The News Review:
- CADE Announces April Release for New PV Fabricator for Automated …
- Eastman Chemical Co. plans to reduce costs but Beaumont plant’s …
- Progress Energy Florida test burns biofuel at Bartow plant
- Administration Plans New Regulations on Coal-Ash Ponds
- Dunlop to commence production in two months
- Ethics lecture to be held at ECU
- Wyoming coal-to-liquids plant gets air permit
CADE Announces April Release for New PV Fabricator for Automated …
Trading Markets (press release)
About CADECADE Inc. is a provider of software for multiple plant design and engineering disciplines. CADE’s aims are that design and engineering should share relevant information seamlessly thereby maintaining accuracy and improving efficiency. CADE’s product line conforms to those goals and includes: CAESAR II the world’s most widely used pipe stress analysis software; PV Elite for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis; CADWorx Plant Design Suite for intelligent plant design modeling process schematics and automatic production of plant design deliverables; and TANK for the design and analysis of oil storage tanks. CADE CAESAR II CADWorx PV Elite CodeCalc and TANK are registered trademarks or trademarks of CADE Inc. For more information visit www.
Eastman Chemical Co. plans to reduce costs but Beaumont plant’s …
Beaumont Enterprise
In December Eastman said it planned to reduce costs in 2009 in excess of $100 million by controlling labor-related costs. Eastman spokeswoman Wanda Valentine said Eastman still has plans to build a $1. 6 billion chemical plant Texas 347 and that the front end engineering and design on the site should be complete by the middle of this year. Construction on the plant initially was supposed to begin this year but Valentine said economic problems and rising product costs pushed the engineering back in turn pushing the construction start back. The plant will be located on a lot that includes the former Terra Industries Beaumont methanol plant at the DuPont Industrial Park site according to an article that appeared in The Enterprise in 2008. The plant will make gases from petroleum coke left over from crude oil refining. Eastman will gasify the coke to make hydrogen and also ammonia and methanol according The Enterprise article.
Progress Energy Florida test burns biofuel at Bartow plant
Trading Markets (press release)
The researchers involved in the trial are currently reviewing the data collected during the test burn. In addition to the biofuel test program the Bartow plant is nearing completion of a major project to update it with modern technology to change the plant’s primary fuel source from fuel oil to more efficient natural gas-burning technology which will reportedly more than double the amount of electricity the plant produces improve reliability and significantly reduce plant air emissions. comRepublication or redistribution including by framing or similar meansis expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Datamonitor shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content or for any actions taken in reliance thereon For full details on Progress Energy (PGN).
Administration Plans New Regulations on Coal-Ash Ponds
New York Times
In the short term the agency will seek to prevent spills like the one at the Kingston plant where the wall retaining a pile of ash 55 feet high ruptured destroying nearby homes and choking waterways with a toxic sludge. n Monday the agency will send a questionnaire to 163 utilities that manage an estimated 300 ash ponds agency officials said. It asks plant operators to list any spills or unauthorized releases from the ponds in the last decade as well as information about their design engineering and inspections. The questionnaire will be followed by on-site visits said M. Allyn Brooks-LaSure a spokesman for the agency. The agency can then order improvements to any sites it deems unsafe Mr. Brooks-LaSure said.
Dunlop to commence production in two months
Hindu Business Line
“I want to reassure everybody that the plant will begin production and each of the employees would be absorbed in phases” Dunlop India Chairman Mr P K Ruia told reporters. “There would be no retrenchment or reduction in the number of employees and each one of them would be taken back once the plant is ready for production” he said. Dunlop had reopened the Maintenance and Engineering Division of the plant after a closure of three months with only 299 employees out of strength of 1170 being asked to join. Today 100 employees belonging to the CITU and INTUC factions joined duty and the remaining employees were expected to do so in coming weeks. Mr Ruia said the company aims to begin production of 30-40 tonne per day and it would be scaled higher in future. Speaking about the arrangement of funds for working capital Mr Ruia said the company was in talks with three to four banks for a line of credit of Rs 50 crore.
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Ethics lecture to be held at ECU
Ada Evening News
He is a licensed professional engineer (Texas) and holds degrees in civil engineering environmental & water resources engineering and business administration. Joining Precourt for the panel discussion from 3:30 to 4:30 p. will be plant manager Ajay Kumar and Sharon Myers environmental manager from Holcim’s Ada plant. Also on the panel will be Dr.
Wyoming coal-to-liquids plant gets air permit
Forbes
The agency had received some comments expressing concern for dust the Medicine Bow plant would emit. DEQ spokesman Keith Guille said Friday he had no details about the air permit other than it was issued recently. Developers of the plant have completed engineering and are still working to arrange financing. DKRW Advanced Fuels Chairman Robert Kelly said Friday that the company has applied for federal loan guarantees to go along with commercial bank loans to finance the project. DKRW through its subsidiary Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC has completed its engineering work Kelly said during a Web conference on coal gasification projects and technology. “So where are we?” he said. “We think we’re a first mover in a large-scale commercialized coal-to-liquids project for transport fuels using newer generation technology.