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

Envirotec Magazine

Butterfly is an innovative and patented IAQ monitoring system including a suite of beautifully designed hardware with integrated software that has been developed at Imperial College London over the past four years to responsibly address this issue. Therefore, when butterflies are present it’s a sign of clean, healthy air.”

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

While biodegradable plastics currently exist, they rely on commercial composting, which uses energy to heat the compost, as well as presenting other logistical challenges. And so it is being presented as the first commercially viable alternative to plastics.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle, register?

GreenBiz

Protecting inventions with patents can assist with these aims, but innovators may be skeptical of being able to obtain patent protection for products that are made using recycled materials — materials that in many cases are, by definition, not new. Even in such a case, patentable innovation may be found in a new process.

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Offshore geothermal resource explored in new white paper

Envirotec Magazine

Authored by CGG, a firm providing data and services in Earth science and related areas, the document presents the group’s own research indicating the existence of vast, untapped geothermal resources along the magmatically active ocean floor spreading centres and adjacent flooded rift systems occurring in all the world’s major oceans.

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UK’s biggest CCU plant opens

Envirotec Magazine

Presented as a key milestone in the UK’s race to meet its net zero targets, a new Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) plant has been opened in Northwich, Cheshire by Tata Chemicals Europe. The process is patented in the UK with further patents pending in key territories around the world.

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CGG paper explores the potential of offshore geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

The opportunity offshore geothermal resources present could be a game-changer in supporting the United Nations Development Programme’s 2023 Sustainable Development Goals including clean energy, climate action, and partnerships for sustainable development,” said Peter Whiting, EVP of Geoscience, CGG.

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Pumps trade association announces additional keynote speaker for its 2024 Annual Meeting

Envirotec Magazine

Europump (the European Pump Association)* continues to develop the programme of presentations for its 2024 Annual Meeting, taking place at the De Vere Beaumont Estate near Windsor from 22nd – 24th May, with the latest addition being Mike Otten, Director, Edge & Intelligence, Xylem. Mike Otten of Xylem.

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