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7th February 2012

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// - Flexible meter technology for a fast changing energy market

// - Small drives can mean big energy savings on production lines

// - Novel pumping technology operates by using solar energy or waste heat

// - Choosing the best option for overcurrent circuit protection

// - High-performance polymer coating can be spray-applied

// - LEDs offer rare ray of hope during electronics downturn

// - New process could cut the cost of LEDs

// - Manufacturters’ electricity costs 51 per cent higher than last year

// - Flowmeter for biomass fermentation and biogas processes

// - Roller chain drives offer longer life, even in harsh environments

// - Low harmonic drives ease stress on the power supply

// - Switchgear key for ultra high-voltage ac transmission

// - Overspraying can reduce energy consumption by 30 per cent

// - Pumps for molten salts

// - South American power producers invest for a mixed fuel future

// - Optimising electricity supply to boost efficiency and reliability

// - CFB offers potential solution to carbon emissions problem

// - Co-ordinated control ensures quality assured energy supply

// - Revamps of power projects are now key to automation contracts

// - Lubricating the wheels of innovation to reduce friction

// - Actuators must withstand high humidity, salt, wind and rain

// - Major scale actuation adopted at Indian coal plant

// - Initiative boosts anaerobic digestion expansion plans

// - Initiative boosts anaerobic digestion expansion plans

// - Better power transmission helps stabilises manufacturing process

// - Magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity

// - Photovoltaic cells: will grid parity change everything?

// - Air conditioning features thermal wheels

// - Replacing PCs and SBCs with a low power embedded platform

// - Top-down approach to the simplification of PSU selection

// - Wireless microcontroller technology plays key role in energy efficiency

// - Gas meters provide smart two-way communication of accurate data

// - Energy-efficient motors: new standard supports market

// - Chinese projects focus on the economics of heat recovery

// - Record-breaking wind-powered car gives a glimpse of the future

// - Variable speed drives: the ecological payback

// - High tech solutions to recycling drilling process by-products

// - High-speed electric motor offers high energy-efficiency

// - Printed batteries suit disposable applications

// - IEC launches portal for global standards for Smart Grid

// - Magnetic disk couplings cope with angular or parallel misalignment

// - Landfill gas set to generate green income

// - How to manufacture cars and reduce their environmental impact

// - Electroactive polymer actuators feature microstructured surface

// - International standard supports the market for energy-efficient motors

// - Harmonic distortion - how to combat an increasing problem

// - Motor efficiency software tool estimates payback

// - Robot tool changer handles heavier loads

// - Main automation suppliers focus on integration and flexibility

// - Advanced automation needed to achieve smart grid success

// - The electrical grid of tomorrow will be flexible and self-healing

// - Security of supply: meeting the operational challenge of maintaining

// - Motors help minimising impact of sulphur dioxide on environment

// - Largest circulating fluidised bed boiler begins production

// - Automating functions at a Peruvian hydropower plant

// - Submerged tidal turbine goes with the flow on green energy

// - Organic Rankine cycle technology boosts onsite power projects

// - Stockpiling electrons: key to take-up of renewable energy?

// - Get smart and cut energy costs with integrated motor controls

// - Take a top-down approach to simplify PSU selection

// - Romanian cogeneration plant meets EU energy efficiency goals

// - Multi-billion dollar investment spurs US transition to smart energy grid

// - Holistic energy saving strategy unites production and the environment

// - Specialist lighting solutions reap economic rewards for industry

// - Hydrogen fuel cells: from automotive power to distributed generation

// - The global heat is on: preparing for a carbon-constrained world

// - Modelling, simulating and testing of renewable energy technologies

// - Photovoltaic process specification helps cut solar cell production costs

// - Monitor energy usage from a mobile phone

// - Fault diagnostics in gas turbines

// - Electricity access still insufficient in developing countries

 
 

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