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Your guide through the safety compliance jungle

Added: 14 Jun 2023

The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades’ Peter Rawlinson provides us with some guidance…

Teesside process industry cluster CCS

Teesside bids to secure industrial future

Added: 6 Oct 2015

Process companies hand government detailed plans for industrial carbon capture and storage network …

National Grid control centre

In demand

Added: 9 Jul 2015

With plant closures outstripping the supply of new electricity generating capacity, last month saw …

Dust explosion short course at the Wolfson Centre

New hazards: COMAH 2015

Added: 3 Jun 2015

The introduction of new COMAH regulations will see many smaller firms affected by the rules for the…

British Gypsum Cumbria

Industry ignorant of efficiency deadline

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Companies risk fines of up to £50,000 if they fail to comply with new Energy Savings Opportunity Sc…

Energy minister Matthew Hancock opens National shale gas college in Blackpool

Shale college launch: premature or necessary?

Added: 7 Jan 2015

With so little known about the skills it will target and the courses it will offer, the launch of t…

Apateq onsite water separation

Pure play

Added: 12 Nov 2014

As global water regulations tighten, filtration technologies are evolving to help process industrie…

Energy efficient technologies aren't always implemented

Cost concerns limit energy efficiency investment

Added: 12 Nov 2013

Financial concerns trump environmental ones when it comes to considering investment in energy effic…

Shale drilling illustration

Fracking safe

Added: 26 Sep 2013

Many consider fracking to be a dangerous process, fearing it releases gasses that pollute the water…

Sellafield nuclear reactor plant

On the right track for safety

Added: 31 Jul 2013

Efforts to establish effective safety practices in the construction of process infrastructure seem …

Waste processing plant

Waste processing reaches new levels

Added: 10 Jun 2013

Advances in the fields of energy-from-waste and plastics recycling signal the way ahead.

Dalkia wood

Road to renewable energy

Added: 18 Jan 2013

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

BIU energy2

Energy: Headline prices only part of the story

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Chris Best, joint managing director at energyTEAM, reveals management ‘tricks’ that could save you …

Energy savings: Future trends in pumps

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Pumps are generally considered to consume around 25 % of the electricity which is produced worldwid…

ACWA Thames Water WTW

EU pilots Environmental Technology Verification programme

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Article by CSA-Sira on the launch of the Environmental Technology Verification in the EU:

Europe and…

BP Texas refinery

Operating procedure key to process safety

Added: 16 Jul 2012

Article based on Honeywell white paper. Contributors: Subhankar Dey - Senior Marketing Specialist, …

Energy: UK "leading by example", says IEA

Added: 9 Jul 2012

London – The International Energy Agency (IEA) has applauded the UK’s long-term vision for a low-ca…

Drax axes 'new biomass' plans

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?Drax Group PLC has scrapped plans to build a dedicated 300MW biomass plant at its 4,000MW…

Biofuel

Ensus still hopeful of reopening Wilton biofuels plant

Added: 14 Feb 2012

London – Ensus has dismissed reports that it is about to permanently close its biofuels plant at Wi…

Autumn Statement: "Government has eventually listened to industry”

Added: 6 Dec 2011

London – The UK chancellor’s Autumn Statement includes a number of measures in areas including envi…