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- ePlan Electrical P8 set to challenge the regions industries
- Greece’s Metka withdraws interest in PPC’s 120 MW power plant…
- GM closing Massena plant
- New plants to ease power shortage
- Chair has ties with Ammonia Refrigeration: speaks of goals for…
- … North America Chooses Silanis Electronic Signatures to…
ePlan Electrical P8 set to challenge the regions industries
AME Info – May 26, 2008
The caverns which can be as large as 1 million m3 are often found in the vicinity of the coast for a very good reason: They are created by selectively ‘rinsing out’ salt mines with fresh water and then dumping the salty wastewater straight into the ocean. The pipeline used to supply fresh water and take away the residue later serves as a gas pipeline to deliver and extract the natural gas via a gas compressor station which is also supplied by DEEP. Brine pumps: Complex P&I diagramsInstrumentation and control engineering plays a major role in plant engineering at DEEP. partly because the fresh water is pumped into the emerging cavern by a series of pumps. Engineer Hans-Günther Johnebloed is responsible for electrical instrumentation and control within the plant engineering division at DEEP. We tend to use regulated frequency converter-controlled pumps and record a wide range of parameters which are used to control the system such as pressure flow rate temperature and vibration… All of the valves and fittings in the pipelines are equipped with status scans so the piping & instrumentation diagrams of our plants are highly complex. ‘Consistent I&C planningEPLAN PPE was developed precisely for this task as it allows standardized planning of electrical instrumentation and control systems on the basis of NAMUR recommendations. Since the design data is stored on the central EPLAN Platform neighbouring disciplines such as electrical CAE are likewise able to access data from the electrical instrumentation and control engineering. This ensures an integrated information flow. Hans-Günther Jongebloed explains: ‘With manual planning inconsistencies in the drawing status become apparent from time to time when the systems are being built. What is more duplicate measuring points or duplicate designations can never be completely ruled out. This leads to time losses during system production but they can be avoided by using an integrated CAE-based system for electrical instrumentation and control engineering.
Greece’s Metka withdraws interest in PPC’s 120 MW power plant…
Forbes – May 26, 2008
Metka previously expressed interest in the 120 million euros project and submitted pre-qualification documents in September 2005 it said in a filing to the Athens Stock Exchange. It has withdrawn interest account of changes in the market conditions since then and on account of its commitments on other projects in Greece and abroad. gr Newswirecheryl.
GM closing Massena plant
Plattsburgh Press Republican – May 26, 2008
Employees were notified Monday. Employees will be offered severance packages that will be determined mostly on an individual basis she said. Two product lines made at the plant will be phased out in the near future and the third by the end of 2008 although that period could change depending on market conditions she said. The work will be moved to GM’s other U. casting plants in Michigan Indiana and Ohio she said. “This is a decision that has been developing over some time as we’ve been seeing what’s going on and as we look at the new engine programs coming on stream in the future” she said… I am especially frustrated by the way that GM went about this decision rejecting input from government officials and showing little desire to work out a mutually beneficial solution. “He said he would “work with the community and union officials to devise the best strategy to move forward in a post-GM Massena. “GM Powertrain the largest GM division operates 38 factories and 11 engineering centers in 13 countries. It employs 78000 people worldwide. The Massena plant has had an up-and-down history of employment. When it first opened in 1959 there were 100 employees. It reached a high of nearly 1600 in 1979 then dropped to about 125 in 1990 before the plant began the lost-foam casting process that gradually brought employment back up over 500.
New plants to ease power shortage
VietNamNet Bridge – May 26, 2008
Once in operation Uong Bi thermo-electricity plant will supply 1. 980 billion kwh per year to the national electricity network. Construction of Nhon Trach 1 the third biggest thermo electricity plant in Viet Nam began last March. The plant?s total investment capital is about US$380 million. Nhon Trach and Ca Mau thermo electricity plants expected to be connected to the national electricity network by the end of this month will supply about 12 billion kWh per year accounting for about 20 per cent of the nation total electricity. EVN said that it would put six more electricity plants with a total capacity of nearly 1400 MW into operation this year. By the end of this month EVN will connect the second turbine at Tuyen Quang hydroelectricity plant to the national network.
Chair has ties with Ammonia Refrigeration: speaks of goals for…
highbeam.com – May 26, 2008
(Hide copyright information) The new chairman of the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration (IIAR) brings lots of experience with ammonia as a refrigerant including extensive formal training from an early age. Brian Marriott was right out of high school in his native Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) when he entered a five-year Pupil Engineering program through employment in the beef slaughter and packing industry. This program involved both academic study and practical training leading to the equivalent of a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with subsequent experience necessary to achieve formal competency certification for the position of plant engineer. His practical training.
… North America Chooses Silanis Electronic Signatures to…
PR Web – PR Web (press release) – May 26, 2008
The Montreal office is the second Bechtel division to deploy Silanis electronic signatures the first being at Bechtel Plant Machinery in Pittsburgh PA. The Montreal office is the second Bechtel division to deploy Silanis electronic signatures the first being at Bechtel Plant Machinery in Pittsburgh PA.