Using analytics to manage wastewater and odour issues
Australian water utility SA Water has recently spoken about its trialing of a custom analytics platform as a means to manage real-time data from its wastewater network
Certification boosts demand for FTIR multigas analyser
Quantitech has experienced a surge in demand for the Gasmet portable FTIR emissions analyser, the DX4000. “We believe that this instrument is now the...
Innovative aeration promises wastewater energy savings
Phil Burge of Swedish bearings company SKF explains a new aeration blower solution, and its potential to lower energy costs, improve operational efficiency and...
Scotland should follow on-demand bus schemes example of other UK regions, says charity
Schemes which would see passengers order on-demand bus services should be introduced in Scotland, a leading mobility charity has said.
The ‘flexible bus’ initiative would...
Consultancy assists with launch of Herts and Beds air pollution alert system
Launched in early March by 11 Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire local authorities, the new ‘Herts & Beds Air Pollution Alert System’ website and notification service...
Chance find has big implications for water treatment’s costs and carbon footprint
A type of bacteria accidentally discovered during research supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) could fundamentally re-shape efforts to cut...
Over half of UK’s decarbonisation is dependent on technologies that are not yet commercially...
Consultancy firm PwC UK's latest research emphasises the crucial role of climate technology in steering the world towards net zero emissions and highlights the...
FOI reveals half of NHS trusts are charging ahead with EV infrastructure, but off...
According to figures released on 17 June by power management firm Eaton, half (51%) of NHS trusts in the UK have installed EV Charging...
Traffic-free Paris experiment hailed as a success
An attempt to exclude road traffic from the French capital for a day has been hailed as a success by environmentalists, with levels of...
Energy to the four in Vietnam
A fourth gas cleaning and energy recovery package from Acwa Air is helping a Vietnam province reduce its carbon footprint.
The NSG Group plant at...
Cloud-based energy aggregation and battery waste innovators pick up low carbon funding awards for...
A cloud-based energy aggregation service has picked up the Shell Springboard and Shell LiveWIRE awards, securing £180,000 of equity free funding. Another award went...
Surrey academic wins air quality’s ‘Nobel Prize’
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has recognised Professor Prashant Kumar with the prestigious Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award – an honour widely considered to...
Report calls for urgent scientific examination of vital climate interventions
Emissions reductions alone are no longer enough to put us on track for a safe and manageable future for humanity, according to a new...
Europe’s biggest supercomputer launches, to assist with decarbonization
A new supercomputer, said to be the most powerful in Europe, has been completed and launched by Italian oil multinational Eni, which will use...
Knowledge is power: The scope and limits of air quality monitoring today
Envirotec asked Acoem UK managing director Derrick Jepson for an overview of the UK air quality monitoring landscape today, and some of the challenges...
Laboratory-accuracy aerosol measurement
A UK applied science company has developed a seemingly ground-breaking new portable air particle sampling technology that promises a wide range of scientific and...
Measurement without obstruction?
David Bowers of ABB Measurement & Analytics makes the case for using thermal mass flowmeters to measure biogas flows .
New research method reveals significant reduction in carbon footprint of British pig farms
The carbon footprint of British pig farming has reduced by almost 40% over the last 20 years, according to a new study, using...
Councils’ race to net zero is slow according to scoreboards produced by non-profit group
The group Climate Emergency published the second edition of its Council Climate Action Scorecards on 17 June, which attempt to assess all UK councils...
Stratospheric risks?
The news that a US start-up has pressed ahead with experiments involving the release of aerosols in the upper atmosphere - without the consent of the wider world - has roused fears that DIY geoengineering might become a thing, and prompted an effort to update the risk calculations behind this kind of work.
