19 Jan 2004

Researchers in the UK have developed a 'robot scientist' that generates hypotheses about the functi…

$600 million LNG terminal planned for Texas

Added: 16 Jan 2004

An Exxon Mobil Corporation affiliate, Vista del Sol LNG Terminal LP, has announced plans to…

Nanocomposite targets moulders

Added: 13 Jan 2004

Noble Polymers has launched Forte, a proprietary nanocomposite material engineered to serve as a gr…

Double cream contracts

Added: 7 Jan 2004

Dairy Crest's recently completed 'super dairy' at Severnside required a blend of contracting expert…

Knowledge power

Added: 7 Jan 2004

Drawing parallels with the commodities markets, Ben Eazzetta of Intergraph Process Power and Offsho…