National Gas has outlined early-stage plans for a 300-mile hydrogen pipeline along England’s east coast, marking what seems a significant step towards a national hydrogen network. In what’s presented as a major step forward for Britain’s hydrogen ambitions, the operator of the UK’s national gas transmission system has unveiled plans for the first phase of […]

Ion-exchange membrane process for chlor-alkali electrolysis. A new recycling initiative aims to convert pure titanium scrap generated during the manufacturing of electrolysis cells into a raw material for pure titanium. The approach is designed to reduce the environmental impact of cell production and enhance the value of recovered materials. It has been launched by Asahi […]

Lawrence Paleschi is a Senior Associate Patent Attorney at Carpmaels & Ransford LLP. As UK offshore wind pushes further into the North Sea, the territorial limits of patent law are creating a blind spot that developers and innovators can no longer afford to ignore, writes Lawrence Paleschi. The UK offshore wind sector is expanding at […]

An energy park is an affordable, quick solution to meet rising energy demand, particularly a clean energy park. This type of energy park pairs various clean energy generation sources like solar or wind, paired with energy storage solutions like batteries, all developed alongside electricity consumers like factories or data centers. Bundling diverse energy generation with […]

Greg Rankin is CEO of water safety expert Hydrosense. When news of a major Legionella outbreak in Harlem emerged last year, it followed an all-too-familiar script: serious illness, scrutiny of building water systems and practices, and inevitable questions about whether it could have been prevented. As New York grapples with yet another Legionella incident, Greg […]

Pumps and piping in a water treatment facility. Pumps are an equipment category that can seem mystifying to the outsider. There’s the profusion of different shapes, sizes and specifications, for one thing. And the fact that people often seem to forget they exist until they fail. Celebrating its 100th year, W Robinson & Sons attributes […]

Interior of a cable tunnel from National Grid’s London Power Tunnels 2 project, illustrating the type of underground infrastructure used to transmit electricity (image credit: National Grid) A major new phase in the upgrade of Britain’s electricity network has begun, with a 271.5-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) launched to construct a 2.2km tunnel beneath the […]

A new approach to grid connections could accelerate the commercial rollout of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology in the UK, after UK Power Networks announced it can now automatically approve eligible installations within seconds. Working with Octopus Energy, the distribution network operator (DNO) says it has become the first in the UK to enable instant approvals for […]

Automation gets so much attention for making production faster and more efficient. But the real story here is something else entirely: waste. When those automated production lines run smoothly, manufacturers can cut down on scrap, make less rework, get a more consistent product, and make better use of the materials they’ve got on hand. But […]

Britain could reduce the impact of rising global gas prices and supply concerns caused by the conflict in the Gulf by rapidly increasing domestic green gas production, according to the UK’s anaerobic digestion industry. Trade association the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) says existing biomethane plants could increase production by almost a third within […]

The method utilises PFAS taken from firefighting foam samples. A group at Rice University in Houston, Texas have developed a process to use PFAS to extract lithium from high-salinity brine pools, in a study recently published in Nature Water. “Extracting lithium from brine can be less environmentally damaging than conventional mining, but it still faces […]