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  1. Upgrading Process Controls at Progress Energy’s Harris Station

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    Mon, 1 Sep 2008

    Click here to enlarge image Like many nuclear power stations in the United States, the process control and instrumentation systems at Progress Energy’s 900 MW Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina dated from the 1960s and 1970s

  2. Emerson takes PlantWeb architecture to rural electric cooperative

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    Wed, 11 Dec 2002

    power providers like Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC) decide the time has come to upgrade plant control and instrumentation systems, operational efficiency and advanced system design are often sacrificed to meet restricted budgets

  1. Schott manufacturing plant receives ASME-NPT certification

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    Mon, 16 Apr 2012

    sealed Electrical Penetration Assemblies (EPAs). EPAs are the conduit for the pass-through of power, control and instrumentation cables from the external environment into the heart of the power plant. This certification allows Schott to

  2. Power Center Capacity ramp-up for conventional generation

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    Tue, 24 Apr 2012

    facilities for testing, design and R&D in the area of hydraulic turbines, hydro mechanical equipments, control and instrumentation of small hydro electric power plants. The on-line monitoring system that adds to longevity of uninterrupted

  3. Wireless at Power Plants

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    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    installations typically run on WirelessHART or ISA100 networks. Short-range wireless includes the actual control and instrumentation installation at a power plant, offered by companies such as Emerson, Honeywell, BS&B Safety Systems and

  4. UK nuclear power programme falls behind schedule

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    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    significantly short of what we expected". "Significant issues" are also flagged for Westinghouse's planned control and instrumentation systems to operate the reactor. The company missed a June deadline to provide information on reactor chemistry

  5. UK nuclear regulator: Areva EPR control & instrumentation issue "largely resolved"

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    Tue, 16 Nov 2010

    The UK's nuclear safety regulator has closed the Regulatory Issue (RI) over the proposed control and instrumentation system for Areva's European Pressurized Reactor (EPR). Last year, the UK Health and Safety Executive

  6. Frazer-Nash awarded contract to advise UK safety executive on nuclear reactors

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    Wed, 10 Feb 2010

    completion of assessment work during GDA Step 3. The contract focused on providing technical support covering the control and instrumentation aspects of the reactor designs, including the reactor protection systems.

  7. Enviro Technology awarded UK emissions monitoring contract for Europe's largest CCGT plant

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    Tue, 8 Dec 2009

    reporting and data logging software and products have also been purchased. GDF SUEZ Energy UK's Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineer Patrick Pisani said: "There are three key reasons we awarded Enviro Technology this contract. Firstly

  8. Measuring Unburned Carbon in Flyash with an Automated, On-line Monitor

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    Sat, 1 Mar 2008

    measurement/thermal oxidation design. Author: David Clifford has 18 years experience in the chemical, process control and instrumentation industries. He holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University and