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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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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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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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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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Creating cleaner, more efficient gas turbines and the next generation of metallurgy specialists
A £50M strategic partnership involving EPSRC has been set up to develop the materials, skills and knowledge to support the development of future gas turbines. The Strategic Partnership in Structural Metallic Systems for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications is the first collaboration of its kind between Rolls-Royce, EPSRC, Birmingham, Cambridge and Swansea universities. The partnership will ...
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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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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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Doosan Heavy Expands Cooperation on Eco-Friendly Hydrogen Energy Business
Partnering with KEPCO E&C on commercialization of ammonia- fueled gas turbine power plant Pursuing development of fuel cells, 100% hydrogen-fueled and dual-fuel power plants together with KOMIPO and JC Energy Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is actively seeking to expand cooperation in the development of eco-friendly hydrogen energy technologies. Doosan Heavy announced on ...
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From 1 – 3,000: Count on GE Gas Turbine Reliability
As GE Sells Its 3,000th E-Class Gas Turbine, the First—Sold in 1971—Remains in Operation 40 Years of Innovation: GE Builds on Reliable Architecture, Engineered to Evolve and Provide Bottom-Line Benefits for Customers In 1971, the first dot matrix printer was introduced to the marketplace. That same year, the first E-class gas turbine from GE (NYSE: GE) began operation. The ...
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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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DOE taps Universities for Turbine Technology Science
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of three projects under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program. University researchers will investigate the chemistry and physics of advanced turbines, with the goal of promoting clean and efficient operation when fueled with coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and hydrogen fuels. Development of ...
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DOE Selects Ten Projects to Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Research
Ten university projects to conduct advanced turbine technology research under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for additional development. Developing gas turbines that run with greater cleanness and efficiency than current models is of great benefit both to the environment and the ...
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DOE selects projects to advance nanomanufacturing
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 20 project proposals for funding following its Nanomanufacturing for Energy Efficiency 2008 Research Call. The projects promise to make revolutionary improvements in a broad range of energy production, storage, and consumption applications that will reduce energy and carbon intensity in industrial processes. Nanotechnology, the understanding and ...
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GE Releases Position on Climate Change: Calls for Accelerated Deployment of Renewables & Gas Power To Drive Impactful, Faster Decarbonization
Building on its commitment to carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030 and announced intention to exit the new-build coal power market, GE recently (Dec 15) shared its position that the accelerated and strategic deployment of both renewable energy and gas power can make substantial progress in combatting climate change in the near-term, while securing a path to a lower-carbon emitting world in ...
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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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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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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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Cyclone Power Technologies Expands Patent Portfolio; Receives Additional Protection on Waste Energy Recycling Engine
Cyclone Power Technologies (OTCQB: CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced today that it has received its first foreign patent in South Africa for its scalable waste energy recycling engine known as the WHE. Cyclone filed to protect the WHE internationally last year in countries where it has received strong interest in commercializing its ...
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Siemens Floating Power Plants Will Support New York's Renewable Energy Strategy
Astoria Generating Company and Siemens signed a contract for the turnkey construction of two SeaFloat power barges to be equipped with eight Siemens SGT-A65 gas turbines. The barges will replace four existing power barges located at Gowanus Generating Station in the Upper Bay of Brooklyn, New York City, resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production.Siemens will preinstall the ...
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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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