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Energy efficiency, energy recovery, energy audits and energy management are top agenda items for plant engineers wanting to cut costs and carbon emissions – and green technologies can help.

Improvements cover every aspect of plant, from boiler plant and steam traps to building energy management systems, air conditioning equipment, compressors, electric motors, variable speed drives, heat pumps, and combined heat and power plant.

Whether your project involves fans, pumps, HVAC, condensate recovery on steam plant, using alternative energy sources (from biomass and biogas, to solar or wave energy), installing evaporative cooling or upgrading a combined cycle gas turbine, Plant Engineer is here to help.

For ideas and experience on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and your carbon footprint, while also saving energy and cost, follow our energy efficiency focus.

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Automated Britain event attracts cross-party support Automated Britain event attracts cross-party support
Policy makers across government and industry, as well as politicians from all parties, are supporting the Automated Britain conference, being staged ...
 
First steam generators at Heinz are Babcock Wanson’s ESMs First steam generators at Heinz are Babcock Wanson’s ESMs
Babcock Wanson ESM steam generators – the first to be used with HJ Heinz – have been installed at the company's Dundalk plant in Ireland as part of a ...
 
Spirax Sarco offers new boiler compliance guidance Spirax Sarco offers new boiler compliance guidance
Spirax Sarco has launched an online compliance webpage to help users with the arrival of both the Guidance on Safe Operation of Boilers (BG01) and ...
 
SOE encourages engineers to apply for CEnv SOE encourages engineers to apply for CEnv
SOE (Society of Operations Engineers) is keen for suitably qualified engineering members to apply for Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) by 29 ...
 
Ocean energy test rig testing get programmable power Ocean energy test rig testing get programmable power
A laboratory scale rig at the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC), University College Cork, is now capable of emulating the variable power ...
 
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Power play Plant Engineer Operations Manager Power play
Combined heat and power, and energy storage plants are the biggest games in town. Brian Tinham looks at latest developments...
 
Electric motor loading Plant Engineer Opetations Manager Electric motor loading
Electric motor loading is key to energy efficiency. That's the warning from Marek Lukaszczyk, who wants plant engineers to assess their electric ...
 
Maintec 2012 Plant Engvineer Operations Manager Maintec 2012
With this year's Maintec show just a few short weeks away, Brian Tinham takes a lok at what engineers, technicians and mangers can expect to find...
 
Manchester Airport drives Plant Engineer Operations Manager Manchester Airport saves 4,000 MWh on ABB drives and motors
A project to upgrade the air handling units at Manchester Airport is saving 4,000 MWh, as well as cutting CO2 emissions by over 2,000 tonnes a year....
 
Energy efficiency is effective now Energy efficiency is effective now
Just a few short weeks ago, npower raised concerns that, with the UK's wide portfolio of energy regulations, this country simply cannot now raise the ...
 
Technology Strategy Board announces renewable plant Catapult centre
Henry Ford aphorism as true today as 100 years ago
Patent granted for award-winning cold energy storage
Ford to slash landfill waste by 70% within five years
Boardrooms in the dark over energy, says Siemens research
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Product News
Quick guide to CRC Quick guide to CRC
A free Quick Guide to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme has been published by Ener-G and Cornwall Energy Associates to help plant managers reduce the ...
 
ABB launches BlackBerry app energy calculator ABB launches BlackBerry app energy calculator
Following ABB's recent introduction of a free iPhone energy calculator app, the drives and motors giant has now launched an equivalent for the ...
 
Energy-saving calculator Energy-saving calculator
An online and mobile estimating tool from Rockwell Automation allows plant engineers and managers to calculate savings from implementing variable ...
 
ABB offers six-step energy saving plan for industrial plants ABB offers six-step energy saving plan for industrial plants
ABB's award winning six-step energy saving plan is now available, offering plant users what the controls giant believes are the best ways to save ...
 
Fuel cell demonstration breakthrough comes from ACAL Fuel cell demonstration breakthrough comes from ACAL
ACAL Energy says it has achieved key milestones in the development of its FlowCath platinum-free liquid cathode fuel cell technology....
 
Heat recovery for compressed air
Compressed air savings revealed on new website
Rapeseed oil fuels green energy revolution
Lighting cuts carbon
Dual fuel waste to energy plant
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