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BASF picks Technip for German chemical project
MARKET PROSPECTS and external consultants. Two environmental management plans, covering marine and terrestrial elements, have been completed, applying “industry best practice” to ensure that any potential impacts are minimal and confined to the smallest possible areas. These have been supplemented by detailed surveys and assessment of seabed habitat, marine fauna, onshore and offshore terrain and coastal processes. The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has noted that “potential impacts [of the project are] not significant” and can be managed under a marine environmental management plan. Maritime safety approvals related to the deployment and operation of the CETO units and offshore pipelines were also received from the WA Department of Transport earlier in the summer. Onshore environmental approvals for the PWEP have been granted by the Department of Defence through an Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC). The ECC noted that “the proposal has been assessed and is considered not likely to cause any significant environmental impacts on the environment.” The Garden Island project will be the first commercial deployment of the CETO technology.
GE technology helps Texas power plants reuse over 98% of wastewater
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E’s zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater treatment technology will be installed at two new 758 MW natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plants in drought-affected Texas, USA. Using GE’s ZLD technology, the two power plants will be able to reduce incoming water needs by recycling and reusing more than 98% of its own cooling tower wastewater. GE will provide a brine concentrator and crystallizer for the Sherman Power Plant and a brine concentrator for the Temple Power Plant. The Temple Power Plant will use treated water from a nearby wastewater treatment plant, and the Sherman Power Plant will use Lake Texoma as its cooling water source. The 4
Pump Industry Analyst
GE ZLD systems will treat 450 gallons per minute of water for each power plant, more than 98% of which can then be reused in the process, reducing the amount of new water needed from the original sources. The two power plants, which are owned by Panda Power Funds, should begin commercial operation by the end of 2014. Bechtel is the engineering, procurement and construction contractor.
Doosan awarded US$558mn power plant contract in India
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oosan Power Systems India has won a US$558 million contract from Indian electric power company NTPC Ltd to supply two boilers (800MWx2) for the Lara Power Plant in Chhattisgarh Province in central India. Last February, Doosan received a contract from the same client to supply three boilers (800MWx3) for the Kudgi Power Plant in Karnataka Province. Together the two contracts are worth US$1.14 billion. Doosan will manufacture all related equipment and deliver them by 2016.
Austin Energy upgrades cooling plant
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nergy efficiency and renewable energy company Ameresco Inc has started work on an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) for Austin Energy’s Domain District Cooling Plant. The US$5.2 million budget-neutral ESPC project includes the installation of a new chilled water storage system that will help reduce the plant’s peak electricity usage by shifting the chilled water load and associated electric consumption from on-peak to offpeak hours. Before starting the work on the ESPC, Ameresco performed an audit and identified energy savings measures at the Domain District Cooling Plant, which will include the installation of a 24
000-ton-hour chilled water storage system large enough to shift a major portion of the chilled water load from on-peak to off-peak over a four-hour period. The upgraded system will comprise a 2.4 million (gallon) concrete thermal energy storage (TES) tank. The system circulation will be maintained by three 200 hp horizontal splitcase pumps controlled by variable frequency drives. The new energy management system will be upgraded to control and monitor the new TES system along with upgrades to the existing plant controls. New mechanical piping and associated mechanical devices will connect the new pumps to the TES tank. All the existing domestic water closets, showerheads and faucet aerators will also be replaced with more efficient fixtures. The Domain District Cooling Plant is located in northwest Austin and provides continuous cooling services to a mix of industrial, retail, office, and residential customers. The project is expected to be completed by December 2013.
CHEMICALS
BASF picks Technip for German chemical project
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ASF has awarded a lump sum turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Technip, in a consortium with Japan’s Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp, for the expansion of a chlorine plant (chlor-alkali) situated in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The work will include a membrane chlorine plant expansion as well as the integration and implementation of existing equipment and facilities. Technip will be responsible for the complete EPC execution of the project using Asahi Kasei Chemicals’ technology and proprietary equipment. The project is scheduled to start up in the second semester of 2014. Technip’s operating centre in Düsseldorf, Germany will execute the project. This award follows the successful execution of the conversion project in 2002 as well as the pre front-end engineering design (FEED) phases of the Ludwigshafen project, which were also carried out by Technip.
January 2013
GE technology helps Texas power plants reuse over 98% of wastewater
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E’s zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater treatment technology will be installed at two new 758 MW natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plants in drought-affected Texas, USA. Using GE’s ZLD technology, the two power plants will be able to reduce incoming water needs by recycling and reusing more than 98% of its own cooling tower wastewater. GE will provide a brine concentrator and crystallizer for the Sherman Power Plant and a brine concentrator for the Temple Power Plant. The Temple Power Plant will use treated water from a nearby wastewater treatment plant, and the Sherman Power Plant will use Lake Texoma as its cooling water source. The 4
Pump Industry Analyst
GE ZLD systems will treat 450 gallons per minute of water for each power plant, more than 98% of which can then be reused in the process, reducing the amount of new water needed from the original sources. The two power plants, which are owned by Panda Power Funds, should begin commercial operation by the end of 2014. Bechtel is the engineering, procurement and construction contractor.
Doosan awarded US$558mn power plant contract in India
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oosan Power Systems India has won a US$558 million contract from Indian electric power company NTPC Ltd to supply two boilers (800MWx2) for the Lara Power Plant in Chhattisgarh Province in central India. Last February, Doosan received a contract from the same client to supply three boilers (800MWx3) for the Kudgi Power Plant in Karnataka Province. Together the two contracts are worth US$1.14 billion. Doosan will manufacture all related equipment and deliver them by 2016.
Austin Energy upgrades cooling plant
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nergy efficiency and renewable energy company Ameresco Inc has started work on an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) for Austin Energy’s Domain District Cooling Plant. The US$5.2 million budget-neutral ESPC project includes the installation of a new chilled water storage system that will help reduce the plant’s peak electricity usage by shifting the chilled water load and associated electric consumption from on-peak to offpeak hours. Before starting the work on the ESPC, Ameresco performed an audit and identified energy savings measures at the Domain District Cooling Plant, which will include the installation of a 24
000-ton-hour chilled water storage system large enough to shift a major portion of the chilled water load from on-peak to off-peak over a four-hour period. The upgraded system will comprise a 2.4 million (gallon) concrete thermal energy storage (TES) tank. The system circulation will be maintained by three 200 hp horizontal splitcase pumps controlled by variable frequency drives. The new energy management system will be upgraded to control and monitor the new TES system along with upgrades to the existing plant controls. New mechanical piping and associated mechanical devices will connect the new pumps to the TES tank. All the existing domestic water closets, showerheads and faucet aerators will also be replaced with more efficient fixtures. The Domain District Cooling Plant is located in northwest Austin and provides continuous cooling services to a mix of industrial, retail, office, and residential customers. The project is expected to be completed by December 2013.
CHEMICALS
BASF picks Technip for German chemical project
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ASF has awarded a lump sum turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Technip, in a consortium with Japan’s Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp, for the expansion of a chlorine plant (chlor-alkali) situated in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The work will include a membrane chlorine plant expansion as well as the integration and implementation of existing equipment and facilities. Technip will be responsible for the complete EPC execution of the project using Asahi Kasei Chemicals’ technology and proprietary equipment. The project is scheduled to start up in the second semester of 2014. Technip’s operating centre in Düsseldorf, Germany will execute the project. This award follows the successful execution of the conversion project in 2002 as well as the pre front-end engineering design (FEED) phases of the Ludwigshafen project, which were also carried out by Technip.
January 2013