Bedford Hospital is reporting savings of £15,000 a year on air handling costs since installing variable-speed drives (VSDs) from ABB partner Inverter Drive Systems (IDS).
Variable Speed Drives
Total UK has installed two Babcock Wanson high-efficiency thermal fluid heaters at its Preston-based Bitumen division in a bid to improve operating costs and cut emissions.
Heating Systems
ECS Engineering Services has completed installing a new three-gate sluice as part of local improvements to the flood prevention scheme at at Constant Spring, near Emsworth, Portsmouth.
Water Treatment
An igus energy chain system has been designed into the Port of Felixstowe's new North Rail Terminal, which includes the largest capacity rail traverser in the UK.
Electric Motors AC
Growth of ABB's global network of 'safety execution centres' – supporting high hazard industries – from 10 to 30 over the past four years is being seen as indicative of growing global demand.
Safety Related Control Systems
The world's biggest tidal array will be built in the Pentland Firth region of Scotland, according to an announcement from DECC (Department of Energy and Climate Change) today.
Wave/Tidal Energy
ABB's Safety Lead Competency Centre (SLCC) and Engineering Safety Consultants (ESC) have launched an e-learning technical training course on failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
Safety Related Control Systems
Heat transfer fluid specialist Global Heat Transfer has published a white paper warning industry of the impact of carbon residue on plant ageing and effectiveness.
Heating Systems
Making the point that the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) will affect thousands of organisations, the Energy Institute (EI) has published a free guide.
Energy Audits
System integrator CP Automation, has released a downloadable white paper for plant engineers explaining the various methods of mitigating the damage caused by harmonic currents and utility level...
Variable Speed Drives
BOC has been fined £175,000 plus £85,000 costs following an explosion in January 2010 at one of its manufacturing plants in Bristol, which left one worker with life changing injuries and two others...
Hazardous Areas
An advanced sensor-controlled laser cutting system is being developed for processing carbon fibre reinforced plastics, under the he European EraSME project A'Quilaco (Advanced online quality and...
Temperature measurement