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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

$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

1600 Watt Telescoping Self-Contained Towable LED Light Tower Released by Larson Electronics

With over 40 years as a leader in the industrial and commercial lighting industry, Larson Electronics continues its commitment to providing high grade lighting equipment to specialty markets with the release of a towable, self-contained LED light tower powered by a water cooled diesel engine. The WCDE-4-4-4X400LTL-LED mobile light tower from Larson Electronics is a self-contained towable light ...

Oct. 1, 2015

By Larson Electronics LLC

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Macrotek Awarded Upgrade of Gas Quality Control System at Plasma Gasification Demonstration Plant

Macrotek Inc., a leader in air pollution control technology, has been supporting a major plasma gasification company with the development and commercialization of its advanced plasma gas conversion technology for over a decade. The company, a forerunner in the plasma gasification process, awarded Macrotek with the upgrade of a gas quality control system that includes a multi-contaminant removal ...

Apr. 21, 2011

By Macrotek 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)

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

Abengoa and BrightSource Energy Partner to Build the World´s Two Largest Solar Power Towers

Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, and BrightSource Energy, a leading concentrating solar thermal technology company, today signed an agreement to jointly develop, build and operate the world's two largest solar power towers in California. As joint partners, the two ...

Mar. 15, 2013

By Abengoa Solar

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

Successful in operation: Multi-stage steam jet chilling plant for China

In collaboration with a Chinese Engineering Company Körting planned, constructed and put into operation a new steam jet chilling plant for the Sichuan Refinery of our customer, the largest Chinese oil concern, PetroChina. This free-standing construction without secondary steel construction as well as the so-called bridge construction form of the steam jet vacuum ejectors are only some of the ...

May 1, 2014

By Körting Hannover AG

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

Abengoa Awarded Two CSP projects by South Africa`s Department of Energy

SEVILLE, Spain, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abengoa (MCE: ABG), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, has been awarded the first two CSP projects in South Africa by South Africa's Department of Energy. These two projects contribute to South Africa's goal to introduce up to 17,800 MW of ...

Dec. 8, 2011

By Abengoa

Gamesa Launches New G97-2.0 MW Platform for North American Market

Turbine Designed for Low-Wind Locations LANGHORNE, Pa. - Gamesa Technology Corp., a world leader in wind turbine manufacturing, will launch its new G97-2.0 megawatt (MW) turbine platform for the North American market at the Canadian Wind Energy Association’s annual conference and exhibition, one of the wind energy industry’s premier events. The new G97-2.0 MW Class IIIA model is ...

Nov. 1, 2010

By Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

50 Watt LED Flood Light on Telescoping Tripod Released by Larson Electronics

Industrial lighting specialist Larson Electronics has announced the release of a 50 watt LED work light mounted to a telescoping tripod. Equipped with one male and one female cord cap connected to six inches of SOOW cord, this unit was designed to allow operators to daisy chain multiple units together. The WALTP-WP500-E2E light tower from Larson Electronics extends from 3.5’ to ...

Apr. 2, 2015

By Larson Electronics LLC

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