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The ‘cup half empty’ applies to staff responsible for asset integrity; they should be intuitively sceptical and constantly expect the worst to happen because asset failure can have extremely serious safety, environmental and financial effects.In addition, these people need to possess a highly methodical, risk-based approach to asset management, with almost obsessive attention to detail.

Hydrogen is a highly promising energy carrier. But it can also be dangerous, as it is combustible and difficult to detect. Using hydrogen safely requires sensors that can detect even the smallest of leaks. Researchers from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands), KU Leuven (Belgium) and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) have discovered that the metal hafnium is perfect for the job.

UNSW Sydney chemists have invented a new, cheap catalyst for splitting water with an electrical current to efficiently produce clean hydrogen fuel.The technology is based on the creation of ultrathin slices of porous metal-organic complex materials coated onto a foam electrode, which the researchers have unexpectedly shown is highly conductive of electricity and active for splitting water.

More than 70 years after the U.S. tested atomic bombs on a ring of sand in the Pacific Ocean called Bikini Atoll, Stanford researchers are studying how long-term radiation exposure there has affected corals that normally grow for centuries without developing cancer. The researchers’ work is featured in an episode of “Big Pacific,” a five-week PBS series about species, natural phenomena and behaviors of the Pacific Ocean.

Providing clean and safe energy, which is free from carbon dioxide emissions, could be possible through fusion power. However, it is very difficult to imitate the solar energy process.Two plasma physicists at Chalmers University of Technology are one step closer to a functional fusion reactor, and have developed a model that could lead to better methods for decelerating runaway electrons, which could destroy a future reactor without warning.

A project sponsored by the Federal Government and the state of Saxony-Anhalt, HYPOS, is a network of companies and research institutions based in Halle (Saale) in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. It studies the use of power from renewable energies for the production of hydrogen. The aim is to become less dependent on petroleum and other fossil energy sources. The chemical process is not new. HYPOS is working with its 114 members, includ...

In an article in the journalEnergy and Environmental Science, researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, presented a type of low-cost and environmental-friendly organic polymer nano-material as photocatalysts for hydrogen generation, and propose the working mechanism of the photocatalytic reactive site.Development of photocatalysts for light driven hydrogen generation from water is an ideal way to convert and store solar energy.

Availability of a diverse range of compact gas sensors from Figaro is announced by RS Components. Targeting a wide range of gas monitoring and detection applications across many industrial sectors, the Figaro range employs multilayer, semiconductor and electrochemical detection methods that are specially optimised for specific gas types.

The biggest change in cars for one hundred years is now starting. It is driven by totally new requirements and capabilities. They will cause huge new businesses to appear but some giants currently making cars and their parts will spectacularly go bankrupt. Cities will ban private cars but encourage cars as autonomous taxis and rental vehicles. Already 65% of cars in China are bought by businesses. Electric car technology and forecasts 2017-2027 ...

Mouser Electronics has inked a global distribution agreement with Amphenol SGX Sensortech, adding robust environmental sensors to its sensor linecard. The Amphenol SGX Sensortech product line includes four series of gas sensors. The MiCS-VZ-89TE indoor air quality sensor combines state-of-the-art MOS sensor technology with intelligent detection algorithms to monitor total volatile organic compounds (tVOCs) and CO2 equivalent variations in confine...