Ideal Standard has successfully commissioned two 500kWe CHP (combined heat and power) systems from Veolia’s specialist packaged CHP team, Cogenco, at its plant in Wittlich, Germany.
Combined Heat & Power
SOE (the Society of Operations Engineers) has launched a new award aimed at recognising the important work done by plant engineers.
Continuing Professional Development
Aston Martin is reporting an ability to access status, data and production information from up to 50 terminals across its Gaydon, Warwickshire, site, following installation of a Siemens SCADA plant...
PLCs
Professional engineering consultancy Hydro International has launched a water pollution management (WPM) service aimed at helping industrial and commercial sites avoid the environmental and financial...
Utilities
The Gateshead outlet of work wear and hygiene equipment supplier Johnsons Apparelmaster is reporting energy savings of more than £5,000 per year since installing a new compressor.
Compressors
Sustainable housing development Kingston Heights is expected to save 500 tonnes of CO2 and 16% energy costs per year, thanks to pioneering use of water from the River Thames for heating, hot water and...
Pumps
As control system developers increasingly adopt the technologies and techniques of mainstream IT, the results are reducing costs and improving flexibility.
Since 1 January 2015, IE3 premium-efficiency motors have been compulsory for new machines in the range 7.5–375kW. Brian Tinham examines the implications of the second phase of EU MEPS
High Efficiency Motors
Where the engineering skills gap is concerned, there is no such thing as quick fix. That’s the warning from Sir David Roberts McMurtry CBE, chairman and chief executive of Renishaw.
Apprenticeships
Drumjohn power station – a remote hydroelectric power station in Scotland – has geared up for the future by replacing its ageing manual crane controls with a new electric system from Street...
Lifting Equipment
Huntingdon based System Mix – in conjunction with P&M Pumps, which market the Rotamix System incorporating the Vaughan chopper pump – is urging anaerobic digester (AD) plant operators to look to their...
Biomass Plant
An ABB project that delivered more than 7,000MWh of savings to Tata Steel Port Talbot has been recognised with an EEF Future Manufacturing Award for environmental efficiency.
Electric Motors AC