The resistant bearings guarantee consistent power supply by overcoming abrasive materials in glacier runoff and river debris.
Power Generation
How can pump manufacturers get involved in the country's rapid push to increase power generation capacity?
Safety concerns have prompted dialogues between plant operators and manufacturers on customized, certified pumps.
Safety concerns prompt dialogue about customized, certified pumps.
Maintenance services add value for renewable energy sources.
Coal-burning power plants can expect higher returns by installing pinch valves in emissions scrubbers.
Sophisticated asset monitoring systems provide benefits including cost savings, longer equipment life span and production assurance.
Reduce high vibration and increase reliability with CST gear motor technology in power generation applications.
RADOLFZELL, Germany (Jan. 31, 2013) – Colfax Fluid Handling, a business of Colfax Corporation, has received an order to deliver 21 of its Allweiler screw pumps valued at more than EUR 300,000 for a power plant in Saudi Arabia. The pumps will be an important part of a gas turbine power plant in Yanbu. The order includes 21 pumps for moving heavy, crude (Arabian Light Crude or ALC), and lubricating oil.
SAN DIEGO (Jan. 30, 2013) – GE Grid Automation and Systems Control, a GE customer, have signed a letter of intent to form a strategic relationship designed to provide utility and industrial customers in North America with a complete, modular packaged solution that can be “dropped in” to new or existing distribution electrical grid infrastructures.
WINTERTHUR, Switzerland (Dec. 19, 2012) – Sulzer Metco announces the completion of the acquisition of Russian company, Protective Coatings LLC, formerly SP Technicord LLC, as of Dec. 18, 2012. With this acquisition, Sulzer Metco expands its geographical and technology presence, and will benefit from long-term growth trends in selective Russian industrial markets.
Proven concepts together with new technologies battle the energy crisis.
While global energy demand fuels source diversification, coal is still king.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (June 20, 2012) – Phoenix Contact celebrated the grand opening of its new Customer and Technology Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. Top company officials from the U.S. and Germany welcomed customers, industry representatives and local and trade press for presentations and a dinner at the Customer and Technology Center, located at 500 Avis Drive, Ann Arbor, to mark the grand opening. Attendees also got an advance look at a few new products developed at the Ann Arbor location.
SAN MARCOS, Texas (May 23, 2012) – In April, Thermon Group Holdings, Inc., opened a new manufacturing building at its primary production facility in San Marcos, Texas. The expansion was completed over the course of one year at an approximate cost of $5.5 million.
(Feb. 1, 2012) - Adil Toubia (53) will become CEO of the Oil & Gas Division of Siemens Energy. He succeeds Tom Blades, who has been appointed as a member of the Managing Board of Linde AG. Adil Toubia brings three decades of experience in this branch of industry and was most recently a partner in Energy Capital Group, a private equity investment firm in the oil and gas industry. Prior to that, he held executive positions at GCC Energy Fund and Schlumberger.
(Feb. 1, 2012) - As a result of the cooperation between Vacon Plc and CEI (China National Electric Apparatus Institute Co), CEI has received the Golden Sun Certificate approved by the China National Quality Certification Center (CQC) for their 200 kW solar inverter on Dec. 15, 2011. This major milestone in the cooperation between CEI and Vacon will allow CEI to participate in the bidding for the Golden Sun solar program run by the Chinese government.