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Contractors in ethylene alliance

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Two of the world's largest petrochemical contractors, Fluor Daniel and Stone & Webster, are…

Depth and level combination

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The DPI 280-Series are 18DIN panel-mounted indicators with a wide range of processing facil…

Piping package eases stress

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The latest release of AutoPIPE from Rebis boosts what the company claims was already the in…

Say what you do and do what you say

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Catalytic combustion - without NOx

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Catalytic combustion, in which fuels burn at a lower temperature than in conventional combu…

Asia fights to balance its books

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Huw Williams, director of Asian chemical research at NatWest Securities (NWS) Asia, painted…

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…