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Wastewater market rises as regulation bites

Added: 11 Feb 2002

The EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is driving growth in the market for water treat…

New design for pharma heat exchangers

Added: 11 Feb 2002

The Pharma-X from Alfa Laval is a completely new type of compact heat exchanger, designed for dutie…

HTFS links thermal and mechanical HEX design

Added: 11 Feb 2002

Hyprotech's latest release of its HTFS heat transfer design system includes several additio…

Humidity in bloom

Added: 11 Feb 2002

Hygrometrix, a sensors company based in Alpine, California, harvests humidity-sensitive material fr…

Changing places

Added: 11 Feb 2002

Stuart Nathan looks at how ABB's process researchers are combining chemistry with engineering to ma…

Lubrizol to acquire Chemron

Added: 6 Feb 2002

The Lubrizol Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business and subs…

Occidental to sell Equistar interest to Lyondell

Added: 1 Feb 2002

Occidental Petroleum has agreed in principle to sell $440 million worth of interest in Equistar to …

llama droppings combat water pollution

Added: 30 Jan 2002

Scientists from Newcastle University are using llama droppings to help combat environmental…

$3.2 billion buys a lot of gas and oil

Added: 30 Jan 2002

Petro-Canada has agreed to acquire the international oil and gas operations of Veba Oil & Gas from …

Soybeans dissolve foam

Added: 30 Jan 2002

The amount of Styrofoam disposed of in landfills could be reduced in the future thanks to the work …

That's a lot of Aerosmith

Added: 28 Jan 2002

Using polymer memory technology, it will be possible to store the equivalent of 400,000 CDs on a ch…

Conoco to build 730MW heat and power plant in UK

Added: 23 Jan 2002

Conoco Global Power is to build a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant alongside its Humber refinery…

Engineers develop odour eaters for pulp mills

Added: 23 Jan 2002

An academic in Canada is researching biofiltration techniques that use bacteria to 'eat' smelly, ai…

A brief history of OLEDs

Added: 23 Jan 2002

In the future, displays will be far different from the current cathode ray tubes and expensive (and…

PGS' Atlantis subsidiary sold for $215 million

Added: 23 Jan 2002

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA and China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation (Sinoch…

GE Power Systems to acquire UK based PII Group

Added: 21 Jan 2002

GE Power Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PII Group Ltd., formerly Pipe…

BP and ChevronTexaco to build $23 million wind farm

Added: 16 Jan 2002

BP and ChevronTexaco today announced that they are to build and operate a 22.5-megawatt wind farm a…

Are you in control?

Added: 16 Jan 2002

A recent survey was carried out by the Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme (EEBPP) to find ou…

Bug may help clean up PCB deposits

Added: 16 Jan 2002

Researchers from the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute have discovered a strai…

Spring will be a little late

Added: 16 Jan 2002

The chemicals cycle could bottom out by mid-year, with the first shoots of recovery coming by the e…