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UK firm presents “game-changing” solution to monitoring indoor air quality

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Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is a global concern for health, wellbeing and productivity as people spend 90% of their time indoors, where IAQ can be up to 7 times worse than outdoor air quality. million UK homes are hazardous to health, with a cost to the NHS of more than £1 billion per year.

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Generating electricity using low-grade heat recovered from lignin-derived membranes

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Lignin is traditionally considered a waste product by the pulp and paper industries. A new study explores an apparently sustainable method of efficiently converting waste heat into electricity using certain wood products, while minimising costs and environmental impact.

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The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of carbon capture technology for buildings

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The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated. Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Why capture CO2 from buildings? Petri Laakso of Soletair.

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£1.3 million of new funding for net zero-driven energy data application winners

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million of new funding across nine new digital energy data projects has been announced by UK Research & Innovataion (UKRI). The non-departmental public body is awarding the funding through its ‘Modernising Energy Data Applications phase 1’ competition overseen by the Prospering From the Energy Revolution challenge.

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Building the business case for satellite IoT

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Weather monitoring stations are transforming the efficiency and environmental performance of remote copper mines and helping farmers to safeguard crops and livestock in a changing climate. The shipping industry is improving cargo traceability to mitigate on-going disruption. They have built prototypes and invested in field testing.

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An asset to assets? Real-time condition monitoring extends equipment lifetime

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Said to be compatible with any primary rotating equipment or assets in a wide variety of industries and processes, Fluid Motion Solutions’ new Max digital ecosystem significantly extends the lifetime of equipment such as pumps and mixers.

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How remote monitoring can contribute to operational success

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Whether it is to minimise the impact of increasingly extreme weather events, reducing health risks or simply to streamline operational expenditure – digital monitoring and remote services can provide long term value. This can mean that key personnel are able to operate, monitor or maintain equipment.