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New Shepard Space Vehicle Makes Fourth Flight
JASC congratulates Blue Origin on the fourth flight of its re-useable New Shepard space vehicle on Sunday, June 19. JASC designed and manufactured the Flight Control System Actuators and the engine Thrust Vector Control Actuators used on New Shepard. Both of these actuators are servo-hydraulic units, with the former used to steer the vehicle and provide aerodynamic stability, and the latter to ...
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Alcoa Howmet, Morristown, Wins Bronze Award in Global Quality Competition
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) operations in Morristown, Tennessee, has been recognized by ASQ, the global voice of quality, as a bronze award winner among a field of 32 finalists in competition at the World Conference on Quality and Improvement held recently in Anaheim, Calif. Alcoa Howmet, Morristown is the first Alcoa business selected by ASQ among its award winners in the highly ...
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AxSTREAM Net – New Thermal-fluid Simulation Software Secondary Flows
SoftInWay has announced the adding of a new module called NET for thermal-fluid flow simulation and its application to gas turbine secondary and cooling systems analysis & design. Since 2005, when the AxSTREAM platform was first released as the Gold Standard platform for design, analysis and optimization of Turbomachinery flow path, the company has been steadily adding customers, and ...
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New caterpillar.com designed to elevate enterprise messages and company image
Caterpillar Inc. has launched a new corporate website, caterpillar.com, designed to elevate the company's image online as an enterprise that exhibits global leadership and applies innovative thinking as it helps build a more sustainable world. The new caterpillar.com brings a fresh look and feel and increased functionality to the web. In addition, enhanced editorial content tells the stories of ...
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Caterpillar Inc. receives the international pipeline and offshore contractors association environmental award
Caterpillar Inc. has received The International Pipeline and Offshore Contractors Association (IPLOCA) Environmental Award for its "Eco Operator Training" program. Cat Eco Operator Training is a one-day program designed to teach operators how to run equipment to maximize fuel efficiency and lower emissions while maintaining high productivity. The program can assist customers in realizing fuel ...
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New, Multilingual Website for Johnson Matthey Power Plant Industries (PPI) Group Greatly Enhances Customer Access
Johnson Matthey’s Power Plant Industries (PPI) group has introduced its new website --www.powerplantcatalysts.com -- which offers users significant and vital technical and sales information about its SCR technology, its catalyst products and applications and conferences and trade shows, as well as the latest news and important contacts. The PPI website, currently available in English and ...
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Industrial valve sales to reach $50 billion by 2010
Sales of Industrial valves worldwide were just under $40 billion in 2004. By 2010, annual sales will exceed $50 billion reports the McIlvaine Company in its continually updated online, Industrial Valves: World Markets report. A number of publicly held valve companies reported double-digit sales increases in the first quarter of 2005. The market will continue to grow for a number of ...
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FlexEnergy Inc to Show Waste Gas to Clean-Energy Systems at Marcellus Shale Gas Conference
FlexEnergy Inc, a clean tech company with the breakthrough solution to generate clean energy with near-zero emissions from waste gas streams, will showcase its advanced technology for producing electricity from natural gas, tail gas, and associated gas in varying concentrations at the Marcellus Shale Gas Conference in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, August 24th and 25th. "We look forward to showing ...
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GE Aeroderivative Gas Turbines enter commercial operation in Krasnodar Region, Russia; will help provide power during peak times of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that its two advanced-technology aeroderivative gas turbines that will help power Krasnodar region and also during the peak loads the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, entered commercial operation on November 5. The units are located at Inter RAO’s Dzhubginskaya thermal power plant (TPP), which features the highest efficiency simple-cycle gas turbine ...
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Improve Gas Turbine Engine Reliability with Cool Valves and Piping
Presentations and discussion at meetings of the gas-turbine users groups, such as the 7F, often call into view problems owner/operators are having with the liquid-fuel systems on their dual-fuel engines—in particular, unreliable starts and unreliable fuel transfers from gas to oil. A couple of years ago, the sure solution for some users rarely called to operate on oil was to disable or ...
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Frost & Sullivan Award Recognises Turbomach for its Pioneering Product Endeavours
LONDON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the cogeneration market, Frost & Sullivan recognises Turbomach with the 2011 European Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award. The company's high quality, innovative, efficient, easy to integrate and cost-effective cogeneration technologies have enabled end-users to adapt rapidly to changing technological ...
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JOHNSON MATTHEY’S GAS TURBINE SCR SYSTEM DESIGN AND ENGINEERING OPERATION IN CALIFORNIA AWARDED ISO 9001: 2008 STATUS BY NSF INTERNATIONAL The compan
JOHNSON MATTHEY’S GAS TURBINE SCR SYSTEM DESIGN AND ENGINEERING OPERATION IN CALIFORNIA AWARDED ISO 9001: 2008 STATUS BY NSF INTERNATIONAL The company’s Quality Management System is certified world-class conforming to the latest standards Malvern, PA, April 28, 2010—Johnson Matthey’s Stationary Emissions Control (SEC) group in Aliso Viejo, CA, has been awarded ISO 9001: ...
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Coal-fired Power Plant SCR Use to Double between 2012 and 2017
The coal-fired capacity utilizing SCR for NOx control will nearly double in the period 2012 to 2017. This is the prediction of the McIlvaine Company in its continually updated, NOx Control World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) Total capacity will grow by almost 385,000 MW during the five-year period. East Asia will account for 78 percent of the growth. Growth in coal-fired SCR will be modest ...
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Brazil energy milestone: GE, petrobras using sugarcane-based ethanol to produce electricity
As further evidence of their commitment to renewable energies, GE (NYSE: GE) and Brazil’s federal energy company, Petrobras, today celebrated the world’s first use of sugarcane-based ethanol in a gas turbine system to produce electricity on a full commercial scale. The operation, at the Juiz de Fora Power Plant, is a significant milestone for Brazil. Ethanol derived from sugarcane in Brazil is ...
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Frost & Sullivan: demand for service and efficiency drives Western European power plant services market
Increased stability and expanded market growth are in the immediate reach of the Western European power plant services market. Despite the global economic slowdown, the power plant service sector is experiencing optimistic growth fuelled by rising investments in the power generation industry. The expected climb in revenues is driven by a growing demand for service requirements with the ageing ...
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Gas Turbines for Thermal Power, 2013 Update - Global Market Size, Average Pricing, Equipment Segmentation and Competitive Landscape Analysis to 2020
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Gas Turbines for Thermal Power, 2013 Update - Global Market Size, Average Pricing, Equipment Segmentation and Competitive Landscape Analysis to 2020 ...
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The Pharmaceutical Industry Ultrapure Water (UPW) Purchases to Reach $0.5 Billion In 2017
The pharmaceutical industry demands for UPW for injection (WFI) and UPW for cleaning process equipment and other uses will result in purchases close to $550 million in 2019 up from $480 million in 2015. This is the latest forecast in the continually updated Ultrapure Water: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) Some major trends are: Coal-fired boiler ...
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Environmental Concerns Compel Use of Gas Turbines for Power Generation in Asia-Pacific, Finds Frost & Sullivan
The Asia-Pacific gas turbine market will sustain its growth momentum as concerns on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions force utilities and independent power producers to opt for environmentally friendly power generation technologies. The availability of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplied through both pipelines and shipment will increase gas turbine demand in the long term, although ...
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$14 Trillion to be spent on Power Plant Equipment and Repairs in the Next 25 Years
Nuclear capacity is slated to increase from 392 GW in 2013 to more than 620 GW in 2040. But its share of global power generation will rise just one percentage point to 12 percent, because almost 200 reactors of the 434 operational at the end of 2013 will be retired, they will need to be offset by new power plants. Total investment will exceed $2 trillion over the next 25 years. The gas turbine ...
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U.S. launches first offshore wind farm
Twenty-five years behind its European counterparts, the U.S. has finally entered the offshore wind energy market after its first offshore wind farm began operations late last month. Using large steel platforms and offshore installation techniques borrowed from the oil and gas industry, the five-turbine, 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island will generate enough ...
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