Day: 1 October 1999

Climate change negotiations enter penultimate round in Bonn

International negotiations on global climate change will continue at a major United Nations conference in Bonn, Germany from 25 October to 5 November, with some 5,000 participants from 150 countries are expected to attend.

Will the developing world face a Y2K disaster?

With reports streaming in assuring us that water companies and utilities in the western world are Y2K compliant, attention has turned to the developing world where preparation by water utilities has been patchier. In the second part of World Water's Millennium Bug report, Erin Gill asks if it's a case of too little, too late...

Adaptation the key after Byatt determination

Despite Ofwat's draft determination, there is as much opportunity for companies with proactive strategies - particularly those able to offer a 'one-stop shop' and to take advantage of partnering and the framework approach - in the next five years as the last. Lis Stedman reports.

Space-age Swansea plant complete with UV

Welsh Water's showpiece Swansea Bay STW has been opened by the minister for Wales, Alun Michael. Designed by Hyder Consulting and OTV Birwelco, the plant has been praised by environmental groups, including Surfers Against Sewage.

Intake protection system designed by PPM

Pollution and Process Monitoring (PPM) has completed the design and installation of a new intake protection system at Anglian Water's Heigham WTW.

Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive makes new demands on measurement technology

A recent SWIG Workshop attended by almost 70 users, suppliers and regulators, and chaired by Terry Long of the Environment Agency, concluded that there is a great deal of work yet to be done on the design of procedures, standards and instruments before a cost-effective and transparent measurement and audit system is in place to meet the needs of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD).

Management by measurement

"Achieving optimum efficiency has always pre-supposed the ability to measure existing consumption and then to set realistic targets for the future," states Stephen England of Datum Solutions Ltd. "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it", is the well-known saying. Manufacturing plants will meter most processes for raw material consumption. However, electricity, gas and steam often fall outside this strict monitoring process, being regarded as 'operational overheads' rather than separate ingredients. Even where they are considered, the metering may only be application specific, with total consumption and costings being factored in from the bills received from suppliers.

Save with steam

Gardner Energy Management's (GEM) formula for the design of its product is a simple one: "Steam trapping principles have not changed since the beginning of this century. Our commercial and environmental requirements are now much more stringent, so what is needed is a simple and effective cost-saving steam trap which does not waste steam and energy."

Save with steam

Gardner Energy Management's (GEM) formula for the design of its product is a simple one: "Steam trapping principles have not changed since the beginning of this century. Our commercial and environmental requirements are now much more stringent, so what is needed is a simple and effective cost-saving steam trap which does not waste steam and energy."

Watching the skies

This year's National Energy Management Exhibition (NEMEX) offers an energy service exhibition, a conference on the climate change levy and workshops on topics such as CHP. Dominic Mason examines the central theme, the Climate Change Levy.

Shell eyes renewables

John Mills, director of corporate affairs for Shell UK Ltd, at a renewable energy conference last year said: "Market liberalisation - deregulation - is worldwide and growing. London Water is marketing gas in the capital! And this trend is likely to continue."

Chemical partners

ICI and PowerGen have announced an exclusive development agreement for a new combined heat and power (CHP) station at ICI's largest UK chemical manufacturing site in Runcorn, Cheshire. The agreement follows a detailed tendering process over the last five months involving a number of major CHP companies.

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