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Integrated solution key to success of world's largest oil-field N2 plant
16 November, 2001
Pemex is using a massive, 40 000 t/d, nitrogen plant - owned and operated by a BOC-led consortium - for pressure maintenance in its Cantarell field, 93 km offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. This facility cost $1 billion and has more than doubled the world's N2 output. Power and steam is being provided by a 520 MW plant, highly integrated with the process systems, mechanical drivers and utilities, including some of the world's largest air and N2 compressors. Brian Keenan, BOC, Guildford, UK

Hazira brings clean power to Gujarat
16 November, 2001
Hazira has proved to be one of the shortest lead-time combined cycle power projects in India. Both gas turbines have synchronised in a record time of 16 months from the notice to proceed. The advanced GT8C2 gas turbines are the first units of this type to be equipped with dual burners to fire gas as prime fuel and high speed diesel (HSD) as backup fuel. Hazira is also the first use of GT8C2 machines in combined cycle mode. Gilbert Roy and Paul Baerfuss, Alstom, Baden, Switzerland

Tacky ions can be so diverting
19 October, 2001

Chop logic for your lunchbox
21 September, 2001

What a philistine I am
20 July, 2001

The proving of Bugok
20 July, 2001
Korea’s first independent power project (IPP) has proved a triumph for the Sigma CAD tool and a validation of the 3A turbine. Staff report

Air cooling breaks the 500 MVA barrier
01 June, 2001
As a result of major development efforts, notably in the areas of improved cooling and insulation, air-cooled generators are now available with a rating of 500 MVA. Tallat Azad and Reinhard Joho, Alstom Power, Birr, Switzerland

Turow enters third phase
18 May, 2001
In the first two phases of repowering the 10x200 MWe lignite-burning Turow plant in Poland, units 1, 2 and 3 were replaced with 235 MWe advanced circulating fluidised bed boilers. In the third phase, which is now under way, for full output operation in 2004, a further three units will be replaced with Foster Wheeler’s new advanced Compact CFBC units rated at 261.6 MWe - the largest such units ever built.

Landfill tax to rise by 10 %
20 April, 2001

Climate measures ‘must not harm’ US consumers
20 April, 2001

Where the hacking must stop
20 April, 2001

London extension uses biggest ever XLPE cable
20 April, 2001
The UK National Grid’s London Infrastructure Project includes a 20 km 400 kV XLPE underground cable link from the Elstree substation to St John’s Wood. With its 2500 mm2 cross section, carrying up to 3700 A, it is the largest capacity XLPE cable in the world, with completion due in 2004.  

Large-scale coal-over-coal reburn successful at Italy’s Vado Ligure
23 March, 2001
Controlling emissions in coal-fired plants by reburn using gas is a well established concept. Following a programme of modifications the Vado Ligure power plant in Italy is now showing that coal can be used as reburn fuel at large scale, with very positive results. G Hesselmann, Mitsui Babcock, Technology Centre, Renfrew, Scotland, UK; S Pasini, ENEL Produzione - Ricerca, Pisa, Italy; G Mainini, Ansaldo Termosud Unita Caldaie, Legnano, Italy

This pedestal is not for cracking
20 February, 2001