Doncaster-based electrical engineering company HS Harbon & Sons has standardised on ac drives from Control Techniques for its new advanced wind turbines.
Turbines
Yellow dump truck manufacturer Thwaites' paint line has been successfully refurbished to extend its working life, and improve its efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Fans
Burkert UK has launched a service that covers design, manufacture and commissioning of packaged batch control systems.
Pneumatic Components/Equipment
Emerson Process Management has donated automation technology worth more than £650,000 to the newly opened ASET International Oil and Gas Training Academy in Aberdeen.
Maintenance Management Systems
Zetatek Industries has approved one of the biggest hydraulic power packs to be built in the UK in the last 12 months – a 2MW unit designed and built by Branch Hydraulic Systems.
Power Plant
Managers at an unnamed hospital serving more than 270,000 people in Bedfordshire have successfully harnessed clamp-on flowmeters to guide energy savings on hot water, according to ETA Energy Systems.
Heating Systems
Siemens Drive Technologies has delivered its 25,000th Sinamics S120 motion control drive in the UK – and global sales now total more than one million.
Drives
Colin Hood is ne new chairman of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult centre, which is to focus on nurturing technologies to improve offshore wind, tidal and wave power in the UK.
Renewable Energy
International System EST (ISE) has contracted Emerson Industrial Automation to supply control cabinets for a utilities upgrade project at SABIC's Petrokemya Arabian Petrochemical site in Al Jubail,...
control valves
Nearly half (46.5%) of the control systems on UK plants are up to 10 years old, with more than one third (39.5%) between 11 and 20 years old.
Instrumentation
Cleveland Potash, the UK's only potash mine, has signed a contract with Dalkia, which will now operate and maintain its 16MWe CHP (combined heat and power) station at the Loftus plant.
Predictive Maintenance
More energy efficient steam systems are the promise of the STS17.2 steam trapping station, launched by Spirax Sarco in an expansion of its Quick-Fit range.
Steam Traps