Latest Archive


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…