The UK Emissions Trading Scheme: From a prototype to a phase-out model ?© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (3/2004)
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme, launched in spring 2002 as the world’s first economy-wide trading system for greenhouse gases, was designed to establish the UK’s role as a world leader in the field of emissions trading, even before similar trading systems were put in place on an European or international scale.
TOFD: A new weld inspection method for pipeline engineering© Vulkan-Verlag GmbH (3/2004)
TOFD (Time of Flight Diffraction) is an ultrasonic inspection method in which not only, as is customary, the reflected signals are recorded and evaluated, but instead also the diffraction signals radiated from fault boundaries.
Regenerative thermal oxidizers based on the pebble-heater technology© OTH Amberg-Weiden (6/2000)
Regenerative thermal oxidizers are used for cleaning the exhaust gas of different industrial furnaces. They are more and more demanded as the environmental regulations become more strict. On the other hand, there is a steady effort to develop systems with lower investment and especially operational costs.