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Charity helps with a welcome boost for research

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A combination of public money and charitable contributions is set to give science and engin…

Vortex sheds maintenance

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Maintenance-free volumetric flow measurement of gases, liquids and steam at process tempera…

Cutting costs of WATER WORKS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

If you asked an engineer to double throughput, double methane production and double dewatering capa…

BOC polishes off new oxygen deal

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The BOC group is to build the largest air separation plant in Poland at a site run by one o…

Multiparameter function for water quality monitor

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The latest additions to the Aztec 1000 series of water quality monitors from Capital Contro…

Weighing up the piping process

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Plastic pipe manufacturer Wavin Plastics has improved the product quality from its Chippenh…

Adjustable stator saves downtime

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Nemo pumps is launching an adjustable stator to extend the service life of progressive cavi…

CEL in active agreement

Added: 15 Jan 2000

CEL International (formerly Courtaulds Engineering) and Capita Property Services are enteri…

Flowmeter first for phosphorus

Added: 15 Jan 2000

United Phosphorous' new herbicide manufacturing plant at Sandbach, Cheshire, is one of the …

Silly season story? No, it's serious at any time

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At this time of year the national press tends to indulge itself in 'silly season' stories, claiming…

Queen's STAR is fast for meshes and plots

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Computational Dynamics (CD), which is moving to Hammersmith, West London, has released STAR…

LEARNER drivers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Like most employers, the process industries demand a lot of their staff. Two of the most desirable …

Chemical weapons ban in force

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The United Nations' Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) has come into force - and the US is o…

Take a view of the process over the web

Added: 15 Jan 2000

With WebView software, users of GE Fanuc's Cimplicity control and monitoring HMI package ca…

Painting by numbers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The preservation of plant and building fabrics - which, in practical terms, generally means…

Award-winning diaphragms

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Diastar, the new range of pneumatically actuated diaphragm valves from George Fischer, has …

Those that know better

Added: 15 Jan 2000

After their day's introduction to the intricacies of fieldbus technologies (see adjoining p…

Dow selects biocatalyst

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dow Chemical has teamed up with Diversa, formerly Recombinant Biocatalysis, to develop an enzyme as…

Pharmaceuticals plants by design

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Superficially, they may look like many other process plants. Pharmaceutical plants, however, are mo…

Fluid for high temperature

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new low-pressure heat transfer fluid provides unmatched thermal stability and performance…