Ship owners, ship operators, and ship managers realize that hull fouling causes drag-related speed loss and increased fuel consumption when more power is delivered in order to maintain ship schedules. Hull fouling is also a topic of growing environmental concern and international regulation as it relates to green house gas emissions and the carriage...
Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC announced that it provided engineering design and compliance services for the Newton County Renewable Energy Business Park LFG Direct-Use Project, located in Brook, Indiana, one of six projects recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP)...
Russian oil output rose by 2.2 percent in 2010 to a record 10.1 million barrels per day (505.193 million tonnes) as higher prices prompted the world’s top oil exporter to ramp up production at its greenfield sites. The growth in crude production surprised many analysts, who had expected 1.1 percent on average, when polled just before the start...
Coulomb Technologies announced it will provide the first smart charging infrastructure installation base for new and existing alterative fueling stations within California for extended range electric vehicles (EREV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and all battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Largely powered by solar electric panels, these new...
Honeywell announced that it has won an $11 million contract to provide process control hardware and software to Nuon’s Magnum plant, a 1300 megawatt combined-cycle (3 units) power station under construction in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. The contract win follows the completion of an engineering and design study initiated by Honeywell in 2007. The...
Planalytics, Inc. announced today that Entergy Gulf States, Inc. (EGS) has received approval from the Louisiana Public Service Commission to hedge a portion of its 2009-2010 winter season gas requirements using the EnergyBuyer® Service. Planalytics’ year-ahead analysis of natural gas prices enables EGS to sort through market volatility and make...
AmerenUE and Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences today announced Quantum Weather(TM) – a highly precise weather monitoring, forecasting, and response system for UE’s Missouri service territory. Part of UE’s Project Power On reliability initiative, this pioneering system can pinpoint severe weather...
OpenSpirit announces that DataFlux, a leading provider of data quality and data integration solutions, will integrate OpenSpirit technology into its award-winning software to provide increased compatibility with third-party geosciences applications and data stores. End users will be able to extract well data from OpenSpirit-enabled data stores to perform...
Griffin Filters, an air filtration systems and bulk material handling equipment manufacturer, today announced a large order for catalytic filter bags for two of its nuclear power plant waste incinerator baghouses. These baghouses and the associated incinerator system are located in an overseas power plant and used to collect the ash from the incineration...
Pressures on water availability are reaching new heights, with nearly half the world’s population facing severe water stress. Business leaders are seeking new opportunities to both meet these requirements and generate defensible profits, spending more than $220 billion in the last ten years on water deals. To assist them, Lux Research today introduced...