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Potash pump
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Cleveland Potash is hoping for a payback of less than 6 months following the retrofit of a …

Microkut is in a class of its own
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Classification below 3 micro m is possible with Hosokawa MikroPul's new Microkut classifier, accord…
GM opposition bears fruit
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Monsanto has caved in to political and public pressure and agreed not to commercialise tech…

Multi-phase meters make gas drilling safer
Added: 15 Jan 2000
High pressure, high temperature (HP/HT) fields in the Central Graben region of North Sea 15…

Earth-Rite dispels static concerns
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Build-up of electrostaic charge during the filling and emptying of FIBCs is a major concern…

ICI pulls out of Teesside solids
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Imperial Chemicals Industries is stopping production of solid reagent chemicals on Teesside…

Fisher-Rosemount to supply ICI
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Fisher-Rosemount has agreed to supply, service and support ICI Polyurethanes for the development an…

Simulation enters the real world
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Imperial College's renowned Centre for Process Systems Engineering (see PE, April 1997, p27…

United Nations calls for massive consumption cuts
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The United Nations has declared a state of `environmental crisis' and urged the industrialised nati…
Try out your membranes first
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As part of a one-day comparative process evaluation service, Memtech (UK) will let you try …

Laser enrichment reduces atomic costs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The United States Enrichment Corporation is looking for a site to put its uranium enrichmen…

Hot stuff
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A plate heat exchanger from GEA Ecoflex represents a major development in heat exchanger te…

Take control in a time of fast-changing technology
Added: 15 Jan 2000
There was a time when the highlight of any visit to a C&I show would be hearing the latest …

Process engineers in control? They should be
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Last month was a special one in the life of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. In a wee…

New plant starts up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A 5000t/a isophoronediamine plant has come on-stream at BASF's Ludwigshafen site, tripling the comp…

Process filter has self-cleaning feature
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Available in the UK from Technical Sales International, the robust EDAK-Sulzer filter featu…

Titanium pressure vessel shipped
Added: 15 Jan 2000
One of the biggest titanium pressure vessels ever fabricated in the UK has been shipped from the Di…

NO TANGLE formula
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Designing the complex tangles of pipework that are the vital arteries of any process plant …

Triple offset design reduces friction
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The highlight of Reiss Engineering's exhibits, on stand E82, is the Triax range of elliptic…

Foul is fair with ABB
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The problem with turbidity analysers is that they become fouled by the substance they are d…