BP's modernisation of its refinery in Whiting, Indiana, North America, has started up, following commissioning of Emerson's process automation system on site.
Process Management Systems
A rotating measurement finder, developed by ABB, should make identifying pillow block and flanged bearings, for rapid replacement purposes, much easier.
Bearings
A remote control boat equipped with a SonTek M9 acoustic doppler profiler (ADP) has been used with HydroSurveyor software to create a three-dimensional map of a submerged flood barrier, damaged in...
Level Measurement
Condition-based monitoring is playing an increasingly important role beyond conventional plant and equipment – even now supporting maintenance on CNC milling machines.
Condition Monitoring
TPM (total productive maintenance) and lean maintenance consultancy MCP is offering in-house training centres aimed at assessing and improving engineering maintenance skills.
Engineering Competence/Skills
Hughes Pumps has supplied three HPS5000 high-pressure pump sets to "one of the world's leading South Korean steel manufacturers" as part of a water atomising project – a process that handles huge...
Pumps
The search is now on to find the UK's top apprentices and apprentice employers, with the National Apprenticeship Service now accepting entries for the annual awards.
Apprenticeships
Leases Limited has been fined £33,000 plus £13,389 costs after a man was seriously injured by a reversing vehicle at its recycling centre in Exeter.
Materials Handling
Process engineering specialist Plaxica, which designs production systems for the stereocomplex PLA (polylactic acid) biopolymer, has built a scalable pilot plant to showcase its Optipure technology.
Process Management Systems
Ultra-low maintenance nickel battery systems are to provide standby power for Shell's Prelude, the world's first FLNG (floating liquefied natural gas) facility, currently under construction in...
Batteries
Dirtness pumping station, which controls water levels as part of the Lincolnshire land drainage scheme, is reporting reduced maintenance, and improved efficiency and operator safety, since installing...
Wastewater Plant
Tata Steel's Aldwarke melting shop, in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is saving £570,000 a year on energy costs, thanks to variable speed drives and high efficiency motors installed on a fume extraction...
Electric Motors AC