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Pump can deliver at up to 25bar
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Responding to the results of research within the refining and petrochemical industries, Sto…

Recycling? What recycling?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Almost three-quarters of British managers have no idea that their companies will soon have …

Pipe freezing keeps Enron's heat on
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A seized butterfly valve in a 20in line from a water/glycol plate heat exchanger threatened…

UNIVERSITY FOCUS
Added: 15 Jan 2000
According to last year's Higher Education Funding Council research assessment, the achievements of …

CEL doubles up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Coventry-based CEL International is to double the output of crystalline sodium sulphate at the Elem…

Drying out clinic
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new water treatment system at Boehringer Ingelheim's Bracknell pharmaceuticals plant was …

Low-cost option for low pressure
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AVS Valves' pneumatic type gate valves are said to provide a cost-effective solution for ap…

Estimate cost with PREDICT indices
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As regular readers will know, each month Process Engineering publishes a series of plant co…

Greenwich gets green order
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology at the University of Greenwich has been awar…

Underwater structure repairs under investigation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In recent years the use of carbon fibre composites has become increasingly popular for the …

More maths
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The latest version of Mathcad, the popular desktop calculation and documentation software f…

Foothold in Japanese market
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Intended to help smaller to medium-sized British companies gain a foothold in the lucrative but awk…

Allied Colloids faces Herculean battle
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Allied Colloids is attempting to fight off a hostile bid from US specialities manufacturer …

Chemical industry agrees to cut energy usage
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Assuring their place in the government's good books in the run-up to the Kyoto climate summ…

Hydrogen generation plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
This new $30 million hydrogen generation plant is set to provide DuPont's nylon facility in Wilton,…

A large drop in the ocean for ABB
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As part of the £1.5billion Britannia gas field development in the North Sea, ABB Kent-Taylor has su…

Sundstrand buys Ansimag pumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sundstrand Fluid Handling has agreed in principle to acquire the business of Ansimag, a man…

Grangemouth - centre of BP Chemicals' expansion plans
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Chemicals is investing £500million in the UK as part of its medium-term European investm…

Just the job for chemical engineers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The chemical industry is set to recruit more first-degree chemical engineering graduates th…

£28m water contract
Added: 15 Jan 2000
North West Water has awarded the AMEC-PUREC jv a £28 million contract for work at Bromborou…