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Top 10: Control & Automation
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Honeywell has unveiled “the process industry’s first vendor-neutral process control suite.” This, i…
Gasification equipment passes endurance test
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Equipment designed for a long operational life in particularly arduous conditions is vital for a ma…
It's 'hell' for pumps
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Patrick Raleigh reports on the technical challenges presented by recent applications in the oil and…
Pump maintenance: Better by design
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Maintain-in-place pump designs can help ease the pressure on plant operators, reports Patrick Ralei…
KKI saves the day for Caspian operator
Added: 1 Sep 2011
London – When engineers at a company operating offshore in the Caspian Sea experienced a valve fail…
Creating a virtual plant
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Feroz Qureshi explains how virtualisation can improve the efficiency and reliability of process ope…
Technologies to watch: Valves
Added: 1 Sep 2011
ARI-Armaturen’s new ARI-Safe-FN ANSI full nozzle safety relief valve is VdTUV-approved, certified a…
Safer is better business
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Senior chemical-industry executives often fail to grasp the details when it comes to developing pol…
BP makes sense of corrosion
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Permanently installed wireless sensors provide a consistent and regular supply of data on the integ…
Stora Enso increases paper productivity
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Stora Enso is employing wireless monitoring as part of an operator-driven reliability (ODR) program…
Call to scrap 'unfair' CRC scheme
Added: 1 Sep 2011
The UK government should scrap the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and instead oblige businesses to re…
Yokogawa tracks training trends
Added: 1 Sep 2011
Future training requirements in the process industries are heading in the direction of developing a…
Metso to supply new German biomass power plant
Added: 12 Aug 2011
Zwickau, Germany – Metso has won a Euro20-million order to supply Heizkraftwerk Zwickau Süd GmbH &a…
Greenlight for Air Products' first renewable energy project in UK
Added: 10 Aug 2011
London – Air Products has secured planning permission from Stockton on Tees Borough Council for its…
Foster Wheeler taps Emerson to automate world's largest biomass boiler
Added: 4 Aug 2011
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania – Foster Wheeler has selected Emerson technology to control a new biomass b…
Sellafield award for Babcock, Balfour Beatty JV
Added: 4 Aug 2011
London – A Babcock and Balfour Beatty JV, SMF Delivery Team, has been awarded a contract by Sellafi…
Sellafield nuclear-storage plant to close
Added: 3 Aug 2011
London – The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has annouced plans to close the Sellafiel…
Yorkshire Water advances telemetry project
Added: 3 Aug 2011
London – Capula has recently completed delivery on phase two of a Yorkshire Water programme to impr…
Yokogawa nets South Africa power plant contract
Added: 30 Jun 2011
Johannesburg, South Africa – South African public power utility Eskom has awarded Yokogawa Electric…
SSE, Statoil open major UK gas storage facility
Added: 29 Jun 2011
Aldbrough, UK – Scottish and Southern Energy plc and Statoil (UK) Ltd have opened a major new gas s…