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Severn Trent Water has been fined £1.5 million (€1.74 million) for illegal sewage discharges in Worcestershire, UK.
Between February and August 2018, Severn Trent Water discharged sewage from four sewage treatment works. The court heard how the company failed to respond to alarms of warning of a blockage, failed to inadequately manage sewage sludge, and failed to adequately manage a…
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Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL), based in India, has received a patent for its NS type of submersible pumps.
The Patent Office of the Government of India has offered the patent in KBL’s name entitled ‘Arrangements for Reducing Weight of Pumps’.
NS submersible pumps are used for sewage, dewatering and seepage applications. The impellers of these pumps are of the non-clog variety,…
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Sulzer has launched the world’s biggest medium-consistency pump, the MCE93-400, which has been built in response to customer demand for bigger production rates.
The pumping of liquids with a high dry solids content - medium consistency - is essential for processes in the pulp and paper industry.
In recent years, production rates have spiralled and as a result, Sulzer developed the MCE93-400…
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The first US industrial-scale renewable natural gas facility using agricultural residues as a feedstock has started operations in the city of Nevada, Iowa.
Following two-and-a-half years of construction and transformation of VERBIO’s Nevada plant, Greg Faith, the company’s president and general manager, announced the facility is now injecting pipeline-quality natural gas into Alliant…
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Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and AGL Energy (AGL) have agreed to undertake a feasibility study to repurpose infrastructure at coal-fired power stations to generate green hydrogen from water.
The announcement reinforces Australia’s potential to become a global green hydrogen superpower.
The Liddell and Bayswater power stations currently account for over 40% of New South Wales’ carbon…
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Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG) and Linde Gas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaboratively explore the feasibility and development of a CO2 liquefaction and storage facility.
The new plant will be located adjacent to the SLNG terminal on Jurong Island in the city state.
The project concept involves using cold energy from the SLNG terminal’s operations to liquefy CO2,…
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water’s £8 million (€9.3 million) investment to upgrade the wastewater system in Norton and Presteigne has been completed.
The work will help improve the quality of the water which is release to the environment. This in turn will boost water quality in the Norton Brook and River Lugg to ensure a first-class wastewater service to householders.
The first phase of the…
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Tranter has received an order for several NovusBloc welded plate heat exchangers for a refinery expansion project in North America.
The project was engineered and procured by an American-based Global EPC-Contractor focusing on on-shore and off-shore oil and gas projects.
Tranter’s scope of supply includes a number of NovusBloc heat exchangers in different sizes that will be made of both…
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Valve engineering firm Severn Group has acquired US-headquartered Valv Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of metal-seated, zero-leakage isolation valve solutions.
The deal, which follows the strategic partnership announced in June, represents a step toward Severn Group’s vision to become a leading global severe service valve specialist in the energy and…
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In chemical and petrochemical plants, submerged column pumps are used for pumping toxic fluids in many challenging applications.
If these media are also boiling-sensitive or contain gas, it is often necessary to empty the tank completely, for example in the case of waste water containing hazardous liquids, such as those often found in refinery waste tanks. Hydrocarbons often occur here together…
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AUMA SA-UW actuators were deployed for underwater use in the deployment of emergency roller gates.
This work was being carried out in Doha, Qatar, when Ashgal, the Public Works Authority of the country, decided to upgrade its stormwater network.
Several huge roller gates were installed in underground chambers in order to shut off DN 2700 stormwater pipelines in case of an emergency.
The…
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Endress+Hauser has expanded its capabilities in the US with a new flow calibration rig located at the company’s recently inaugurated Houston Campus.
The rig will service customers’ flowmeters, including those from third-party vendors, and will have expanded line size and flowrate capabilities.
“With the addition of this new flow calibration rig, we will expand our calibration capabilities…
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Shell has announced that it is exiting from the Cambo oil field development in Scotland.
The oil and gas major had a 30% stake in the controversial development in Scotland.
However, Shell said the economic case for investment in the project was "not strong enough".
Shell said it had carried out "comprehensive screening" before reaching a decision to "ensure the best returns for the…
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Taiwan’s first biogas plant to use livestock manure as its feedstock is benefiting from a proven digester mixing system made by Landia.
The new Pushige Biomass Energy Center, from a plan implemented by the Yexing Environmental Technology Company, features six of Landia’s externally-mounted GasMix systems, which have a verified track record of enhancing biogas yields.
The 18.5kW units, which…
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ExxonMobil said it was boosting its spending on greenhouse gas emission reduction projects to $15 billion (€3 billion) over the next six years and anticipates meeting its 2025 greenhouse gas emission-reduction plans by the end of this year.
The energy giant said funds will go toward projects focused at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from existing operations and increased investments in the…
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Aries has reached another major milestone - achieving mechanical completion of its new plant.
The Aries Linden Biosolids gasification plant is located in Linden, New Jersey, and the fluidised bed facility is currently the largest of its type in the world. Commissioning is underway and is expected to be completed over the next few months.
At full capacity, the plant will process 430 tonnes of…
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Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG) has marked 60 years of its Bredel brand with significant investment in new technology at its factory in the Netherlands.
High-performance Bredel pumps are relied upon to transfer and dose aggressive, viscous and abrasive fluids and solids.
Originally designed to meet the needs of customers in the construction sector as a concrete pump, Bredel pumps…
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Worley is moving to the construction phase on the expansion of ExxonMobil’s petrochemical project in Texas.
The Baytown chemical expansion project will include a linear alpha olefins (LAO) unit and a solution polymer unit (SPU).
The LAO unit will have an estimated production capacity of around 350,000 tonnes a year.
Worley has completed the engineering and procurement phases of the…
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