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CIL Enters Power Generation Business in Cooperation With NLC
CIL (Coal India Ltd) plans to enter power generation business together with NLC (Neyveli Lignite Corporation). To start with, a thermal power plant of 2,000-megawatt capacity will be launched at pithead of any of the mines that are located in Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd’s command area (in Orissa). After massive supply of coal to public as well as private sectors to generate power, the union coal ...
By RNCOS
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Conversion of several fossil fuel boilers to biomass firing
Among their redevelopment projects in Canada, Lakson Team is currently mandated by a multinational mining company. “The company produces carbon residues that it wants to recycle, in which there are undesirable components for combustion such as fluorine or chlorine. With its knowledge of the chemical and mechanical engineering team, Lakson via its affiliate is, therefore, able to propose a ...
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IBSR 14 M Ultra-low Nox industrial duo-block register burner
The thermal power plant uses a water tube boiler for mixed technological / heating use. An ENERGY burner from the ultra-low NOx IBSR natural gas range is mounted on the boiler: designed to obtain low emissions. NOx value 3 with an equally low O2 value without flue gas ...
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Siemens to supply wind and steam turbines for renewable energy projects in Spain – Order volume more than EUR170 million
Siemens Power Generation (PG) has received major orders from Spain to supply wind turbines as well as key equipment for solar thermal power plants. ACS, Spain’s largest construction company, has ordered 50 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.3 megawatts (MW) each to be erected in four wind farms in Andalucía. ACS has also ordered an industrial steam turbine for the solar-thermal power plant ...
By Siemens AG
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Hayward Tyler receives further orders from China
Hayward Tyler Group Ltd has received further orders for 16 Glandless Wet Stator Boiler Circulation Pumps (BCP) from the Shanghai Boiler Works Ltd (SBWL). This raises the number of pumps ordered from Hayward Tyler by SBWL to 28 in the last six months, strengthening their position as the leading supplier of BCP’s in China and worldwide. These pumps are intended for both domestic & overseas ...
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New section on energy and power plant analysis on the Metrohm website
The new Metrohm website now gives a comprehensive overview of the topic «energy» from the perspective of applied chemical analysis. Among others, the new web pages address challenges such as energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), fuel cell performance, corrosion monitoring and prevention, and others. Numerous applications (free download) make the new website a valuable ...
By Metrohm AG
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Salt as Energy Storage: Vattenfall Launches Pilot Project at Heat Plant in Berlin
Vattenfall, together with the Swedish company SaltX Technology, will test how renewable wind and solar power can be stored in salt. In experiments, SaltX's patented technology has proven to be able to store up to ten times more energy and for much longer periods than water. The technology will be tested for the first time on an industrial scale at a pilot plant in Vattenfall’s Reuter thermal ...
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Pöyry awarded EUR 1.3 million thermal power plant engineering contract in Mexico
PÖYRY PLC Press release 21 September 2010 at 1.50 p.m.Pöyry has been awarded a contract for basic and detail engineering of the Baja California Sur III power plant in Mexico by ACCIONA. The value of Pöyry's contract is EUR 1.3 million. The scope of services covers basic and detail engineering services for a 42 MW diesel oil fired engine with a heat recovery boiler and 2 MW steam ...
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CSP plant optimisation – maximising output with Ferrostaal
As part of the CSP Yield Optimisation Europe Conference & Expo (31 May – 1 June, Seville), CSP Today have been speaking to the biggest companies participating in the summit – to find out why the CSP industry should be concerned with the optimisation of new and existing plants. Research has indicated that balance of plant costs are now over 50% of the total lifetime cost of a CSP ...
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ABB wins US$52m power orders in India
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth $52 million to provide power products and solutions for a super-critical coal-fired power plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The contract was awarded by Tata Projects Ltd, the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the Balance of Plant related to the 2x800 megawatt Krishnapatnam ...
By ABB
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CSP plant optimisation – maximising output with Ferrostaal
As part of the CSP Yield Optimisation Europe Conference & Expo (31 May – 1 June, Seville), CSP Today have been speaking to the biggest companies participating in the summit – to find out why the CSP industry should be concerned with the optimisation of new and existing plants. Research has indicated that balance of plant costs are now over 50% of the total lifetime cost of a CSP ...
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Alstom sells its steam auxiliary components activities to Triton for around €730 million
Alstom has agreed to sell its auxiliary components business to Triton, a leading European investment firm, for an Enterprise Value of around €730 million. The transaction was approved by the Board of directors of Alstom on 31 March. This project is part of the non-core asset disposal programme, announced by Alstom last November. The transaction is expected to close before the end of 1st ...
By Alstom
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Solar power plant Andasol 3 produces environment-friendly energy for the first time
The solar thermal power plant Andasol 3 in Andalusia, southern Spain, for the first time produced solar generated steam during a test phase in which the rows of parabolic mirrors were aligned with the sun. This test is another successful step on the way to completing and commissioning the solar power plant which will generate 50 megawatts. Andasol 3 is due to begin commercial operation in ...
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Andasol 3: Europe`s largest solar thermal power plant comes online
Andasol 3, the solar thermal power plant built by a consortium of five German companies in the Spanish province of Granada, has been inaugurated. The completion of the third Andasol power plant on a site measuring some two square kilometres has meant the creation of the largest European solar power plant, located in Andalusia, southern Spain. Attending the power plant inauguration ceremony were ...
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US$3bn solar power deal signed by California utility
Pacific Gas & Electric has struck a deal to buy as much as 900 megawatts of electricity. It will be enough to power 540,000 California homes each year, and involve the construction of five solar power plants during the next decade. The company to build the solar-thermal power plants in the Mojave Desert is BrightSource Energy. “From what I know, this is the biggest commitment ever in the ...
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Wind power projects add to ADB effort to help India develop cleaner power sources
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and India’s private sector are developing two wind power projects to further build the South Asian nation’s access to cleaner energy sources. ADB is extending a rupee-denominated loan of $113 million equivalent to a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of CLP Holdings of Hong Kong to fund development of two wind energy facilities in the Indian states of Gujarat and ...
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Ultra-Low NOx natural gas IBSR burners
High Power Thermal Plant Located In the Province of Foggia The boiler room uses one superheated water smoke tube boiler. An ENERGY burner from the ultra-low NOX IBSR natural gas range is mounted on the boiler: designed to obtain low emissions. NOx ...
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Acciona Energy invests EUR 500m in two solar thermal power plants in Spain
The facilities will be operational in 2010 and will produce 244 million kWh a year, equivalent to the consumption of 75,000 homes The plants will cover 260 hectares -equivalent to 364 soccer fields-, with 1,520 collectors and 364,800 mirrors receiving the sun's rays ACCIONA is the first Spanish company with a commercially operational plant (Nevada Solar One, in the USA) that uses parabolic ...
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CSP Today releases the CSP Today World Map 2010 version
The CSP Today World Map 2010 includes an itemized list of all the MW sized concentrated solar thermal power plants in the world that are either announced, under construction or in operation. The map has been commissioned for the 2nd year running by CSP Today, as part of 4th International Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit campaign and it contains a world map with the location of the main ...
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30 minutes with Shiv Shukla, President & CEO, Abener Engineering Pvt
CSP Today: What are the main opportunities for the CSP companies in India? Shiv Shukla: With so much of focus on solar power by Indian government there are following opportunities: As a project developer as IPP Technology provider EPC work for solar thermal power plants Equipment and component manufacturing for solar power Financing of projects CSP Today: How do you think the "New Solar ...
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