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Geothermal Power Plant by Toshiba and Ormat Enters Service
The 110 MW power plant combines flash and binary technologies along with 100% reinjection of the exploited geothermal fluid.
Canadian Oilfield Service Groups Combine
The combined company will have 675,000 HHP of available fracturing capacity, a footprint of service bases across western Canada, and products and services across cementing, coiled tubing, nitrogen, industrial services, and fluid management.
Sinopec Pays $1bn for Its First African Refinery
Assets include a 100,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Cape Town, a lubricants plant in Durban as well as retail filling stations and other oil storage facilities.
Engineering Team Develops Nanofiber Solution for Clean, Fresh Air
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully concocted a novel nanofiber solution that creates thin, see-through air filters that can remove up to 90 percent of PM2.5 particles and achieve high air flow of 2.5 times better than conventional air filters.
Pulverizing Electronic Waste Is Green, Clean — and Cold
Researchers at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science have an idea to simplify electronic waste recycling: Crush it into nanodust.
NRC Accepts NuScale Reactor Application for Review
luor says that the NRC confirms that NuScale’s submission addresses all NRC requirements and contains sufficient technical information to conduct the review, which could take another 40 months to complete.
U.S. Crude Production Fell in 2016 Despite Higher Prices
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration says that monthly production began growing in the fourth quarter of 2016 after declining over the first three quarters.
Xcel Expands Wind Plans with Texas, New Mexico Projects
Xcel Energy says it has proposed 11 new wind farms in seven states, which would add a total of 3,380 megawatts of new wind generation to its system.
NYC Installed Solar Tops 100 MW, ConEd Says
New York City residents and businesses have completed 9,700 solar energy projects resulting in 101.2 megawatts of installed generating capacity, the city's utility says.
Refinery to Use Honeywell UOP Technology
Included in the project are licensing, basic engineering design, and associated services for a Penex isomerization unit and a Unicracking hydrocracking unit to produce cleaner burning fuels.
AEG Supplies UPS System to Cogeneration Power Plants
The company's 3 phase output uninterruptible power supply systems will equip both facilities.
Cummins Accelerates Its Water Intensity Reduction Efforts
The revised 50% intensity reduction goal represents a total water savings of 763 million gallons of water since 2010.
Water Filter From Wood Offers Portable, Eco-friendly Purification in Emergencies
A bacteria-trapping material developed from wood, by researchers KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is now being tested for use as a water purification filter. The aim is to use it in places where there is no infrastructure or clean water supply.
Preventing Lead Spread
A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new way to model and track where lead particles might be transported during the partial-replacement process, in an effort to keep the water supply safer.
New Troubles Hit Kemper County Clean Coal Plant
Mississippi Power said tube leaks hit one of the plant's synthetic gas coolers. Engineers started an outage to make repairs, forcing another delay in commissioning the IGCC.
Hydraulic Transmission Gains Traction with Diesel Rail Routes
A new type of hydraulic transmission for diesel-powered rail vehicles is designed to reduce fuel consumption and improve engine performance.
Dominion Plans 80 MW of Solar Generating Capacity
Dominion will construct, own, and operate 81 megawatts (AC) of solar generating capacity in South Carolina.
Iberdrola Taps Mitsubishi Hitachi Turbines for Mexican Power Plants
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems will provide two M501J gas turbines, a steam turbine, a spare gas turbine rotor, and a long-term service agreement for the El Carmen combined cycle power plant.
Siemens to Help Energy Hungry Army Base Cut Its Use
The project includes a guarantee by Siemens that its improvements will save some $20 million or around 1.4 million British thermal units over the 15-year performance period.
Aluminum Alloy Synthesis with Nanopowders
When used as modifying additives, new nanopowders could lead to production of enhanced aluminum alloys.