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Keep it clean
Added: 1 May 2014
High water costs and environmental laws are forcing process plants to consider new cleaning methods.
Workforce meltdown
Added: 12 Mar 2014
The nuclear industry supply chain is taking matters into its own hands as it seeks to battle a decl…
Battling blackouts
Added: 28 Jan 2014
As the UK’s electricity generating capacity continues to fall faster than new plants can be built, …
Brave new world: Industry 4.0 technology
Added: 17 Sep 2013
Wireless devices are common in all workplaces these days, including process plants. But what would …
Growing case for CHP
Added: 10 Jul 2013
If carefully adopted, facilities for power generation and transfer of waste heat offer significant …
Planning the journey
Added: 14 May 2013
Patrick Raleigh reports on efforts at Southern Water to move the utility to a more planned maintena…
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…
Biomaterials challenge
Added: 28 Feb 2013
The current political drive behind recycling of waste material and the generation of power from ren…
Bringing process and power together
Added: 18 Feb 2013
Managing the process and the power systems that serve it through a single integrated control system…
Water sector finds less is more
Added: 12 Feb 2013
Industry regulators now require water companies to support their investment plans with data package…
Water industry needs less data, more information
Added: 28 Nov 2012
London – Regulators are driving the water industry to adopt whole life asset management to help rai…
MCerts for Europe
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Andrew Chappell of the Environment Agency on the emergence of a Europe-wide certification for emiss…
Bubbling up energy savings
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Paul Barter, principal process engineer for Hydro International’s wastewater division looks at ener…
Burning matters
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…
Getting on with wireless
Added: 6 Sep 2012
London – Even the more optimistic among proponents of convergence between WirelessHart and ISA100.1…
Proactive maintenance key to plant safety
Added: 25 Jul 2012
?Process operators, it seems, are starting to realise the close relationship between safety and the…
Sensing safety
Added: 25 Jul 2012
?Recent advances in the field of sensor technologies are proving timely for process operators in th…
Bridging the divide
Added: 23 Jul 2012
The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…
Modular biomass avoids trouble in the fields
Added: 9 Jul 2012
London – The startup of a new biomass plant in Bagnolo di Po, Rovigo in Italy, scheduled soon, coul…
