Northern European countries looking for processes to treat water contaminated with toxins from blue-green algae will benefit from a new research grant awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Sean Ottewell reports.
Penny + Giles has achieved an IP68 sealed rating for its SRS280 rotary sensor, enabling operation in harsh environments.
Cold extrusion is playing a greater part in recycling of waste plastic. Engineers at Bradford University in the UK have built a pilot plant and are running trials with different processes, feed plastics, additives, and final products.
LSCF is a relatively new material and over the past ten years or so been the subject of research in many countries, particularly the USA, mainly into its potential use as a cathode in fuel cells.
Advanced ceramic material could be used to cut emissions from combustion processes
Growing concerns over climate change driven by manmade carbon emissions is prompting governments world-wide to look at ways of stabilising or reducing their carbon footprint.
Halving CO2 emissions by the steel industry by developing innovative processes is the objective set for the European Ultra Low CO2 Steelmaking (ULCOS) project involving the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD).
A French company is piloting a novel technology for the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide.
Illinois, western Indiana and western Kentucky alone are responsible for more that 255milliontonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from stationary sources in the USA every year. Such sources include electric power plants, refineries, cement plants, and other industrial facilities.
By 2007/8, some 4500 installations regulated by the UK’s Environment Agency (EA) under the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) regime brought in by the EU IPPC Directive should finally have completed the permitting process.
Scientists at the University of Manchester in England have invented a new device which remotely monitors bad odours and methane gases at waste landfill and water treatment sites.
The Daldowie fuel plant at Daldowie, near Glasgow, in Scotland is operated by SMW Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Power Generation Limited
With over 300 UK government departments and businesses – including some process companies – coming under sustained attack from hackers, the country's National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) has been forced to issue a special briefing notice on the subject.
Although its existing equipment did a reasonable job in many respects, Kosmos Cement was finding that every few days there would be an alarm situation in the coal mill at its plant in Sugar Land, Texas, USA.
By 2007/8, some 4500 installations regulated by the UK’s Environment Agency (EA) under the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) regime brought in by the EU IPPC Directive should finally have completed the permitting process.
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