NSK has published a detailed guide to bearing design aimed at helping plant engineers involved in bearing selection for high-efficiency, high-performance gearboxes.
Bearings
ABB UK has signed a service contract with oil and gas operator CNOOC Nexen for the ICSS (integrated control and safety system) on-board its Buzzard platform in the North Sea – the largest oil...
Oil & Gas
DECC (the Department of Energy and Climate Change) has awarded more than £500,000 to marine energy specialist Minesto, IT Power and NPL (the National Physical Laboratory) to extend their quarter-scale...
Wave/Tidal Energy
Southern Water's recently opened £300m Cleaner Seas for Sussex environmental improvement scheme for Brighton & Hove was built using compact plant, including stainless steel pipework from BCI Process.
Water Treatment
Half way through a 25-year EPC (energy performance contract) with Honeywell, Nevill Hall Hospital, in Abergavenny, is using the firm to expand its CHP (combined heat and power) plant – increasing...
Gas Turbines
BP's Quad 204 North Sea FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) unit replacement project has selected Emerson Process Management for its DeltaV operator training solution (OTS).
Oil & Gas
Plant management systems giant Yokogawa is to offer an online simulator for optimising plant automation operations in the oil and gas, petrochemical and other industries.
Model-based Predictive Control
Construction materials giant Hanson Building Products says it is seeing annual energy cost savings of nearly £24,000 at its brick manufacturing plant at Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire.
Electric Motors AC
Government proposals to require all large companies in the UK to undertake mandatory energy efficiency assessments will be a major cost burden unless lessons are learned from the earlier CRC energy...
Energy Recovery
Hospital facilities beefed up to serve the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have been equipped with Atlas Copco compressors to deliver medical air.
Compressors
Statoil has awarded Emerson Process Management a $2.7 million contract to supply an integrated plant and machine condition and performance monitoring system for the Gina Krog oil and gas platform in...
Condition Monitoring
GAMBICA, the UK trade association for instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology, is to host a pavilion at the Drives & Controls Exhibition (NEC, 8—10 April 2014) for members...
Electric Motors AC