Plant Equipment Feature Library

Operations Engineer's library catalogues editorial features going back five years.

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14/05/2015 Biogas generation

Experience with growing numbers of biogas plants has been pointing up design, construction and operation problems that are resulting in higher insurance premiums. » Read More

14/12/2013 Challenges of biomass

With so many organisations building biomass plants and/or converting existing units to biomass fuel, Alan Fitzpatrick and Marcus Robson examine some of issues being seen by the insurance industry. » Read More

01/08/2012 Pioneering spirit

Biomass power generation is one of the keys to renewable energy diversity. Brian Tinham examines a next generation, modular version that is capturing the imagination » Read More

01/08/2012 Inside recycling

The Recycling and Waste Management show, co-located with the Energy Event and the new Renewables event at the NEC looks interesting for plant engineers, says Brian Tinham » Read More

06/02/2012 Bio or non-bio?

Bio energy plants are being touted as offering significant economic as well as environmental benefits. Steed Webzell explains the sustainable technologies involved and assesses what plant engineers need to know » Read More

08/08/2011 Ener-G uses poultry power to generate brass from muck

Green technology firm Ener-G is using chicken litter and maize to help a Hereford chicken farm become more eco friendly and generate additional income from renewable energy. » Read More

09/02/2011 Bioenergy:the next generation

Biomass plants are more advanced and more prolific than many realise. Birmingham City University's head of bioenergy research Dr Lynsey Melville looks at what's out there – and the future » Read More

01/02/2009 Electric Engineers

It's often said that one of the biggest differences between plants in, say, the chemical or pharmaceutical industries, as opposed to those in power generation, is that the former are developed in a laboratory pilot (where the learning is ... » Read More

01/12/2008 Waste not, want not

With legislation, under EC pressure, now forcing reductions in the quantity of municipal and industrial waste that goes to landfill, the relatively simple processes of collecting rubbish and tipping it into holes are having to be replaced ... » Read More