Flowserve Corporation announced the installation of Flowserve pumps has begun at the Mittelsbüren combined cycle plant (CCP) located near Bremen, Germany. All of the major pumps in the 440 MW gas turbine power plant are Flowserve ...
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Adding a pigment color to a dynamic mixer that is also used for non-colored products creates color contamination of the wetted parts and results in increased labor as well as production time and yield losses that directly affect the bottom ...
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The necessity of having nuclear power plants has been under debate recently in Taiwan. Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Gigastorage has suggested four ways that the government can take to address the country's energy issues: increase solar ...
Tags: Gigastorage, Taiwan Government, Solar Installation Limit
With robots increasingly being used on manufacturing floors, researchers are looking for ways that humans can work better with their robot coworkers. Scientists at MIT say the answer is cross-training -- humans and robots switching jobs ...
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Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems ...
Tags: Underperforming Waste Lagoons, The Environmental Risk Management
Willen Hospice, based in Milton Keynes, which specialises in caring for people whose illnesses no longer respond to curative treatment, is now benefiting from solar power thanks to an initiative from Conergy, SMA Solar UK and local PV ...
Tags: Coenergy, SMA, FSG, Energy Team, Solar Energy System
Dutch start-up Anagear has released a power management IC (PMIC) for wireless sensor nodes, that consumes an average of 600nA, said the firm. Typically, wireless sensor nodes have a microcontroller that spends most of its time in sleep, ...
CardioFocus will complete full patient enrollment in a US pivotal clinical trial of its HeartLight catheter ablation system in 2013. The 350 patient-based trial, which is evaluating and comparing the safety and efficacy of the company's ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has acquired Solar Chile, a Santiago-based solar development company in which Fundación Chile was an early ...
Tags: Solar, Solar Chile, photovoltaic power projects, solar irradiance
The hotly anticipated new LEGO brand - Legends of Chima - has taken over the windows at Hamleys, with the monster-size display running until February 8th. The window display will showcase the Legends of Chima universe including two tall ...
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A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA on Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet. The space agency noted that it has yet to find definitive evidence ...
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My Solar Port launching nationally in 2013 is a solar car port that produces sustainable energy. The oak-framed carport, which also houses a charging point for electric vehicles, offers an alternative energy source for the home and is a ...
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Coal's share of the energy mix will continue to rise, with global consumption projected to reach 4.32 billion tons of oil equivalent (toe) by 2017 despite the fossil fuel's slowing growth rate, according to the International Energy Agency ...
Tags: International Energy Agency, global coal demand, gas and coal prices
The future of outdoor lighting is constantly changing, LEDs, the reduction of electricity consumption, and even major feats like to removing oneself from the grid all together? The US Energy Information Association monitors energy usage in ...
Tags: LEDs, electricity consumption, energy, solar, wind
Suez Cement has announced that it may have to halt production at two of its production lines due to an increase in the price of mazut, a heavy, low-quality fuel oil. The Egyptian government has raised the price of the fuel by 130% to ...
Tags: Fuel Price Hike, Cement Production, Cement, Construction