The News Review:
- Factory Layout and Plant Design at PTC/USER World
- Stimulus to fund $2M of upgrades to area water plants
- Agreement may result in Prince Albert ethanol plant
- Engineer at Poughkeepsie plant is named IBM Fellow
- Hyundai plant in Montgomery wins BCA honor
- Fight will continue over proposed power plant
Factory Layout and Plant Design at PTC/USER World
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Stimulus to fund $2M of upgrades to area water plants
Bizjournals.com
The projects will require jobs from the construction and mining sectors as well as workers specializing in plumbing engineering manufacturing and other positions. The projects are:• $9. 4 million to renovate the water treatment plant in the town of Greenport in Columbia County. 8 million to renovate the water treatment plant and pumping station in the city of Hudson in Columbia County. 3 million to renovate the water treatment plant in the village of Granville in Washington County.
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Agreement may result in Prince Albert ethanol plant
Biomass Magazine
CSTA letter of intent established this week between the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources and Iogen Energy and Domtar sets the stage for a potential redevelopment of the Prince Albert Pulp Mill into a cellulosic ethanol plant and bioenergy facility. Iogen will begin detailed assessment work to develop the cellulosic ethanol plant that will run on cereal straw from local contracted farmers and determine whether to move forward. If the investment decision is positive the multi-million dollar project in partnership with Royal Dutch Shell will include a power plant producing green electricity from forest and ethanol plant residues according to the Ministry of Energy and Resources. Iogen will hold public consultations June 15-17 with communities and First Nations in the area and proceed with detailed engineering studies and environmental approvals. A timeline for the decision has not been established according to Mandy Chepeka director of communications for Iogen. The pulp mill owned by Domtar has been dormant since April 2006 according to the Ministry of Energy and Resources.
Engineer at Poughkeepsie plant is named IBM Fellow
Poughkeepsie Journal
Schmidt who is with IBM’s Systems and Technology Group was one of eight scientists at IBM to receive the honor Tuesday from the company’s chairman president and CE Samuel Palmisano. There are only 218 people who have earned this honor in IBM’s history. Schmidt was also named IBM’s chief engineer for data center energy efficiency which means he’s in charge of efforts to cut the electric consumption of computer centers. In its announcement IBM said Schmidt “is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of electronic cooling and data center thermal management with more than 100 patents (granted or pending) in those areas. He guided the formation of leaders in data center thermal management. In 2005 he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
Hyundai plant in Montgomery wins BCA honor
Montgomery Advertiser
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Fight will continue over proposed power plant
Eagle Tribune
comANDVER — The developer of a proposed power plant in Billerica said the project is on hold but will be back on track this fall when plans are resubmitted to the town’s Conservation Commission. Area residents opposed to the natural gas-burning plant — including several from Andover — said they’ll be ready when the time comes to continue their fight against the facility which would potentially carry emissions into Tewksbury Chelmsford Lowell and a portion of West Andover. “I feel like people need to know” said Amy Yanowitz of Wild Rose Drive in Andover. “They feel like Billerica is far away but we’re downwind of Billerica. Emissions from the plant would include low levels of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter according to a public report put together last year by Environmental Health and Engineering Inc.