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IWC Builds Massive GRP Fan Stacks for Kusile Power Station

Eskom’s new Kusile Power Station in Witbank, Mpumalanga, is set to benefit from the energy-efficiency of IWC’s patented glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) fan stacks, four of which have been manufactured for one of the station’s mechanical induced-draft cooling towers. By incorporating the flared-diffuser design, which has a slightly tapered exit cone and a well-rounded inlet ...

Oct. 7, 2015

By Industrial Water Cooling (IWC) Pty Ltd

Geothermal Kurita Technology

Learn more about Kurita´s innovative solutions supporting the energy of the future. Our technologies provide: Protection of the production well with corrosion inhibitors and antiscalants; Full product range for power generation systems; Protection of cooling tower and heat exchanger; Environmental friendly products for the injection well surveillance; Online monitoring system for production ...

Jul. 25, 2018

By Kurita

GE Recognizes NRG’s Seward Power Station in Pennsylvania with ecomagination Leadership Award

Seward Power Station Reduces Total Water Treatment Costs 25 Percent over Six Years Saves 100 Million Gallons Annually GE (NYSE: GE) has recognized NRG Energy’s (NYSE: NRG) Seward Power Station in New Florence, Pa., with its prestigious ecomagination Leadership Award for the plant’s significant improvement in water treatment and reduction in costs with help from GE and its ...

Jul. 9, 2013

By General Electric

North America industrial wastewater series—Power generation industry

Equipment for Cooling Tower, Boiler Blowdown, and FGD Purge Streams to Optimize Water Use The power generation industry is the most water-intensive industry in North America. The droughts that some US states have faced present critical challenges for this industry. Facilities must now consider ways of lowering water consumption while ensuring that wastewater meets EPA regulations. This market ...

Oct. 1, 2013

By ReportLinker

Heat Exchangers Recover and Recycle Excess and Wasted Energy

In copper production, heat generated during extraction processes can be harnessed and transferred back into the system using heat exchangers, resulting in significant energy savings and unparalleled yield. “Compact heat exchangers, such as gasketed and welded plate heat exchangers, as well as spiral heat exchangers, are the most efficient technology for heat transfer,” says Roger ...

Jan. 28, 2015

By Industrial Water Cooling (IWC) Pty Ltd

Construction Begins on DOE-Sponsored Carbon-Capture Project at Kentucky Power Plant

Today, construction began on an innovative $19.5 million carbon-capture pilot, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), at Kentucky Utilities’ E.W. Brown Generating Station near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The 2 megawatt thermal system will be the first megawatt-scale carbon-capture pilot unit in the Commonwealth. Officials of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and energy leaders ...

Jul. 21, 2014

By US Department of Energy

Green grants total $3.1 million for Arkansas companies

LITTLE ROCK — A dozen Arkansas companies will receive more than $3 million in grants through a program that provides funding for companies making green products, officials said Wednesday. The Arkansas Green Technology Grant program awards money to companies that make or sell products that contribute to renewable energy production or storage, energy efficiency or reduction of energy use, ...

Nov. 4, 2010

By Phigenics, LLC

Cooling tower retrofit project results in significant energy and cost savings

With a steady decline in energy performance of the original water-source-heat pump system and sharp increases in the cost of water, Seventh & Chestnut Associates and Waverly Management LLC looked for new options to reduce maintenance and water use. According to Philadelphia-based Urban Engineers Inc., the four original 250-ton forced-draft, closed-circuit cooling towers were consuming ...

Aug. 23, 2017

By Evapco Inc.

NREL Report Finds Similar Value in Two CSP Technologies

Parabolic troughs and dry-cooled towers deliver similar value for concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, despite different solar profiles, a new report by the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has found. The report, “Estimating the Performance and Economic Value of Multiple Concentrating Solar Power Technologies in a Production Cost Model,” found that ...

Feb. 11, 2014

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Shine a light on global energy demand

According to the International Energy Outlook 2016 report, total world consumption of marketed energy will expand from 549 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2012 to 629 quadrillion Btu in 2020 and to 815 quadrillion Btu in 2040. That represents an incredible 48% increase from 2012 to 2040. Regardless of the reasons behind this growth, the energy sector has to be prepared for constantly ...

Jul. 13, 2016

By Hansford Sensors

Coal Fired Steam Generation Unit Asset Sale by Universal Wrecking

Universal Wrecking Corp has been awarded the dismantling and asset recovery project of a coal fired steam generation unit which is located 6 miles west of Pampa, Texas. A partial list of the equipment for sale includes: (2) 80MW coal fired boileris including the structure, piping and ancillaryequipment; Boiler Feed Water System including building and tanks; Deaerator equipment and structure; ...

Jun. 14, 2012

By Universal Wrecking Corporation

Pall Corp. and Indiantown Cogeneration Plant to Present Water Treatment Solution at 2012 International Water Conference

Power plant operators around the world are upgrading traditional water treatment systems in an effort to improve the efficiency of plant processes and lower customer costs. Microfiltration membrane technology is a proven method of achieving this goal. At the International Water Conference (November 4th-8th) in San Antonio, Texas, topic experts Marvin Drake of the Indiantown Cogeneration plant in ...

Oct. 31, 2012

By Pall Corporation

World Market for Industrial Equipment and Systems Will Total $11 Trillion in Next Decade

In the period of 2006-2015 the world will spend over $1 trillion per year for new systems and equipment to expand its industrial production. This is the forecast appearing in the continually updated report, World Market for Your Products, published by the McIlvaine Company. Annual Industrial Systems/Equipment Revenues $ billions Segment Av/yr ($ mil) ...

Mar. 29, 2006

By The McIlvaine Company

In Seattle waste heat is being recovered to heat buildings

David Ferris reports in EnergyWire on creative waste heat recovery in Seattle Wash.. First he updates the progress of Amazon’s new campus in the Denny Triangle, which will be heated by otherwise wasted heat generated by a data center in the Westin Building across the street; then he describes the use of waste heat from the air conditioning system in the new Cyrene building on the ...

Jun. 30, 2016

By International District Energy Association

$80 Billion market to upgrade old U.S Coal-fired Power Plants

Over the next ten years operators of coal-fired power plants will spend $80 billion to upgrade their existing power plants. This is the prediction in the McIlvaine report, Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) The U.S. upgrade market will be driven by the following factors: Coal will again become the low cost power option Building new ...

Jan. 1, 2013

By The McIlvaine Company

7,000 Utility Coal-fired Power Plants Are Continuing to Upgrade and Replace

The market to upgrade and replace components in the existing 7,000 coal-fired power plants is larger than the new equipment market for wind, solar, or gas turbines. The upgrades and replacements are tracked in the Utility Tracking System published by the McIlvaine Company. Many of the power plants in the U.S. are more than 40 years old but are expected to operate another 20 years. Optimization ...

Aug. 10, 2016

By The McIlvaine Company

More than 10,000 active environmental projects for the world’s 7,000 coal-fired power boilers

More Than 10,000 Active Environmental Projects for the World’s 7,000 Coal-fired Power Boilers The combination of a building boom for new coal-fired power plants in Asia plus environmental upgrades in Europe and the Americas has led to a record number of environmental projects in planning and construction. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in Utility Environmental ...

Apr. 18, 2012

By The McIlvaine Company

CO2 capture and storage gains a growing foothold

On a placid bend of the Ohio River in West Virginia sit two coal-fired power plants. The Philip Sporn Plant boasts four boilers from the 1950s, surrounded by mountains of coal and a series of man-made lakes to contain the toxic residue of its coal-burning. A faint haze emanates from its main smokestack, the only visible sign of the thousands of tons of acid-rain-forming sulfur dioxide, ...

Feb. 22, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

Pöyry awarded Owner`s Engineering Services contract for two new gas fired combined cycle cogeneration power plants in Thailand

PÖYRY PLC Press release 14 June 2011 at 9.30 a.m. Pöyry's Energy business group has been awarded an Owner's Engineering Services Contract for two new Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Cogeneration Plants in Thailand by Amata B.Grimm Power (Rayong) 1 Limited and Amata B.Grimm Power (Rayong) 2 Limited. The projects will run concurrently with a five month interval between Notice to ...

Jun. 14, 2011

By Pöyry Energy

Kroff, Inc. Introduces Web-Based Chiller Efficiency Program Designed to Provide Measurable Savings in Energy Consumption

Kroff, Inc., a specialty chemical company focused on creative solutions for environmental, manufacturing and water treatment processes, is pleased to introduce ChillerMax, a web-based chiller efficiency program developed in partnership with Chillergy Systems LLC. ChillerMax provides chiller plants with measurable savings in energy consumption, resulting in a reduction in total cost of ...

May 7, 2012

By Kroff, Inc.

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