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Plant Engineer's library houses editorial features going back five years. The content is classified and can be filtered by key plant and equipment or service sector topics, such as motors, drives, hydraulics, pneumatics, instrumentation, process automation, control systems, facilities management, energy management, test and measurement equipment, and training and consultancy services.
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Embracing efficiency |
10/08/2010
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| The technologies behind electric motors and variable speed drives are revolutionising plant efficiency and emissions. Brian Tinham looks under the covers |
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Making sustainability pay |
10/08/2010
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| Following last year's launch of sustainability guidelines by the Engineering Council, Steed Webzell takes a look at today's key issues and responsibilities |
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Cut your carbon |
10/08/2010
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| Modern electromechanical technology can help plant engineers to reduce the environmental impact of their operations, says Phil Burge |
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Going with the flow |
07/06/2010
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| Water treatment plants are facing increasing legislative and operational pressures Brian Tinham looks at some of their engineering solutions |
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Drives on the turn |
07/06/2010
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| Variable speed drives have been a mainstay of plant engineering for many years, but the latest generation is changing the art of the possible. Brian Wall reports |
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Drives help power plant produce more electricity |
07/06/2010
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| Västerås, Sweden-based power and district heating provider Mälarenergi, says it has increased the amount of energy it can sell by 35 GWh/year, following installation of medium voltage drives. |
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Saving the earth |
01/10/2009
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| In the rush to save energy and reduce emissions, it's easy to forget the sheer range of potential solutions. Dr Tom Shelley reviews some of today's most powerful options |
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Motor Madness |
01/08/2009
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| Man enough, simple and lowest cost have been the rules of thumb for specifying electric motors on plant. Brian Tinham explains how the guidelines are changing |
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Blowing hot and cold |
01/06/2009
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| Last summer's government energy strategy - which called for power generation from renewables to rise to 20% by 2020 and for CO2 to be reduced by 60% before 2050 - is going to have a profound effect on plant, and that includes HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) installations. That's
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Propeller head |
01/06/2009
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| Ask any engineer about electric motors and most of us visualise low- or medium-voltage three-phase equipment, either precision synchronous motors, driving machines or, more likely, standard asynchronous induction motors running pumps, fans and sometimes compressors. We see them everywhere, on all
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Compressed energy |
01/04/2009
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| Electric motors use two-thirds of all electricity consumed by industry, so any technology capable of cutting this drain on resources has got to be a good thing. Yet, despite proven and significant savings from variable speed drives (VSDs) - particularly on fan and pump control duties - they are
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Go easy on energy |
01/10/2008
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| The oil price might fall below $100 per barrel, taking other energy prices down with it, but it may also climb to $200, according to energy industry insider Mike Brooks of St Omer Consulting. The point: plant managers should be planning projects to deliver energy savings right now - and not just
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Unreasonable engineering |
01/10/2008
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| So how do you fancy a bit of unreasonable engineering? How about building a variable speed electric motor, rated at 2.5MW for pumping operations 3,000 metres down on the sea bed? Oh, and, for good measure, let's have it driven by an 11kV supply 30km away, and plan for a design life of 15 years,
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Driven world |
01/08/2008
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| Unless you're heavily involved in project work, chances are your experience of drives, motors and controls is wide - after all, it's bread and butter stuff - but not as wide as it could be. So a quick update would be useful. Especially if it turned out that you could be saving time and money,
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Taking the air |
01/12/2007
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| Energy sustainability is one of the hottest topics on the political agenda - closely linked to environmental concerns. Combine these with soaring energy costs and it's no surprise that reducing consumption on plant is right up there for industrial operations. However, in many plants, energy in the
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Passionate about energy |
01/10/2007
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| Every engineer knows that energy saving is good. It's almost invariably linked with worthwhile emissions savings and there are attractive financial returns. Also, installing new equipment, instrumentation and/or controls usually solves what are often annoying maintenance and/or operations
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Pumping challenge |
01/10/2007
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| Engineering invariably involves a balancing act - mostly between, on the one hand, keeping within budget, while, on the other, developing robust, dependable solutions that meet parameters, such as design life and risk mitigation. |
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Safety and savings |
01/02/2006
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| Compressed air continues to offer many advantages in process industry applications, especially in hazardous areas, but often continues to be used inefficiently. Help - much of it free - is readily available to help reduce energy costs and technical solutions often have surprisingly short payback
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Variable speed evolution |
01/03/2004
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| The most significant advances in AC variable speed drive technology are behind us. Over a decade ago, the shift from bipolar transistors to insulated gate bipolar transistors heralded a quantum leap in efficiency. |
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