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CHP containerised caterpillar

Growing case for CHP

Added: 10 Jul 2013

If carefully adopted, facilities for power generation and transfer of waste heat offer significant …

Correct pump selection

Counting the costs of shortcuts

Added: 3 Jun 2013

The tendency to place price before performance can lead to poor product choice. Are pump & valve ma…

Plastics-to-diesel facility

Meeting challenges in the mix

Added: 31 May 2013

Current developments and project activity highlight the increasing range of demands on process equi…

Flow meter LNG site

Energy sectors are fuelling innovation

Added: 24 May 2013

Emerging energy sectors, such as LNG, biogas and oilsands, are driving demand for new flow measurem…

Lidsey upgrade

Planning the journey

Added: 14 May 2013

Patrick Raleigh reports on efforts at Southern Water to move the utility to a more planned maintena…

Compressors Air Ingresoll rand

Recovery in the air

Added: 29 Apr 2013

London – Suppliers of industrial compressors and related systems and equipment are expecting market…

BP FPSO2

Learning the lessons

Added: 8 Apr 2013

This summer Oil & Gas UK will stage a major offshore safety conference to mark the 25th anniversary…

Fukushima

Dealing with disaster

Added: 8 Apr 2013

Natural hazard triggered technological accidents (Natechs) are on the rise. The globalisation of bu…

Schaeffler rig bearings

Subsea saviour

Added: 8 Apr 2013

Much of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. In future, offshore natural gas fields will …

Food Greencore

Keeping it clean

Added: 4 Apr 2013

The meat products scandal that has rocked the UK food manufacturing industry is likely to heighten …

Canning

Uniting the forces of air movement

Added: 27 Mar 2013

Vacuum pumps and air compressors are vital parts of a myriad of engineering processes. Historically…

Zeolite

Scientists advance CO2 route to acrylates

Added: 26 Mar 2013

Providence, Rhode Island – Chemical researchers at Brown and Yale Universities in the US are claimi…

Dalkia wood

Lessons from Germany

Added: 26 Mar 2013

Germany’s impressive performance in biogas development has been as much about implementation as inn…

Sensors create a stir in WWT sector

Added: 19 Mar 2013

Issues around the maintenance of dissolved oxygen (DO) sensors and the accuracy of measurements pro…

Fulton

Boilers: The heat is on training

Added: 19 Mar 2013

Guidelines within BG01 (Guidance on the Safe Operation of Boilers) are continuing to drive demand f…

Time to replace?

Added: 8 Mar 2013

Experts from different industries identify common issues when it comes to staying ahead of obsolesc…

Biomass

Renewable energy roadmap

Added: 4 Mar 2013

The UK is making “significant progress” with plans to increase renewable energy supply, according t…

Wood

Biomaterials challenge

Added: 28 Feb 2013

The current political drive behind recycling of waste material and the generation of power from ren…

  AA frackiing Shale 22

Frack from fiction

Added: 26 Feb 2013

Cuadrilla Resources, the UK firm which caused the incident in July, was last month given permission…

BASF Antwerp Cracker

BASF's automation lifecycle

Added: 26 Feb 2013

Ludgwigshafen, Germany - Chemicals major BASF SE’s headquarters site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is a…