The News Review:
- Alstom Hydro wins new contracts worth 350 million
- verhaul eyed for aging plant
- US carmakers face challenge of developing popular products
- riel Chooses Atmospheric Acid Leach Process to Unlock the Value of…
- The public face of nuclear power in the US
- Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Alstom Hydro wins new contracts worth 350 million
International Herald Tribune – Oct 11, 2007
In Brazil Alstom Hydro has been awarded a €150 million (US$211. 9 million) contract for the supply of electro- and hydro-mechanical equipment for the Foz do Chapeco hydropower plant. The 868 megawatt plant will be located on the Uruguay river in southern Brazil. In China Alstom Hydro has also signed four contracts worth approximately €200 million (US$282. 5 million) to supply hydropower equipment. Alstom Hydro's local unit Tianjin Alstom Hydro Equipment Co… Alstom Hydro's local unit Tianjin Alstom Hydro Equipment Co. is in charge of project management in addition to design engineering manufacturing and commissioning of all equipment. Today in Business with Reuters.
verhaul eyed for aging plant
Union of Grass Valley – The Union of Grass Valley – Oct 11, 2007
TorchAfter 28 years of taking water from Little Deer Creek and cleaning it for Nevada City residents’ use the city’s treatment plant may be due for an overhaul officials said this week. An engineering consultant will study how to make the plant more efficient whether demand for water could grow in the future and whether the plant needs upgrades and repairs. "Energy use is a primary efficiency concern" City Manager Mark Miller said. "If it costs $5000 to replace a motor at the plant and we could save $1000 a year in costs by doing that then it’s worth it. "Capacity poses another concern. During the summer months the treatment plant approaches its limit of processing 2 million gallons per day.
US carmakers face challenge of developing popular products
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Oct 11, 2007
dealers it was rejected because the dealers feared it would take sales away from the Lucerne. And Volkswagen reportedly was considering reintroducing the Scirocco a high performance model but dealers were said to be fearful that it would compete too directly with the GTI. Another hurdle that has to be cleared is plant capacity. Consumers who are tired of “badge engineering” — taking basically the same car and slapping on a different emblem grille and taillights and claiming it’s a totally different product — can thank the plant capacity issue for that practice. “Badge engineering may be the most cost-effective way for carmakers to go about doing things. You want a plant running at a high capacity” said Jack Nerad Kelley Blue Book’s editorial director. “Let’s say you decide not to build a GMC Acadia because it is too close in appearance to a Saturn utlook.
riel Chooses Atmospheric Acid Leach Process to Unlock the Value of…
sys-con.com – Oct 11, 2007
Ferronickel (“FeNi”) production using the conventional Rotary Kiln Electric Arc Furnace (RKEF) process design and compared to the Direct Current (“DC”) arc furnace flow sheet used in the feasibility study of December 2005 compiled by Bateman Minerals and Metals South Africa (“Bateman”). Atmospheric tank leaching based on a process flow sheet developed by riel’s hydrometallurgical consultants (in collaboration with riel) as well as extensive bench-scale test work at Mintek South Africa. The selected flowsheet incorporated “tried and tested” conventional unit operations developed in similar projects and the process design was developed by Hydromet South Africa with detailed modelling by Dr Mike Dry Canada. Heap leach based on the technical knowledge of and extensive pilot column test work at Mintek and preliminary engineering design and costing study of a heap leach plant by GBM Minerals Engineering Consultants Ltd UK (“GBM”). High Pressure Acid leach (“HPAL”) technology was not considered as Shevchenko laterite ores display favourable leach kinetics at low process intensity and due to the high capital costs operating complexities and other well publicised problems experienced at existing operations.
The public face of nuclear power in the US
ZDNet – Oct 11, 2007
I read recently about a coal plant where the cost escalated by a factor of two because of a queue for commodities. The idea now is to complete the doggone design lock it in concrete standardize the design for that type of plant and then go build it. Now you get on a learning curve so that by the time you are on the fourth or fifth type of plant there are no more change orders. Secondly the cost of nuclear will come down because we’re going to steal ideas from my nuclear neighbors in the Navy. We are now building submarines and aircraft carriers in the most modular fashion you can imagine to the point where submarines are done in hull segments. Workers can go into those hull rings and install the piping components and weld standing up in a straight position rather than upside down or hanging on monkey bars.
Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Bloomberg – Oct 11, 2007
He will report to metallurgical manager Mr DavidPass. The Spinifex Ridge DFS was prepared and managed by WorleyParsonsAustralia's largest resource engineering group. The company commenceddetailed engineering and design activities for project implementationin August and a significant number of their engineering teamdedicated to the project will be accommodated in Moly Mines' WestPerth offices. Moly Mines already has over 40 full-time employees dedicated toSpinifex Ridge and project implementation will be significantlyenhanced by the integration of the WorleyParsons design engineerswith the company's senior technical managers and staff. Engineering and support services staffing numbers are expected torise to around 100 in the next 6-8 weeks and Moly Mines hascompleted sub lease arrangements for an additional 1500m2 of floorspace at a neighbouring premises to accommodate the expandingworkforce. The company's personnel manager Ms Sue Germon recently participatedwith a number of other companies in a two-day recruitment seminar inJohannesburg organized by the Australian Government. ver 7000people attended many seeking employment in the mining industry… Herattendance was in integral part of the company's forward planning andrecruitment strategy. The Spinifex Ridge orebody contains more than 600m lb of molybdenumand will be exploited by a conventional truck and shovel open pitmine at an annual rate of 20m tonnes. The processing plant willproduce separate moly and copper concentrates. 94bn in the first 10 yearsof operation with moly accounting for US$4. Withcapital costs estimated at US$852m payback would be achieved inthree years.