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CIRCOR International has announced a renewed service partnership with Brown & Morrison.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Brown & Morrison is a valued member of the CIRCOR Global Service Network.
Brown & Morrison underwent an extensive audit process by CIRCOR’s aftermarket service team before being granted full factory authorisation to perform both minor and major repairs,…
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A successful pilot project for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) has proved the superior speed, cost reduction and accuracy of thermodynamic pump testing.
Funded by non-for-profit collective, Waterstart, MWD used Riventa’s portable thermodynamic system to test a 7.5MW pump at one of its crucial pumping stations on the Southern California aqueduct that together with…
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Eni has begun offloading the first LNG cargo into Snam’s new regasification terminal in Piombino.
The terminal has a total processing capacity of 5 billion cubic metres per year, or approximately 7% of Italy's gas demand.
The LNG was produced at Egypt’s Damietta liquefaction plant, one of the facilities where Eni has invested with the strategic goal of growing its integrated liquefied gas…
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Gevo and LG Chem have entered into a joint development agreement to develop bio-propylene for renewable chemicals using Gevo’s Ethanol-to-Olefins (ETO) technology.
Gevo’s proprietary ETO technology can target carbon neutral or carbon negative drop-in replacements for traditional petroleum-based building blocks called olefins, including bio-propylene that can be used for renewable chemicals…
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NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Enerkem are advancing their versatile and energy efficient chemical recycling technology to pilot stage in Edmonton, Alberta.
The funding, provided through Alberta Innovates’ Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Economic Recovery Program has enabled the companies to expedite construction of a pilot-scale reactor system that converts syngas produced from…
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Cadent, which manages the worth-west UK’s gas network, will modernise around 418km of its pipelines over the next 12 months.
This is the same length as 4,000 football pitches, or the same height as more than 2,600 Blackpool Towers.
The £80 million (€91 million) investment will be delivered by 600 skilled gas engineers.
They will be upgrading vital pipes to plastic to ensure a long-term…
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Neste is working on a 120 MW electrolyser project to produce renewable hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
The company has now decided to proceed to the basic engineering phase with the project. The investment decision readiness is expected to be reached in early 2024. If an investment decision is made, green hydrogen production could start in 2026.
“Our project is one of the largest…
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Shell has registered a stronger than expected profit of $9.6 billion (€78.6 billion) for the first three months of 2023.
The oil and gas giant was higher than the same period last year despite a fall in energy prices.
Fossil fuel firms have been reaping record profits due to a surge in oil and gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year. However, they have since fallen from…
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Veolia Water Technologies has built an ultra-modern plant to produce drinking water in Ostend, Belgium.
In a multi-stage filtration process, the local water supplier is now producing drinking water of good quality – far above the statutory requirements.
At critical points of the process – during reverse osmosis, filtration with activated carbon and remineralisation of the water –…
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Air Products, the world's largest producer of hydrogen and a first-mover in energy transition projects, plans to build a multi-modal hydrogen refuelling station.
This will be built near its new net-zero hydrogen energy complex under construction in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The station will be Air Products' first in Canada and the first commercial-scale hydrogen refuelling station in Alberta.…
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ITT Inc's Engineered Valves has launched the Cam-Tite® Ball Valve GV Series - an innovative valve solution designed as a direct dimensional and upgraded replacement for severe service applications.
The GV Series utilises advanced sealing technology to isolate and contain highly hazardous liquids and gases to protect the safety of operators and prevent fugitive emissions.
The GV Series offers…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $11.8 million (€10.7 million) to Nebraska from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure through this year’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF).
The funding will support Nebraska communities in upgrading essential water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure that protects public health and treasured water bodies.
Nearly…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $11.8 million (€10.7 million) to Nebraska from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure through this year’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF).
The funding will support Nebraska communities in upgrading essential water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure that protects public health and treasured water bodies.
Nearly…
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Oil and gas major bp has reported another set of strong results as energy prices remain high.
Profits hit $5 billion (€4.55 billion) in the first three months of this year, the BBC reported, although this was down from $6.2 billion (€5.6 billion) last year with oil prices having fallen from the peak seen after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
BP reported record annual profits last year as the…
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NextChem has acquired a 51% stake in MyRemono, a newly established company to which Biorenova transferred patents, assets, including a demonstration plant and contracts related to CatC, an innovative plastic catalytic depolymerisation technology.
CatC is a continuous chemical recycling process to recover monomers with ultra-high levels of purity from sorted plastic waste, particularly…
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Atlas Copco has developed its new DVS vacuum pump series with a focus on modern vacuum technology.
The result is that the DVS models are oil-free, dry rotary vane pumps that guarantee emission-free, quiet operation and do not contaminate the processes.
"This makes them ideally suited for a wide range of applications, and they are used in packaging and pneumatic conveying processes, medical…
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When Edward Vaughan decided to diversify into renewable energy at his fifth-generation family farm in Sychtyn, North Wales, he could have been tempted perhaps to have built as big an anaerobic digestion plant as possible, but his attention to the economies of scale has paid off.
The biogas plant, from which an impressive 80% of clean, renewable energy is exported, has slotted right into the…
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TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory has secured £950,000 (€1.07 million) from Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, to build the world’s first national standard liquid/dense phase CO2 calibration facility.
The new facility will support EU targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050.
Providing…
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