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Global warming and climate change are on everyone’s lips. The Paris Agreement to reduce global greenhouse emissions, signed by 174 countries, is one reason for the growing importance of renewable energy, including biomass. This article looks at the potentials and challenges for electric actuators in biomass-fired power plants.

In the last few years the world has been increasingly relying on desalination for its drinking and industrial water. The stick is the danger that any already critical water shortage caused by drought and global warming will get worse. The carrot is the provision of more water in parched areas thanks to significant progress towards making desalination more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.

Axial valve design has been used with success over the past twenty years. However, UK based Goodwin International Ltd and German based Noreva GmbH have taken the opportunity to develop this further. This article looks at the past, present and future of axial valve design.

Derek Thomas’ idea for a full-bore flow-isolation valve could prove invaluable in simplifying systems associated with excess pressure.

Redox-flow batteries could be an important step towards the large-scale realisation of a renewable energy strategy, says Peter Fischer.

Tom Erixon, 40, has been appointed manager of a newly established group within Sandvik, Corporate Business Development and IT.

Foster Wheeler Corporation has announced that its Finnish subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, has won a turnkey contract by AS Narva Elektrijaamad to supply two power blocks to its power plants in Narva, NE Estonia.

USX Corp., the US steel and energy group, will split into two publicly traded companies, US Steel and Marathon Oil.

PPL’s Unit 2 reactor at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant near Berwick, Pennsylvania, returned to service following the unit’s 10th planned refuelling and inspection outage.