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The first frame size in the new A100-L series of high-pressure turbochargers for low-speed, two-stroke engines has been released for sale by ABB Turbocharging. Labeled the A175-L, the new turbocharger is designed to give pressure ratios of 4.7 and above and volume flow of 25 m3/sec. The company said its target market is advanced low-speed, [...]
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates two hopper dredges on the United States West Coast and also contractswith private companies to keep shipping channels open. The largest and most modern vessel of the two is the recently repowered 107 m Essayons, built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, U.S.A., in 1982. It is [...]
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The high power converters (also known as rectiformers) are the biggest and most powerful ever built and are part of extensive ABB power and automation solutions for the Sohar aluminum smelter in the Sultanate of Oman and the Qatalum smelter in Qatar. Both smelters are setting new records for size and production capacity. Sohar, which [...]
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Concordia Maritime and French energy company Total have jointly decided to install MAN Diesel turbochargers with the VTA variable turbine area technology aboard a new tanker. The turbochargers will be included on the MAN B&W brand type 6S46MC-C low-speed engines aboard the new tanker Stena Progress, 65 200 DWT shallow-draught ice class tanker of the [...]
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Siemens to build combined-cycle plant in Portugal. Siemens Energy
is to build two turnkey combined-cycle units for ElecGas S.A. at Central Termoeléctrica do Pego in Abrantes, northeast of Lisbon. ElecGas S.A. is a joint venture of the independent power generation company International Power plc and the Spanish utility Endesa S.A. Following the units’ start-up, tentatively set [...]
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Since Asia’s largest utility, Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO), shut down its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant(Figure-1) following a major earthquake last July,Japan’s nuclear-generated output has plummeted—and will stay low.
Reuters reported that TEPCO’s nuclear output was 79.2% lower this February than last year,and the Hokuriku Electric Power Co. announced recently that it expects to keep its sole nuclear [...]
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GE Energy’s mammoth Baglan Bay gasfired station, near Port Talbot in South Wales, will also be up for sale by the end of the year (Figure-1). GE Energy plans to put an estimated price tag of $986 million on the 500-MW plant so it can concentrate on plans to build and operate proposed nuclear stations [...]
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London-based National Grid plc will sell Ravenswood Generating Station (Figure-1), a facility in Queens, N.Y., that provides more than 20% of New York City’s overall peak load, to TransCanada Corp. for $2.9 billion this summer. Ravenswood Generating Station was a 2004 POWER Top Plant (July/August 2004, p. 32).
National Grid was obligated to divest itself of the [...]
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Curtiss-Wright has signed an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company LLC to provide reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) for up to four AP1000TM Generation III+ commercial nuclear power plants or a total of 32 RCPs.
Further, Curtiss-Wright has received purchase orders, valued in excess of US$300 million, to supply the first 24 domestic AP1000 RCPs. These will be used [...]
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ELGA Process Water has launched a new service called ‘All-in-Pack®’ which provides water treatment systems to end users on a rental basis.
The idea of All-in-Pack® is that the customer pays a fixed quarterly payment for ELGA Process Water to provide a water treatment plant and service it, just as they would if the customer had purchased [...]
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