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High-speed sponges clean waste
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Cleaning up contaminated equipment is a major headache for many industries, but it's partic…
KELLOGG SERVES Eggar for breakfast
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At MW Kellogg's recent Refinery Conference, chairman Tim Eggar detailed the drastic changes in refi…Mass market opens for CORIOLIS METERS
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Renowned for their accuracy, if not their initially high cost, mass flowmeters based on the Corioli…Money for old Reliants?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The government has launched a new scheme to boost the amount of material recovered from old cars fr…
BASF awaits upswing
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Half-year profits at BASF slumped by over a third, to E932million, as the company took a E2…
AEA to assess Russian reactors
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AEA Technology is to lead a project to asess the safety of Russian nuclear reactors. A cons…
Crane overhalls relief valve on alkylation unit
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Helping to keep Conoco's Humber Refinery (above) running round the clock is Crane Engineering Servi…
Jacob Dirks receives prize for work on pumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hard work: Grundfos engineer Jacob Dirks, right, receives the Titanium Prize from the Titanium Info…CIA says voluntary energy agreements are `under consideration'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Introducing the performance survey, Jim Whiston, ICI Group's SHE manager and chairman of the Respon…BOC seals 20 year contract
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BOC Gases will supply oxygen to Polish copper producer Huta Miedzi Glogo's refining complex…
Condenser design simplified
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Brunner Mond's number 2 DCB condenser, which cools and condenses product gases at its Norwi…
What's the score on the R&D board? UK not out, but behind
Added: 15 Jan 2000
If the adage about necessity being the mother of invention is true, then its father has to …
Methanol's a syn for Air Products
Added: 15 Jan 2000
With the new government's keenness on clean coal technology, a new process developed by Air…
The bug that hit on Independence Day
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July 1976 was the cue…
BASF devises chiral process
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new plant for the production of optically active intermediates is to be built at BASF's L…
Playing safe at Ciba Specialties
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has reduced the frequency and severity of lost-time accidents at i…
Switch to gas puts UK on path to emissions target
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The UK is on course for its CO2 emission reduction targets, according to figures issued by …
Capacitance system reveals oil:water ratio in crude
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Efficient operation of oil-water separators, widely used by the petroleum industry, depends…
