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RENEWABLE ROUNDTABLE
120
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2015 Projects
of the Year!
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FEATURES 120
YEARS
Projects of the
16 2015
Year Winners Revealed?
Power projects from around the world were recognized by the
editors of Power Engineering and Renewable Energy World
magazines last month at POWER-GEN International 2015.
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OPINION
A Risky Investment
BY RUSSELL RAY, CHIEF EDITOR
ast month at POWER-GEN International, the worlds largest conference and exhibition for the power
sector, the controversial U.S. Clean Power
Plan dominated the discussions. The plan
to cut greenhouse gas emissions from
U.S. power plants may be the most litigated rule in U.S. history.
More than 15 lawsuits were filed in
just two days after the plan was unveiled
Aug. 3, said Alexandra Dunn, executive
director and general counsel of the Environmental Council of the States, a nonprofit association representing state environmental agencies.
Dunn joined Jeff Holmstead, a leading climate change lawyer and former
EPA assistant administrator in the Bush
Administration, in a plenary-session
discussion about the legal opposition
and implementation challenges related
to the most far-reaching energy-sector
regulation in U.S. history
The Clean Power Plan calls for
sweeping new requirements to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.States
have until 2018 to submit their compliance plans. The emission limits differ
from state to state.
Although 27 states are challenging
the rule, most of those states are evaluating their compliance options, Dunn
said. Most states are doing something
productive, she said. They will be
putting plans together.
To illustrate the political nature of the
debate over the Clean Power Plan, Dunn
pointed to a map highlighting the states
that are challenging the rule and those in
favor of it. Dunn then showed attendees
another map. The second map highlighted the state-by-state results of the last
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INDUSTRY NEWS
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in fourth quarter 2016. Recurrent Energy will build the facility and retain
the remaining interest in the project.
Signal Energy Constructors are managing the engineering, procurement and
construction of the facility.
Southern Power and Recurrent Energy are now jointly developing three
projects expected to generate more
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to electric utilities.
The EPA considered costs while the
rule was being written, but the Supreme Court said a cost-benefit analysis was required before even starting.
The Circuit Court did not disclose
why they upheld the MATS rule but
noted the EPA has promised to correct
the error by April 2016.
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serve and the future needs of this region, said Shockley. She values the
importance of working with and developing our talented employees who
continue to provide our customers
with safe and reliable energy.
Kipp joined EPE in December 2007.
She previously served as senior attorney in the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commissions Office of Enforcement.
We continue to plan ahead for the
exciting growth and innovation that
we are experiencing, Kipp said, and
as EPE invests in cost-effective new
technologies we are ensuring that we
meet our regions future needs.
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Calcutta (India),
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ENERGY MATTERS
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GAS GENERATION
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effective relationships: 1.) Assure the owner has fully defined the scope of work and
eliminated any gaps or ambiguity in the
Request for Proposal (RFP). 2.) Clearly define in the RFP, and the final contract, all
the owner-desired support activities (i.e.,
project execution plan, project control,
staffing, etc.). 3.) Ensure project risks are
continuously addressed by both the owner and contractor team representatives and
are fully transparent in all status reports.
4.) Define the owners role in the selected
contract environment. Know when to intercede and when to let the contractor do
their job. 5.) Establish a team culture. 6.)
Promote shared rewards (incentives and
target price contracting) in a manner that
encourages optimum performance. 7.) Establish the change philosophy in the contract and implement an effective change
management process. 8.) Address cost
and schedule variances within the month
they occur and assign owner/contractor
resources to address the correction. 9.) Encourage consistent and effective communication to avoid the negative impact of
misunderstanding and prolonged timeto
resolve open issues.
The Construction Industry Institute(CII) has developed a number of processes that promote team building and
alignment of objectives. These tools have
proven effective in creating an environment in which project participants focus
on successful execution rather than resolution of conflict.
Deterioration of owner/contractor relationships is an outgrowth of changing
market conditions and financial pressures. Improved interface can be facilitated with reasonable contracting and
focus on alignment, communication, and
team-building.
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NUCLEAR REACTIONS
Grassroots Growing?
BY BRIAN SCHIMMOLLER, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
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hypocrisy evinced by New York Governor Cuomo in simultaneously castigating Entergy for
exercising its capitalistic right to decide whether to invest in an underperforming asset while
demanding that Entergy shut down the profitable Indian Point nuclear plant.]
And while it might be too little too late,
business leaders from Oswego County,
N.Y. even created a touching video (https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fawOa93wU)
extolling the importance of the FitzPatrick plant to their community. In one segment, a restaurant owner pleads, I would
tell Governor Cuomo if he were here right
now to seriously think about the impact
that closing this plant and losing those
jobs would have on the county with the
highest unemployment rate in the state.
The ramifications of the FitzPatrick closure are spreading to other nuclear plant
communities. NextEra Energy Resources owns the Seabrook nuclear station in
coastal New Hampshire. Like FitzPatrick,
this is a single-unit site that bids its power into wholesale power markets. While
younger and larger than FitzPatrick,
Seabrook also could be at risk as it considers life extension, particularly in light
of the rancorous debate that surrounded
its construction and startup back in the
late 1980s. Public and political opposition delayed construction for many years,
and ultimately led to the cancellation of a
second planned unit.
Seabrooks initial license does not
expire until 2030, but NextEra applied
for a 20-year extension in 2010. Opposition has emerged including a political effort to prevent consideration
of license extension until the plant is
within 10 years of initial license expiration but so has support.
As reported in the Eagle-Tribune in
mid-November, Seabrook town officials
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2015 Projects of
the Year Winners
Revealed!
BY SHARRYN DOTSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, POWER ENGINEERING; RUSSELL RAY,
CHIEF EDITOR, POWER ENGINEERING AND JENNIFER RUNYON, CHIEF EDITOR,
RENEWABLE ENERGY WORLD
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Installing a bridge crane while the dual-unit, 2,155-MW Cook nuclear power
plant in Michigan was operating saved
plant owner and operator American Electric Power (AEP) millions of dollars and
time before the start of a planned refueling outage in 2016.
Day & Zimmermann used multiple
telescoping gantry systems and a hydraulic turntable to safely lift and rotate components for a 250-ton bridge crane. Two
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the first four units, said General Manager Eun-seo Park with Korea South-East
Power Co. (KOSEP).
The plant is also the site of a 2-MW solar photovoltaic power plant, a 12.6-MW
small hydro power plant and a 46-MW
wind power plant. KOSEPs Yeongheung
plant will cover 25 percent of South Koreas power demand.
The power plant also won an Advanced
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ON-SITE POWER
raditionally,
combined
heat and power (CHP)
plants have been owned
and operated by industrial
and institutional owners
who have enjoyed the efficiency benefits
of onsite CHP. With lessons learned from
the power supply issues created by Hurricane Sandy, industrial and institutional
owners are more focused on distributed
generation, including CHPs, as means of
obtaining a reliable, resilient and efficient
source of energy. Concurrently, the regulatory landscape is also shifting toward a
distributed utility model (DUM).
This is where some utilities are looking
at not only meeting future peak power
needs through a combination of distributed energy resources (DER), energy
efficiency, and active demand side management, but also leveraging DER as a
way to help retain their customer base.
Although CHP efficiency benefits are
widely understood, utilities arent fully
embracing CHPs due to concerns associated with realizing economic benefits,
restructuring of the prevailing billing and
tariff structures, as well as honoring existing agreements with their regional transmission organizations.
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Authors
Ajay N Kasarabada is Project Manager
for Energy at Black & Veatch. H. Edwin
Overcast, Ph.D., is the director of Management Consulting for Black & Veatch.
Brian ONeal is manager of Air Permitting
Services, Energy, for Black & Veatch.
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ON-SITE POWER
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Model
Mass-based
Rule
No Plan;
Gets Rate-based
FIP
Model
Rate-based
Rule
State Plan
Options
Own
Mass-based Rule
(not discussed
here)
No Plan;
Gets Mass-based
FIP
Own
Rate-based Rule
(not discussed
here)
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such a plan works and the way existing affected source compliance can be demonstrated. Under a rate-based plan, existing
affected EGUs would be subject to an
emission standard in the form of pounds
of CO2 emitted per megawatt-hour of
electricity generated (lbs CO2/MWh). An
affected source can comply with the standard by one of two methods:
1. By demonstrating its actual lbs CO2/
MWh are less than the applicable
standard, or
2. By securing emission rate credits
(ERCs) from other low or zero-emitting generation sources to artificially
lower its lbs CO2/MWh through an
allowed calculation where the ERCs
serve to add MWh to the denominator thus diluting the resulting lbs
CO2/MWh value from the affected
source. It is this second option that
is most applicable to utility CHPs.
ERCs are tradable compliance instruments which are created by undertaking
or operating a qualifying measure under a rate-based program. Qualifying
measures are prescribed activities that
provide substitute generation for affected EGUs thereby avoiding emissions of
CO2. Under the CPP guidelines for the
proposed state model rule rate-based
plan, EPA included an expanded list of
measures that can generate ERCs, which
included new CHP development subject
to certain restrictions. However under the
proposed rate-based FIP, CHPs are not
expressly included as one of the available
measures for making ERCs, although the
agency is taking comment on the inclusion of new CHP development for the final federal plan. The unit for ERCs in the
CPP is megawatt-hours (MWh).
Lets focus on the state model rule ratebased plan as it is the only rate-based plan
currently offering incentives to new CHP
development. In order for a CHP to qualify as a measure for making ERCs, it must
meet certain restrictions formulated to
keep it from becoming an affected source
under the Standards of Performance for
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources:
Electric Utility regulation. This was also
finalized on August 3, 2015 (known as
NSPS Subpart TTTT) as CPP ERCs cannot be issued for sources that are subject
to NSPS Subpart TTTT. In order to avoid
being subject to NSPS Subpart TTTT and
therefore to qualify as a measure for generating an ERC for use as a compliance
mechanism for an affected source under
the CPP, a natural gas-fired CHP must
meet the following requirements:
Restrict its size so it serves a generator
capable of supplying no more than 25
MW net to a utility distribution system
(i.e., for sale to the grid)
Be installed after 2012 with continued
operations into the CPP compliance periods of 2022 and beyond
Be connected to the grid
The proposed accounting method in
the state model rate-based plan for claiming an ERC from new CHP is rather complicated. Recall that ERCs take the form of
MWh. Since the CHP is generating electrical power with fossil fuel combustion,
which is counter to the goal of the CPP,
not all the MWh generation from a CHP
can be credited to an ERC. As such, a prorating mechanism was created to reduce
the annual CHP MWh by an amount that
takes into consideration CO2 emissions
saved due to useful thermal output from
the CHP and the affected EGUs applicable CPP standard that is utilizing the CHP
as a compliance mechanism.
Mass-based plans work differently
from rate-based plans in that allowances (each authorizing 1 ton of CO2 emissions) would be allocated by the state or
EPA to existing affected EGUs which in
turn must be surrendered for compliance.
An affected EGU must simply hold and
surrender allowances equal to its emissions in the previous compliance period.
Unlike ERCs (the compliance currency
for rate-based plans), allowances under a
mass-based plan are not made; rather,
they are allocated from an existing pool
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NSR IMPLICATIONS
Separate from how new CHP development will be treated under federal
SUMMARY
The technical, commercial and regulatory considerations are important
as utilities consider developing and
owning CHP assets. Absent a viable
commercial development, legal and
financing strategy, even the most innovative project design will not result
in a real project. Consequently, the
commercial/business case for any CHP
project should be completed along
with the technical feasibility. Additionally, CHPs have both regulatory
benefits and challenges that need to
be addressed upfront in the planning
process.
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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
There is about $20 billion of wind power infrastructure under construction in the U.S. In the last reported
quarter, the wind industry added 1,600 MW of
installed capacity.
Renewable E
Roundtable
BY TIM MISER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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charts show a straight-line growth. Unfortunately, wind has been hit hard by
the stop-and-start nature of the PTC.
This is not an efficient way to incentivize an industry, and its not a very
e Energy
and Investment Tax Credits Still
e Production
Top of Mind for Renewables Industry in 2016
Tom Kiernan
Christopher Mansour
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Karl Gawell
Jacob Andersen
about improvements in solar and geothermal. Weve really witnessed an incredible success story, and that will benefit consumers in the long run.
Mansour: This is a highly competitive market. Solar technologies must
compete against wind, but they must
also compete against natural gas, which
is at historic lows. We cant afford to
sit back with the attitude that we dont
need to do anything about cost structures, simply because we have tax credits. Solar prices have come down over
60 percent since 2009. Thats not simply hardware costs like panels and inverters; thats also soft costs including
permitting and finding customers. The
ITC gives us breathing room to fight for
these kinds of cost savings. Eventually, in 2020 or 2021, we feel confident
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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
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PRB COAL
The CEC was one of the first coal-fired
plants designed to burn low-BTU coal
from the Powder River Basin (PRB). PRB
coal is attractive because it is very inexpensive compared to coal mined farther
east. Sourced from Wyoming and Montana, PRB coal has only 25 to 30 feet of
overburden and can be strip-mined. Add
to this the 150 feet of easily-accessible deposits waiting below, and its easy to see
why PRB coal provides a competitive advantage over other coal deposits, which
must be accessed via underground mines
that might extend deeper than a mile,
and which reward a mining operation
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The Air Quality Control System Retrofit Project at the Columbia Energy
Center is helping Alliant Energy and
co-owners meet emissions standards
today and decades into the future.
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temperatures, and the ash remains cooler. As a result, it doesnt stick to the walls
of the boiler as readily. This was initially
a NOx control measure, Newell continues, but it had the happy side-effect of
essentially eliminating slagging.
EFFICIENCY PROJECTS
TO BE COMPLETE BY 2018
In addition to all the air quality measures being made at the CEC, the plant
is also embarking on a half dozen major
projects that will improve efficiency, in
the process lowering carbon emissions
for the plant.
One such project is a turbine upgrade.
The plant currently utilizes turbines that
were designed in the late 1960s. Since
that time, tremendous improvements
have been made in the aerodynamics of
turbine blades and resulting efficiencies.
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The CEC has also replaced its cooling tower with a larger one that improves heat rejection and efficiency in
the summer time. It is also upgrading
its water treatment facilities, adding a
condensate polisher, and improving
air heater seals. Newell says altogether,
the plant expects to see a nearly 10 percent reduction in heat rate.
The combined effect of multiple air
quality and efficiency projects at the
CEC have placed the plant in a strong
position to continue operation well
into the future. Overseen by plant
manager Jerry Lokenvitz, the Columbia Energy Center coal-fired plant is
positioned to provide power to its customers for many years to come.
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Author
Scott Segal is founding partner of the
Policy Resolution Group at Bracewell &
Giuliani LLP
The Role of
Nuclear Energy
Important
in the Clean Contributions
and Missed
Power Plan Opportunities
W
BY SCOTT SEGAL
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credit for the new construction at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant
near Waynesboro, Georgia. The Georgia
Power-led project at Vogtle 3 and 4 will
add over 2200 MW of carbon-free power
when the project is complete. The Vogtle
project is arguably the largest job-producing project in the state, with over 5,000
construction jobs and 800 permanent
operations jobs.
Despite the gains for new construction
like Vogtle and power uprates, there is
little doubt that nuclear advocates were
hoping for a bit more from the rule, particularly for the existing nuclear fleet.
Currently, just under a hundred nuclear
power plants in the United States generate about 19 percent of our nations electricity. The trouble is that much of the
existing fleet is over three decades old.
According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, these plants are the largest source of
zero-carbon electric generation in more
than half of the states. The existence of a
mass-based approach to state compliance
with the rule places some importance of
maintaining the existing fleet. As EPA
axiomatically observes in the final rule,
Existing nuclear generation helps make
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NUCLEAR POWER
The CPP does not exist in a vacuexisting CO2 emissions lower than they
um. For example, renewable energy
would otherwise be.
Given the age of the nuclear fleet, an projects require construction of power
increasing number of nuclear operators lines or offshore cables. Enhanced reliare coming up for license renewal before ance on natural gas requires constructhe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission tion of pipelines. In the same way, en(NRC) in coming years. The sustained low hanced reliance on nuclear power and
commodity price of natural gas coupled prolonging the lifespan of the existing
fleet would benefit
with needed capital
significantly
from
expenditures and poor To meet our
a smarter nuclear
market conditions in
growing energy
waste policy. Despite
several states makes a
the fact that CPP atcertain number of re- needs and
tempts to transition
tirements likely. The prevent the worst
to a low-carbon enbaseline CPP assumpconsequences of
ergy future, neither
tions include the prethe rule itself nor any
diction that nuclear climate change,
related policy propower will retain its well need to
current market share
increase our supply nouncements seeks
to deal with storing
through 2030. Howor reprocessing of
ever, CPP includes no of nuclear power.
spent nuclear fuel.
affirmative steps to en- - President Obama
As the U.S. Energy
sure against nuclear retirements in order to ensure this necessary Information Administration notes,
result. The Third Way organization, with electric generation adds about 2,000
the assistance of MIT-trained researchers, metric tons of nuclear waste each year
found that, Emissions increases due to to the 75,000 tons currently being
nuclear retirements would sabotage the stored on site around the country. The
carbon reductions targeted by the EPAs Administration, while formulating the
Clean Power Plan and, in the worst case, CPP, perhaps should have considered
could wipe out a decades worth of prog- changes to waste policy, including reress by effectively returning U.S. electrici- sponsible options for a secure national
repository and fuel reprocessing.
ty sector emissions to 2005 levels.
The failure to fully embrace nuclear
As President Obama himself noted in
2010, To meet our growing energy power, as well as efficient natural gas
needs and prevent the worst conse- facilities and even advanced clean coal
quences of climate change, well need technologies, has resulted in a rule that
to increase our supply of nuclear pow- is far less likely to achieve the kind of
er. Its that simple. But what is then deep decarbonization which many
missing from CPP that could encour- climate change activists called upon
age re-licensing? License renewals are western governments to produce. A rethemselves major investments costing port soon to be released by the Energy
anywhere from $500 million to $1.5 Innovation Reform Project indicates
billion. Expenditures of this magni- that variable or intermittent sources of
tude are in the range of new natural gas energy like renewables at penetration
and renewables projects. One missed rates of 30 percent or greater of elecopportunity in the final CPP is the fail- tric generation substantially exceed
ure to heed the suggestion that facili- the cost of dispatchable zero-carbon
ties subject to license renewal explicitly sources like nuclear power. Even if incount, in whole or in part, towards CPP termittency is controlled for by the use
of advanced storage technology, the
compliance.
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wrong today.
Mastrangelo compared the future of
power generation to cellphones.
I know what the future of energy will look like, he said. Its in my
pocket right now.
Holding his phone in his hand, he
said the hardware devices we carry
around are essentially the same, noting
that what differentiates them from one
another is the apps users place on them
according to their individual needs and
preferences. The future of power generation will be like that, he said. Customers will want to be very connected, yet
independent.
Mastrangelo also noted the need
for flexible power that can respond
quickly to changing market and usage
trends. Additionally, he said the industry needed more modular construction
capabilities to reduce construction
times and costs.
Speaking about GEs acquisition of
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to find ways to deal with ever increasing shortages, Edwards said. That
amount of usage for the power business
is enough to support the entire drinking water needs of North America.
Noting that 3.2 billion people currently have access to the Internet, and
that 8.7 billion are projected to be interconnected by 2050, he said consumers will demand greater access to transparent data.
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m) depth
port
- Contactless; no wearout
requirements.
porting
Gigabit
the MR sensor.
or distance extension.
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Chip Resistors
field use.
pneumatic cylinders.
as 1 percent.
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VDC excitation.
surfaces.
preset triggered alarm conditions and the capability for user-modified thresholds. Additionally,
the products monitor measures and records the
magnitude and duration of transient events, then
dates and time stamps the data for detailed event
for repair.
Ecosonic
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optional
accu-
racy,
process
and
electrical
connections.
windy conditions.
Additional pres-
sure transducer
customization
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ducing spillage.
Martin Engineering
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To assist
Earplugs
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oneywells Howard Leight FirmFit earplugs feature a softer, more comfortable fit and better
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cameras to offer
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Axis Communications
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bility to identify
objects as much
as 20 above the
camera horizon
making
these
cameras
also
and fines to fall from the chute wall and back into the
Sharpdome tech-
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versions.
Combustion Analyzer
he NEW E8500 combustion analyzer is a complete portable tool for EPA compliance level
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Huber+Suhner
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Internet Automation
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SO2, H2S
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company
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lobal
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to fastenings is required.
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Belzona
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CLAUSE 3.5.1.1 to provide maximum impact resistance. Uvex Instinct lenses are available with
sembly is required.
The complex geometry of a flanged connec-
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Honeywell
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compact design enables space-saving, high transmission ratios to be achieved. This not only reduces the weight, but also the stress on the gear unit
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plants.
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tion systems.
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sectors.
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gas, pulp and paper, power, process gases, refining, steam, chemical processing and liquid flow
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frame in place.
catalog product.
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Siemens
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High Performance
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performance
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calibrators
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of -20 to 70 C.
interchangeable inserts.
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Explosion-Proof Pressure
Transducers
32EP/EA Series.
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applications.
tube mills producing pipe for the oil and gas sector.
ultrasonic transducers,
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RS# COMPANY
PG#
C2
11 POWER-GEN
Natural Gas 2016
Babcock Power
RS# COMPANY
NRG Energy
PG#
SALES OFFICE
15
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Buckman
19
Circor Energy
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CMI Energy
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18
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25
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Hydrolox
13
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John Zink Co
11
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14 Kiewit Power
www.kiewit.com/power
33
www.power-gennaturalgas.com
12 Power Generation
Week 2016
37
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10 Sentry Equipment
Corporation
29
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13 SICK Inc
C3
www.sickusa.com
C4
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