Many situations, ranging from unintentional short circuits and human errors to intentional hacking and terrorism, can paralyse large critical complex infrastructures (LCCIs) such as electricity networks.

Generating electricity is a fundamentally inefficient process. The efficiency of existing European generating capacity averages about 35percent. On a global scale, this drops to 30percent.

Within the power sector, ensuring the health and safety of workers has always been of great importance.

The new Vaisala Humidity Calculator is a web-based, easy-to-use tool for converting several humidity parameters from a known humidity value.

Plant managers are constantly searching for opportunities to improve process performance as they respond to pressure for increased output, reduced emissions, lower costs and adequate protection for personnel and equipment.

The Energy Institute (EI) together with Croner are launching Croner’s Energy Management, an independent practical guide to help manage resources effectively and save money.

Into this largely synthetic world comes synthetic gas, syngas – primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen – as the latest answer to clean power generation

The world will continue to make extensive use of fossil fuels, such as natural gas and coal, for power generation for the foreseeable future.

Labyrinth-piston compressors (Laby) manufactured by Burckhardt Compression AG are successfully employed for the recovery of boil-off gas, which occurs during transport and storage of liquefied natural gas.

Suzlon Energy is now fitting James Walker RotaBolts on all its 1.25 megawatt and 2.1 megawatt wind turbines. The tension monitoring fasteners have now become standard fit on the wind turbine blade connections.

With the cost of energy skyrocketing, the highly reliable ST75 Flow Meter from Fluid Components International is a solution for the measurement and monitoring of fuel gases.

Irish minister for communications, marine and natural resources Noel Dempsey has set a target to treble the contribution made by renewable energy from 5percent to 15percent of electricity produced by 2010.

With current global demand for energy exceeding the world’s crude production capacity, causing oil prices to soar, wind power is becoming an increasingly viable industry.

As the worldwide demand for electricity grows, nuclear power generation is emerging as a safe, clean and cost-effective alternative to more traditional fuel sources

The eyes of the world are on China, as the country begins development of the very first commercial modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor.

The selection of the best suitable layout of the stockpile and equipment for coal storage and coal terminals is determined by a number of important criteria.

Wind power has in recent years established itself as a forward-looking means of energy production.

PI's V-106 Quickscan series of PCI-card-driven, high-speed voice coil positioning stages are for high-dynamics precision motion control

Inventbetter Suite 2007 for problem-solving and optimisation contains the latest versions of Graficalc, Tolerancecalc and Sectioncalc

Altera has launched its high end Stratix III family of FPGAs, taking a slightly different route to arch-competitor Xilinx