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  • Emerson to control 1,075-MW Power Station in Poland

    Emerson will install an Ovation control and safety system at a 1,075-MW, ultra-supercritical, coal-fired power generating unit under construction at the Kozienice Power Station in Poland.
    16 September, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control PEMEX Diesel Fuel Plant

    Yokogawa will supply an integrated control and safety instrumented system solution for an ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel plant that is being built for PEMEX Refinación, a subsidiary of PEMEX.
    11 September, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to replace Siemens at Power plant in West Virginia

    Emerson will replace the Siemens T3000 system currently controlling the Foster-Wheeler boiler, turbine, air quality control system, and burner management system with its Ovation control technology at the Longview Power plant in Maidsville, W.Va.
    09 September, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • OSI manages outages at Powerco of New Zealand

    OSI installed an Outage Management System (OMS) for Powerco of New Zealand, based on OSI's Spectra OMS software platform.
    04 September, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Prego and INSYS connect electrical grid wirelessly

    The wireless network at Pfalzwerke Netz integrates remote substations, secondary substations, renewable energy systems, and switching points into a network control system while providing protection from unauthorised access and tampering.
    03 September, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Axis thermal network cameras provide security for a solar field

    With 34 cameras installed along the perimeter of the photovoltaic field, Solesa can detect animals, people, objects, acts of vandalism or attempted theft in complete darkness and difficult conditions, such as dust, fog and rain.
    03 September, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Flue gas monitoring sensors

    By Tom Gurd, City Technology There is a lot of focus on flue gas analyzers, but it’s also important to remember that an analyzer is only as effective as the sensors it uses. Because of the risks associated with combustion emissions, sensor safety and reliability are critical.
    02 September, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Integrated Gearboxes and Gear Motors market increasing

    The growing emphasis on energy efficiency and the investments expected in wind energy will further fuel the adoption of gearboxes and gear motors in industries as well as in wind turbines.
    28 August, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Metso to automate Greatmoor energy-from-waste facility

    Metso will supply a DNA automation system, information management system and a safety system to the Greatmoor energy-from-waste facility under construction in Calvert, Edgcott, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK.
    28 August, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • TopView software monitors power use in the UK

    Balancing the supply and demand of electricity is a dynamic challenge and a mandatory requirement for electricity providers on the grid in the UK. Endeco Technologies uses TopView to monitor site power.
    26 August, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • B-Scada to supply HMI/SCADA Software to Indonesian Power Plant

    B-Scada’s Indonesian partner, LDK, will be installing the software as a web monitoring solution for the new Senipah Gas Power Plant operated by PT. Kartanegara Energi Perkasa.
    26 August, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Book Shows How To Combat Threats To Energy Security

    Written by Dr Steven Fawkes, ‘Energy Efficiency: The Definitive Guide to the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Source of Energy’ provides managers, policy makers and governments with answers to the burning questions about energy efficiency and the world’s response to it.
    21 August, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • ABB to hold Automation and Power World in Mexico

    Automation and Power World will be held in Mexico City on August 21 and 22.
    13 August, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • How Your Plant Can Lower its Bills Using Power Factor Correction

    By Stewart Thompson, CAS DataLoggers Power Factor (PF) is the ratio of real power to the apparent power flowing to the load from the source. From a business standpoint it’s important to understand how having a low Power Factor raises your plant or factory’s power bill.
    12 August, 2014 | 6 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Kamojang Geothermal Power Station in Indonesia

    Yogawa will supply a CENTUM VP integrated production control system, InsightSuite AE plant asset effectiveness optimization services, PRM plant resource manager, Exaquantum plant information management system, and a plant operation training simulator.
    11 August, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Global infrastructure spending will hit $9 trillion annually by 2025

    Overall, close to $78 trillion is expected to be spent globally between now and 2025 on five industry sectors - extraction, utilities, manufacturing, transport and social.
    07 August, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Siemens to service gas turbines at Shell Carmon Creek

    Siemens Energy will perform service and maintenance for three Siemens (SGT6-5000F) gas turbines that will be installed at Shell Canada's Carmon Creek project.
    06 August, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Capstone Turbine to supply power generation system for landfill in Finland

    The power generation system will operate on the gas from a landfill in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
    31 July, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Market for backup power Generator sets going up

    Generator sets are used for emergency standby, continuous prime power, and peak shaving applications across a wide range of industry sectors that tend to be quite volatile from year to year.
    30 July, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • MISTRAS to monitor Southern Nuclear with Radiography Services

    MISTRAS will provide Computed Radiography (CR) and Digital Radiography (DR) inspection services Balance of Plant (BOP), Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) programs, in-service and vendor location inspection services.
    24 July, 2014 | 1 minute
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