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Dissecting liquid-liquid dispersions

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Understanding the complex behaviour of two phase liquid-liquid dispersions requires good me…

Smaller, lighter, smarter, cheaper

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Meggitt Mobray's MLT100 displacement level transmitter is said to offer high functionality …

Industry issues Cogen call

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Energy generators across Europe are urging the European Commission to support the cogeneration of h…

Land measures waste heat

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A thermometer specifically designed for measuring combustion temperature in waste incinerat…

BASF/Shell venture to Singapore

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BASF and Shell have announced their intention to produce styrene monomer (SM) and propylene…

BP's boiler

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Foster Wheeler has won an $18 million contract to build the heat-recovery generator and process ste…

Star role for Robag

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Polish company Star Foods has installed a TNA Robag machine to handle packs of salty snacks…

Blue Circle steps into Canada

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Cement producer Blue Circle is poised to expand across the Atlantic after agreeing to buy S…

Modern control keeps brewery steeped in tradition

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Beer drinkers may despair, lager drinkers may not care, but the Greene King brewery in Bury…

Smart work cuts transmission costs for Transco

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Cost savings of up to 80 per cent are expected by gas transmission company Transco followin…

Catalytica scoops drugs plant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

US specialities firm Catalytica is to acquire Glaxo Wellcome's pharmaceutical production plant in G…

Power gen module for SmartPlant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Intergraph's Smart-Plant software can now be extended with a specific module for the fossil…

DTI to launch guides at C&I '98

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Department of Trade and Industry has chosen the Control & Instrumentation '98 exhibitio…

DSM shutdown

Added: 15 Jan 2000

An explosion in the extrusion unit of DSM's polypropylene plant at Geleen has forced a temporary sh…

One piece sensor is flush

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Sensotec Model A105 is a subminiature, flush diaphragm pressure transducer which delive…

Plant stand

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BP Oil is to close its Llandarcy refinery in 1999. BP has awarded AMEC-BKW a contract to upgrade th…

Metallocene alternatives

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Metallocene catalysts are posing problems for plastics producers, especially because of the…

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…

HIGH spirits

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Scotland's largest whisky producer United Distillers has recently spent £12 million automating proc…

Low voltage controller

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Cal Controls has introduced an energy efficient, low voltage version of its series 3200 con…