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10/02/2010 First total carbon offset red diesel Crown Oil UK says its new red diesel for the construction, utility, plant and rail industries is now 100% carbon offset. » Read More

09/02/2010 Scottish Water ramps up reliability with motors retrofit Scottish Water says it has improved reliability on three large sludge pumps at its Laighpark waste water treatment plant since replacing ageing dc pump drive motors with high efficiency ac motors and drives from Weg. » Read More

08/02/2010 Manchester Airport flies on ultrasonics Manchester Airport's plant engineers say that accuracy is now flying on their critical API hydrocarbon separation unit, since installing Pulsar Duet ultrasonic open channel flow sensor-based measurement. » Read More

05/02/2010 Free software slashes pump maintenance for Severn Trent Severn Trent Water reports savings of up to œ2,400 a week on pump maintenance, since upgrading its control software - and for zero cost. » Read More

04/02/2010 Machinery directive Following the December 2009 meeting of the European Machinery Working Group in Brussels, » Read More

03/02/2010 Rail bearings FAG Industrial Services (F'IS), the maintenance and condition monitoring division of Schaeffler, is offering rail operators a rapid reconditioning service for its Tarol axle box bearings. » Read More

02/02/2010 Battery technology Low cost Lithium-Ion cell chemistry and a flexible battery management system have come out of the Red Lion project (Reduced cost Li-Ion), a two-year project involving Ricardo and QinetiQ, part-funded by the Department for Transport, under ... » Read More

01/02/2010 Offshore seals Bury-based safety seals maker Roxtec has signed a major deal to supply two massive semi-submersible oil drilling rigs, being built for off-shore specialist SeaDragon. » Read More

01/11/2009 Under 36? SOE wants you SOE is urging members under the age of 36 to get involved in the Young Engineers Forum to shape the future of the society. » Read More

01/11/2009 Surprise bio developments Prominent at this year's British Invention Show were sustainable bio-production processes. » Read More

01/11/2009 Technology funding The East Midlands Development Agency has awarded T-mac Technologies £190,000 of funding to incorporate building management into its energy management system and to develop a new micro unit with wireless sensor technology. » Read More

01/11/2009 Sustainable biofuel Aston University in Birmingham is involved in a £3.4 million research project that promises to transform organic residues from existing biofuel production into a renewable, sustainable biofuel. » Read More

01/11/2009 Piezo plant upgrade Condition monitoring specialist Sensonics has helped upgrade turbine supervisory and vibration monitoring at the Uskmouth coal fired power station in Newport, South Wales. » Read More

01/11/2009 It’s in the pipeline A new type of flow-based pipeline protection system (PPS) for the Gjøa field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea (which is due to start exporting gas next year) is expected to lead to significant savings in pipeline costs – due to ... » Read More

01/11/2009 Pump precision is tasty St Helens-based Lea Green Foods reports that a peristaltic pump from Watson-Marlow Pumps is accurately and hygienically dosing oil into vegetable trays to make pastes and purees. » Read More

01/11/2009 Moon shot History was made on Friday 9 October when NASA sent a 2,200kg Centaur rocket stage hurtling into the far side of the surface of the moon, followed by an unmanned spacecraft containing an array of sensors, including an infrared camera to ... » Read More

01/11/2009 Sustainable power protection Electrical engineering firm BE White and solar specialist Solarcentury say they have met new French UTE (Union Technique de I'Electricité) regulations for photovoltaic generators by developing functional earth and surge protectors. » Read More

01/11/2009 Functional safety ABB has released a technical guide to functional safety, available as a free PDF. » Read More

01/11/2009 Machine protection rules highlighted as firms fined over deaths Plant managers are being reminded of their duty of care, as rice producer Veetee Rice, in Rochester, is fined £140,000 plus costs for health and safety breaches after one of its employees died when his leg became entangled in a machine. » Read More

01/11/2009 Novel conveyor shifts Mini cockpits for new plant Mini cockpits are now being delivered in sequence 20m further down the BMW production line, thanks to a bespoke conveyor at the Oxford plant. » Read More

01/11/2009 £2 million energy saving flows from HVAC upgrade Pfizer's R&D campus in Kent expects not only improved air quality but energy savings worth £2.1 million over five years, as well as significant emissions reductions, from upgraded HVAC plant. » Read More

01/11/2009 Biomass monitoring must be future proof Developers of biomass-burning renewable energy plants, which are increasingly seeing consents granted, should future-proof their instrumentation. » Read More

01/11/2009 Advice available on converting from R-22 refrigerant Use of R-22 refrigerant is banned from the end of this year, as it contains ozone-depleting hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). » Read More

01/11/2009 SOE dues frozen for 2010 The Society of Operations Engineers (SOE) has confirmed that membership fees in 2010 are to remain at 2009 levels, in recognition of the ongoing recession. » Read More

01/11/2009 LEEA reaches 300 with Magnox South Magnox South, the firm responsible for decommissioning five closed nuclear power stations in southern England, has become the 300th LEEA member. » Read More