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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…

Wood

Biomaterials challenge

Added: 28 Feb 2013

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

ABB

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…

Rotork at Dutch water treatment plant

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…

Hydro bubble WWT wastewater2

Bubbling up energy savings

Added: 9 Oct 2012

Paul Barter, principal process engineer for Hydro International’s wastewater division looks at ener…

Drax Power Plant

Burning matters

Added: 14 Sep 2012

Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…

Emerson Barking

Getting on with wireless

Added: 6 Sep 2012

London – Even the more optimistic among proponents of convergence between WirelessHart and ISA100.1…

Process blast

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…

Emerson Barking

Sensing safety

Added: 25 Jul 2012

?Recent advances in the field of sensor technologies are proving timely for process operators in th…

CPI

Bridging the divide

Added: 23 Jul 2012

The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

Crops

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…

Dounreay coast

Major Dounreay hazard destroyed

Added: 19 Jun 2012

One of the most dangerous legacies of Britain’s early atomic research has been destroyed

Freehex

Machine tool aids repairs in hazardous environments

Added: 18 May 2012

A miniature machine tool developed at Nottingham University could help improve power plant repairs

Apps ease maintenance woes

Added: 1 Nov 2011

While CMMS (computerised maintenance management system) software helps maintenance managers to trac…