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Increasing demand for electricity — coupled with new attitudes toward nuclear plants; increased emissions regulations affecting air, water and noise pollution; as well as increasing costs for wind and solar energy — bodes well for gas-fired power plants.

While coal remains the dominant fuel for power plants around the world, its foothold as the fuel of choice for power generation is shrinking.

In April 2012, the U.S. Energy In-formation Administration (EIA) pub-lished electric power data showing that, for the first time since the EIA began collecting the data, generation from natural gas-fired plants was virtu-ally equal to generation from coal-fired plants, with each fuel providing 32% of total generation. Preliminary data showed net electric generation from natural gas at 95.9 million MWh, only slightly lower than generation from coal, which was 96 million MWh.

Coal has been the main thermal electric fuel thanks to its cheap price, worldwide availability, easy transport and low-technology threshold. How-ever, coal’s biggest drawback is the pollution emitted from its combustion.

In January, the EIA released its Short-Term Energy Outlook.

Despite projected declines in electric power consumption from 2012 levels, consumption of natural gas for electric power generation remains high by his-torical standards and reflects a struc-tural shift toward using more natural gas for power generation.

The EIA estimates that coal con-sumption in the electric power sec-tor totalled 752 million tonnes in 2012, the lowest amount since 1992. Lower natural gas prices paid by electric generators led to a significant increase in the share of natural gas-fired generation.

The EIA expects that natural gas con-sumption will average 1.97 billion m3/d in 2013 and 1.96 billion m3/d in 2014.

While total consumption is rela-tively unchanged from 2012, the makeup of that consumption is changing. Because of a warm winter last year, 2012 residential and com-mercial consumption was very low. However, the hot summer (as well as relatively low natural gas prices) led to record-high use of natural gas for power generation.

Forecasts for closer-to-normal tem-peratures in 2013 and 2014 will lead to increases in the natural gas used for residential and commercial win-ter space heating. These increases are offset by declines in natural gas for power generation as summer tem-peratures are expected to be closer to normal, meaning cooler than they were in 2012.

The EIA forecasts that natural gas will account for 27.5% of total gen-eration in 2014 and coal will account for 39.6%, both relatively unchanged from the projected 2013 fuel shares. There is, however, a high degree of uncertainty in the generation fuel mix forecast. Lower than projected natu-ral gas prices along with the indus-try’s response to future environmen-tal regulations could cause the natural gas share of total generation to exceed this forecast. A

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POWER GENERATIONCentrax Ready For Russian Projects ..........................................................4Ansaldo Energia Wins €300 Million Contract .........................................18Fast-Tracking Customized Power .............................................................22Taking Over For OEM Control .................................................................26Wärtsilä Helping To Power Jordan...........................................................48OPRA Hits High Notes .............................................................................50Alstom Adds 400 MW In Kuwait .............................................................58

LUBRICATION TECHNOLOGYAlignment On Cylinder Oils Concerns ......................................................6Marine Lubricants With A “Green” Edge .................................................10Lubes Key To Turbine Performance .........................................................20

VIBRATION DETECTION & ANALYSISPartial Discharge Monitoring .....................................................................8Vibration Monitoring For Rotating Machinery .........................................12

EMISSIONS WORLDVIEWMAN’s EGR Achieves IMO Tier 3 ............................................................14Final Phase For Carbon Capture ..............................................................52

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Despite the demanding environ-mental and competitive conditions in the Russian oil and gas industry, U.K.-based Centrax Gas Turbines is in the midst of one its busiest periods ever in the country.

Centrax technicians are preparing to install and commission 17 generat-ing set packages to aid the expansion of three oil fields. In the Tyumen re-gion on the West Siberian Plain, 1600 km east of Moscow, 12 of the pack-ages — each comprising a single 5.2 MW Rolls-Royce 501 unit — are be-ing installed for the Ust Teguss field. The total generating capacity of 62.4 MW will meet the facility’s growing energy demands.

Additionally, five Centrax CX501-KB7 packages are set to equip the Verh-nekolikieganskoe facility near Rostovs-kaya in southwest Russia, supplying 24 MW of power. As at Ust Teguss, a fac-tor in the choice of Centrax packages was their operational flexibility and ability to operate on associated gas with variable fuel quality, the company said.

recorded at -58.1°C,” Royal said. “In the Tyumen region, the average tem-perature over the whole year is only around 1.3°C, with continuous be-low-freezing conditions for much of the winter.

“We have also developed a stan-dardized design package for cold- temperature environments, incorporat-ing special features such as additional space heaters and a temperature-regu-lated control panel shelter. These allow the equipment to be installed outdoors and to be maintained properly at these ambient conditions without the need for a special building, significantly reducing the overall project cost for our customers.”

At less than 1 tonne, the 501KB7 gas turbine’s light weight means it can be delivered by road or helicopter to any land base.

The company added it intends to use the experience it has gained in Russia and in its 20 million total operating hours worldwide to develop its busi-ness across other CIS countries. A

Both facilities are owned by TNK-BP, for which Centrax has already supplied a fleet of 14 units operating at sites throughout Russia.

Centrax, based in Newton Abbot, Devon, has also won a contract to supply two gas turbine packages to the South-Oshkoye oil field in Rus-sia’s Komi Republic in northwestern Russia, 800 km northeast of Moscow.

Centrax is working with St. Petersburg-based Zvezda Energeti-ka. According to Centrax, its ability to deliver the first unit within four months was the prime factor for its success, helping the customer minimize its exposure to penalties incurred by flaring associated gas during 2013.

The operational experience of Cen-trax units in harsh environments is another reason for the company’s current success in Russia, Centrax re-gional sales manager Nick Royal said.

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Castrol Marine is supporting new recommendations to shipowners from MAN Diesel & Turbo that misapplica-tion of mid-range Base Number (BN) cylinder oils can cause corrosion.

The engine manufacturer recently issued service letters that recommend “cylinder lube oil with 70BN or high-er” for latest generation super-long stroke engines using higher sulfur fuel (above 1.5 to 2%). MAN said it could not recommend cylinder oils with a BN level between 50 and 60 for these engines.

The company said shipowners have been persuaded to try a host of new mid-range lubricants on the basis that they offer a solution across the range of sulfur content in fuel oil, includ-ing during slow steaming operations. For more than a year, Castrol Ma-rine has advised owners that the use of mid-range BN cylinder oils when slow steaming could lead to cold cor-rosion. To combat this, Castrol Ma-rine introduced Cyltech 80AW ear-lier this year, an 80BN oil addressing lubricant performance issues identi-

rold, Castrol Technology manager, Marine & Energy Lubricants. “They support the exhaustive bench tests and shipboard trials that led to our own recommendations on cylinder oil selection in the slow steaming era. The recommendations we make to customers must always be based on sound science.”

Some cylinder lube oil suppliers have suggested that a single mid-range BN cylinder oil is sufficient for use with all marine fuels under all operating circumstances. Cas-trol said it believes customers faced with the prospect of only one grade of cylinder oil to cover all operat-ing scenarios may be putting them-selves at a disadvantage, especially if they regularly use fuel at the up-per and lower ends of the permitted sulfur spectrum.

MAN supports this assertion. “The design philosophy of two distinct lube oils is based on observations and tests showing that over-lubrication leads to over-additivation, with con-sequential risk of calcium deposit for-mation and total suppression of cor-rosion, thus decreasing the scuffing tolerance,” the company said. “More-over, under-lubrication may lead to under-additivation, which will lead to corrosive wear in cylinder liners and piston rings.”

Beyond 2015, MAN recommends BN 70 to 80 (-100) cylinder oils for fuels with up to 3.5% sulfur content and low BN oil in SOx-ECAs between 2015 to 2020. By 2020 and 2025, the engine manufacturer envisages fuels being used in combination with scrubber technology.

“In case of scrubber solutions, high BN cylinder oil is to be used — ide-ally a BN 80 to 100,” MAN said. “In cases where very low sulfur content in fuel is anticipated, BN 10 to 20 cyl-inder oils are needed.”

“Our technical arguments have been challenged by a series of com-petitor product launches of lubricants conceived before slow steaming was even adopted,” Harrold said. “This direct advice from MAN corroborates our own tests on the real issue.” A

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In a letter to customers on lubricant performance of 50 to 60 BN oils across its engine portfolio, MAN said, “Oil wear varies significantly between engine types and between operational condi-tions. Although mid-range lubricants were sometimes reliable, the test results from the mid-range cylinder oils cannot be transferred to general guidelines.”

Another letter from MAN questions the “mid-range fits all” proposition. “At present, we cannot recommend these new type oils on our newest en-gine designs: the Mark 9, the S80ME-C9, and all G-engines,” the company said. MAN said its B&W two-stroke design is based on optimization of the amount of a BN70 cylinder oil for fuel sulfur content above 1.5 to 2% and a BN 40 cylinder oil for lower sulfur content. Oils with a viscosity lower than SAE 50 are also not recommend-ed for Mark 9 or G-type engines.

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The hardware and software of the new Meggitt partial discharge (PD) system monitors, logs and reports partial discharge activity in the gen-erators, motors and cabling systems used in industrial power generation.

This new capability adds to the divi-sion’s Vibro-Meter power generation monitoring products, which already include machinery protection and con-dition monitoring systems and sensors for hydro, steam and gas turbines.

Meggitt said the new PD monitor-ing system provides another level of protection for critical power generat-ing machinery. In fact, the early de-tection of partial discharge enables condition-based maintenance to in-crease reliability and minimize repair costs, the company said.

The manufacturer explained that a partial discharge is a localized electri-cal discharge in an insulation system that does not completely bridge elec-trodes, usually occurring in voids and gaps in high-voltage insulation. Par-tial discharges are a leading indicator of insulation breakdown that can lead to destruction of the generator.

Meggitt Sensing Systems said its PD solution provides early detection of par-tial discharge pulses, utilizing coupling capacitors for direct measurements; an

With a typical coverage of only the most critical 10 to 15%, coupling ca-pacitors installed at the line terminals of a machine have a limited visibility into the machine windings. Meggitt said with its interface module, the ex-isting RTD wiring in generators and motors essentially acts as an antenna for other signals in close proximity, al-lowing the monitoring system to see much more of the machine’s windings.

Meggitt’s permanent, online solution is the PDM 150, a stand-alone monitor-ing system consisting of a power sup-ply, main CPU and sensor inputs for up to 15 CCs, and the RTD 600. Addition-al inputs are available for temperature, ambient humidity, current, load and pressure, among others. The PDM 15P portable analyzer enables periodic re-cording of partial discharge activity and provides 15 input channels, with stor-age capacity to enable data from mul-tiple devices to be stored and uploaded to a PC for further analysis.

The PDSight software — supplied with the PDM 150 and PDM 15P — performs analysis and diagnostics, supports the configuration of the PDM 150 and 15P units, allows the analysis and display of all data gener-ated, and simplifies downloading and storing of captured data. PDSight can measure or calculate multiple partial discharge pulse parameters includ-ing polarity, pulse count, magnitude, phase angle and partial discharge in-tensity in order to determine the type of PD problem and its severity.

Meggitt said the PDSight software results in accurate partial discharge detection as a result of extremely low noise, achieved by noise cancellation and filtering techniques. As most of the discharge activity (and resulting released discharge energy) occurs be-low 30 MHz, all Meggitt systems are tuned to concentrate in this range. Meggitt said most competitive sys-tems use only capacitive couplers as sensors, hence reducing the sensitiv-ity of their systems. Thanks to their noise rejection capabilities, Meggitt said its systems monitor the frequen-cy range of interest without being af-fected by interferences. A

interface to enable existing resistance temperature detectors embedded in the windings to be used as additional partial discharge sensors; and either a permanent or portable monitoring module, both of which come with Meg-gitt’s PDSight software for analysis and identification of trends.

Meggitt said coupling capacitors (CC) are the hallmark of this technology sen-sor network because of their stable and reliable performance and robust design, which makes it possible to install them extremely close to the windings, thus minimizing attenuation effects and in-creasing system sensitivity.

Once installed, the coupling capac-itors monitor the current. If electric-ity starts to loop back instead of go-ing out of the generator, reducing the efficiency of the system, the software highlights the situation to the opera-tor, who can take action to remedy any problem long before there is a catastrophic failure.

The CC 308, CC 316 and CC 328 from the Vibro-Meter product line represent Meggitt’s 8 kV, 16 kV and 28 kV options, respectively.

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Partial Discharge Monitoring Meggitt Sensing Systems launches new partial discharge (PD) monitoring system, adds to Vibro-Meter division

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Under the motto, “Powerful, naturally,” Klüber Lubrication has presented a new range of readily biodegradable speciality lubricants for ships, offshore rigs and other marine applications.

New additions to Klüber Lubri-cation’s portfolio are the hydraulic fluids of the Klüberbio LR 9 series, meeting the stringent environmental requirements of the European Eco Label. These synthetic oils are readily biodegradable and nontoxic, which makes a risk of leakage much less threatening to the environment.

Klüberbio LR 9 oils are intended for use in mobile hydraulic systems in the marine and offshore sectors, but they are also indicated for land-based hydraulic applications in eco-logically sensitive environments such

In the event of a leakage, the newly developed range of Klüber Lubrication’s readily biodegradable speciality lubricants for ships and other

marine applications reduce the threat to the environment.

as in hydro-electric power plants or waterway locks.

The new Klüberbio M 72-82 is read-ily biodegradable grease especially de-veloped for rolling bearings. Thanks to its high resistance to water, the company said it protects components against corrosion, and its adhesion enables long relubrication intervals. This grease is also indicated for low-temperature applications.

“Both environmental authorities and ship operators increasingly call for biodegradable lubricants to be used in all lubrication points on a ship that can come in contact with water,” said Dirk Fabry, mar-ket manager, Marine & Offshore at Klüber Lubrication. “Consequently, the development of eco-compatible, highly efficient speciality lubri-


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cants for the marine industry is a focal theme.”

Synthetic gear oils for thrust-ers and rudder propellers are also within the company’s product range for marine applications, as are eco-friendly stern tube oils especially designed for the lubrication of bushes and shaft seals of fixed-pitch and controllable-pitch propellers.

Klüber Lubrication is part of Freudenberg Chemical Specialities KG, a business unit of the Freuden-berg Group, Weinheim, Germany. The company said that in develop-ing new oils, there is a very close co-operation with its affiliated compa-nies Simrit and Merkel Freudenberg Fluidtechnic, both manufacturers of shaft seals and profiled seals for the marine industry. A

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Vibration specialist Brüel & Kjær Vi-bro has released a new condition moni-toring system for rotating machinery. The VDAU-6000 — featuring high-density, 16-channel parallel processing functionality — is capable of monitor-ing complex machine trains as well as balance of plant machinery.

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MAN Diesel & Turbo, together with HHI-EMD, the engine and ma-chinery division of Hyundai Heavy Industries, has presented the first IMO Tier 3-compliant diesel engine utilizing exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), the company said. The pre-sentation of the engine took place at HHI-EMD production facilities in Ulsan, South Korea.

The new engine type, a MAN B&W 6S80ME-C9 with integrated EGR, was presented to a group represent-ing shipyard and ship owners. MAN Diesel & Turbo began testing exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) as applied to their two-stroke research engine in Copenhagen, Denmark, years ago. The EGR technique makes the marine diesel engine IMO Tier 3-compliant, the company said.

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equivalent to 1 to 3 g/kWh, which is even better than our most optimistic expectations,” said Søren H. Jensen, vice president and head of Research & Development, Marine Low-Speed, MAN Diesel & Turbo. “The EGR sys-tem represents a milestone in Tier 3 development, enabling the engine to meet IMO Tier 3 NOx regulations, which will be introduced in ECAs (Emission Controlled Areas) from 2016. The new development means that this strict emissions limit can be met without significantly compromis-ing engine performance.”

The EGR system was designed, produced and assembled in close co-operation with HHI-EMD, Alfa Laval, Siemens, GEA and Vestas Aircoil. The combined efforts have ultimately re-sulted in a reliable prototype engine configuration that MAN Diesel &

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“As a promising spin-off benefit, the engine can also run in a fuel-optimized Tier 2 mode that facilitates an approxi-mate 4 g/kWh fuel-oil consumption re-duction at part load,” Jensen said.

The favorable result was accom-plished through a combination of sequential turbocharging, turbo-charger cutout and low EGR rates. This makes the engine even more efficient than today’s high-efficiency Tier 2 engines during transoceanic operation, MAN said.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) has reached an agreement with United Technologies Corp. (UTC) under which MHI will acquire Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS), the small- and medium-size gas tur-bine business unit of aero-engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney (P&W). MHI and UTC, P&W’s par-ent company, signed the agreement in early December.

PWPS engages primarily in the engineering, assembly and sales of aeroderivative gas turbines and also provides gas turbine services and engi-neering, procurement and construction services of related power generation systems. The company has approxi-mately 430 employees. PWPS owns a majority share of Turboden s.r.l. of Italy, a manufacturer of organic rankine

main products to date have been 30 MW class machines, but currently the company is developing new 60 MW class models, which are expected to boost PWPS’s market share signifi-cantly, the company said.

PWPS U.S. operations will be aligned with Mitsubishi Power Systems Ameri-cas Inc. (MPSA), headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida, U.S.A. “The PWPS busi-ness offers tremendous synergy with our existing U.S. operations,” MPSA President Koji Hasegawa said. “It signif-icantly diversifies our equipment offer-ing and compliments the scope of our service business.”

Turboden’s ORC turbines have the capability to generate power or sup-ply hot water using a relatively low-temperature heat source, e.g. biomass, factory waste heat or geothermal en-ergy. To date, the company has sold more than 300 units in 20 countries, primarily in Europe. In Japan, in-creasing opportunities are emerging to use this technology in biomass and geothermal applications.

In its gas turbine business, MHI is presently establishing a global struc-ture to substantially increase annual manufacturing capacity of large high-temperature, high-output gas turbines. In addition to output from its Takasago Machinery Works in Japan, shipments have now also begun from MPSA’s Savannah Ma-chinery Works, a new gas turbine manufacturing and service facility located in Pooler, Georgia, U.S.A. With the addition of flexible and re-liable small and medium-size offer-ings to its product portfolio through the acquisition of PWPS, MPSA will now be able to meet broader cus-tomer needs through combinations of those units and high-efficiency machines, the company said.

MHI intends to further strengthen its marketing activities for gas tur-bines, which the company said can offer clear benefits in terms of ef-ficient energy usage and reduction of environmental burdens, leverag-ing the merits of both large-capacity and aeroderivative gas turbines as well as their synergy effects. A

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Ansaldo Energia has received a €300 million contract from Sociéte Algéri-enne de Production de l’Électricité (SPE), a Sonelgaz group company.

Ansaldo Energia will supply the Hassi Messaoud (Wilya d’Ouargla) open-cycle power plant with a total rated output of more than 660 MW. The plant comprises three generat-ing sets — three Ansaldo Energia gas turbines model AE 94.3A and al-ternators — all manufactured at the

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It is widely known that the preven-tion of a gas turbine failure is crucial to operators and original equipment manufacturers. One of the key factors to a turbine’s reliability is also one of the least visible parts of the power generation process — lubricating oil.

Theoretically, turbine oils should last for years, although exactly how long is subject to a variety of factors, especially as the fluid must have good thermal and oxidation resistance.

“Modern lubricants need to keep pace with advances in turbine technol-ogy,” said Peter Smith, Shell’s techni-cal manager for industrial specialties, Shell Lubricants, which focuses on turbine, electrical and process oils.

“Gas turbine firing temperatures are increasing to up to 1450°C and, although the oil is not directly ex-posed to this temperature, this means that the whole gas turbine system is

want their gas turbines to last longer and provide maximized reliable ser-vice between extended maintenance intervals.”

Shell said it is currently redeveloping its top-tier Turbo GT using its propri-etary additives and Group 3 base oil. It is being designed for use in industrial light- and heavy-duty gas turbines and turbo compressors. According to Shell, Turbo GT has up to 50% better oxida-tion stability compared with the indus-try standard for gas turbines.

Shell uses gas to liquid (GTL) tech-nology, utilizing the Fischer-Tropsch process that converts gas and feed-stocks to liquids. Shell’s Pearl GTL plant in Qatar makes synthetic oil products from natural gas, including cleaner-burning diesel and oils for advanced lubricants.

“Another trend we are noticing during discussions with turbine man-ufacturers concerns the growing de-mand for smaller lubricant reservoirs for gas turbines,” Smith said.

“Not only do OEMs want to opti-mize the power and efficiency of their machines, but they want to control the cost of manufacturing their gas turbines. They prefer smaller lubri-cant reservoirs as smaller amounts of lubricants can now be considered using the latest generation of top-tier oils. If the reservoirs are smaller, then the turbines can be downsized and the cost of components reduced.

“Good surface properties of the oil, such as rapid air release, are essential. If these are poor, that can lead to foam-ing of the oil. Under changing load, entrained air can be released, causing bubbles and foaming. In highly loaded regions, this can cause the air and oil vapor bubbles to literally implode and burn, thus potentially causing cavita-tion damage to the turbine’s bearings.”

Shell has 60 years of experience in developing oils for gas turbines and supplies fuel and lubes to more than 1500 power plants in more than 80 countries — some 100 people work in its power sector product area. The company has technology centers in the U.S.A., U.K., Germany, India, China, and a joint venture in Japan. A

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APR Energy has signed a new 200 MW contract in Uruguay to supply its fast-track, temporary power solutions to the national grid to address the country’s anticipated power needs. The initial term of the contract will run into mid-2014. APR Energy also announced that it has signed an ex-tension to its existing 100 MW con-tract with the customer.

“This new deal, together with the contract extension, is representative of the strong demand we continue to see across the temporary power market, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia,” said John Campion, APR Energy chief executive officer. “As seen with the Uruguay con-tract, a key growth driver of the tem-

put of 24 MW at 3000 r/min (50 Hz) and 25 MW at 3600 r/min (60 Hz).

APR Energy said that the units have been specifically designed for fast-track mobilization and installation and can be put into place often in less than a day. The company said this allows for the smallest footprint within the in-dustry — an 8 x 18.5 m space — and requires very little advance site prepara-tion, significantly decreasing the over-all installation time. The current plant, including the required substation and interconnection works, was completed in 45 days.

“Efficiency and emissions are the major compliances you have to face with every project,” said Mitchell

porary power market continues to be demand for mobile gas turbines.”

The electricity sector of Uruguay is largely based on domestic hydropow-er, which leaves the country vulner-able to seasonal rainfall patterns. The Uruguayan state power company Usi-nas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas (UTE) needed a reliable, cost-effective tem-porary power solution to meet de-mand while new sources of power generation were financed and built.

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Bridgeforth, director, Turbine Busi-ness Unit, APR Energy. “Those were the drivers for UTE in Uruguay. They were aware of what they needed, aware of the trends in emissions, and it matched what we were offering, the latest in mobile turbine technology.”

Bridgeforth said that sometimes APR Energy moves into markets that are unsure of what solution will best meet their need. “We are a total turn-key company,” Bridgeforth said. “We are able to go in, determine what the customer’s exact needs are, design a customized solution to meet the those needs, get their feedback, maybe tweak it a bit, and come up with the best solution.”

This theme of customizing solution to application runs through everything APR Energy does, the company said.

APR Energy provided 24 MW of peak demand backup power to one of the Sultanate of Oman’s electricity distribution companies (MEDCO) in

the event the power grid got close to regulation capacity, particularly dur-ing the blistering summer months when heavy demand can cause in-termittent power outages. APR En-ergy said it was able to deploy and commission the site in less than 20 days, and local specialized contrac-tors were utilized to fabricate the fuel supply system and build the in-terconnection infrastructure.

As a result of the devastating earth-quake and tsunami that struck Japan in early 2011, the Tokyo Electric Pow-er Company (TEPCO) lost nearly 21 GW of its capacity, leaving 4.4 million households without power. Power needs for rebuilding and disaster re-covery were immediate, with no time for construction or setup; the country was without a unified power grid; ra-diation exposure heightened scrutiny of nuclear reactor use and lead to shut down of all nuclear power; oil refiner-ies were set ablaze, complicating fossil-

fuel power delivery; and supplemental power was not sufficient to meet the demand, particularly in the cities of Hitachinaka and Yokosuka.

“Japan was an, ‘All hands on deck’ project,” Bridgeforth said. “For every-one, there was no concern for how much it cost or how it got done. They needed power, right now.”

APR Energy shipped and air-freighted 69 diesel and gas turbine power solutions and personnel from all over the world. Only days after the last delivery of equipment, both plants (Hitachinaka and Yokosuka) were fully operational, delivering 203 MW to the TEPCO grid.

“We still have equipment there, but as they repair facilities and bring more of their own power online, they are phasing us out as they should,” Bridgeforth said. “That’s our job, that’s what we do.

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solutions to permanent power that slowly evolve into longer and longer term deals. Cogeneration, nuclear or hydro facilities take a lot of time, money and effort to build, and until they can get them built, they need power. As part of that bridging solution, we have to work very closely with that utility to interconnect into their grid system and transition seamlessly to make sure there is no loss of power between the bridging solution and the permanent solution.”

APR Energy’s primary market has been emerging markets, where loss or lack of power can be disastrous both economi-cally and socially. “These countries are some of the neediest anywhere,” Bridgeforth said. “We don’t just produce tempo-rary power and leave. We look at the bigger picture and the effect on the community.”

APR Energy said it maintains a strong local hiring and training program — approximately 86% of employees are local. “They understand out projects are interim, but they are receiving training and certifications in their fields — mechanical, welding, fuel oil handling, accounting, com-puter skills — so after we move out they have job skills to move forward.”

In places such as Ecuador, Costa Rica, Botswana and Haiti, APR Energy has worked closely with locals to install technol-ogy centers, build and improve schools, assist with disaster re-lief, improve food supplies, fix or construct water pumps and initiate health center programs. In Costa Rica, the abandoned site was transformed into a community soccer pitch, complete with bleachers and water fountains.

In addition to making a meaningful impact on the re-gional economy, the setup and operation of APR Energy’s dual-fuel turbine solution has helped provide a temporary solution to Uruguay’s supply/demand constraints.

“This new deal was driven by our ability to offer our customers fast-track solutions that meet their specific tech-nology needs and emissions requirements,” Campion said. “It is further testament to the opportunities and success we are seeing in our strategy to offer gas turbines in the tem-porary power marketplace.” A

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Wood Group GTS and Rockwell Automation have formed a strategic partnership to facilitate the joint de-velopment of a fully integrated, open-architecture alternative to proprietary original equipment manufacturer (OEM) gas turbine control systems.

The companies said this partnership brings together two of the industry’s leading service and technology provid-ers with complementary capabilities. Cooperation initiatives include joint engineering, product development and packaging of solutions; global manufac-turing and spares/technical support; co-marketing and sales initiatives to grow market share; and optimization of tech-nology integration.

The immediate focus of this collab-oration is the launch of a PlantPAx-based controls upgrade for operators of DLN equipped GE Frame 6B, 7E, and 9E gas turbines, with future ex-pansion into F-class machines.

The Rockwell Automation Plant-PAx process automation system is built on standard-based architecture using components that enable mul-tidisciplined control, the company

When optimizing performance and managing costs, managers and operators experience issues such as locked “black box” software, which can leave managers unable to access, control of make system changes to control logic; high cost or unavail-ability of site-specific customiza-tions; long wait time for issue reso-lution; short life cycle and higher cost of spares and support; lack of capability of user modification, which triggers higher support and operating costs; and the inability to respond effectively to changing op-erating requirements.

“Purpose Built” hardware platforms are often closed solutions manu-factured, supported and priced by OEMs. Wood Group said that be-cause of these issues, upgrades are budgeted due to premature hardware obsolescence dictated by the OEM rather than from a planned mainte-nance perspective.

Both companies stressed that gas turbine owners and operators face mounting challenges in managing power generating assets effectively and profitably, all the while confronted by shifting operating profiles brought on by complex market dynamics.

“Power generation companies are un-der pressure to drive operational flex-ibility and maximize performance while also driving down operating costs, mini-mizing risk of plant operations, meeting regulatory emissions levels and achiev-ing high thermal efficiencies,” said John Nesi, vice president of Market Devel-opment for Rockwell Automation. “By combining our best-in-class process control technology with Wood Group’s industry knowledge and expertise, we’re able to offer our mutual custom-ers proven, safe and field-tested turbine control system upgrades that maximize their return on investment by reducing operating costs, lowering total cost of ownership and improving availability.”

Wood Group said its control sys-tems solutions have been field tested and plant proven in over 500 ret-rofitted systems, 60 different turbine models and by 17 different turbine manufacturers. A

The immediate focus of this collaboration is the launch of a Rockwell Automation PlantPAx-based

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aging the entire range of automation applications including motion, safety and drive systems.

said. The distributed control sys-tem (DCS) can integrate skid-based equipment into the overall system and ensure easy incorporation into the existing plant control systems. Rockwell said that the PlantPAx is the only process automation system capable of managing the entire range of automation applications including motion, safety and drive systems.

“We have an extensive history of working with Rockwell Automa-tion’s proven hardware and software with hundreds of turbomachin-ery applications and thousands of batch, process and general automa-tion systems installed,” said Frank Avery, president of Wood Group GTS’ Power Plant Services. “This partnership was formed to deliver a fully integrated, open architecture controls solution for both the heavy frame gas turbines and balance of plant applications.”

When it comes to maintaining vi-tal control systems for gas turbines, users are often at the mercy of proprietary OEM control systems, Wood Group said.



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Energy developer Seneca Resourc-es Corp. and drilling partner Ensign Drilling have installed two GE Jen-bacher gas engines to power the first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled drilling rigs of their kind in the Mar-cellus Shale region of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation is located in sections of Pennsylvania, New York, West Vir-ginia, Ohio and Maryland.

Seneca converted the power plants of two existing diesel-powered rigs to use cleaner-burning LNG in GE’s 1 MW Jenbacher J320 turbocharged natural gas engines. The Jenbacher units were combined with Ensign Drilling-designed rig packages to provide all the electricity needed by each drilling rig. The J320 represents GE’s first U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency certified technology for mobile and stationary drilling appli-cations, the company said.

In October 2012, Seneca Resources and Ensign Drilling converted their first rig, which is operating in Lycom-ing County, Pennsylvania. The second rig was converted to LNG in Novem-

crude oil, natural gas and geothermal projects. Prometheus Energy Group, a North American industrial LNG supplier, is Seneca Resources’ turn-key supplier of the LNG and related equipment and services.

“We are excited to work with our partner Seneca Resources to implement this innovative project,” said Robert Geddes, president and CEO of Ensign Drilling. “By using LNG in GE’s proven Jenbacher gas engines to reduce the environmental impacts of energy pro-duction, we are giving communities in Pennsylvania the opportunity to share in the economic benefits of developing the Marcellus Shale gas reserves.”

Ensign Drilling operates 15 drill-ing rigs utilizing natural gas in the United States — 11 of them exclu-sively using GE’s Jenbacher gas en-gines. The latest project with Sen-eca Resources further underscores the oil and gas industry’s increased deployment of more efficient and cleaner on-site power solutions.

“Our fuel-flexible Jenbacher gas en-gine technology offers customers low-er-emission on-site power generating capabilities, making it ideally suited to support Seneca Resources and En-sign Drilling’s LNG initiative,” said Roger George, North America general manager – Gas Engines for GE Power & Water. “We think this will serve as a model for other operators in the Marcellus Shale region.” A

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existing diesel-powered rigs

to use cleaner-burning LNG.

ber 2012 and was assigned to Seneca’s Marcellus Shale gas leases in Forest, Elk, Jefferson and McKean counties.

Powering a drill rig with natural gas instead of diesel can result in up to 60% lower fuel costs. LNG also repre-sents a cleaner alternative to diesel for the transportation industry and trucks, reducing overall combustion emissions up to 25%, the company said.

Unconventional gas is quickly be-coming the most abundant source of natural gas in the United States and accounts for about a quarter of U.S. natural gas production. By 2035, half of U.S. natural gas will come from unconventional sources, according to the U.S. Energy Information Ad-ministration (EIA). The boom in un-conventional gas, up from just 2% of the total in 2000, has cut gas prices to record levels, reduced energy imports and set the country on a path to en-ergy independence.

Seneca Resources is a wholly owned exploration and production subsid-iary of National Fuel Gas Company, while Ensign Drilling is a land-based driller and well servicing provider for


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PG&D, a business unit of Wood-ward Inc., announced the release of the LS-511/521 Marine circuit breaker controllers.

The LS-5 controller series is ap-proved by major marine certifica-tion societies in conjunction with Woodward’s easYgen-3000 series gen-set controllers, enabling the full management of complex electri-cal power systems in the most de-manding marine applications, the company said.

The new LS-5 series circuit breaker controllers include expanded CAN communication to the easYgen-3000 series gen-set controllers for manag-ing complex power generation and distribution systems with multiple tie and feeder breakers. This functional-ity can now be extended to offshore applications with marine versions having DNV, Lloyd’s Register and ABS approvals.

Available in door mounted and back-panel mounted variants, the

LS-5 series controllers and the easY-gen-3000 series controllers are de-signed to accommodate tight space requirements, said Woodward.

A remote panel RP-3000 can be used with either of the variants for remote control. Up to 16 LS-5’s can communicate with up to 32 easYgen systems over a single CAN communi-cation line, greatly reducing point-to-point wiring.

The LS-5 and easYgen control systems provide isochronous load sharing, soft loading/unloading, and active synchronization on up to 32 different bus segments. This system may act as one communica-tion link between a vessel’s power management system and gen-sets for all engine and generator re-lated information, leading to fewer components for the power plant. Woodward said the system helps meet precise dynamic positioning requirements, a crucial requirement for mobile offshore drilling units. A


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VOITH TURBO: Voith Turbo has named Christian Strahberger its execu-tive vice president of Voith Turbo Schnei-der Propulsion GmbH & Co. KG. He is responsible for Voith Schneider Propeller, as well as the products for Voith Inline Thruster, Radial Propeller, SteamTrac, and Voith Turbo Fin.

Strahberger succeeds the previous di-vision head, Martin Füllenbach. Prior to joining Voith AG, Strahberger worked for seven years at Siemens Management Consulting in Munich as a consultant and project manager of international industrial projects of Siemens AG.

At Voith, Strahberger started out at Voith Paper in 2009 as vice president –Strategy. From 2010, he was in charge of rebuilds, spare and wearing parts, as well as services for stock preparation and recycling machinery as senior vice president – Products & Services, and was a member of Voith Paper Fiber & Envi-ronmental Solutions management board.

McCROMETER: McCrometer has hired Carl Kull as its regional sales manager for

the oil & gas and industrial markets for Southeast Asia. Kull, who reports to David Splatt, di-rector of Sales, joins McCrometer follow-ing 18 years at ABB’s K-TEK division as the regional sales

manager for Asia and Asia Pacific, where he developed international managers and rep-resentative sales networks in the industrial process measurement industry. Early in his career, Kull served in the U.S. Navy, where he held electronics technician certification, nuclear power certification and nuclear op-erator and nuclear ET certifications.

EGSA: The Electrical Generating Sys-tems Association (EGSA) has named Rob-ert (Bob) Breese as the association’s new director of Education. Breese has more than 30 years of experience, most recently working as the lead service trainer and technical writer for Generac Power Sys-tems. In that position, he developed the course curricula for Generac’s factory and field service training programs. He has also

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served as an EGSA Advanced and Basic School instructor for the past three years.

Breese’s responsi-bilities will include directing the asso-ciation’s educational programs such as the Basic and Ad-

vanced Power Schools, the EGSA Tech-nician Certification Program, as well as the David I. Coren Scholarship Program. Breese will also have full responsibility for the eLearning Program as it is developed and implemented.

MIRATECH: Miratech has named Jessica M. Hotier as its marketing direc-tor. She is responsible for managing exter-nal marketing communications, print and web-based vendors, as well as handling sales management, sales support and CRM supervision.

Hotier, who will be based at the com-pany’s Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., head-quarters, has a background that includes

positions in military intelligence and in-ternational planning and strategy for the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense and NATO in locations including Hondu-ras, Ecuador, Japan, Germany, Italy and Washington D.C., U.S.A.

More recently, Hotier served as a NATO Strategic Planner for the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and held management positions in global corpora-tions Lafarge and Saint-Gobain. She has directed multinational planning, sales sup-port and business development projects throughout Western and Eastern Europe.

TOGNUM: Jörg Schwitalla has been named the new executive board member for Personnel and Integrity at Tognum AG. The position has been newly created to meet the group’s future requirements, such as the planned integration of Bergen Engines AS and the group’s growth tar-gets. With this appointment, Schwitalla assumes responsibility for Personnel, Le-gal Affairs, Patent Management, Data Pro-tection and Information Security, in addi-tion to Business Practice and Compliance.

He will also perform the duties of indus-trial director within the group.

Schwitalla was the chief human re-sources officer on the executive board of MAN until July 2012 and has since acted

in an advisory capacity for the Volkswagen Group. During the six years he spent at MAN, he was responsible for, among other things, all the traditional functions in the field of human resources. He was also in-volved in activities and projects including group security, auditing and purchasing, and had a leading role in the investigation of compliance issues at MAN.

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Editor’s note: Each year, Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide invites engine manufacturers to submit one specific power generation project they feel merits special attention as the re-sult of advances in one or more of the following: efficiency increase, environ-mental aesthetics, operational charac-teristics, emissions improvements and construction principles. The coverage is limited to plants commissioned dur-ing the 2012 calendar year. This long-standing tradition has become a popu-lar feature and this year’s edition once again highlights several noteworthy projects around the globe. Enjoy.

Alstom PowerClaus C Repower Project,

The NetherlandsThe Claus C repower project dem-

onstrated Alstom’s ability to repower an existing steam power plant into a combined-cycle power plant with double the power using a 35% in-crease in fuel, as well as a 40% reduc-tion in CO2 emissions.

The Claus power plant consists of two identical gas-fired, steam-generat-ing units, that came on-stream in 1977 and 1978, respectively. Alstom received the order to repower Essent’s 640 MW Claus B unit in 2008. The conversion increased the capacity to 1309 MW through the addition of three Alstom GT26 gas turbines, three heat recov-ery steam generators (HRSGs) and a retrofitted steam turbine. The Claus C repowering project was inaugurated in June 2012 and now reaches an ef-ficiency of 59%, compared to 39% of the replaced Claus B unit.

pany said. In this setup, three gas tur-bines each exhaust into its own heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) to generate steam that is then fed to a single steam turbine.

Alstom’s gas turbines, the GT26 and the GT24, made a difference in the Claus C project’s efficiency. The two turbine models use the sequen-tial combustion principle as a way of increasing efficiency and operational flexibility, Alstom said. The GT24/GT26 combustion system is based on an Alstom combustion concept us-ing the EnVironmental (EV) burner in an annular combustor, followed by the Sequential EnVironmental (SEV) burner in the second, annu-lar combustion stage. Integrating the concept of dry-low NOx EV burner and sequential combustion into a single shaft gas turbine resulted in the GT24/GT26 — a machine with high-power density, a small footprint, and high-exhaust temperature in order to maximize the efficiency in combined-cycle, the company said.

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AnsAldo energiAOpen-Cycle “6th October” Plant,

Cairo, EgyptThe open-cycle power plant known

as “6th October” is located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, where the highway to Alexandria begins. The 600 MW plant was a turnkey project worth €245 million that Ansaldo En-ergia carried out for the Cairo Elec-tricity Production Co. and commis-sioned in June 2012.

Alstom’s proposal dealt with reus-ing and refurbishing most of the ex-isting infrastructure, such as a section of the existing steam turbine build-ing and electrical building, the direct cooling facilities — the main cooling water pumps — and the cooling tow-er. According to the customer, reus-ing the steam turbine building and its facilities provided a 15 to 20% sav-ings compared to a new combined-cycle power plant building.

It is also the first time Alstom has provided a three-on-one configuration for a KA26 combined-cycle power plant. The three GT26 gas turbines provided the flexibility that is required in today’s electricity market, the com-


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ing an existing steam power plant into a

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power using a 35% increase in fuel, as well as

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The contract for the new plant was signed in March 2011 and included the delivery of four Ansaldo AE94.2 gas turbines with relative alternators and auxiliary systems. The power plant can be fired both by gas and fuel oil.

The project was one result of the Egyptian Energy Ministry’s decision to urgently commission additional power plants to remedy the electric power deficit that caused a crisis in the country’s electric power distribu-tion system in summer 2010.

The construction of the 600 MW “6th Octo-

ber” power plant was a fast-track turnkey

project Ansaldo Energia carried out for the

Cairo Electricity Production Co.

The construction of the “6th Octo-ber” power plant was a fast-track proj-ect, scheduled for completion within a very demanding 14.5-month period. Ansaldo Energia said that engineering, supply orders and subsequent delivery represented the critical points for proj-ect start-up and rapid development.

The work site was opened early in April 2011 and Egyptian contractor Orascom performed the civil works for the various buildings, making it possible for mechanical and electrical assembly workers to access the site at predefined deadlines under the close supervision of the Ansaldo Energia work site team.

Work site activities during the busiest period from October to De-cember 2011 required a peak of about 2000 people, and were car-ried out on-site in such a way as to guarantee the utmost worker safety possible under the close supervi-sion of the various safety entities involved. In fact, in May 2012 the customer presented Ansaldo En-ergia with a certificate recognizing 7 million hours of work without an accident.

In April 2012 — one year after the

start of the project — the four gas tur-bines were synchronized with the grid for the first time. This was followed in May by successful performance tests on the new 600 MW power plant. By early June, all units were available to feed the national grid.

Worth mentioning is the recogni-tion by the authorities and the cus-tomer of the effort made by Ansaldo Energia to complete the start-up of all units according to the contract sched-ule, contributing 600 MW during the summer to satisfy increasing de-mand — particularly during a period of profound change for the country, which at the time had already elected a new Parliament and was on the way to naming a new President.

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CaterpillarJhulda 100 MW Power Plant,

BangladeshThe Jhulda 100 MW heavy-fuel oil

power plant became operational in March. The plant was sold to Acorn Infrastructure Services Ltd. (AISL), an affiliate of Caterpillar’s Bangla-desh Dealer, BanglaCat. It sits on 8 hectares of land on the south bank of the Karnafuli River.

The Jhulda plant utilizes eight Caterpillar

16CM43 generator sets in support of the

Bangladesh Power Development Board.

The additional 100 MW of capac-ity supports the Bangladesh Power Development Board’s (BPDB) na-tional target of, “Electricity For All” by 2021. Just 49% of the people in Bangladesh have access to electrici-ty. The unstable grid causes frequent power outages, while a shortage of natural gas and load shedding dur-ing peak hours make the situation

worse. Because electricity is crucial to economic growth and improved quality of living, increasing genera-tion capacity is a high priority for the BPDB. Since January 2009, sev-eral contracts have been approved to increase capacity by 4500 MW.

The Jhulda plant utilizes eight Cat-erpillar 16CM43 generator sets that produce 14.4 MW of power each. In 2012, the first 16CM43 genera-tor set — the largest that Caterpillar manufactures — was commissioned for operation.

As the natural gas infrastructure in Bangladesh becomes more robust, a shift in fuel source may become neces-sary or beneficial. When gas becomes readily available, the 16CM43 can be easily retrofit to operate in a dual-fuel capacity on both liquid and natural gas sources, the company said.

Caterpillar and local dealer, Bangla-Cat, have provided operational sup-port, training, maintenance and repair services and tools, the supply of relat-ed equipment and emergency services.

AISL signed a five-year rental power agreement to sell power to the BPDB and will also supply power capacity to the national grid. The plant is expected to be operational for 25 to 30 years.

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Centrax12 MW CHP Plant, Versailles, France

Centrax, a U.K. gas turbine power generation packaging specialist, has completed one of its highest-profile installations in recent years with the commissioning of its first Siemens CX400 package.

This 12 MW unit is now meeting 40% of the hot water demand of the French city of Versailles, on the out-skirts of Paris, while also producing electricity for sale to French power utility EDF. Customers for its heat and power include the Palace of Ver-sailles and surrounding residential ar-eas, and the new power plant re-uses the existing building and replaces an older gas turbine.


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The Versailles combined heat and power (CHP) installation is the first Siemens gas turbine to be packaged by Centrax since the two companies forged an agreement that enables Centrax to market the SGT-300 and 400 gas turbines in the U.K., France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Besides its technical benefits, the CX400 also gives Centrax the com-mercial advantage of providing the greatest power output and energy efficiency below the 12 MW cap im-posed on cogeneration projects in France, the company said.

The 12 MW Siemens CX400 package allows

Centrax to provide the greatest power output

and energy efficiency below the 12 MW cap

imposed on cogeneration projects in France.

This allows French energy pro-ducer COFELY, parent company of Versailles operator Verséo, to maxi-mize its revenue by exporting 12 MW of power across the ambient temperature range during a contract-ed operating time of 3600 h/yr. The Versailles sale also further enhances the Centrax track record with power company COFELY, which now oper-ates 23 Centrax units at installations in France and the U.K.

Crucially, Centrax completed the installation and commissioning well within a tight schedule to meet the start of the winter heating season in France.

The contract brings the number of generator sets packaged by Centrax for the European market to more than 320. The company said that Siemens gas turbines complement the current product range by giving customers one of the widest choices of power output in Europe, with a range of be-tween 2.5 and 64 MW.

With customer service bases in

France, Italy, the Netherlands, Ger-many, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Russia, 95% of the Centrax output is exported.

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J624 Two-Stage Plant, Houweling’s Tomatoes,

Camarillo, California, U.S.A.A combined heat and power (CHP)

greenhouse project that captures car-bon dioxide (CO2) for use in plant fertilization has been installed at Houweling’s Tomatoes, a 505 857 m2 tomato greenhouse in Camarillo, Cal-ifornia, U.S.A. Unveiled on Aug. 22, the project uses two of GE’s 4.36 MW J624 two-stage turbocharged natural gas engines and a GE-designed CO2

fertilization system.Boasting both lower carbon dioxide

(CO2) emissions and increased overall efficiency, the system provides 8.7 MW of electrical power — enough to power nearly 8800 homes — and 10.6 MW of thermal power (hot water) for heating the glass greenhouses on-site.

The project represents the U.S. launch of GE’s J624 two-stage tur-bocharged gas engines for the 60 Hz segment. Introduced by GE in 2007, the J624 is a 24-cylinder gas engine, which features double turbocharging for commercial power generation.

Greenhouse CHP combines the production of heat and power to en-rich the greenhouse atmosphere with CO2, keep the temperature on a con-stant level, and provide dispatchable power for lighting so that harvest yield can be significantly increased, GE said.

The CHP plant at Houweling’s To-matoes enables flexible generation and contributes electric power dur-ing peak daytime demand periods. With a five-minute start-up capabil-ity, this high-efficiency plant also provides power to the electric util-ity to augment the power grid. Ad-ditionally, the thermal energy pro-duced from the engine during power generation can be transferred to

the greenhouse immediately during cooler periods or retained in existing thermal storage tanks for use at other times of the day. The system offers a total thermal efficiency of almost 90%, GE said.

The concept of a power plant be-ing able to generate heat and power at nearly 100% overall efficiency is made possible by condensing out water va-por created in the combustion process, GE said. Thermal energy is recovered in exhaust gas heat exchangers for use in the greenhouse, which uses very low water temperatures in its heating system to cool down exhaust tem-peratures below the dew point. The engine exhaust gases are purified by a COdiNOx flue gas cleaning system in such a way that the present CO2 can be piped into the greenhouse to fertilize the plants during the daylight photosynthesis process. In addition, Houweling’s uses the water condensed out of the exhaust gas in its operations, saving 35 961 L/d of usage from local water sources.

A combined heat and power project at

Houweling’s Tomatoes uses two of GE’s

4.36 MW J624 two-stage turbocharged

natural gas engines and a GE-designed CO2

fertilization system.

Besides the reduction of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides of the standard COdiNOx instal-lation, Houweling’s selective catalytic reduction part of the system helps de-crease even more nitrogen oxides con-taminants than a standard SCR system. The local air pollution control district in Ventura County required the instal-lation of the best available control tech-nology for the CHP plant, and the NOx




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MTU OnsiTe energy24 MW Peak-Load Plant,

Fulda, GermanyThe Überlandwerk Fulda Aktieng-

esellschaft (ÜWAG) power plant in the German city of Fulda was originally built 100 years ago to supply electric-ity to the city. Now, with a €10 million modernization in recent years, it is a modern power plant that supplies peak-load power when demand is so high that there is insufficient capacity avail-able in the combined European grid.

To be able to balance the demand peaks more effectively in the future, two old diesel engines were retired and re-placed by six smaller generator sets sup-plied by MTU Onsite Energy, featuring a 20-cylinder MTU Series 4000 engine. The first three of six gen-sets went into operation in the power plant in Decem-ber 2011 and the facility was officially inaugurated in September 2012.

Up to now, ÜWAG has mainly sup-plied what is called tertiary, or short- term, operating reserve energy that has to be available within 15 minutes of being called upon. However, with the new MTU Onsite Energy gen-sets, ÜWAG will now also be able to sup-ply the substantially more lucrative secondary reserve power.

To do so, a provider is required to be capable of supplying 100% of the reg-istered capacity within five minutes. Generating and delivering electricity that quickly is a major challenge be-cause not only do the generators have to start up from standstill, they also have to synchronize their frequency, voltage and phases with the com-bined European grid system within a matter of seconds.

ÜWAG said it believed the diesel power station is the most modern in the world and that the engines are in-deed able to meet those grid start-up and synchronization requirements.

In addition to feeding the national grid, ÜWAG also supplies electricity to the city of Fulda. If the national grid suffered a failure, the generators at ÜWAG would make sure the city retained its necessary power. In that event, a “blackout start-up” gen-set, which requires no external electric pumps or auxiliary equipment to fire up, automatically starts and supplies the energy for the other five gen-sets to be started. Together, they can sup-ply 24.8 MW of electricity.

ÜWAG said that with the new en-gines the plant, when measured against the previous level per kWh generated, has reduced its particulate emissions to a sixth of what they were, and nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide have been lowered by 25 and 50%, respectively, while concurrently lowering fuel con-sumption by 10%.

At the Fulda ÜWAG plant, MTU Onsite

Energy has replaced two old diesel engines

with six smaller generator sets, featuring a

20-cylinder MTU Series 4000 engine.

With the power plant located within the town of Fulda, ÜWAG also paid particular attention to reducing noise emissions. Special soundproof walls allow almost no sound to escape to the outside when the engines are starting up and running, the company said.

ÜWAG has also had a special re-mote diagnosis system installed, al-lowing the specialists at MTU Onsite Energy in Friedrichshafen to access the gen-sets and other components of the plant remotely and give advice on how to prevent or rectify faults.

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MWM gMbH26 MWe Station, Bilecik, Turkey

Germany-based MWM GmbH has

supplied six TCG 2032 V16 gas gen-erator sets to Tekno Energy’s Bilecik power plant. Bilecik is a city in north-western Turkey that lies along the Karasu River. The region is renowned for its silk and ceramics industry and is home to 230 000 inhabitants.

Tekno Energy is an independent power producer (IPP) and provides electricity to both the grid operator and to end users. The station is pow-ered by six TCG 2032 V16 engines by MWM and can produce a total output of 26 MWe, operating as a peak plant assisting the grid operators in balanc-ing the electricity market. The plant can be synchronized to the grid with-in 15 minutes and is capable of reach-ing full power output 20 minutes after the start button has been pressed.

Tekno Energy is now expanding the plant up to 40 MWe and upgrad-ing it into a combined-cycle with an additional steam turbine using the ex-haust gas heat recovery and an ORC system for the cooling water heat re-covery. This will increase the output and achive even higher efficiency.

While Tekno Energy’s consulting en-gineering firm Güncan Energy designed the entire power plant, helped choose the right equipment and coordinate the construction phase, the local supplier Iltekno provided and installed the gas engines with all necessary auxiliaries.

Tekno Energy’s Bilecik power station can

produce a total output of 26 MWe using six

TCG 2032 V16 engines by MWM.

The new version of the TCG 2032 was launched by MWM in January 2012. Optimized spark plugs and im-proved turbocharger technology have made it possible to reach an electrical efficiency of up to 44.2% with a pow-er output from 3333 to 4300 kWe.

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chargers installed as a standard in the TCG 2032 were fitted with a new ex-haust turbine. Improved efficiency on the exhaust side automatically increas-es the boost pressure on the compres-sor side of the turbocharger. The high-er boost pressure has a particularly positive effect on the part-load range when the load is adjusted.

The most comprehensive change in the new engine version is the introduc-tion of a new controller that combines and connects the previously separate controllers. Due to the operational ex-perience gained from the predecessor versions, the operating time before ma-jor overhaul has been significantly in-creased from 64 000 to 80 000 hours.

Because after-sales services such as maintenance and repair are crucial for the operation of the plant, Tekno En-ergy has chosen to work with Iltekno, which has proven to be capable and punctual in the design, delivery and maintenance, the company said. The group offers an inventory of spare parts and a local maintenance team.

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Rolls-Royce108 MW Power Plant,

Gopalganj, Bangladesh

The 108 MW Gopalganj power plant runs on

16 Rolls-Royce B32:40 diesel engines and has

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economic growth.

A new power facility in Bangla-desh’s southwestern region is helping the country’s government take anoth-er step in meeting its goal of provid-ing reliable supplies of electricity for the entire population.

The 108 MW plant at Gopalganj began commercial production of

electricity in November 2011 after a 450-day construction and com-missioning phase. The plant is powered by 16 Rolls-Royce B32:40 diesel engines ordered by Ener-gypac Power Generation Ltd. of Bangladesh in June 2010 and is owned by the Bangladesh Power Development Board. An additional eight B32:40 units, ordered at the

same time, now equip the nearby 54 MW Faridpur power station. The engines run on heavy-fuel oil.

The B32:40 engines provide a range of outputs between 2.6 and 7.2 MW, and are available in six-, eight- and nine-cylinder inline configurations and in 12- and 16-cylinder V-format.

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SiemenS energyNatural Gas-Fired,

Combined-Cycle Plant, Lodi, California, U.S.A.

The Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) officially dedicated its Lodi Energy Center (LEC) in August 2012. For the new natural gas-fired plant with an installed capacity of 300 MW, Siemens supplied the SCC6-5000F 1x1 Flex-Plant power island, which enables the NCPA to bring the plant to full load in a very short time. With an efficiency of over 57% and low start-up emissions, the LEC is one of the cleanest fossil power plants in the U.S.A., Siemens said.

The LEC is the first operating Sie-mens Flex-Plant combined-cycle plant in the U.S.A. This fast ramping gas-fired plant was specifically designed by Siemens as a solution to balance fluc-tuations on diverse power grids man-aging both renewable and traditional energy sources.

The Siemens SCC6-5000F and SCC6-8000H Flex-Plants have continued to evolve and are designed — using the Siemens SGT6-5000F and the SGT6-8000H as the prime movers — for in-termediate to continuous duty and are also capable of daily cycling. This facili-tates a stable, reliable power generation grid while integrated renewables ramp up and down to respond to changing power demands, said Siemens.

Flex-Plants are available with efficien-cies from over 57% with the SCC6-5000F engine to more than 60% with the SCC6-8000H engine. Siemens’ Clean-Ramp integrated control logic maintains low start-up NOx and CO emissions while ramping.

The Siemens Flex-Plant power island

at the LEC consists of a 200 MW Sie-mens SGT6-5000F gas turbine-genera-tor operating in combined-cycle mode with a 100 MW Siemens SST-900RH steam turbine-generator. To power the steam turbine, gas turbine waste heat is captured by a Benson-style fast-ramping heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG) provided by Nooter/Erikson. The plants also include high-capacity steam attemperation and full capacity steam bypass systems; piping warmup strategies; and the Siemens steam tur-bine stress controller (TSC).

The Siemens Flex-Plant combined-cycle

power island at the Lodi Energy Center.

The LEC uses reclaimed water from the adjacent Lodi’s White Slough Wa-ter Pollution Control Facility. The tertiary treated water is further pro-cessed by the LEC’s water quality fa-cilities before use in the steam genera-tion process and power plant cooling system. The LEC utilizes a seven-cell cooling tower provide by SPX Cool-ing Technologies Inc.

The unrestricted full ramp rate gas turbine start reduces plant start-up time by up to 50%, providing 200 MW to the grid in 30 minutes or less and allowing a high level of operating flexibility to react to market oppor-tunities. Resulting carbon monoxide reductions of over 181 tonnes/yr can be achieved when compared to tradi-tional F-class combined-cycle plants. Comparatively, overall greenhouse gas emissions are being cut by 30%.

Siemens said that the SPPA-T3000 integrated control system provides a control platform for the entire com-bined-cycle power plant, which has a total operational capacity of 2.4 million Wh/yr.

Long-term service programs will

help to ensure the reliability and per-formance of the main components.

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WärtSilä180 MW Power Plant,

Sasolburg, South AfricaIn December, a 180 MW power

plant was commissioned in Sasol-burg in the Republic of South Af-rica. Sasol New Energy (SNE) Hold-ings, a business division of Sasol, ordered the plant, which generates electricity for the company’s own use, with the excess energy going to the national grid.

The Sasolburg plant was built on a turnkey basis by Wärtsilä, which sup-plied the generating equipment, engi-neering, civil works and construction. Wärtsilä also received a three-year operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement with SNE Holdings to en-sure that the plant delivers the design output with maximum efficiency. Local SNE employees will also be trained as part of this agreement.

The plant, situated 1500 m above sea level, runs on 18 Wärtsilä 34SG gas engines. The closed loop radia-tor cooling system employed in these engines offers significant benefits in locations where water resources are limited. Sasol also opted for combus-tion engines for the plant, which is designed for base-load generation, because of their ability to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

In this plant, heat from the exhaust gases can be recovered and used to produce steam for Sasol’s industrial processes. Wärtsilä also handled the design and installation of the heat re-covery boilers. Space is available for installing additional gen-sets.

South Africa’s generating capacity has traditionally been dominated by coal-fired power plants, Wärtsilä said. Sasol’s gas power plant uses technol-ogy that reduces its carbon footprint by more than 40%. According to calculations, Sasolburg’s annual car-bon emissions will be cut by 907 185 tonnes. A

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Fuel is subject to the relentless and unceasing hazard of contamination, with moisture as one of the most com-mon dangers.

Water in fuel that reaches the fuel system can affect the operational performance and life of engine parts or, worse, lead to early and possibly catastrophic failure. Controlling the ingress of moisture in fuel systems is therefore of vital importance.

According to Jim Dockendorff, chief engineer, Level Products, Gems Sensors and Controls, cases of water in-gress leading to engine failure are increasingly common. “There is a particular urgency to protect high-efficiency en-gines, especially modern ones, where moisture in the form of condensation is a common problem,” Dockendorff said.

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The WIF-1250 contains integral, high-temperature rated electronics that generate an alternating voltage to a probe tip. The probe tip is electrically isolated from the housing via a fused glass seal, providing a hermetic, high-pressure capability suitable for fuel system use, the company said. The presence of water completes the cir-cuit, which, in turn, changes the condition of the tran-sistor output.

“In general, contamination from the ingress of water is often more problematic in diesel engines than in petrol en-gines because the subsequent corrosion can cause serious damage to the injection pump and injectors,” Dockendorff said. “Diesel engines require fine fuel filters and water traps to alert operators when there is too much water in the trap so that it can be drained before the engine is damaged.”

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pressure sensors, solid-state relays and barriers, liquid and pneumatic miniature solenoid valves, and pre-assembled fluidic systems. It has facil-ities in the United Kingdom, United States, China, Germany and Japan.

The company points to the fact that conductivity based sensors are avail-able to detect the presence of water in fuel and lubricating oil. “Conductive level measurement is achieved via the electrical conductance of the process material, typically a liquid with a low-voltage source,” Dockendorff said.

“In a tank of liquid, simple con-ductive sensors can be positioned at high and low points in the tank to detect maximum and minimum lev-els. When the level of process mate-rial rises to reach the upper probe, a switch closes to activate a discharge pump; when the process material makes contact with the lower probe, the switch opens to stop the pump.

“However, there are now more sophisticated components available

that can detect the presence of water in fuel. Because water is electrically conductive and fuel is not, conduc-tivity sensors such as those produced by Gems Sensors and Controls can be mounted in any position and with-stand extreme temperatures.

“Their output can be used to actu-ate relays, indicator lights or LEDs, as well as to interface with CMOS/TTL logic, PLCs or microproces-sors. Also, since water is heavier than oil, it tends to sink to the bot-tom of fuel tanks. These sensors can be positioned strategically in the tank bottom for water detection.”

Dockendorff said for detecting wa-ter in fuel, conductivity based sen-sors have proved very successful in applications such as off-highway ve-hicles, locomotives and generator sets. “However, the marketplace is ex-panding as the sensors become more resilient,” Dockendorff said.

“For example, in a conventional conductivity probe where a single

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“The WIF-1250 is a new solution for detecting the presence of water in fuel, but customer feedback is also telling us that this is proving to be an ideal solution for fuel filters, compres-sor crank cases, lubricating oil tanks and diesel fuel storage tanks because it has high reliability and long-term stability in oil.”

Looking at future trends, Dockendorff said increasing legislation across the industry is setting stiff require-ments for reliability and sustainabil-ity. “The newest level measurement technologies are powerful tools in helping plant engineers to meet these goals,” he said. A

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Russelectric has released its medium-voltage (5 to 15 kV) circuit breaker-type transfer and bypass/isolation switches, which are suitable for use in legally re-quired emergency power systems. The switches transfer electrical loads between normal and emergency power sources via controlled opening and closing of circuit breakers and may be configured for open- or closed-transition transfer, the company said.

All switch functions are controlled by Russelectric’s RPTCS programmable microprocessor-based control system. Though designed for unattended op-

eration, the switches include controls for manual operation.

The bypass/isolation switches provide all the functions of an automatic transfer switch plus the ability to bypass power from live source to load in the event the transfer switch becomes disabled. In ad-dition, they are designed to allow isola-tion and de-energization of the automatic transfer breakers for maintenance, testing and repair.

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Joslyn AC surge protection devices (SPDs) from Thomas & Betts, which in-

clude more than 1300 standard configura-tions, are available with stainless-steel en-closures for corrosive applications such as wastewater treatment facilities. Other ap-plications include oil and gas processing, civil construction, utilities and mining.

Available through Thomas & Betts’ network of distributors, Joslyn SPDs pro-tect operations from the damaging effects of electrical power surges, transients and noise from the service entrance to the equipment level. Suitable for protecting single-, split- and three-phase applica-tions ranging from 120 to 600 V Delta, the SPDs are capable of handling high-surge energy from 20 to 400 kA per phase.

The stainless-steel enclosures are stan-dard in Type 304 stainless steel, an alloy of iron, chromium and nickel. Enclosures in marine-grade Type 316 stainless steel, which contains molybdenum in addition to the metals contained in the Type 304 stainless steel alloy, are available through special order, the company said.

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Equipment from Dresser-Rand is making production life easier for Agiba Petroleum, which produces 57 000 barrels of oil per day from six oilfields across Egypt.

Dresser-Rand engineered and in-stalled two Guascor SFGLD series gas generator sets, which use an electronic carburetion system to accommodate the inherent fuel fluctuations in the Raml oilfield, as well as run on a low methane number gas with a low heat value (LHV) of less than 40 MJ/Nm3.

The gen-sets also remove water and heavy hydrocarbons from the gas during the liquid phase to ensure it is dry when entering the engine. As a result, the flare gas is now used as the fuel that produces the 1.5 MW of electricity needed to power the oil pumps for the production wells, Dresser-Rand said.

Founded in 1981 as an operating company of the Egyptian General Petro-leum Corp., Agiba previously used die-sel generators to produce power for the Raml oilfield’s wells. The Raml oilfield is located 250 km from Al-Alamayn in the Egyptian Western Desert.

Historically, the field produced poor economic returns because of its high gas-to-oil ratio and insufficient sepa-

emissions from the Raml gas wells by 50% and lowered the amount of flare gas previously released into the air by 60%.

The new generator sets save Agiba US$2.5 million a year, Dresser-Rand said. Prior to the installation, Agiba operated 30 diesel generators but now uses the two Guascor SFGLD gen-sets to power 30 wells. Gas gen-erators also have longer intervals between planned maintenance com-pared with diesel generators, accord-ing to Dresser-Rand.

Because of this power addition, Agiba will be able to run a much more sustainable and efficient opera-tion, maximize its oil production, re-duce emissions, lower maintenance costs and repair time, and drill and produce more crude oil. A

Flare gas is used as fuel for the gas gen-sets, producing the 1.5 MW of electricity needed to power the oil pumps for the Rami oilfied production wells.

ration of oil and gas, according to the company. Since it was not economical-ly feasible to store and pump these low quantities of gas (70 792 m3/d), Agiba flared the gas to the atmosphere.

Agiba’s operations, however, turned out to be expensive — to the tune of US$1/L for diesel fuel — to keep its generators running. The company soon turned to Dresser-Rand for equipment that would improve the oil and gas separation ratio while reducing fuel and maintenance costs.

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GE

P GE will upgrade TransCanada Energy Ltd.’s MacKay River 165

MW cogeneration plant with technology designed to deliver more power capacity with low emissions.

GE will supply its Advanced Gas Path (AGP) product to its natural gas-fired 7FA turbine. AGP technology enables power providers to operate more efficiently and reliably by upgrading hot gas path, bucket, nozzle and shroud components with design and material innovations, the company said.

This installation will be complemented by the controls capabilities of several GE OpFlex products, such as a Cold Day Per-formance app. Altogether, the improve-ments are expected to increase the plant’s output up to 4.5%, with the potential to increase steam and electricity production further in the future.

The upgrades are part of a GE contrac-tual service agreement, which will pro-vide maintenance services to the plant through 2024. The plant, located north-west of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, runs nearly 24 hours a day.

CUMMINS

O Cummins Inc. will produce dual-fuel engines for land-based oil and

gas drilling applications. The first engine for land-based drilling applications is the Tier 2 QSK50, rated 103.6 kW at 1200 r/min. Other QSK Series engines will fol-low, including engines capable of meeting upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier 4 Final emissions reg-ulations, the company said.

The Cummins Dual-Fuel QSK50 engine will incorporate integrated controls designed to optimize the substitution rate based on operating conditions, and automatically transition between diesel-fuel and dual-fuel modes. Cummins said its dual-fuel technol-ogy enables drilling equipment to operate on 100% diesel fuel or in dual-fuel mode.

In dual-fuel mode, the substitution rate — the percentage of natural gas relative to total fuel flow — can be as high as 70% in traditional operating conditions, Cum-mins said.

The Cummins dual-fuel product will be applicable to both new QSK50 engines and as a retrofit on existing QSK50 en-

gines. The Cummins global distribution network will handle upfit, commissioning and warranty on dual-fuel engines.

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P Norwegian company Langlee Wave Power and Repnaval Shipyard (Za-

makona Yards) have signed an agreement for the development of wave power in the Canary Islands. The two companies will file a common application to the EEA grants for

development of renewable energy in Spain.Langlee Wave Power AS has developed

technology designed to convert ocean waves into electricity. According to the company, the Canary Islands are the best place for wave power in Europe be-cause of its stable wave climate. With the company’s technology, electricity can be produced with lower cost by a renewable energy source, Langlee said.


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Monico Inc. has released the Mo-nico Custom Protocol Converter (CPC Gateway), which is programmed to monitor Cummins equipment through the ModLon gateway and output on several different protocols. With the device, Cummins users will have the ability to predict and prevent down-time, according to Monico.

Four years ago, Monico introduced the Cat Data Link Gateway (CDL Gate-way), which gave dealers, OEMs and end users direct access to engine mon-itoring parameters via Modbus TCP/IP, Modbus RTU, BACnet and other protocols and memory map formats.

Monico said during the CDL Gate-way’s release it had plans to expand its product capabilities to accommodate other engines, and that time has come.

A CPC Gateway is attached to the ModLon gateway or native Modbus. A template created by Monico pro-grammers is used to extract data from Cummins equipment such as engines and generator sets. The collected data

The CPC Gateway collects infor-mation over the ModLon gateway for older Cummins gen-sets or through Modbus RTU on newer Cummins gen-sets. The collected information is placed in a common, preconfigured data map, which can be used to con-vert data into Modbus TCP, BACnet, Allen Bradley PLC, GE Fanuc PLC, Siemens PLC, Omron PLC and other common protocols. Additionally, the added ports built into the gateway can collect data from switchgear and additional ancillary equipment.

“What a lot of dealers are up against is they have a certain type of PLC and they need to get the engine and generator data,” said Bruce Eckley, a Monico engineer. “The CPC Gateway allows you to take one protocol and put it out to another.

“We take all that data and map it out nicely, with complete registers, and we give that map to customers and deal-ers. They say it’s great,” Eckley said.

The device also features four to six physical ports that can communicate in up to nine protocols simultane-ously and support about 100 proto-cols. It runs on and includes a 24 Vdc power supply, din-rail mounting ele-ments, user configurable port settings and addresses, UL-508 listed with C-UL, and modular jacks to prevent wiring errors.

Monico said all its Gateways are capable of having I/O expansion modules added for additional flexibil-ity, with available modules including thermocouple units with eight inputs, six RTD inputs, four analog outputs and eight analog inputs. A CP Gate-way PLUS model also exists, which features upgrades such as a virtual HMI web server; SMTP support for sending e-mail and text messaging alerts; real-time data logging; an ftp server to retrieve data log files; and a sync server to automatically sync log files with an IP-connected computer.

All of the CPC Gateway’s capabili-ties come preconfigured for simple setup and can be customized using Monico’s software, MonicoView II, which comes standard on every Gate-way, the company said. A

Monico’s Custom Protocol Converter (CPC Gateway) is programmed to monitor Cummins

equipment through the ModLon gateway and output on several different protocols.

can be translated into one of multiple protocols for use with PLC control systems, building automation sys-tems, or through a web interface.

Recently, the CPC Gateway was used to translate engine data into BACnet, Modbus and Allen-Bradley PLC. How-ever, it has the ability to communicate over many other available protocols.

Because a ModLon gateway sup-ports up to five engines, the CPC Gate-way can collect and translate the data from all attached engines and com-municate it to one or multiple targets, Monico said.

“All of these programming languages and protocols are what engine manu-facturers use, and it’s necessary to get this data into a format they can use to communicate with their own network,” said Allen Walker, Monico’s vice presi-dent of sales. “The engines don’t speak the same languages as the operating systems that these companies have. The CPC Gateway allows these devices to communicate with each other.”


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Marine Gearboxes

A brochure from Siemens pro-vides details on the company’s Flender Navilus gear units for marine vessels. Siemens offers marine gearboxes for single-motor ships, two-motor ships, generators and dredgers. The gearboxes, available in twin-, multiple-drive, and single-drive, deliver power outputs up to 40 MW.

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Marine Lubricants

Total Lubmarine has pro-duced literature on its prod-uct. The company offers lubricants for marine appli-cations. The product guide consists of main lubricants, auxiliary mineral lubricants, auxiliary synthetic lubricants, eco-friendly lubricants, greas-es and eco-friendly greases.

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turbocharGers

A guide on its range of tur-bochargers is available from ABB. Each turbocharger has a page that includes a descrip-tion of the product, its char-acteristics and a compressor pressure ratio chart. A sec-tion on the company’s earlier generation of turbochargers is also included.www.abb.com/turbocharging

bearinG Products

Miba Bearing Group has re-leased information on its ca-pabilities. The company offers slide bearings for several ap-plications, such as stationary diesel and gas engines, loco-motives, marine engines and compressors. Other products include half shells, flange bear-ings, thrust washers, bushings and tribological coatings.

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Wärtsilä has been contracted to engineer, supply and install a major power plant in Jordan. The order has been placed by AES Corp., a U.S.-based independent power producer that owns and operates a diverse portfolio of electricity generation and distribution businesses around the world, the company said. The value of the contract is €184 million.

The IPP4 Al-Manakher power plant is to be installed next to the existing AES power plant in Amman, Jordan, on a fast-track, turnkey basis, and is scheduled to be fully operational by July 2014. The power plant will supply electricity to the country’s national grid. The power plant will be running on 16 Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines and will be capable of using heavy fuel oil (HFO), distillate (DFO) or natural gas as

An additional 573 MW power plant project is under construction and is expected to be operational in 2014.

“There are a number of reasons why Wärtsilä was successful in winning this valuable contract,” said Vesa Riihimä-ki, president, Wärtsilä Power Plants. “The prime reason, however, is our tri-fuel technology, which provides the customer with operational and fuel flexibility, high output efficiency and proven reliability. Furthermore, our ability to deliver this large turnkey project within a 17 month time frame was a major reason for Wärtsilä being awarded this contract.”

AES has a number of projects with Wärtsilä power plant solutions, with three other power plants either al-ready installed or in the process of being installed in Africa. A

Supplying electricity to Jordan’s national grid, 16 Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines will power the new IPP4 Al-Manakher power plant.

fuel. Wärtsilä said it expects that initially the plant will operate using HFO, but the fuel flexibility of its engine technolo-gy will enable a transfer to environmen-tally sustainable natural gas operation once the infrastructure for a natural gas supply is in place.

This power plant order is the lat-est that Wärtsilä has received from Jordan within a short period of time. The government of Jordan is cur-rently restructuring and upgrading its national electricity grid to ensure that a reliable power supply is avail-able throughout the country. This will be the third power plant that Wärtsilä has delivered to the coun-try. A 50 MW plant is already in use and is being operated and maintained by Wärtsilä personnel under an Op-erations and Maintenance agreement.


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Conversion systems

Huegli Tech published a bro-chure on its dual-fuel con-version systems. The system allows high-speed diesel en-gines to operate on 25% diesel fuel and 75% natural gas. It automatically compensates for variations in gas quality and availability and functions as a pure diesel engine if the gas supply is interrupted.

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DiagnostiCs, monitoring

Windrock has released a brochure that provides an overview of its products and services, including online monitoring systems, portable analyzers, machinery health monitoring and asset man-agement systems, emissions testing services, diagnostic and analysis services, and training programs.

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Hengelo, Netherlands-based gas tur-bine maker OPRA Turbines rounded off 2012 with its highest-ever order book, entered into new markets in Germany, Romania, Estonia and Indo-nesia, and set expansion plans for this upcoming year.

A key market for OPRA has been in Russia, where it sold 12 of its OP16 turbines in 2012. OPRA also opened a new office in Moscow to strengthen its sales activities in the country and to increase local service support to existing and future customers.

OPRA said an added reason for a presence in Moscow was to meet the need for gas turbines in the 2 MW range to run on flare gas in remote oil fields. To date, OPRA has almost 50 all-radial 2 MW OP16 gen-sets operating in Russia.

The first OP16 gas turbines were delivered to Russia in 2005 and have achieved more than 50 000 running hours on associated gasses at the Te-dinskoe oil field, which is operated by Lukoil Sever.

Single or multiple OP16 units can

haust gas heat produces just less than 11 T/hr of steam, exactly what PT Amerta Indahin needed to steril-ize the water bottles and prepare the drinks. The gas turbines have dual-fuel capability and can operate on liq-uid and gaseous fuels and switch un-der full load. The CHP system has a waste heat recovery steam boiler, and OPRA arranged for the supply of a gas boost compressor for the project.

A Romanian government decision to add 5% of ethanol into gasoline was beneficial to alcoholic drink-maker S.C Murex S.A., which can produce 10 million L of bio-ethanol by using corn as their main raw material.

The company, based in Braila, set up a CHP plant and chose a single OP16-3A gas turbine to provide steam and electricity to the factory 24 hours per day in local ambient tem-peratures down to -30°C.

The OP 16-3A turbine produces 1.8 MWe and is connected to a co-fired waste heat recovery steam boiler to generate almost 11 T/hr of steam. Murex has also signed a long-term service agreement with OPRA.

OPRA has also recently installed an OP16-3B gen-set with dry-low emis-sions technology to Respell & Dieters GmbH, which makes adhesives for the corrugated board and paper industries

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provide installations with an electrical power demand from 1.5 to 10 MW and, according to the company, are well suited for a variety of applications including combined heat and power (CHP) and oil and gas applications.

“We achieved an all-time high or-der book in 2012 and are expanding to meet our need for more produc-tion space, testing and office require-ments,” said Fredrik Mowill, OPRA Turbines’ chief executive officer. Four major installations — in Indonesia, Estonia, Romania and Germany — were completed in 2012.

The recent installation of two OP16-3A dual-fuel turbines to PT Amerta Indahin Sukabumi in Indo-nesia represented OPRA’s first sale in Asia. Due to the unpredictable local supply of electricity, the client need-ed a reliable source of continuous power — 3 MW of power and almost 11 T/hr of steam for the production of its isotonic drink.

OPRA supplied two OP16-3A tur-bines, each delivering up to 1.5 MWe and 4.3 MW of heating power. Ex-


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at its factory in Ibbenbüren, Germany.The company uses wheat starch for

its products. The OP16 supplied its 1.8 MWe of power at the factory and the exhaust heat is used for direct dry-ing of the starch production and for other production processes. The new

unit replaces an existing gas turbine that did not meet air emissions regu-lations. An added key feature, OPRA said, is that because the OP16’s bear-ings are in the gas turbine’s cold sec-tion, the lubrication is prevented from being exposed to the hot section.

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OP16s are installed on this FPSO facility off the coast of Brazil.

This means the turbine has near-zero lubrication oil consumption and it is impossible for oil to enter the exhaust. Turbine exhaust gases that are oil free are vital for manufactur-ing food and paper products. Excess electricity produced at Ibbenbüren is exported into the grid.

In Estonia, OPRA has supplied an OP-16 gas turbine for CHP applica-tion for the Sorbes Group in Swit-zerland, Estonia and the Ukraine. Sorbets Estonia needed 2 MW of power and 4 MW of heat to produce wooden boards. The heat is used to heat the thermal oil through a heat exchanger and the rest is used in the drying process.

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After the successful completion of Phase One and the awarding of a contract for Phase Two, Siemens has been selected by Statoil to participate in the third phase of the technology qualification program. This phase will measure qualification for a full-scale CO2 capture plant at the combined-heat and power plant of a refinery in Mongstad, Norway.

In Phase One, Siemens successfully demonstrated the applicability of the PostCap process for the Mongstad carbon capture plant by proving that PostCap can be dialed to full scale, has the required operational regulari-ty, and that high capture ratios can be achieved with limited life cycle costs.

Phase Two is already partially com-pleted. Siemens explained that the subtasks of conducting stress tests on the solvent and documenting emis-

technologies and gain trust in the cooperation with the potential plant supplier,” Nicolas Vortmeyer, head of Technology Innovation of Fossil Power Generation at Siemens Energy. “Thus, it contributes to eliminating risks in the implementation of first-of-its-kind demonstration projects.”

Siemens’ proprietary CO2 capture technology uses an amino-acid salt solution as a solvent. According to Siemens, this technology has proven to have several advantages compared to other post-combustion carbon cap-ture processes: low energy consump-tion, low investment costs, as well as nearly zero emissions. Furthermore, the PostCap unit can be operated within the common safety standards of a power plant. It is suitable for retrofitting existing plants and new power plants, the company said. A


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sions data on an automated laborato-ry test rig had been performed within the time frame agreed. The remaining task of a 3000-hour performance test at an approved verification pilot plant with flue gas from a gas-fired boiler is ongoing.

The third and final phase, which has now been awarded to Siemens, is the concept phase for the design of full scale CO2 capture at Mongstad. Successful results in the technology qualification program will allow for the potential selection of Siemens’ PostCap technology in later project stages. This last phase started in late September 2012 and will be finished in April 2013.

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GE will provide a wide range of equipment and services for a major plant upgrade of the Izmit Tüpras re-finery, located on the Gulf of Izmit in Turkey. GE technology will power the cogeneration site, producing a reliable supply of energy and steam to meet the growing needs of the Tüpras facility, which is among the most advanced oil refineries in the Mediterranean region.

GE will supply two Frame 6B gas tur-bines, one steam turbine and three gen-erators to Técnicas Reunidas of Spain, the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the Izmit

and broad base of technology and serv-ices, GE is an excellent partner for a project as challenging and complex as the Tüpras refinery upgrade,” said Juan Lladó, CEO of Técnicas Reunidas. “This project builds upon the already successful relationship that has been es-tablished between our two companies.”

GE has been working with Técnicas Reunidas for 30 years, supplying nearly 4.5 GW of power generation equip-ment and oil and gas equipment — in-cluding turbines, compressors, pumps and reactors — for projects worldwide.

The Izmit Tüpras refinery, located on the Gulf of Izmit in Turkey, is among the most advanced oil refineries in the Mediterranean region.

Tüpras upgrade project. The equip-ment contract also includes perfor-mance testing, services, spare parts and technical advisors, the company said.

GE has also signed a contractual service agreement (CSA) to provide maintenance services to Tüpras for 12 years. GE’s CSAs provide predict-able maintenance costs while ensur-ing high availability and a steady flow of revenue from plant operations, the company said. GE has long-term agreements in place at more than 700 sites worldwide.

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“Refineries have very stringent reliability and safety requirements. GE’s proven 6B gas turbine technol-ogy will bring added security and robust availability to the already high standards of Tüpras’ petro-chemical operations,” said Paul Browning, president and CEO — Thermal Products for GE Power & Water. “The upgrade project under-scores GE’s commitment to supply the latest technology and services to meet the reliability demands of the petrochemical industry worldwide. Our ability to deliver the wide range of products and services needed for the Tüpras project highlights the strength of the synergies that exist among many of the business units across the company.”

GE said its Frame 6B gas turbine has a strong record of performance in refinery and petrochemical appli-cations worldwide. The models to be installed for the Tüpras project will be equipped with GE’s latest dry low NOx (DLN) combustion technology to reduce emissions, extend main-tenance intervals and enable the site to operate more flexibly. GE’s DLN emissions-reducing technology is installed on more than 1900 heavy-duty gas turbines worldwide.


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GE will supply two Frame 6B gas turbines, one steam turbine and three generators to Téc-

nicas Reunidas of Spain, the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the

Izmit Tüpras upgrade project.

Tüpras selected GE’s combustion technology to enable the refinery to meet Turkey’s new and more strin-gent emissions requirements. The new laws call for natural gas plants to limit emissions to 50 mg/Nm3.

The GE (SANC1-6 model) 109K-250 VHP steam turbine package for the Tüpras upgrade features heavy-duty reaction technology that makes it an ideal equipment package for the oil and gas industry, GE said, allowing the client to operate the plant across varying conditions while still having a high efficiency of power production.

The cogeneration plant for the Izmit Tüpras refinery expansion will begin commercial operation in the first quarter of 2014. Tüpras, Tur-key’s leading oil company, operates four oil refineries including the Izmit site. The four facilities total more than 25.4 million tonnes of annual crude oil processing capacity.

Tüpras is owned by the KOÇ Group, the largest business group in Turkey with participation in industrial, com-mercial and financial sectors. Técnicas Reunidas is among the leading inter-national engineering and construction companies in oil and gas production, refining, and petrochemicals and pow-er generation projects. A

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P Siemens received a US$220 million order for the supply of the power

island for the UTE Mauá 3 combined-cycle power plant that will be located in Manaus, Brazil. The plant, which will have an installed capacity of 580 MW, will be built for Amazonas Distribuidora de Energia S.A., a subsidiary of Eletrobrás, the National Brazilian Electrical Co.

Siemens will deliver the engineered power island, including two SGT6-5000F gas tur-bines, one SST6-5000 steam turbine, three SGen6-1000A generators, and the SPPA-T3000 instrumentation and control system. The gas turbines, steam turbines and gen-erators will be manufactured in the Siemens factory in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A.

With the construction lead by Constru-tora Andrade Gutierrez S.A., Siemens and Andrade will supply the natural gas-fired, combined-cycle plant in two phases. The first phase will be the construction of the simple-cycle plant scheduled to be online in 2014, thus supporting further growth in the region and the increased electric-ity demand during the 2014 FIFA World Cup Soccer games, Siemens said. The com-bined-cycle conversion will follow as phase two of the plant construction.

KRal

M Kral has supplied its fuel consump-tion measurement system to Den-

mark-based DFDS Seaways for three of its RO-PAX ships: Dover Seaways, Delft Sea-ways and Dunkerque Seaways.

On each ship, the measuring systems monitor the fuel consumption of all four main motors, the power generation units and the two burners, and feature a local Kral BEM 500 electronic indication unit for each measurement system.

The information of all nine consump-tion measuring systems is transferred to the bridge and displayed by the Kral BEM 800 on one display. Kral supplied 27 fuel consumption measuring systems to DFDS Seaways.

The fuel consumption systems facilitate the comparison between the ships and thus optimization of the fleet consump-tion, Kral said. During the transition phase from heavy oil to distillates, the system helps observe the specified temperature gradient of the engine manufacturers.

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ROLLS-ROYCE

M Rolls-Royce has received a contract to power the U.S. Navy’s future

fleet of hovercrafts, known as the Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC).

Each SSC will use multiple Rolls-Royce MT7 gas turbines, derived from the AE1107 engine that powers the U.S. Marine Corps’ V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.

The company will work with Textron Marine & Land Systems, which has been selected to build the initial development craft in a program that could extend to 73 craft.

The SSC will replace the Navy’s cur-rent fleet of Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft over the next 20 years. The new hovercraft will be used to rapidly deploy personnel and vehicles between U.S. Navy ships and the shore.

On each hovercraft, the MT7 gas tur-bines will be connected to a gearbox sys-tem providing both propulsion and lift. Rolls-Royce will also design and manu-facture the air intake and exhaust systems.

The MT7 is the latest Rolls-Royce gas turbine to be selected to power a ma-

jor U.S. Navy program and follows the MT30, which is already powering the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ships and will provide electrical power for the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyers.

PENTAIR THERMAL MANAGEMENT

I Tyco Thermal Controls, a global provider of electrical heat-tracing

products for refineries, power plants, oil rigs and chemical processing plants, is now called Pentair Thermal Management.

As a new global business unit with Pen-tair Ltd., Pentair Thermal Management will continue to offer heat tracing, floor heating, snow melting and deicing prod-ucts; temperature measurement; and fire-rated, wiring and leak detection systems to customers worldwide.

CLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS

P Clear Energy Systems Inc. (CES), which specializes in mobile and

distributed power generation systems, an-nounced that it has signed a master dis-

tribution agreement with Toronto-based GasGen Canada Ltd.

Under terms of the agreement, GasGen will market, distribute and service CES power generation products throughout Canada. The agreement represents the sec-ond master distributor relationship CES has concluded within the last 30 days.

Through this strategic alliance, Clear Energy Systems will launch its premier product — the Genesis 1000 — into Canadian distributed energy markets in early 2013, the company said. The Gen-esis 1000 is a compact, lightweight 1 MW power generation system, uniquely posi-tioned in Canada’s burgeoning resource industry. At only 5.7 m long and 7348 kg, the fully enclosed Genesis unit is sub-stantially smaller and lighter than typical 1 MW power systems, CES said.

GasGen Canada supplies natural gas generator sets to Canadian energy markets through its network of sub-distributors. The fuel-flexible Genesis 1000 operates on natural gas, LP gas, biomethane from land-fills and biodigesters, and flare gas from oil drilling and processing.

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Alstom is in the process of adding a steam tail (add-on) to the Kuwaiti Az Zour gas-fired power plant, con-verting it from a simple-cycle to a combined-cycle plant. The power plant is located approximately 90 km south of Kuwait City.

Kuwait has experienced steady economic growth over the past few years, driven by rising oil prices. This growth has resulted in an in-creased power demand at an aver-age of 8% per year. Meeting this demand has become a critical is-sue for Kuwait, especially during the hot summer months when air- conditioning requirements battle with temperatures that can reach up

over 45%, and cut emissions per MW produced, Alstom said.

Having built phase one and carried out several such conversions in the re-gion — for example, the GTX project in Dubai — Alstom recieved a US$170 million contract for the combined-cycle extension by Alghanim Interna-tional in March 2011.

Alghanim International, a Kuwait-based multinational conglomerate spanning a wide range of industrial sectors, is the project’s main contrac-tor for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC). The company, which is building the plant for the MEW, will operate the plant for the

Alstom is adding two STF15C steam turbines and five horizontal dual-pressure heat recovery steam generators to convert the existing Az Zour

power plant in Kuwait from simple-cycle to combined-cycle operations.

to 50°C. Consumption often reaches and exceeds the country’s maximum production capacity — the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) has taken parts of Kuwait City off the grid in the past, causing blackouts in some parts of the country. The MEW is looking to add capacity to its cur-rently installed 12.6 GW to meet these summer energy needs.

The first stage of the project, con-sisting of five GT13E2 gas turbines operating in open-cycle, went online in 2008. The steam tail will add 400 MW to the existing 800 MW simple-cycle power plant capacity, use the same amount of fuel, increase its ef-ficiency from approximately 30% to



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first seven years and then transfer op-eration to the Ministry.

“The original simple-cycle power plant was designed from day one to allow for the eventual addition of the combined-cycle unit, given that the first installing and operat-ing of gas turbines in simple-cycle mode allows power to be supplied to the grid very quickly,” said Mar-cel Streit, project director, Az Zour, Alstom. “The two STF15C steam turbines and five horizontal dual-pressure heat recovery steam gen-erators are then installed at a later date to convert to combined-cycle, thereby boosting power output and increasing efficiency significantly.”

Apart from the usual challenges of working in the desert and adhering to the strict compliance standards re-quired by the MEW, Streit said one of the main obstacles has proven to be the limited working space. “The add-on is being constructed on a very small plot of land that already has equipment in operation. With vari-


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Vibration MonitorinG SySteM

IMI-Sensors, a division of PCB Piezo-tronics Inc., has debuted the Echo wire-less vibration monitoring system, de-signed to monitor the overall health of critical machinery and provide immedi-ate notification when warning or critical levels are reached. The system can be ap-plied to several industrial applications in the power, steel and chemical industries.

The system uses the Echo wireless vi-bration sensor and the EchoPlus wireless junction box to transmit vibration data to a single, central receiver. The system allows for the integration of wirelessly transmitted

data into existing legacy vibration systems and plant monitoring controllers, all made possible through the Modbus interface.

Battery life of the sensor typically ex-ceeds five years when transmitting data three times a day, and a 24 Vdc source can power the EchoPlus box without bat-tery life limitations, the company said.

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Motortech has launched a new hand held device to support gas engine mechanics trouble shooting engine problems or going through preventive maintenance proce-dures. SparkView monitors the high voltage required by the spark plug when firing.

On nonshielded gas engines, an induc-tive clamp is attached to the spark plug wire. The spark voltage is monitored in 1 kV increments up to 40 kV by a column of LEDs. The LED color ranges (green, yellow, red) provide operators with an indication about a spark plug’s condition.

For engines equipped with special Mo-tortech coils that have the inductive volt-age measurement circuits built in, no ex-tra high voltage clamp is required.

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Marine DieSel enGineSDresser-Rand presented its Guascor

SF240TA-SP family of marine diesel engines, suitable for several marine ap-plications, including trawlers, seiners, long-line fishing vessels, ferries and tug boats. The Guascor SF240TA-SP fam-ily of engines improves performance and reduces fuel consumption by up to 20% compared to previous models, depending on the type of engine and use, Dresser-Rand said.

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Speed of engineering, manufacturing of equipment, and delivery all factored into the project. Because of insufficient cooling water, Alghanim International had to build a huge cooling tower, which has to be interfaced with the new generators and condensers.

“Another complexity was the cus-tomer’s decision to opt for a com-mon header for steam coming from the HRSGs to the steam turbines,” Streit said. For improved operat-ing flexibility, the plant is designed so that steam from the five HRSGs flows into a single header and is then split between the two steam tur-bines. This configuration will allow the owner to operate any combina-tion of HRSGs and steam turbines.

“This means that each steam turbine has to be designed for the admission of steam from two and a half HRSGs,”

Streit said. “Although this may appear straightforward in theory, in practice it presents a huge design challenge and there are very few references of such a configuration in the industry.”

The common header requires a very large structure measuring 100 m in length, 8 m in width, and 50 m in height. This structure houses and supports all the piping and equip-ment valves as well as everything else required to feed the common header connecting the HRSGs to the steam turbines.

“Overcoming these challenges calls for good communication and careful project management,” Streit said. “As the major supplier, Alstom had to work with Alghanim International wherever possible to analyze what is critical to the contract schedule and accelerate the components on the critical path.”

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ThermomeTersAshcroft bimetal thermometers are

de signed to eliminate use of mercury to measure temperature. Available in dial di-ameters from 50.8 to 127 mm and ranges

from -62.2° to 538°C, these instruments are available in standard stem lengths from 63.5 to 609.6 mm and special or-

der stems up to 152.4 cm. Ashcroft Max-ivision ther-mometers pro-vide a fixed rear or bottom stem while the Everyangle de-

sign allows the stem angle to be adjusted. Hermetically sealed for easy wash down or liquid filled to counter high vibration, Ashcroft stainless-steel bimetal thermom-eters are suited for difficult installations the company said.

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sensor sysTemLudeca Inc. has launched sensALIGN,

a sensor system for machinery alignment. sensALIGN combines Prueftechnik’s in-telligent sensor technology into the RO-TALIGN Ultra iS platform, which pro-vides instant data acquisition and displays

real-time results with 100% accuracy, the company said.

The sensALIGN system automatically considers the effects of ambient vibration, acceleration of rotation, backlash, speed of rotation and other factors in determin-ing the Quality Factor (QF) of alignment readings. This makes the system ideal for long-term, stand-alone monitoring of ma-chine positional change (Live Trend) as well as routine everyday shaft alignment, Ludeca said. An improved user-friendly interface makes the ROTALIGN Ultra iS fast, while still collecting thousands of measurement points with its Continuous IntelliSWEEP method, the company said.

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To say that opinion is divided is an understatement. Opinions are poles apart.

On the one hand, observers sug-gest that because the economies of some African nations are improving, this is evidence that a huge wave of economic prosperity is ready to wash over the continent. This wave will supposedly lift millions from the de-spair of poverty, raise the educational standards and propel nations onto the world stage.

Others argue that the dream of an African economic paradise is an il-lusion, arguing that growth remains sluggish at best (even negative), that there is little manufacturing and that the continent is still too heavily de-pendent on natural resources.

Leaving behind the endless debate on Africa’s pros and cons, there is at least evidence of growth, develop-ment, expansion and investment in both the power generation and oil and gas exploration and production sectors, all of which create opportuni-ties for suppliers of equipment, tech-nology and investment.

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One African company carrying out major investments in its infrastruc-ture is Eskom, which generates some 95% of the electricity used in South Africa and approximately 45% of the electricity used in Africa.

By its own admission, Eskom says its power stations are aging. “Sus-tained high levels of maintenance over the next three years are needed for reliable performance,” Chief Ex-ecutive Brian Dames recently said. “Power station performance has been volatile and must be improved.”

The company said its maintenance backlog is down from 26 units to 20, although lower imports and volatile plant performance reduced the space for planned maintenance.

On average, the company’s power stations are 30 years old (one at 49), and Eskom said some of the aged plants would require refurbishment to extend their life cycle and improve their performance.

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