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Process safety: barely begun
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…
Gone from the wind – industrial CCS
Added: 4 Feb 2015
Almost half of the emissions that need to be captured to battle climate change come from the proces…
A wealth of opportunity
Added: 14 Jan 2015
Chemical engineering graduates earn some of the best salaries in the country. But does this stop th…
There’s something about AD
Added: 3 Sep 2014
This summer saw a flurry of acquisitions in the UK’s anaerobic digestion market. John McKenna looks…
Supple supply
Added: 2 Jun 2014
As political and regulatory changes continue to make energy pricing unstable, flexible electricity …
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…
