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Anglian Water is the largest water company in England and Wales by geographic area, supplying water and recycling services to over six million domestic customers, processing over 142,000 tonnes of dry solid sewage sludge in 2020-21 to generate 115 GWh of bioenergy.
The Cotton Valley Sludge Treatment Centre (STC) is one of Anglian Water’s 10 main sludge treatment centres where sludge is…
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Canada is pushing to provide incentives for at least two new massive carbon capture projects by 2030 with nearly a dozen oil and gas companies already pursuing rights to store carbon dioxide in Alberta's vast underground caverns.
The hubs to collect carbon from clusters of emitters would advance Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's goal of cutting emissions by 40-45% from 2005 levels by 2030, Reuters…
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The Pump Industry Awards ceremony will finally take place later in September after the event was postponed due to the pandemic.
The 20th anniversary of the event will take place on 23r September as the nine category winners will be announced and honoured.
Throughout the pandemic, and especially through lockdown, the pump sector played a key role in ensuring utilities, manufacturing processes…
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Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL) is now offering its self-priming (SP) coupled pump-set with a new IE5 motor.
This SP coupled pump-set is versatile in use and is most suitable for handling light chemicals, effluents, sewage, handling rain or flood water, pumping water from docks, ports and vessels.
It is also useful for draining accumulated water from basements, parking lots, highways, and…
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With its precision nephelometric turbidity sensor designed for use in either municipal or industrial water and wastewater treatment systems, the next-gen TR82 Turbidity Analyser from Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) gives engineers a highly accurate solution to ensure their treatment systems are performing at high efficiency and at the lowest cost.
The TR82 Turbidity Analyser with its clear water…
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The Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) has awarded £24 million (€28 million) of funding to Energetik to support two major extensions of its community heat network across London.
The additional funding will increase the network’s reach and enable Energetik to supply very low carbon heat to over 50,000 homes, building on its previous forecast of 15,000 connections by 2026 and making this…
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Work on a new 500km pipeline that will pump water from wetter parts of north Lincolnshire in the UK to drier parts in Suffolk and Essex has moved a step closer as new planning applications were submitted.
Anglian Water formally submitted plans for the 70km section of the pipe from Bexwell, near Downham Market in west Norfolk, to Bury St Edmunds.
The UK water company is set to nbegin…
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PetroChina is planning a strategy to have oil, gas and green energies to each account for a third of its portfolio within the next 15 years.
The Chinese company revealed that it was shifting towards a lower carbon future.
For Asia's largest oil and gas producer, natural gas currently accounts for about 47% of total output while oil covers the rest.
"Our capital spending will increase…
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Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group has unveiled its Qdos chemical metering pumps that extends the capabilities of peristaltic pump technology and offers longer service life than traditional tube-based designs.
Qdos CWT pumps also offers important advantages in water treatment applications.
Users users will benefit from superior accuracy in chemical metering and dosing tasks, and the…
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The largest integrated petrochemical company in Indonesia has boosted sustainability through technology that enables effective remote and digital monitoring of its water operations.
Chandri Asri has incorporated Nalco Water’s 3D TRASAR Cooling Water Technology and has gradually moved more of its water monitoring to the programme.
Last year, the company reported its largest ever savings in…
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Colonial Pipeline said it would temporarily halt fuel deliveries to certain parts of the US due to Hurricane Ida.
The largest petroleum products pipeline in the US said it was ceasing deliveries from Houston, Texas, to Greensboro, North Carolina, due to ferocity of the hurricane.
With winds of up to 150 mph, the hurricane has forced up to 1 million people to evacuate their homes in the state of…
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Water utilities are steadily replacing legacy IT systems with software-as-a-service applications as confidence in data security builds. Alan Cunningham, subject matter expert at technology provider Ovarro, discussed the latest developments with Fluid Handling International Magazine.
What is software-as-a-service and where does it fit in with water?
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications are…
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A project using natural flood management techniques to protect homes against flooding, while improving water quality is nearing completion.
The project in Thornton, near Blackpool, UK, has brought together experts from United Utilities, the Wyre Rivers Trust, Wyre Council and McDermott Homes to deliver an innovative natural flood management project, which is creating up to 3.3 hectares of…
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Wessex Water in South West England has published a route-map to achieve net-zero operational carbon emissions by 2030, and its plans for full decarbonisation ahead of the UK's 2050 deadline.
The operational net-zero plan will reduce the organisation’s annual emissions by 110,000 tonnes of CO2 and has three key strands:
Emissions avoidance by further reducing leakage and encouraging…
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Thames Water is urging festival-goers to ‘flush smart’ this summer to prevent blockages.
Sleeping bags, mobile phones, and inflatables are among the many unusual items dragged out of sewage systems by the water company.
With the UK’s famous Reading Festival back this week, the water company urged revellers to think twice about what they put down the toilets. The firm expected to take…
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The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not exempt from EU competition rules, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court has ruled.
The court, which is responsible for energy industry law proceedings, rejected Nord Stream 2 AG’s complaint on 25 August. This means that the Nord Stream 2 gas connection pipeline is subject to German regulation by the Federal Network Agency. Whether, when, and under what…
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Flowmeters
Industrial automation and Internet-of-Things solutions provider OleumTech has launched an electromagnetic flowmeter, adding to its H Series hardwired process instrumentation line.
The new OleumTech HEFM Magnetic Flowmeter delivers ‘exceptional’ performance, reliability, and accuracy, ideal for oil and gas, petrochemical, and water and wastewater applications.
The OleumTech Mag Meter…
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The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published its third Edition of Standard 1164, Pipeline Control Systems Cybersecurity, underscoring the natural gas and oil industry’s ongoing commitment to protecting critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks.
In development since 2017, the third edition is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework and NERC…
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