GUANGZHOU, China (Oct. 20, 2015) – Aquatech has been awarded a contract to provide a water treatment facility that includes a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant for a coal-to-liquid fuels conversion project being developed by Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Co. Ltd., a division of Shenhua Group, a coal producer in China.
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(16 October 2015)—KSB Pumps Ltd. India won an order for the supply of six boiler feed pumps to be installed in the new fossil-fueled power station located in Tanda in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. India’s national power utility is currently building two new power plant units there, each with a capacity of 600 megawatts (MW). The pumps are designed for a pressure of 500 bar. An electric motor and a turbine with power ratings of 11 MW and 17 MW respectively will serve to drive the pumps.
SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. (Oct. 15, 2015) – TriTec Seal, LLC (TriTec), a portfolio company of Edgewater Capital Partners, has named Marcus Pillion as CEO. Pillion will be responsible for TriTec’s global strategic operations with a primary focus of expanding upon current seal thought leadership and overall company growth.
West Virginia (Oct. 15, 2015) – BridgeValley Community and Technical College in West Virginia celebrated the opening of a Process Training Unit (PTU) made possible by contributions from Endress+Hauser, BridgeValley and Rockwell Automation. BridgeValley will be the new home to a $1 million, 1,800 square-foot, state-of-the-art PTU.
(Oct. 15, 2015) – Danfoss participated in an industry leader roundtable hosted by the White House to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
IRVINE, Calif. (Oct. 14, 2015) – Intellian, a global player in satellite communication antenna systems, has been picked as the hardware partner on RigNet’s recently announced contract to provide remote communications solutions to a premium offshore driller across its entire global fleet of existing and new-build rigs.
LONDON (Oct. 14 2015) – The future of manufacturing is defined by the Industry 4.0 paradigm, which will be singularly determined by the design, development and implementation of the Internet of Things.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (Oct. 14, 2015) – Grundfos has appointed Thomas Morrison as vice president of service and Rob Montenegro as vice president of municipal sales.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (Oct. 14, 2015) – Engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new “sustainable development methodology” to help address a social and regulatory demand for manufacturing processes that more effectively consider their economic, environmental and social impacts.
BOSTON, Mass. (Oct. 13, 2015) – Since launching its 2010 Master Plan, Indonesia has amassed a sizable water infrastructure pipeline of 32 public-private partnerships (PPP) requiring more than US$2.5 billion of investment in a time of regulatory uncertainty.
Following a 10-year hiatus, during which no PPP projects were awarded in the country, two legal decisions in 2015 have shaken the country’s receptiveness to private water investment.