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New York’s Legionella outbreak: A wake-up call UK cities shouldn’t ignore 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 ...

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Stocked and ready for action: A pumps supplier reflects on last-minute sourcing 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 ...

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The making of a breakthrough: How Alphasense developed its lead-free galvanic oxygen sensor Oxygen measurement plays an important role in industrial safety.
January saw the launch of the first ever lead-free galvanic oxygen sensor for industrial safety, permitting a long-sought-after leap in sustainability. Lead’s traditionally indispensable role in galvanic oxygen sensors means the announcement ...

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An arboreal ally emerges from the data Springtime in Hesse: The data on methane uptake comes from soils in beech and spruce forests in Central Europe.
Forest soils appear to have a significant – and previously unappreciated – capacity to absorb methane, according to a German evaluation of ...

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Nitrogen uncovered: Advancing atmospheric ammonia measurement Ammonia emissions are a leading contributor to PM2.5 formation in the atmosphere.
A new study has identified a more reliable method for measuring the natural nitrogen isotope signature of atmospheric ammonia, offering scientists a stronger tool for tracing pollution sources and ...

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Tunnel boring begins beneath Thames for National Grid upgrade 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 271.5-tonne tunnel boring machine has commenced the work required to construct a 2.2km ...

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Partnership aims to fast-track vehicle-to-grid technology 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) ...

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Prioritise TCO for environmental investment decisions This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with HRS Heat Exchangers.
When making investment decisions, particularly when purchasing high-value environmental systems (such as heat exchangers and thermal processing systems), capital cost is one of the first things to be ...

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British biogas could shield households from Gulf energy shock, says industry 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 ...

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Granular activated carbon-sorbed PFAS can be used to extract lithium from brine 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 ...