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German rescue teams are still searching for missing workers following the explosion at a chemical park on July 27.
At least two people were killed and 31 others injured in the blast at the Chempark site in the city of Leverkusen.
In a statement from Currenta, three people were "seriously" injured in the blast while five people remained missing.
"My thoughts go to the injured and their…
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Southern Water has increased the size of its leakage team and is employing new tools and techniques to find and fix leaks as the south-east of the UK faces a future of more people and less water.
This is part of the organisation's commitment to halve leakage by 2050.
Southern Water has committed to triple the rate of leakage reduction and is making major investments in technology both to find…
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A new gas distribution test grid (microgrid) is being used to understand any changes to operational procedures needed for the gas network to transport up to 100% hydrogen in the future.
The microgrid has been purpose-built by DNV and led by Northern Gas Networks (NGN) as part of the H21 project and is located at DNV’s test and research facility at Spadeadam in Cumbria.
The facility…
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Next Filtration Technologies, who produce water treatment products Scale Stop and FOG STOP, have agreed a new partnership with the Argonide Corporation to provide a new microbiological removal system.
In conjunction with Next’s Scale Stop Template Assisted Crystallisation (TAC) water treatment units, Argonide’s long-recognised advanced filtration technology will provide a first-class…
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Exchanger Industries Limited, the Canadian designer and manufacturer of heat transfer products for the energy, petrochemical, industrial and clean power generation sectors, has acquired HRS Heat Exchangers.
HRS is a specialist global supplier of heat exchangers and custom process systems across the environmental, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.
The acquisition by EIL creates new…
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Iran has opened its first oil terminal in the Gulf of Oman to allow Iranian tankers to avoid using the Strait of Hormuz.
"This is a strategic move and an important step for Iran. It will secure the continuation of our oil exports," President Rouhani said in a televised speech. "This new crude export terminal shows the failure of Washington's sanctions on Iran."
Rouhani said Iran aimed to export…
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RusGazDobycha, a business partner of Russian gas giant Gazprom, plans to start building a chemical plant as part of a massive gas processing cluster on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
The wider project with Gazprom's participation will help Russia, already a leading energy producer, to reach its goal of boosting its share of the liquefied natural gas market (LNG).
The cluster is designed to…
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A flowmeter is a measuring instrument that measures the amount of fluid that passes through a section of pipe per unit time.
It is an indispensable measuring instrument used in many different fields, such as water and gas meters, petrol stations, chemical and oil plants, food industries, and for the measurement of wastewater and exhaust gases in factories.
Flowmeters are classified as…
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An explosion at a chemical park on July 27 shook the western German city of Leverkusen injuring several employees and sending a large black cloud rising into the sky.
The explosion happened at around 9.40am on Tuesday in a part of the site where waste is incinerated, a statement from the operators of the Chempark site said.
It has been reported several employees were injured in the blast, at…
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Linde has announced it has started up its fifth liquid hydrogen plant in the US with plants in California, Alabama, Indiana and New York.
The new plant in La Porte, Texas, will supply over 30 tons per day of high-purity liquid hydrogen to meet growing demand from Linde's customers.
The liquefier takes hydrogen from Linde's approximately 600-kilometer US Gulf Coast pipeline, which has over 15…
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Global water technology company Xylem has unveiled a new solution to support the efficient removal of solids in water treatment applications.
Xylem’s new Leopold Texler lamella clarifier is made from a recyclable, hydrophobic geotextile material – a durable, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) – which reduces service and maintenance requirements while cutting solids by more than 80%. …
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Rotork has been selected as the sole provider of intelligent electric actuators for one of the largest development projects in the Norwegian continental shelf, Johan Sverdrup.
Energy company Equinor ordered in excess of 700 of Rotork’s IQ multi and part-turn actuators for the Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea, which is located approximately 150 km away from the coast of…
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Yorkshire Water has improved its leak detection with an artificial intelligence trial that has learnt to differentiate sounds from acoustic loggers to reduce false alarms by 60%.
The project with Siemens and Artesia analysed data from nearly 40,000 loggers across Yorkshire’s clean water network to listen for evidence of leaks that should trigger a manual investigation.
These can be prone to…
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The US says it has reached a deal with Germany to prevent Russia from using its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as political leverage over Europe.
The nearly completed 1,230km (764 miles) pipeline under the Baltic Sea will double Russian gas exports to Germany, Reuters reported.
US official Victoria Nuland said it was "a bad pipeline". Ukraine says the Nord Stream 2 pipeline threatens its…
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Oil Refineries, Israel’s largest refining and petrochemicals group, plans to invest $1.5 billion (€1.27 billion) to become a cleaner energy company.
Israel has proposed shutting a major industrial zone in the coastal city of Haifa that health officials say has been hazardous for years and turning it into an eco-friendly commercial hub.
Oil Refineries said it will focus on green hydrogen and…
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The advanced, compact ST75V Air/Gas Flow Meter from Fluid Components International (FCI) helps monitor the potentially volatile, hydrogen (H2) gas necessary to help large electric plant power generators keep their cool as they produce electricity across the power grid.
Power generation is a high-temperature, hazardous process. At the front-end, there are natural gas fueled steam boilers that…
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California regulators have directed two of the state's largest oil refineries to cut their air pollution that will require modifications at the plants.
This means Chevron Corp's Richmond plant and PBF Energy Inc's Martinez refinery, will have to install wet gas scrubbers to reduce pollution from their fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU) within five years.
The new requirement is expected to…
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Cloud-based applications are providing water utilities with more resilient and flexible network management options, enabling them to make better use of existing data, writes Josh Britton, global product manager at technology specialist Ovarro.
The water sector is under continued pressure to make operations more efficient but in many cases, ageing IT systems are holding back progress. With budget…
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