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Drax speeds repairs with ProcessVue alarm management
(23/05/2012)
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Engineers at Drax power station, in Selby, north Yorkshire, say they can identify alarm trends faster and more easily – and analyse the causes – since implementing MAC Solutions' ProcessVue alarm management system. "Introducing ProcessVue to the power ...
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PM praises Siemens growth and employment commitment
(21/05/2012)
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Prime Minister David Cameron praised Siemens commitment to investment and boosting skills through its apprenticeship programme, during a visit to the firm's Princess Road site in Manchester last week (17 May 2012).. The visit was hosted by Siemens chief ...
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Quality award counts for Brammer in Ireland
(16/05/2012)
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Brammer in Ireland, part of the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) products and services group that looks after Diageo and Kraft Foods, is celebrating the award of an international quality standard. The Dublin-based company, which rebranded from ...
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High efficiency water filter in demand for IPS
(15/05/2012)
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St Helens water filtration firm Industrial Purification Systems (IPS) has more than doubled its manufacturing to meet demand for its process water improvement technology. IPS attributes its growth to its new high efficiency water filter, called the ...
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Baxter Manufacturing’s Rieti plant reports steam trap payback
(11/05/2012)
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Italian healthcare firm Baxter Manufacturing is reporting a 12-month payback on GEM venturi orifice steam traps, installed at its Cittaducale, plant. Thermal Energy International had installed a total of 92 GEM steam traps throughout the process plant, ...
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ABB supports Imperial carbon capture teaching facility
(11/05/2012)
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ABB has invested close to £1 million and signed a 10-year deal with Imperial College London to support a new carbon capture pilot plant teaching facility. The instrumentation and controls giant is also sponsoring the university's chemical engineering ...
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Emerson acquires ISE Magtech for level gauges
(10/05/2012)
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Process control and instrumentation giant Emerson has acquired ISE Magtech, strengthening its level measurement equipment range for a spread of industries. "This acquisition is strategic to extending our solutions to help oil and gas, refining, chemical ...
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Top 10 tips on working with compressed air
(08/05/2012)
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Compressed air users wanting to use their utilities efficiently, cost-effectively and safely are being advised consider 10 key factors. Andy Jones, general manager of rotary vane compressor manufacturer Mattei, has committed his experience to paper, ...
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Split bearing radically reduce maintenance for Wessex Water
(03/05/2012)
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Split-to-the-shaft design and improved sealing of Revolvo's SRB bearings has resulted in massively reduced maintenance on orbital aeration tanks at a Wessex Water treatment plant. The bearings allow easy maintenance, without having to remove the shafts ...
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CompAir puts energy savings on the menu at Marie
(02/05/2012)
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Since installing fixed and regulated speed compressors, from CompAir, at its plant in Sablé sur Sarthe, France, food processor Société Marie says it has been experiencing annual electricity savings of €10,500. Stéphane Lemiale, maintenance manager at ...
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Nuclear Engineering Services complete flask leak testing
(23/04/2012)
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Nuclear Engineering Services (NES) has now completed its contract for the installation of flask leak test equipment (FLTE) in the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) facility. The installation of this unit, for for Dounreay Site Restoration, signals the end of ...
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Siemens conference gets BAE Systems ATC keynote
(23/04/2012)
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James Baker, managing director of BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre, is to provide the keynote at Siemens' major 'Answers for Industry' conference, this year being staged at the Manchester Central Convention Complex from 4—5 July. Baker believes ...
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Pyroban delivers ATEX pack to power refinery pump
(18/04/2012)
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PumpSets has taken delivery of an explosion-proof diesel engine package from Pyroban for use on an Azerbaijan refinery to power a pump for processed water. The refinery had ordered a pump for use in a Zone 2 hazardous area, and the unit supplied ...
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Alstom transport gets record jack system from Mechan
(16/04/2012)
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Sheffield-based rail maintenance equipment specialist Mechan has installed the largest single system of lifting jacks in the UK at the Alstom Transport Traincare Centre, at Longsight near Manchester. The 44-jack system, which is the biggest ever ...
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ISO 11011 to improve compressor efficiencies and standardise audits
(11/04/2012)
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New international standard ISO 11011 'Compressed air – energy efficiency – assessment' will help air users to save energy, while also standardising energy audits offered by compressor firms, according to rotary vane compressor manufacturer Mattei. The ...
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Dounreay destroys major atomic research hazard
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Dounreay has completed the destruction of one of the most hazardous legacies of Britain's earliest atomic research. A purpose-built chemical plant processed the last of 57,000 litres of liquid metal lifted from the primary cooling circuit of the ...
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Fuchs Lubricants UK says it has seen cost and operational efficiency improvements at its Stoke-on-Trent lubricants plant since migrating to Siemens' PCS 7 distributed control system (DCS) and Simatic Batch. The company also says it managed the migration ...
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Ocean energy test rig testing get programmable power
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A laboratory scale rig at the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC), University College Cork, is now capable of emulating the variable power testing required at sea, thanks to control equipment from Emerson Industrial. Project manager Dara ...
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Total Organics tighten effluent for Greencore
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Greencore Foods' plant in Selby,Yorkshire, has dramatically improved its wastewater treatment process, managed by Veolia Water Industrial Outsourcing, since installing a continuous TOC (total organic carbon) monitor. David Murtagh, Greencore environment ...
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Testing times
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The power of sensing systems today is to be found less in the range of techniques, technologies and hardware designs, and more in their on-board software. Brian Tinham reports If there is a story to tell generally across sensor technology, it is not so ...
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What’s your poison?
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For plant engineers keen to avoid disaster caused by flammable or toxic gas leaks, Steed Webzell provides an update on some of the latest sensing equipment and methodologies According to the HSE, in 2010—11 there were three fatal injuries, 84 non-fatal ...
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Laser focus
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Energy from waste plants are shining a light on the power of laser-based, real-time gas analyser instrumentation. Brian Tinham talks to Bob Lane of Siemens With environmental regulations and raw materials cost controls both tightening, the pressure on ...
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Managing maintenance
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Anything that can help maintenance managers to realise cost and time-savings, while simultaneously improving plant uptime and product quality outcomes, has to be worth considering. Brian Wall looks at modern CMMs in action CMMSs (computerised ...
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