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Heat networks that will use energy from waste (EfW) is to be developed in London and East Devon with funding awarded through the Government’s Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP).
Over £250 million (€295 million) of funding has been awarded to heat network schemes under the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) since it opened its doors to applicants in 2018.
Veolia has been awarded…
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Howden has revealed that it supplied eight diaphragm compressors for hydrogen refueling stations at the recently concluded 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
As one aim of the 2022 Winter Olympics was to produce an event that was both low carbon and with zero emissions, the compression technology from Howden brought hydrogen energy to four refueling stations.
Filling up to 180 vehicles a day,…
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Pressure on Europe to secure alternative gas supplies has increased as Moscow imposed sanctions on European subsidiaries of state-owned Gazprom a day after Ukraine stopped a major gas transit route.
Gas prices surged, with the key European benchmark gaining 12% as buyers were unsettled by the mounting threats to Europe's supply given its high dependence on Russia, Reuters reported.
Moscow has…
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Saudi Aramco has registered its highest profits since its 2019 listing as oil and gas prices rise around the world.
The state-owned energy giant saw an 82% jump in profits, with net income topping $39.5 billion (€37.2 billion) in the first quarter.
The invasion of Ukraine has seen oil and gas prices skyrocket. Russia is one of the world's biggest exporters but Western nations have pledged to…
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The water environment around Weobley is set to receive a boost thanks to a £3.5 million (4.1 million) investment scheme by Welsh Water.
The utility company is set to start work on a project which will see it upgrading the wastewater treatment works which it owns and operates in the area.
The treatment works already treats the wastewater it receives from the surrounding area to a high standard,…
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The European Commission has unveiled a €195 billion proposal to halt the imports of Russian fossil fuels by 2027, Reuters has reported.
The news agency said that the draft measures will combine a faster rollout of renewable energy and energy savings.
“The draft measures, which could change before they are due to be published next week, include a mix of EU laws, non-binding schemes, and…
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The port of Rotterdam and the cluster of companies operating here can supply north western Europe with 4.6 million tonnes of hydrogen annually by 2030, it has been revealed.
The consumption of 4.6 million tonnes of hydrogen yields 46 million tonnes of CO2 reduction, and it increases Europe’s energy independence.
This hydrogen amount is the total the Port of Rotterdam Authority has come up…
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Protos Biofuels, a project developed by Advanced Biofuel Solutions and Greenergy, announced its first municipal waste to advanced biofuels project has progressed into the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase.
Petrofac has been appointed to deliver the FEED, with Sumitomo SHI FW to supply the gasifier that converts the household waste into synthesis gas (syngas); Proval to design the direct…
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CHEMUK 2022 returned to the Birmingham NEC in the UK on May 11 for two days.
Following the pandemic the chemical industries supply chain event made its long-awaited return at the end of last year and six months later it was back again.
The event showcased specialist exhibitors in product development, R&D, supply chain, operational and logistics.
Major names booked for the show included…
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Pipelines
Building a UK-wide delivery network for hydrogen has taken a step closer to reality with the SGN trial at Grangemouth in partnership with INEOS.
The trial which is funded by the Energy Regulator and gas distribution companies, will use hydrogen supplied by INEOS in a 29km section of decommissioned pipeline between the Grangemouth site and Granton.
SGN Director of Energy Futures Gus Mcintosh…
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The European Commission, Hydrogen Europe and 20 European companies including Topsoe have signed a declaration on increasing electrolyser manufacturing capacity in the EU.
The declaration backs EU´s new target to double the previous EU target to 10 million tons of annual domestic production of renewable hydrogen plus an additional 10 million tons of annual hydrogen imports.
Roeland Baan, CEO at…
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Pipelines
Ellesmere Port in the north west could be home to the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’.
Up to 2,000 properties in the Whitby area of the town will stop using natural gas for heating and cooking, and instead use hydrogen.
The proposal, put forward by gas distribution network Cadent and British Gas, and supported by Cheshire West and Chester Council, has been confirmed in a shortlist of two…
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The UK Government’s new energy bill should revolutionise the UK’s decentralised energy sector with the introduction of long-awaited regulation for heat networks and the establishment of a Future System Operator (FSO) to oversee electricity and gas markets, said the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE).
The Queen’s Speech has set out the Government’s policies and legislation for…
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bp has signed a 10-year offtake agreement to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD).
Clean Planet Energy designs and builds facilities — which they refer to as ecoPlants — that are expected to process plastics typically rejected by traditional recycling centres and so would otherwise be sent to landfill or…
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Venkatesh Suryanarayanan has joined L&T Valves - a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro.
He joins as the company’s global head of sales.
Venkatesh has three decades of experience in the flow-control domain covering sales, product management and manufacturing.
He started his career with the L&T Group in valve manufacturing and later moved to international sales where he handled various…
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To understand the energy dynamics of today’s war in Ukraine, it is necessary to visit the history of the pipeline systems that were built during the Soviet period and within the Warsaw Pact countries.
Firstly, most of the production of oil and gas is in Russia and very little in the other former Soviet Union countries and most of that oil production lies west of the Ural Mountains.…
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Rotork has successfully worked with Jersey Water to replace obsolete actuators at two water treatment sites on the Channel Island.
Rotork IQ3 intelligent electric actuators have given the water firm increased levels of reliability and efficiency of the flow control on their sites.
Jersey Water was founded in the mid-19th century and now supplies up to 20 million litres of water per day to the…
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Evonik Catalysts has opened a new Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant at its facility in Dombivli, India.
The new plant reduces the amount of fresh water required for production processes and turns material that was previously considered waste into saleable products.
ZLD purifies and recycles wastewater at the end of an industrial process, leaving little to no effluent remaining when it is…
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