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- NUMMI’s fate draws near
- $290M sought to capture carbon at Va. power plant
- SJTA awards contract for energy plant at AC Airport
- Improving availability is much more than maintenance
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NUMMI’s fate draws near
San Jose Mercury News
intends to slash its production capacity — a move that imperils the NUMMI plant in Fremont — and NUMMI management wants to meet today with union leaders to discuss the embattled auto factory’s status and future. The automotive giant is planning to reduce global production by 10 percent or 1 million vehicles the Nikkei business daily reported. The cutbacks could include the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. auto factory in Fremont Nikkei reported without citing sources by name. Toyota had previously said it would make a decision by early next week about the fate of the NUMMI plant which employs 4700.
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$290M sought to capture carbon at Va. power plant
BusinessWeek
A Virginia Tech center is leading a coalition seeking $290 million in federal stimulus money for a six-year project to capture and store carbon dioxide from a new power plant in Virginia’s coalfields. If approved the government money would pay half the cost of the demonstration project at the Dominion Virginia Power plant being built in Wise County Dominion announced Tuesday. Dominion would provide nearly $200 million with the rest supplied by members of the coalition spearheaded by the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research at the university in Blacksburg. Plans call for sequestration of up to 1500 tons of carbon dioxide a day from the plant in unmineable coal seams and underground saline formations in the area. The plant would emit about 14500 tons of carbon dioxide daily if it burns coal full time when it goes into operation in 2012. But Dominion spokesman Greg Edwards said greenhouse gas emissions will be less because carbon-neutral biomass will be in the fuel mix.
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SJTA awards contract for energy plant at AC Airport
Press of Atlantic City
The South Jersey Transportation Authority or SJTA awarded acontract for the plant to Pepco Energy Services during acommissioners meeting Wednesday. Under the plan Pepco will build and operate the plant and thensell electricity and chilled and heated water to the SJTA for theairport said Jeffrey P. Sabla SJTA’s engineering manager. SJTAexpects to reduce its energy costs through the agreement althoughthose costs are still being estimated he said. The traditional electric grid will then become a back-up powersource for the airport he said.
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Improving availability is much more than maintenance
Reliable Plant Magazine
However these programs do not include specific programs that will improve reliability. In part this omission is created by our inability to assign responsibility for equipment reliability. Maintenance has an important role; but so do production plant engineering purchasing sales and training. Each of these plant functions has a direct impact on performance. Poor maintenance practices are perceived as the dominant factor that limits production capacity product quality and profitability. In some cases this perception is valid; but most of the reliability problems that adversely affect plant performance are not attributable to poor maintenance. Many of the perceived maintenance problems are really outside of the maintenance function.