AVEVA Instrumentation says it is helping plant engineers to achieve design and material savings of 30% or more on instrumentation and controls – according to feedback from the customers.
Instrumentation
RWE npower has selected GE's technology to reduce emissions, improve efficiency and extend the life of its Little Barford power station near St. Neots, Cambridgeshire.
Gas Turbines
Automation firm DB Controls reports that, by selecting Schneider Electric to supply all controls for a new waste recycling plant, it was able to offer a cost-effective Form 2 type-tested control...
PLCs
An unusual renewable energy system, based on an Archimedes screw an induction motor and variable speed drive, is saving Yorkshire Water more than £127,000 a year in electricity costs.
Turbines
Three Maso-Sine SPS4 pumps, from Watson-Marlow Pumps, have survived and successfully solved problems of cavitation and noise at beverage giant Halewood International.
Pumps
Three firms have now been found guilty, at St Albans' Crown Court, of charges relating to the Buncefield oil storage depot explosion and fire on 11 December 2005. All now face unlimited fines.
Disaster
Backwash flow controls on the water-treatment system at E.On's CHP (combined heat and power) plant in Northwich, Cheshire, have been improved, thanks to the installation of a Fisher Control-Disk...
control valves
Energy Power Resources (EPR) says it saved significant cost and time, when it needed more water treatment capacity at its Elean power station, simply by renting a mobile water treatment unit from Elga...
Water Treatment
When printing giant St Ives Roche had concerns recently about aspects of its paper handling operations, handling equipment supplier Briggs Equipment turned to Stanley Handling for a specialist...
Measurement and control technologies specialist Yamatake has joined the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) governing board, signalling support for the increasingly popular industrial plant...
Process Management Systems
Following completion of plant decommissioning at GrowHow UK's Severnside site last November, work has now begun on dismantling and packaging of two LCA (leading concept ammonia) plants and a utilities...
Plant Refurbishing/Remanufacture
VeriPRO, the earplug fit testing system, from Howard Leight by Sperian, has received the British Safety Industry Federation's (BSIF) Product Innovation Award for 2010.
Noise/Vibration Control