Intergraph Expands SmartPlant 3D Plant Design Software
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- Intergraph Expands SmartPlant 3D Plant Design Software
- Valero suspends $1.7B Port Arthur plant expansion
- Engineer at Poughkeepsie plant is named IBM Fellow
- BASF Corp. wants to build Elyria plant for hybrid-car battery …
Intergraph Expands SmartPlant 3D Plant Design Software
Plant Automation (press release)
The new features of SmartPlant 3D 2009 include:Design reuse – A new “Model Data Reuse Wizard” allows users to efficiently copy complex systems and the objects nested under those systems to a new destination within the same site database. This is a significant market differentiator that allows the systematic reuse of 3D model data. The overall value and savings realized through referencing laser data into SmartPlant 3D can result in savings of more than $2M and 10 percent shortened project duration on an average $100M revamp. ) on even the largest models using high-performance graphics with an order of magnitude improvement in response time allowing users to move and orient quickly through their largest models. Extended modeling capabilities – SmartPlant 3D 2009 offers extended modeling capabilities including fireproofing and solids modeling.
Valero suspends $1.7B Port Arthur plant expansion
Houston Chronicle
The TRN refinery purchase price is $600 million or more than a $1 billion less than Valero planned to spend on the new hydrocracker. “The hydrocracker projects remain something Valero would like to do in the long term but we have taken them off our schedule for now and not yet rescheduled them” said Valero spokesman Bill Day in an email to The Enterprise. “We have done engineering work for the projects and ordered equipment so we will put the projects on hold and store the equipment until we have them rescheduled” Day said. In ctober Valero announced it would indefinitely postpone construction of a new coker planned for the Port Arthur refinery Day told The Enterprise then. At the same time Day said Valero planned to delay the hydrocracker unit to coincide with completion of a pipeline Day said. The Port Arthur refinery will continue repairs to an existing coker which removes sulfur from crude oil Day said.
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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.
BASF Corp. wants to build Elyria plant for hybrid-car battery …
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com
headquarters in New Jersey said Wednesday that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with the Energy Department’s Argonne National Laboratory to mass produce and market the patented chemicals to manufacturers of advanced lithium-ion batteries. The Elyria plant would produce cathodes a central component of the batteries. Prashant Chintawar manager of the lithium-ion division at BASF said the new plant would create “a gamut of jobs” in engineering production marketing and administration. However he said details on the economic impact won’t be released until the grant is awarded. The amount of the grant is also confidential until then. The Energy Department is expected to make a decision on the grant by July or August he said. If it is approved Chintawar said the plant could start producing cathodes as soon as 2011.
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