Engineering students get sewer primer at Lakeland plant
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- Engineering students get sewer primer at Lakeland plant
- AP to expedite Fab City MLR Motors projects
- $100M hydrogen facility to help supply local refiners
- Fly ash debate continues in Giles County
Engineering students get sewer primer at Lakeland plant
commercialappeal.com (subscription) – Oct 20, 2007
“In this case it’s really good because they haven’t started up the plant up yet so they can see all of the equipment. n Friday Lakeland deputy engineer David Smith gave the undergraduate environmental engineering class an exclusive tour of Lakeland’s newest facility. Civil engineering major Emily Boswell gained a new appreciation of her studies. “It brings what you’re learning in class into a real-life perspective” she said.
AP to expedite Fab City MLR Motors projects
indiacar.net – Oct 20, 2007
Referring to the MLR Motors project Ms Reddy said that the Government has allotted 225 acres at Muppireddypalli Toopran in Medak district near Hyderabad for the manufacture of passenger cars a light truck and a three wheeler. The Managing Director of MLR Motors Mr Lokeswar Rao has assured the Government that the construction works for the project would be completed within six months. Steps have been initiated to achieve ?financial closure? for the project and works have started for vehicle engineering engine design and plant engineering. Leading European engineering firms have been allotted letters of intent.
$100M hydrogen facility to help supply local refiners
Corpus Christi Caller-Times – Corpus Christi Caller Times – Oct 20, 2007
Chirinos (Contact)Saturday ctober 20 2007 CRPUS CHRISTI —A $100 million project at Markwest-Javelina Co. will provide local refineries with a needed product and add six permanent jobs. Javelina a gas processing plant expects to begin construction in September or ctober 2008 on a steam methane reformer a facility within the plant that will produce 99. 9 percent pure hydrogen. The facility will share utilities with the plant but it could stand as a separate facility. The company will sell the hydrogen to three local refiners: Citgo Refining and Chemicals Flint Hills Resources and Valero Energy Corp. The highly pure hydrogen is needed to convert heavy oils to transportation fuels such as ultra-low-sulfur diesel… “We just took over the plant in November 2005 but expanding services has been part of our business strategy early on” Dickerson said. John Lawrence project manager with Tulsa-based Linde Boc Processing Plants said the construction phase will employ an estimated 150 people at its peak. Design and engineering work have begun Dickerson said. Markwest-Javelina was built in 1989-90 to process off-gas from various refineries and in late 1990 began processing the gas deriving components such as ethylene ethane and propane. The original owner was the former Coastal Corp. Markwest acquired the plant from El Paso Corp. (which had acquired Coastal Corp.
Fly ash debate continues in Giles County
Roanoke Times – Oct 20, 2007
He and three others voted for it. Howard Spencer chairman of the board abstained. Spencer town manager of Glen Lyn where the power plant producing the ash has operated for nearly a century is also executive director of the partnership. The partnership a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to aid Giles County schools is the linchpin in a deal designed to dispose of waste produced by Appalachian’s Glen Lyn power plant create a building site beside the New River and eventually through the sale of that site funnel money to the county’s vocational education programs. The partnership owns the land — more than 13 acres — but Appalachian is covering engineering and development costs involved in piling and compacting ash on more than seven acres until it’s about 30 feet high and level with U… Spencer town manager of Glen Lyn where the power plant producing the ash has operated for nearly a century is also executive director of the partnership. The partnership a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to aid Giles County schools is the linchpin in a deal designed to dispose of waste produced by Appalachian’s Glen Lyn power plant create a building site beside the New River and eventually through the sale of that site funnel money to the county’s vocational education programs. The partnership owns the land — more than 13 acres — but Appalachian is covering engineering and development costs involved in piling and compacting ash on more than seven acres until it’s about 30 feet high and level with U. Spencer has said he plans to sell the building site the fill would create for light industry or a strip mall. Because the site is zoned for industrial use commercial development would require a rezoning.
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