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The principles of reduce, reuse, and recycle have turned the focus into exploring bio-based products and innovative process technologies to minimise the use of non-renewable resources. Waste is minimised and renewable sources are favoured, while side streams and residues are utilised to the fullest. “The goal is to develop process technologies for multiple renewable feedstocks…
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Whether paints and coatings, chemicals, or process water – there are high requirements for the purity of liquid in numerous industrial applications. Filter bags made of polypropylene (PP) with defined nominal retention rates provide valuable services in safely retaining unwanted particles. However, sometimes an additional process step is required to absorb oil. To combine particle…
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Listen to this article We make no apologies for returning to the subject of HS2 which was cut back as it “no longer reflected post-lockdown changes in travel”. Yet, as Matt Atkins describes, recent ORR figures show a trend of increasing rail passenger numbers. The last quarter’s 21% increase brings journeys up to 90% of…
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Listen to this article A total of 417 million rail passenger journeys were recorded in Great Britain between October and December 2023, according to the Office of Road and Rail (ORR). The organisation’s report ‘Passenger rail usage October to December 2023’ shows a 20% increase on the 348 million journeys in the same quarter of…
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Listen to this article In the Parliamentary debate on the cancellation of HS2 phase 2, Transport Minister Mark Harper claimed that what remains of HS2 will deliver “a massive increase in capacity to the West Coast Main Line (WCML)” by providing 250,000 seats a day. This figure was subsequently repeated by the Prime Minister and…
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Listen to this article The forecast date for initial HS2 services between Old Oak Common and Birmingham Curzon Street is between 2029 and 2033. Although this may seem some time away, this year HS2 hits peak construction with work well underway and a workforce of 30,000 at 350 active sites. This work is being delivered…
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Listen to this article Of HS2’s 208 route km, 52.2km is in tunnels. There will be 44.3km of twin bored tunnels comprising of Euston (7.3km); Northolt (13.6km); Chiltern (16.0km) Long Itchington Wood (1.6km); and Bromford (5.8km), as well as six cut and cover ‘green’ tunnels totalling 8km. In addition, an 850-metre logistics tunnel in London…
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Listen to this article Along its 208 route km, HS2 requires over 50 viaducts of which 16 are over 300 metres long. One of these is the 3.4km Colne Valley viaduct which will soon be the UK’s longest railway viaduct. Less newsworthy is the huge amount of earthworks needed to create Britain’s first domestic high-speed…
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Listen to this article As is often the way with incidents and accidents, it is not one failure alone that is the cause but a series of isolated factors which can together conspire to lead to an unhappy outcome. This was certainly so in the case of a collapsed wing wall which was then struck…
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Listen to this article The commitment made in the UK Government’s Decarbonising Transport Plan for an ambitious programme of railway electrification is both complex and challenging. With progress sat at just over a third of the 13,000km of track in Great Britain’s rail network electrified, the rollout required is extensive. To achieve its targets, Network…
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