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Closing the loop
Added: 2 Feb 2004
The last link in the control chain, the performance of control valves can have a dramatic impact on…
Monitoring mill effluent
Added: 2 Feb 2004
Paper mills use enormous volumes of water, much of which is discharged under strict IPPC regulation…
Design into business
Added: 2 Feb 2004
The new generation of intensified reactor designs are beginning to move from the laboratory to the …
Aspen and UOP team up on refinery simulation
Added: 2 Feb 2004
Aspen Technology has announced an agreement with UOP, the process licensor to the petroleum refinin…

An A list alliance
Added: 30 Jan 2004
Aveva has teamed up with Autodesk in a strategic alliance to provide extended design software solut…
WWF wrestles with toxic chemicals
Added: 30 Jan 2004
Seals, whales, falcons, and polar bears are among a range of wildlife at risk from chemicals used i…
Explosive limit
Added: 30 Jan 2004
Extreme conditions sometimes call for unorthodox solutions. Stuart Nathan reports on how Dynamit No…
Bacteria clean up by breathing rust
Added: 30 Jan 2004
New insights into how bacteria interact with minerals could help scientists 'design' microo…

GSK fights US tax bill
Added: 30 Jan 2004
GlaxoSmithKline insists that it will fight a multi-billion dollar tax claim from the US Internal Re…
Fixing the cracks
Added: 30 Jan 2004
Polymers which can repair themselves would be a valuable commodity - and a team led by Jeff Moore o…
Fieldbus field mounted display
Added: 27 Jan 2004
The Rosemount 752 remote indicator provides an operator with a useful multi-function display on a F…
BOC offloads US packaged gas business
Added: 27 Jan 2004
Britain's BOC Group announced today that it intends to sell its US packaged gas business to…

Monitoring minerals and metals
Added: 26 Jan 2004
The new Landscan Pro LSP6 series process imager could help Production Engineers in minerals process…
Power stations sold for $746 million
Added: 19 Jan 2004
El Paso Merchant Energy has agreed to sell 25 power stations to Northern Star Generation, a wholly …
Centrica adds to offshore assets
Added: 19 Jan 2004
Centrica announced today that its subsidiary, Centrica Resources, has reached agreements with Chevr…
Robot baker
Added: 19 Jan 2004
Researchers in the UK have developed a 'robot scientist' that generates hypotheses about the functi…
$600 million LNG terminal planned for Texas
Added: 16 Jan 2004
An Exxon Mobil Corporation affiliate, Vista del Sol LNG Terminal LP, has announced plans to…

Nanocomposite targets moulders
Added: 13 Jan 2004
Noble Polymers has launched Forte, a proprietary nanocomposite material engineered to serve as a gr…
Double cream contracts
Added: 7 Jan 2004
Dairy Crest's recently completed 'super dairy' at Severnside required a blend of contracting expert…