Where Next For Biogas In UK After Lincolnshire Rejection?
To many, the use of anaerobic digestion to produce biogas is the future. It is organic, does not produce carbon emissions, is non-radioactive and can use fuel sourced in this country rather than relying on imports. Sadly, instead of the sound of engineers fitting pressure relief valves on large anaerobic digestion tanks at Sewstern near Gunby […]
Dialysis Process ‘Very Effective’ For Wastewater Treatment
As the water crisis deepens around us and it becomes increasingly necessary to find new ways of operating that protect the environment and safeguard resources for the future, research is now ongoing to identify more effective ways of treating wastewater. A new collaboration between experts at Rice University and Guangdong University of Technology has found that […]
LNG ‘Preferred Alternative Fuel Choice’ For Maritime Industry
The last few years have seen the maritime industry become increasingly committed to decarbonisation, finding more sustainable ways of operating in response to consumer demands for more eco-friendly business practices and liner companies starting to replace older tonnage. As such, interest in alternative fuels has surged, with 69 per cent of all orders for container […]
Did Poor Relief Valves Create Motorsport’s Worst Engine?
Internal combustion engines are one of the places where pressure relief valves are absolutely critical as they need to manage the hot gases that drive the engine and generate power. There are several failures that have been caused by inadequate venting of these gases, particularly when the culprit is poor design. Arguably the worst example of […]
Leftover Halloween Pumpkins Provide Biogas Prospect
The use of various organic substances to provide biogas has been novel and innovative. But there is not the ghost of a chance most people would have imagined green energy being produced from leftover Halloween pumpkins. That, however, is the big plan at Severn Trent Power, which aims to produce biogas from 100,000 leftover pumpkins, Energy […]
How Did Relief Valves Make A Gas Turbine Motorbike Possible?
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to relief valve manufacturing is designing valves for use at speed, such as those used with many different types of engines. As these engines are dealing with variable loads and the effects of intense forces, relief valves need to be designed to ensure that the expanding gases that […]
Did A Failed Gas-Powered Engine Revolutionise Motorsport?
Relief valves are an essential part of any internal combustion engine system; without relieving the pressures of rapidly expanding gasses, at some point one of the components will fail, often with explosive consequences. The limits of pressure valves often correlate with the limits of performance, and this was part of the reason why the nuclear-powered […]
What Role Will Biofuel Play In The Transport Revolution?
The role biofuels can play in the UK’s energy mix is an open question in many areas, not least transport. On the one hand, governments here and around the world have set themselves firmly on the path to decarbonisation, although the most prominent element of this has involved the growth of electric vehicles as a […]
Did Pressure Relief Issues Stop The Nuclear-Powered Car?
In the 1950s, during a huge period of technological development, a spirit of optimistic futurism and a belief that a world-changing breakthrough was around every corner, every potential idea seemed to have merit, even ones that in hindsight seem utterly ludicrous. For example, in the 1950s and early 1960s, serious investment and research were placed […]
How Did A Lightning Strike Improve Fuel Pressure Relief Technology?
The main evolutions in the transportation of volatile materials are primarily about safety, and improvements to pressure relief valves both in design and in operation have helped to avert disaster and save countless lives over the past few decades. The impetus for evolution in the field of occupational safety often comes in the shadow of […]
