Latest Archive

Orders for filters
Added: 15 Jan 2000
With 25 orders across the world's starch industry for its specialist pressure filters, Finnish comp…

Eastman looks to syngas feedstocks
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Researchers from Eastman Chemical are developing a new process to make methyl methacrylate …

Biotechnology projects scoop £3 million awards
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ten biotechnology projects are to benefit from £3 million-worth of government grants as par…

Island waste to produce energy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
West Midlands-based Birwelco has been awarded a £9 million contract for the engineering, procuremen…

Kuebler can do
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Level sensing, measuring and control systems supplier KSR Kuebler believes its website will simplif…

COST/CAPACITY RELATIONSHIPS from first principles: Part 2
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In Part 1 of this feature (page 16, March 1998), we found that E the exponent in the cost s…

MULTIPHASE by-pass for Troll
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The giant Norwegian Troll Field is to become the testing ground for a novel subsea processing syste…
Revamp by AMEC
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AMEC Process and Energy is to refurbish three units within Lindsey Oil Refinery as part of …

Samples on test
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At its factory in Bath, Somerset, Cross Manufacturing has opened a test and demonstration r…

Shannon heralds a new ERA
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ERA Technology, the R&D and testing organisation for contract engineering, has named Professor Erne…

As easy as tuning in to drive time
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Toshiba's new S7 variable speed motor drive is said to be as simple to set up as tuning a r…

Longer life in Lancashire
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Lancashire Dairies in Manchester has been driving to increase its production flexibility in…

Self-cleaning filters help minimise waste
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ronningen-Petter's DCF self-cleaning filter, available in the UK through George Meller, boa…

UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components cov…

An Inquisitor Calls
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Whether you find yourself jumping through hoops or running in circles, Jane Rawlings advises on exa…
Here is the pneus
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pneu User, the independent club for pneumatics systems operators, has launched a forum for …

Mobil cracks propylene shortage
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Catalyst researchers at Mobil Technology believe they have found the key to meeting the fas…

Poste shunted in SB shake-up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
George Poste, head of research and development at SmithKline Beecham, has been appointed to the new…

Putting on a new spin
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Suitable for flows from 95 to 1040 litres/min, the HSP separators rely on centrifugal effec…

Food processing means optimised
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Over the past six years, MAFF and the DTI have funded the department's involvement in a Lin…