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By Bill Lydon, Editor Over the last two years, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) UK Petrochemicals has empowered users to create custom dashboards based on Excel spreadsheet data and calculations using software from Sabisu. The software enables people to organize their data around "Communities" related to areas of interest.

Metso will supply a Metso DNA distributed control system, an integrated safety system and an information activity server to the 68MW plant in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.

Metso will rebuild the gas turbine control system at the Martinlaakso power plant in Vantaa, Finland, and control it with a DNA automation system.

ABB will supply switchgear, DC power supply, uninterrupted power supply, transformers, 400 V motor control centers, variable-speed drives, variable-speed drives and a power management system based on the System 800xA

By Bill Lydon, Editor In February 2013, Schneider Electric announced the PlantStruxure PES (Process Expert System) as, “The innovative Process Automation System that brings together the best from the PLC/SCADA and DCS worlds and combines this with integrated energy management features…” To gain a better understanding, I had the opportunity to ask their Product Marketing Manager some questions about this new offering.

The Metso DNA automation system lets the Tampere plant operate unmanned with remote monitoring from the main control room of the Lielahti power plant.

Citect SCADA and Exele alarm software monitor three hydro generating stations, four sub stations and the distribution system for the City of Edmundston,New Brunswick.

kk-electronic will use B&R X20 control electronics to retrofit wind turbines.

Honeywell will supply building automation, process control and safety systems for a new bubble fluidized-bed (BFB) boiler site.

Catalog covers transformers, autotransformers, inductors and power supplies for applications including power conversion, filtering, isolation and more.

For the foreseeable future, wind turbines and wind generators will continue to get bigger and bigger—both in terms of average physical size and in the average output power rating of these machines.

MOHR will supply its EFP-IL SFPI system as a solution for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Order EA-12-051 requiring installation of SFPI in all U.S. commercial nuclear power stations.

Dresser-Rand will implement the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) Turbomachinery Control Solution in a wide range of control applications.

Almost entirely student-designed and built, the charging port includes 12 south-facing solar panels, Apollo Solar inverter and Concorde AGM batteries that collect sunlight during the day.

Power-One is a provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions and a designer and manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters.

Emerson will supply an Ovation control system, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, valves and smart wireless instrumentation to the waste- and biomass-fed power station at Morcenx in southwestern France.

E.ON will use Ventyx software in its new smart grid control center in Malmo, Sweden.

The Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE) presents the award annually to companies, institutes or individuals that have played an important role advancing China’s electric power industry.

Yokogawa will supply control systems and operator training simulators for the Shoaiba II combined cycle power plant, which is being built in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the Saudi Electricity Company.

The 12th Annual Outage Management for Power Plants Conference will be held August 6-8, 2013 at The Westin Dallas Park Central in Dallas, TX.