gasification

Edie Environmental Legislation Summary, November 06

This month sees changes to pollution rules across the UK and the EU, with asbestos regulations tightening up in Britain as new additions are made to the list of information, training and protection companies are required to provide asbestos workers with.

Power giant plans ‘cleanest’ coal plant

A 'clean coal' plant that would capture and bury most of its carbon emissions could become the first coal-fuelled power station to be built in the UK since the seventies, under plans announced by British Gas owner Centrica.

Edie Environmental Legislation Summary, September 06

Recent changes to legislation which will impact on the environmental sector in the UK, Europe and internationally come under the spotlight in this Semple Fraser and Edie News monthly round-up of new law and policy. Among the developments this month we look at EU attempts to limit POPs entering the waste stream, tax allowances in the UK for energy saving industrial machinery and new regulations to protect the public and workers from radioactive contaminated land in Ireland.

Award nomination for thermal treatment

An innovative gasification process from German manufacturer, Kopf, has won a nomination for the European Environmental Press (EEP) Awards for technology at Pollutec in Paris in November. Kopf executive Eberhard Kipp describes how sewage sludge is converted into energy, pollutants are eliminated and a reusable by-product produced at a pilot plant at Balingen, Germany.

Will high oil price see the return of coal as a mainstream fuel?

Nuclear power is currently the hot topic, but the continuing high oil price could bring clean coal into contention as a mainstream fuel. Eric Russell reports

Edie environmental legislation summary (July 2005)

In this month's Semple Fraser and Edie News round-up of new policies and recent changes to legislation that will impact the environmental sector in the UK, Europe and internationally: EU bans phthalates in toys, 13 alien invaders added to list of plants banned from Scottish wilds, Northern Ireland gets new powers to designate and protect environmentally sensitive areas, UK public sector document to become more public and much more.

Society in denial over waste-to-energy?

Peter Gerstrom, chairman of ICE Waste Management Board asks if Britain is burning its bridges by snubbing incineration.

Bridging the gap

RPS principal consultant Claudia Amos and consultant David Rodgers study ways of determining end markets and uses for waste-derived products

Making sense of sludge

Paul Lowe, Nigel Horan and John Hudson1 discuss the implications of new sewage sludge recycling regulations and the landfill directive

Making sense of sludge

Paul Lowe, Nigel Horan and John Hudson1 discuss the implications of new sewage sludge recycling regulations and the landfill directive

Promoting energy from waste

The UK needs more strategies to recover energy from waste, is the message from the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), and waste producers are being asked to help address the issue. An over-reliance on landfill has resulted in a poor take-up of Energy from Waste (EfW) technologies, but the impending landfill tax is beginning to stimulate interest.

Alternative fuel: the burning issue

Akbar Ali and Michael Crookes of solicitors, Davies Arnold Cooper, look at how British manufactures can facilitate the development of cleaner energy.

Raising the temperature

A technology for the safe, economic and environmentally friendly disposal of a wide range of waste has been developed by Compact Power Holdings. Materials such as sewage sludge, clinical waste, waste from vegetable oil refining, tyre crumb and coal slurry are converted into energy and other usable products through sequential pyrolysis, gasification and high temperature oxidation.

Alternative fuel: the burning issue

Akbar Ali and Michael Crookes of solicitors, Davies Arnold Cooper, look at how British manufactures can facilitate the development of cleaner energy.

Guidance through a risky business

Simon Pollard and Phil Longhurst of Cranfield University discuss how adopting an environmental risk assessment is becoming a necessity for industry.

Sterilising and sorting municipal waste

Sterecycle has developed a system for sterilising and recycling unsorted domestic waste so that 90% of the waste stream can be diverted from landfill without separated kerbside collection.

NETL develops carbon capture test plant

To accelerate the development of carbon capture, separation and sequestration technologies, the US government’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is constructing a modular, flexible CO2 capture test facility.

Challenges and opportunities

Dr Tom Arnot of Bath University looks at the current situation regarding industrial effluent, likely changes to existing legislation and the implications to developing future technology

Local conditions save on primary energy

Regulations in most European countries stipulate a specific ranking for methods of organic waste treatment.

Thermal treatment of waste gets heated

Director of science at The Natural Step (TNS), Dr Mark Everard identifies the sustainability challenges facing advanced thermal treatment technologies.
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