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Outsourcing route pays off for Peugeot
20 December, 1999
There is always an element of calculated risk in being among the first customers for a new generation of engine. But the hope of course is that this will be outweighed by the benefits of the new technology. This has certainly been the case for Cogetherm's new combined heat and power (CHP) plant at Peugeot's Mulhouse factory, which uses ten CW12V220 engines running on natural gas.

Remote control
20 December, 1999
Cost cutting is the name of the power game, especialy in service and support functions. Siemens has developed a control monitoring and I&C system that deals with exactly this issue, allowing expert teams to be maintained at a central location rather than at each site.

Integral return and DTS in Moyle HVDC link
20 December, 1999
An HVDC link between Ireland and Scotland is scheduled to enter service in 2001.

Fibre optic monitoring takes the heat off cables
20 December, 1999
Better information on the thermal behaviour of critical circuits might have avoided the electricity supply failure in Auckland in early 1998. A direct buried 110 kV circuit linking the city's Mt Roskill and Liverpool St substations, under construction at the time, has just been completed. This circuit has fibre optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS), which is used to generate monthly performance reports.

First GTX100 reaches full power at Västhamn
20 December, 1999
Partnership with a forward-looking utility, Helsingborg Energi, is enabling ABB Alstom Power to prototype test its new GTX100 gas turbine in a real power plant under commercial conditions.

Daesan unit burns 95 per cent hydrogen fuel
20 December, 1999
The petrochemical industry is ideal for gas turbine-based cogeneration. By-product gases provide a valuable fuel and the industrial plants require large amounts of electricity and heat. Samsung has built a cogeneration plant at its Daesan complex in South Korea which uses a byproduct gas containing 95 per cent hydrogen as its primary fuel.

Race against the onset of winter
20 December, 1999
After the war in Serbia, and the return of the Kosovar refugees, ensuring a reliable supply of power became a matter of life and death. How was power provided?

MaK satisfies Cementos Progreso
19 November, 1999

Emergency genset for Russia
19 November, 1999

GENSET REVIEW
19 November, 1999

Power to Barclaycall
19 November, 1999

Standby for eye
19 November, 1999

Wind turbines offer new voltage control feature
19 November, 1999
by Tom Wind

Growing in the wind
19 November, 1999
Wind power has become booming business in the USA. Two sites totalling nearly 300 MWe have been installed in the Mid West USA, one at Lake Benton II in Minnesota, the other at Storm Lake in Iowa.

Internet taps into the horizontal supply chain
19 November, 1999
The internet promises to revolutionise the management of spare parts inventories, which can amount to several million dollars for a typical plant. Jan Hutchings, sparesFinder.com, Putney, UK

New technology widens the range of applications
19 November, 1999
A range of technologies is now available for automated meter reading, including: walk-by systems with both keypads and probes; radio frequency (RF) walk-by and drive-by systems; and fully automated systems, including power line carrier based schemes. With this flexibility AMR looks set to play a growing role in the future. Costante Canesi, Systems Market Development Manager, Schlumberger Resource Management Services, Montrouge, France,

PASS poses challenge to conventional thinking
19 November, 1999
PASS (Plug and Switch System), from ABB High Voltage Technologies, achieves new levels of compactness and reliability in high voltage switching, opening up radical possibilities for substation design. Staff report

Karita P800 supercritical 360 MWe PFBC plant reaches full power
19 November, 1999
The world's largest coal-fired pressurised fluidised bed combined-cycle power plant is under commissioning in Japan. The 360 MWe Karita unit, designed to burn a wide range of imported coals, is the latest example of the application of this modern clean coal technology. The combined cycle unit recently achieved the nameplate rating for the gas turbine and will very shortly reach full plant load. After completing its commissioning programme the plant will be ready for commercial operation in the middle of next year. Dirk Veenhuizen, ABB Stal, Finspong, Sweden

New laws prompt focus on low NOx options
19 November, 1999
A few legal issues may yet need to be resolved, but the prudent coal-fired power plant owner should clearly be preparing to meet increasingly stringent NOx emission limits in the near future. A number of technologies are available. John Macphail and Les King, Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd, Renfrew, Scotland, UK

Fluidised Bed Combustion Technology – the past, present and future
19 November, 1999
The technology of fluidised bed combustion (FBC) technology – bubbling (BFC) and circulating fluidised bed combustion (CFB) – has undergone significant performance improvements over the years. The advantages offered by FBC technology indicate certain future trends. David Pai and Folke Engström, Foster Wheeler, Livingston, USA.