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Acid response
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The water supply at BP Amoco's Grangemouth petrochemicals complex is benefiting from a pH r…

Sale of specialities subsidiary stimulates split speculation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The management buyout of Zeneca Specialties from the recently-merged AstraZeneca has fuelle…

Where there's muck in Scotland, there's biomass
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The demands of the Urban Wastewater Directive have led to West of Scotland Water ordering o…

Separator creams off the fat for Express Dairies
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new separator supplied to Express Dairies has increased production of standardised milk b…

What kind of fuel am I?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Corn, paper, and wood chips could be the fuels of the future, according to Stephen Paul of …

Plant-wide protection system
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Environmental Technology Research (ETR) has launched onto the UK market the BC4 module fixe…

Sulzer gets into membranes with GFT buy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sulzer Chemtech, the German specialist in separation systems, has bought the GFT membrane s…

Water, water everywhere
Added: 15 Jan 2000
French utilities firm Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux has bought US speciality chemicals producer N…

Bostik sticks with Salter Weigh-Tronix
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The latest in intrinsically safe weighing technology from Salter Weigh-Tronix has been inst…

Energy demand begins to fall
Added: 15 Jan 2000
World energy demand fell by 0.1 per cent in 1998 - a modest decline, but the first since 19…

Salmon breeders can breathe more easily
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Staff at Hydro Seafood's Ardtornish salmon farm at Lochaline, east of the Isle of Mull, hav…

ACHEMA accord
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Germany might well have its economic worries at the moment, but all things are relative. This year'…
Life after filtration
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sterilistation of sludge is vital not only for the dewatered fraction, but for the remainin…

Pressure indicator doubles as calibrator
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A hand-held battery powered digital pressure indicator may also be used as a low-cost calib…

Two are better than one, but one's better than most
Added: 15 Jan 2000
To the worrying sound of creaking economies around the world, last month BP brought off one…

Welsh Valley
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Beaver Valley systems has secured contracts worth £118 600 from Hyder for the electricity n…

Mag drive pump has 'zero leakage'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ingersoll-Dresser Pumps has extended its CPX range with the launch of the CPXS magnetic dri…

Thermocouple's kingsize venturi
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Thermocouple Instruments has recently completed its largest classical venturi to date, for …

Refining refinery
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foster Wheeler is to project manage the upgrade of Ireland's only refinery at Whitegate, Co…

Fuzzy new ways with PID loops
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Every process engineer knows the basics of PID control algorithms, but a new controller fro…