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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…

STEELING A MARCH on plant control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

British Steel operates nine blast furnaces on integrated sites at Redcar, Scunthorpe, Port …

BP goes crackers in Indonesia

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BP Chemicals has joined forces with five other companies to perform a feasibility study for a new 7…

DSM reshapes plastics units

Added: 15 Jan 2000

DSM has reached an agreement to sell its acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) business to …

Tioxide sale will make ICI less cyclical

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Tioxide, the titanium dioxide-producing subsidiary of ICI, is to be floated within the next…

Chill out or freeze solid with calcium chloride

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As part of a MAFF-funded LINK research project, the Bristol University-based Food Refrigera…

Environmental protection: new messengers needed?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As usual around this time of the year, most of our features this month focus on environmental prote…

Nemo pumps won't wear

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Netzsch Nemo-Pumps has a startling claim for the ceramic rotors used in its progressive cav…

Loop tuner hits the right note

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Available from Sandiford Computer Services, QuickTune is a low cost, compact loop tuning to…

Promoting the use of chlorine

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Chemical Industry Association is claiming victory in its campaign to persuade the British publi…

DP and pitot tube in one

Added: 15 Jan 2000

KDG Instruments' latest insertion flowmeter is claimed to be the first to combine pitot tub…

Optical system reveals power station defects

Added: 15 Jan 2000

PowerGen is employing an optical inspection technique, infrared thermography, to monitor th…

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Added: 15 Jan 2000

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