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Pure magnetism for high-pressure usage
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new range of magnetically-driven high speed pumps from HMD Seal/less offers leak-free ope…

AEA buys in fatigue software
Added: 15 Jan 2000
To complement its process engineering and computational fluid dynamics businesses, AEA Tech…

ProMinent controls H2O2 process
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The new Perox system from ProMinent is a complete system for the measurement and control of…

Monitoring is key to energy efficiency
Added: 15 Jan 2000
`The basis of energy management is measurement,' says Grant Instruments. To help companies …

Measuring mugginess
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The term 'humidity' is used to describe the quantity of water vapour present in air or othe…

This year's MODEL
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Stuart Nathan talks to the process simulators at Imperial College's Centre for Process Systems Engi…
Overnight cleaners
Added: 15 Jan 2000
SmithKline Beecham has installed a Field Electronics SCADA system on its Gloucestershire so…

Topnir looks inside the refinery
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Chemicals is about to launch a licensor network for its Topnir system - a near-infrared …

On target for 260 stands
Added: 15 Jan 2000
After a sustained campaign by the sales team, interest in C&I 99: The Process Automation Event is n…
Microbes caught at the lights
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Purified water of the highest standard is needed to manufacture pharmaceuticals. Ultra Viol…

Small may be beautiful, but big has to be bountiful
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Current received wisdom around the global chemicals industry is that 'small is beautiful'. …

Intellution's business at a glance
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Intellution, an Emerson Electric company (the group was worth £12bn in 1996), has been arou…

Shell takes over Montell while forging venture with BASF
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Not to be outdone by its Nordic competitor, Shell has bought out Montedison's share of Mont…

Load cell tackles silos
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Tedea-Huntleigh (Europe) has added a new range of double-ended, shear beam load cells and d…

Trickle feed avoids over-filling
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hodgson Chemicals needed a weighing system capable of handling polymer resin powder directl…

BIP promotion hits web
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Air Products has launched a website to promote its built-in purifier (BIP) technology for c…

Shell sells off vinyls
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Elf Atochem and Solvay have emerged as the buyers for Shell's French PVC and VCM businesses…

The big chill
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Mushy peas. Tapioca pudding. These and other culinary horrors are now rare because of that chunk of…
One-stop-shop for batch plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At its Lutterworth site in Leicestershire, Brenntag UK, part of Europe's largest chemical d…

Calcor cleans up carbon monoxide production
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Carbon monoxide is the feedstock for the production of many chemicals, such as carbonic aci…