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Maximizing compressor performance, remotely

Complex, modern machinery requires both regular maintenance as well as periodic overhauls carried out by expert technicians. These are usually deployed or trained by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Today, for those involved in industrial gas compression, the use of remote support technology is proving to be invaluable as a tool that can help to minimize downtime and expedite repairs.

Across modern industry, the digital revolution has made massive steps to improve the performance and reliability of equipment possible. Enhanced data recording and analysis has reduced the time to diagnose issues, while better communications technology has enabled more support to be provided remotely.

Virtual on-hand expertise

OEMs have a responsibility to provide support for their products, and this may require skilled personnel to be on site to deliver hands-on assistance. However, at times, this may not be possible in the timeframe required by the operator, so a suitable alternative is needed.

World events have highlighted how resourceful businesses have overcome major logistical challenges to their operations, enabling them to continue improving the service they deliver. Now, those that have adopted greater flexibility in the way they deliver their services, are benefiting from reduced project costs and greater customer satisfaction.

UP! Remote Support connects customers with experienced technicians and engineers to assist in resolving issues virtually.UP! Remote Support connects customers with experienced technicians and engineers to assist in resolving issues virtually.

Modern technology can often provide some of the solutions, for example, remote support software that enables a technical expert to guide a maintenance technician who is on site and provide precise instruction. For those working offshore or in the marine sector, this type of support can deliver many benefits. In such remote locations, expert support can be difficult to obtain, especially at short notice, so the ability to diagnose faults and complete maintenance tasks with remote support can significantly reduce costs as well as downtime.

Taking on challenging environments

The existence of zoned areas where potentially explosive gases may be present significantly increase the challenge of delivering remote support. This has been tackled head-on by Burckhardt Compression, which has developed a specialized range of digital solutions for its products. The wisdom of these developments has been borne out following the recent worldwide pandemic.

The scale of the Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruption to almost every aspect of business and industrial life. For those needing to support customers with on-site technical help, the stringent travel restrictions posed a considerable challenge.

: Including within the package is an ATEX-certified tablet and headset that enables the technician on-site to communicate and receive instructions via a secure network connection.: Including within the package is an ATEX-certified tablet and headset that enables the technician on-site to communicate and receive instructions via a secure network connection.

Fortunately, digitalization and Industry 4.0 had laid the foundations for improved diagnostics and communications that would eventually lead to the more efficient identification and resolution of problems. As a leading manufacturer of large gas compressors that are used throughout the petrochemical business, Burckhardt Compression is leading the field with its UP! Solutions package.

Instant support globally

Increased data availability and improved analytics has enabled Burckhardt Compression to offer three solutions for operators of its equipment. These provide customers with the tools to benefit from optimized compressor availability and efficiency by delivering access to immediate and ongoing technical support anywhere in the world.

UP! Remote Support delivers help when it is needed; an experienced technician can assist virtually in resolving an immediate issue. If necessary, this can be taken to the next level by involving specialized engineers to offer more in-depth analysis using the remote application.

The concept for UP! Remote Support is to provide immediate technical assistance when it is required, wherever it is required. This may be as part of a diagnosis or checking spare parts are available in preparation for scheduled maintenance. At the heart of this package is an ATEX-certified tablet and headset that enables the technician on-site to communicate and receive instructions via a secure network connection.

Improved availability and performance

The ability to show live images and receive instant feedback cuts maintenance time to an absolute minimum, ensuring continued productivity for the operator. This concept also reduces costs and ensures technical support is always available. For example, planned maintenance projects can only be completed efficiently if all the necessary spare parts are on-hand and this can be checked, using remote support, before the compressor is taken offline.

In addition to the remote support aspect, Burckhardt Compression is also developing other complementary solutions. The UP! Connected Compressor solution uses predictive maintenance and optimized servicing intervals to maximize productivity and uptime. This is accompanied by the UP! Solutions Navigator, which provides all relevant information for a compressor along with its service history.

As more developments are made, so operators are beginning to appreciate the full scope of support that can be offered using remote communication tools. Together, the UP! Solutions package offers instant access to compressor data and improved productivity as well as greatly reduced response times for unplanned maintenance. To enable overhaul projects to be scheduled precisely as well as providing access to expert support when operating in remote locations, Burckhardt Compression has developed a set of tools that can minimize costs, even in the most challenging times.

For more information, visit Burckhardt Compression's website: UP! Remote Support - Burckhardt Compression

You can also watch a video on UP! Remote Support here:https://youtu.be/kvY5RvlLD3c

About Burckhardt Compression

Burckhardt Compression is the worldwide market leader for reciprocating compressor systems and the only manufacturer and service provider that covers a full range of reciprocating compressor technologies and services. Its customized compressor systems are used in the gas gathering and processing, gas transport and storage, refinery, chemical, petrochemical as well as in the industrial gas and hydrogen mobility and energy sectors. Burckhardt Compression’s leading technology, broad portfolio of compressor components and the full range of services help customers around the world to find the optimized solution for their reciprocating compressor systems. Since 1844, its highly skilled workforce has crafted superior solutions and set the benchmark in the gas compression industry.

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For further information please visit www.burckhardtcompression.com

Sulzer has supported Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. to complete construction of the world’s first commercial-scale production plant that will convert municipal solid waste (MSW), or household waste, into renewable transportation fuels. The plant will convert approximately 175,000 tons (159,000 tonnes) of MSW into approximately 11 million gallons (41.6 million liters) of renewable synthetic crude oil (syncrude) per year. Since 2016, Sulzer has delivered a full range of pumps that will play a critical role in the site’s energy generation circuit – fundamental to the conversion process that produces fuel from waste.

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Thanks to the class-leading efficiency and high degree of customization offered by Sulzer’s pumps, the company was able to win the order consisting of boiler feed, condensate extraction and other process pumps central to the plant’s energy generation circuit. These pumps will therefore play a critical in converting the 175,000 tons (159,000 tonnes) of MSW into approximately 11 million gallons (41.6 million liters) of syncrude per year. The waste-to-fuel process has the power to transform the transportation industry with renewable, zero-carbon transportation fuels.

Frédéric Lalanne, CEO of the Sulzer group and President of Sulzer’s Flow Equipment Division, commented “This is an extremely exciting project that will help to reduce the carbon footprint of transport systems and also reduce the volume of waste going to landfill. This revolutionary new plant is the first in the world to achieve commercial scalability, and we hope it will be the first of many. We are glad to be using our pumping expertise to support this important step towards zero-carbon circular energy.”

Sulzer is a global leader in fluid engineering. We specialize in pumping, agitation, mixing, separation and purification technologies for fluids of all types. Our customers benefit from our commitment to innovation, performance and quality and from our responsive network of 180 world-class manufacturing facilities and service centers across the globe. Sulzer has been headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland, since 1834. In 2021, our 13’800 employees delivered revenues of CHF 3.2 billion. Our shares are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: SUN). www.sulzer.com

ICIS, a global source of Independent Commodity Intelligence Services, has launched Supplier Carbon Footprints to help chemical and plastic companies measure, manage and identify opportunities to reduce global supply chain emissions for chemicals and plastics with ground-breaking emission data by supplier, plant, and product.

Developed in partnership with Carbon Minds, specialists in environmental impact modelling for chemicals and plastics, Supplier Carbon Footprints is set to shine a light into emissions across the whole supply chain for 71 chemicals and plastics, empowering companies to reduce their carbon footprint.

2020 09 07 082118As consumer, investor, and regulatory pressure on industry to reduce its environmental impact continues to intensify, organisations are increasingly looking to understand and reduce their carbon footprint. According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBSCD), the upstream and downstream supply chain of chemical companies contributes on average 81% of overall emissions by the industry, with the single largest contributor typically being raw material supplies. Historically, the poor availability and consistency of primary data, or detailed secondary sources, has made it hard to assess emissions and set effective reduction targets.

Alison Jones, Strategy Director at ICIS, explains, “Although there is a lot of focus on capital expenditure for new technologies to reduce emissions, which is great for the future, this tool provides an immediate way to report emissions and identify areas of focus more accurately. Emissions vary dramatically from supplier to supplier, region, and plant, which is not fully reflected in alternative solutions on the market which calculate emissions on a regional or country basis. With Supplier Carbon Footprints, organisations will be able to clearly see the climate impact of their supply chains and accurately measure and compare suppliers’ carbon footprints. Changing just one supplier could make an immediate and significant difference to Scope 3 emissions.”

Arne Kätelhön, Co-founder and CEO at Carbon Minds added, “This is a huge step forward for chemical companies in managing Scope 3 emissions. Supplier Carbon Footprints provides data covering 71 bulk chemicals and plastics which are consumed to produce the vast majority of manufactured goods. It will provide the information to create supply chains with lower climate impacts and find the right suppliers to achieve this goal. Companies will further be able to use the data to engage existing suppliers and assist them to implement sustainability initiatives.”

Jones concludes, “The visualisation of the data via the icis.com interface allows users to easily analyse data for more than 10,000 production plants and determine life-cycle environmental impacts of chemicals and plastics globally. It provides buyers the granularity needed to manage Scope 3 emissions and producers to set targets for reduction of emissions and to benchmark their production against their competition.”

About ICIS

ICIS is a trusted source of global commodity intelligence for the energy, chemical and fertilizer industry. We are a division of RELX, a FTSE 15 company with a market cap of £44.6 billion and an employee base of over 30,000 experts across 40 countries.

At ICIS, we help businesses make strategic decisions, mitigate risk, improve productivity and capitalise on new opportunities. We make some of the world's most important markets more trusted and predictable by providing data services, thought leadership and decision tools. As a result of our unmatched global presence, we can deliver targeted connected intelligence to influence thousands of decisions across supply chains every single day. We shape the world by connecting markets to optimise the world's valuable resources. With a global team of more than 600 experts, ICIS has employees based in London, New York, Houston, Karlsruhe, Milan, Mumbai, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Perth.

About RELX

RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. RELX PLC is a London listed holding company which owns 52.9% of RELX Group. RELX NV is an Amsterdam listed holding company which owns 47.1% of RELX Group. The shares are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX and RENX. Total market capitalisation is approximately £42.6bn, €49.3bn, $51.9bn.

Thousands of manufacturing jobs and tens of companies could still be lost in the domestic supply chain if the Government does not reconsider its approach to steel safeguarding.

The stark warning comes from The Confederation of British Metalforming (CBM), which has seen its 200+ members severely impacted from tariffs designed to protect parts of the UK steel production sector that are currently ill equipped to meet actual domestic demand.

This means tier1s and sub-contractors to automotive, aerospace, construction and general engineering have been paying hundreds of thousands of pounds to import their ‘Category 12’ steel - including critical quality and performance bar and section - from European mills, as the quarterly tariff-free quotas are running out within a month.

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Recent pleas from the CBM to remove engineering metals under the 7228 code has seen the Government act, almost doubling the available quotas for this category before the 25% tariff kicks in.

Whilst this move is welcomed as a small sign of progress, it does not go far enough to remove the unnecessary financial cost and injury being felt down the supply chain and raises the very real prospect of lost orders and production being moved away from the UK.

“We acknowledge the substantive increase in the Category 12A quota and welcome the motivation to rebalance an unfair and severely damaging position that has led to it,” explained Steve Morley, President of the CBM.

“However, during this quarter the Category 12A quota on imports from Europe exhausted within one month. Doubling that quota will not, therefore, prevent exhaustion, it just pushes it a month further down the line.”

2022 06 29 100144He continued: “That means CBM members will continue to have to operate with a high level of uncertainty and jeopardy. A continuation of that jeopardy over a further two years, will mean continued questions from overseas holding companies about the viability of manufacturing in the UK. Even at reduced levels, tariff costs will continue to injure these businesses unjustifiably.”

The Confederation of British Metalforming is keen to support a vibrant UK steel industry that delivers world class performance and quality at a cost that is competitive.

Recent investment by British Steel in Scunthorpe is a shot in the arm for the sector, but there is a need for other major players in the industry to show the same level of commitment to producing steel in the volumes and specifications required by UK manufacturing.

Steve went on to add: “British steel mills have not been able to supply the Cat 12a materials our members need to support critical domestic and export supply chains, nor are they likely to be able to do so in the near future. So, what exactly are the Government looking to protect? It certainly isn’t UK jobs in downstream metal manufacturing!

“The increase in quotas need to go further and we are therefore requesting that Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Secretary of State for International Trade, adjusts the level of the Category 12A quota for imports from Europe to 33,000 tonnes per quarter.

“This is the only solution that will have virtually no effect on UK steelmakers, but, at the same time, will allow our members to import materials when required without the risk of incurring 25% additional costs.

“It will also alleviate damage to downstream British manufacturers, already facing the threats of losing critical contracts, of shedding jobs, or finding their manufacturing operations relocated to the EU or other parts of the world.” 

He concluded: “The Government must listen to us. If they do, this will remove the current unnecessary burden that carries a very real threat to thousands of downstream manufacturing jobs, whilst leaving safeguarding categories in place to protect UK Steel members."

For further information, please visit www.thecbm.co.uk

Kemppi India Pvt Ltd. is strengthening its foothold in the Indian welding market by opening a new facility in Ingale Industrial Park, Pune. Located in West India, Pune is a big IT hub and the most important automobile and manufacturing hub in India. The opening ceremony is held in the new facility on Wednesday 29 June 2022.

Kemppi has been running a business in India for 11 years. The strategic decision to move from Chennai to Pune enables Kemppi to grow the business in India in the coming years. The new facility and its advanced demo area invite customers to welding training sessions and demos. Products are well displayed in the showroom.

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The team is excited about the new location and business opportunities there. The new facility is the base for all sales activities in India, also including Marketing, Warehouse, Technical support and After Sales service teams.

“The new facility, approximately 3,000 square meters, includes a showroom where products are displayed. With the possibility to demonstrate live welding on our products, this investment shows our commitment to serving our customers in India and to support them in the long term,” says Ajay Trikha, Managing Director, Kemppi India Pvt Ltd.

"The official opening of our new sales entity, which is located closer to our customers, is a precious moment and marks the beginning of a new chapter in the life of Kemppi India. The Indian welding market is amongst the largest in the world, and I am excited about the opportunities it brings to Kemppi," says Gerben Van den Berg, Vice President, Markets.

www.kemppi.com

Kemppi in brief
Kemppi is the design leader in the arc welding industry. We are committed to boosting the quality and productivity of welding by continuous development of the welding arc and by working for a greener and more equal world. Kemppi supplies sustainable products, digital solutions, and services for professionals from industrial welding companies to single contractors. The usability and reliability of our products is our guiding principle. We operate with a highly skilled partner network covering over 70 countries to make its expertise locally available. Headquartered in Lahti, Finland, Kemppi employs close to 800 professionals in 17 countries and has a revenue of 178 MEUR.

Kemppi – Designed for welders

Firms in the European Union are facing many hurdles that may shift their focus in investing in the green transition. The pandemic is high on this list, followed by the new shock linked to the war in Ukraine.

  •     For EU firms, energy costs were a major obstacle to business even before the recent energy price spike.
  •     43% of European firms are investing in climate measures, and at a faster pace than firms in the United States.
  •     58% of EU firms confirm that their business is affected by the physical risks of climate change.
  •     The transition to a low-carbon economy is perceived as a business risk by a large share of firms in Central and Eastern Europe, and as an opportunity for Southern European businesses.

58% of EU firms confirm that their business is affected by the physical risks of climate change, and one-fifth think that extreme weather events have had a major impact on their business compared with around one-tenth in the United States.

The concerns are particularly high in Southern Europe, as firms find themselves more vulnerable to the impact of climate change. In particular, 78% of Spanish and 71% of Portuguese firms are worried, while 40% of Western and Central European businesses perceive high physical risks due to climate change.

2022 06 29 094932Furthermore, the transition to a low-carbon economy is perceived to be a business risk by a large share of firms in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Germany (43%), Latvia and Poland (47%). On the contrary, most Southern European businesses consider the green transition to be an opportunity, while Western and Northern European firms hold relatively diverse views.

About 40% of EU firms perceive rising energy costs to be the main obstacle to their business that is influencing their investment focus. At the same time, firms that invest in climate measures and energy efficiency — such as in Northern and Western European countries — are less likely to consider energy costs to be a barrier to investment.

In parallel, the pandemic is creating new challenges for energy efficiency investments, which slowed in 2021 across the European Union and the United States. Lithuania and Ireland had the lowest share of firms’ investments in the sector.

Internationally, around 43% of European firms are investing in climate measures, and at a faster pace than the United States. Northern and Western Europe are leading the pack, with substantial contributions from Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands.

“The results of the EIB Investment Survey show that for EU businesses, energy costs are a major obstacle to investment plans. Nevertheless, higher energy prices are pushing firms to modernise their operations, by using capital to pay for newer machines, equipment and building renovation, with positive effects for energy efficiency and the energy transition. Our analysis shows that improved access to finance and awareness of the new opportunities and risks, together with better management practices, would help firms and especially small businesses to transition to a greener economy, without affecting their competitiveness,” said EIB Chief Economist Debora Revoltella. “Policymakers and public and private financial institutions need to work together closely to create an enabling framework that will unlock investments in climate action and make energy efficiency and renewable energy a priority. “

EIB Vice-President Ricardo Mourinho Félix added: “Accelerating financial support and advisory services for the deployment of renewable energy systems, energy efficiency and innovative green technologies is the key to addressing the ongoing energy crisis. The EIB is working closely with the European Commission and Member States — including through REPowerEU — to create a more independent EU energy system.”

What drives firms’ investment in climate action: Evidence from the 2021-2022 EIB Investment Survey

Background information

About the Economics Department of the EIB

The EIB Economics Department provides economic research and studies, as well as unique analyses of investment activities in the European Union and beyond. It supports the Bank in its operations and in the definition of its positioning, strategy and policy. Chief Economist Debora Revoltella heads the department, a team of 40 economists.

About the EIB Group Survey on Investment and Investment Finance

The EIB Group Survey on Investment and Investment Finance is a unique, annual survey of 13 500 firms. It comprises firms in all EU Member States and the United Kingdom, as well as a sample of US firms that serves as a benchmark. It collects data on firm characteristics and performance, past investment activities and future plans, sources of finance, financing issues and other challenges that businesses face. Using a stratified sampling methodology, EIBIS represents firms across all EU members and the United States, as well as across firm size classes (micro to large) and four main sectors. It is designed to build a panel of observations to support time series analysis, observations that can also be linked to firm balance sheets and profit and loss data. EIBIS has been developed and is managed by the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank (EIB), with support for development and implementation provided by Ipsos MORI.

For more information see http://www.eib.org/eibis.

The multi-million-dollar project will enable the conversion of the Réunion Island power station to biomass, reducing emissions by 84%

Global technology and software company Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has been selected by Albioma (PAR: ABIO), a French independent energy provider, to help transition its coal-fired Bois Rouge plant to 100% renewable energy. As part of Albioma’s wider mission to transition all of its existing fossil fuel plants to renewable energy, Emerson’s automation systems and software will enable the coal-fired power station to convert to biomass feedstock.

The multi-million-dollar project is the latest example of how Emerson technologies are helping customers accelerate their transition to more sustainable energy. The power plant, one of three that Albioma operates on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, will be converted to use 100% biomass wood pellets. The overhaul of the 108-megawatt facility will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 640,000 tons of CO2 equivalent per year, an 84% decrease in direct emissions compared to current operating levels.

“Our aim as a company is to reach almost 100% renewable energies by 2030 at the latest, and the complete discontinuation of coal at our flagship site represents a major milestone in this green revolution,” said Pascal Langeron, chief operating officer, Reunion Island of Albioma. “Emerson is an automation partner with whom we have a trusted relationship and whose extensive experience and expertise in biomass power plants will be crucial to this project being completed on schedule.”

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The Bois Rouge plant consists of three generating units. Two units are already controlled by Emerson’s Ovation distributed control system, which will be modified for use with biomass feedstock, and the third unit will be replaced with a new Ovation system. The units will also be modernized with new turbine protection and health monitoring systems, safety systems for the boilers, and upgraded boiler control elements and instrumentation.

To ensure the project is completed within the available timeframe – a critical requirement of Albioma – Emerson will provide its Project Certainty methodologies, digital technologies and software expertise. In addition to delivering local engineering support for the project, Emerson will provide its Remote Virtual Office (RVO) collaboration platform – a secure virtual engineering and testing environment that will enable Albioma to access Emerson’s resources and ongoing support to reduce project risk and costs.

“Emerson has a vital role to play in the global transition to a sustainable energy future by supporting customers in their conversion projects,” said Bob Yeager, president of Emerson’s power and water business. “Our automation technologies, software, solutions and biomass project expertise will help Albioma operate Bois Rouge at peak performance, while also benefiting the environment by achieving a very significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.”

Work on the transition project will begin during a planned outage in June 2022 and is scheduled to be completed within five months.

About Emerson

Emerson (NYSE: EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets. Our Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure. For more information visit Emerson.com.

If the industry will reach its goal of fossil-free steel, it needs to stop burning fossil fuels in its heating processes. Electrification is the most promising way of achieving this, according to Anders Björklund, President of Swedish heating technology company Kanthal.

Steel remains one of the world’s most useful and in-demand commodities, yet its production processes are energy-intensive and produce vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). On a global scale, the steel and iron industries account for some 7 percent of CO2 emissions. Particularly emission-intensive are heating processes, which traditionally are fueled by gas or oil. But Kanthal provides electric heating as a viable alternative.

“There are many misconceptions about electric heating. For instance, that it’s not able to reach certain temperatures. But with our technology, covering furnace temperatures up to 1500°C, you can electrify any heating process in steelmaking,” says Anders Björklund, President of Kanthal. “As we have proved, Kanthal has the technology, the thermal expertise, the resources and the global footprint to electrify all the highly energy-intensive heating processes.”

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In addition to eliminating CO2 and NOx emissions and improving thermal efficiency, electric heating also provides precise temperature control. The reduction of noise and exhaust gases means a cleaner, quieter production process and work environment.

“While current heating technology is predominantly gas-fired, electric heating processes offer unique opportunities to reduce use of fossil fuels while increasing thermal efficiencies and potentially improving work environments”, says Dilip Chandrasekaran, Business Development Manager Steel, Kanthal and one of the speakers at the Sustainable Industrial Manufacturing Conference that will be held in Brussels, Belgium, June 28-29.

In the presentation, Chandrasekaran will outline benefits and advantages of electric heating within various steelmaking applications and show examples of the latest developments in this area, with specific focus on large-scale gas heating, including both modelling and experimental data.

More information about electrification of heating processes in steel production can be found on kanthal.com/electrification

About Kanthal

Kanthal® is a world-leading brand for products and services in the fields of sustainable industrial heating technology and resistance materials. The company is part of the Sandvik Group and has a strong tradition in innovation and extensive investments in R&D.

The company revolutionized the heating industry in 1931 by introducing the iron-chromium-aluminum (FeCrAl) alloy. Since then, Kanthal has launched game-changing materials and products, such as the high-power molybdenum disilicide (MoSi2) Kanthal® Super heating elements and the corrosion-resistant materials Kanthal® APM and APMT. In 2019, Kanthal launched their additive manufacturing services with Kanthal® AM100, the world’s first alloy for heating application that is specially developed for 3D-printing.

About Sandvik

Sandvik is a global high-tech engineering group offering solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation, rock processing and advanced materials. In 2021 the Group had approximately 44,000 employees and revenues of about 99 billion SEK in about 150 countries.

Doosan Lentjes, a specialist in environmental technologies, has been contracted by the general contractor Acciona to supply the flue gas cleaning system for a new waste-to-energy plant in West Bromwich, UK. The owner and operator of the new plant is enfinium Kelvin Limited.

The proven Doosan Lentjes Circoclean® flue gas cleaning technology is applied to ensure that the new waste-to-energy plant will comply with all emission limits according to the stringent European BREF requirements.

Doosan Lentjes' scope of supply includes the design, manufacture, and delivery of the entire flue gas cleaning system as well as support for the general contractor during installation and commissioning.

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"The latest order intake shows that our flue gas cleaning technology meets the high demands of the highly competitive European market," says Daniel Borke, Product Manager Air Quality Control Systems (AQCS) at Doosan Lentjes. "Moreover, we see the current order as an important step towards our future business activities, which will focus on the process chain of thermal waste treatment. Our highest priority will be the successful execution of the project in compliance with specified time and economic targets. In doing so, we draw on decades of experience with this type of project, from which both the general contractor and the end customer will benefit."

Doosan Lentjes is headquartered in Ratingen, Germany, and belongs to the Korean Doosan Group. The company's areas of expertise include flue gas cleaning systems, the combustion of renewable fuels such as waste, sewage sludge and biomass, and heat recovery systems.

Doosan Lentjes GmbH

Doosan Lentjes provides proprietary environmental technologies for thermal waste treatment and energy generation. Our areas of expertise include the incineration of renewable fuels such as waste, sewage sludge and biomass, heat recovery systems and flue gas cleaning equipment. We deliver flexible solutions for long-term waste disposal safety and climate-friendly steam and power generation.

As a member of the global Doosan Group, Doosan Lentjes is part of a strong international network of companies providing complementary technologies, skills and value to customers the world over.

With electricity prices soaring, pump system optimisation experts Riventa have voiced their support to the Chairman of Isle’s call for the water industry to make the most of innovative, energy-saving technology.

Speaking about the unavoidable climate crisis, Dr Piers Clark, Chairman of leading technical consultancy, Isle, stated that the water sector has significant potential to produce a positive impact. However, he added that the adoption of new energy-saving technologies could be accelerated.

Steve Barrett, Managing Director of Riventa, said: “As a business that can clearly demonstrate the efficiencies/inefficiencies of assets such as pumps, blowers and turbines, we are very used to trials, to show, for example, just how much energy can be saved, but Dr Clark is correct in his analysis; there are technologies available now that could make an immediate impact on those fast-rising energy bills. In the extensive process treatment undertaken by water companies that largely gets taken for granted, we all know that large amounts of power are required; so, with world events causing such a crisis in electricity costs, the water industry has a timely opportunity to embrace technologies that will drastically reduce energy bills, and at the same time, protect assets, as well as drive down emissions and pollutions”.

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He added: “We have to say though that our own experience with water companies has been very positive, where clearly there is the will to look after assets on the journey to Carbon Net Zero. We all want change for the better – and faster. Given the unprecedented rise in energy costs, the industry may have no choice other than to start rolling out key, decisive technologies that have proven deliverables”.

Riventa’s data-driven technology is currently in operation in eleven different countries worldwide. This includes a project in Paris, where at a key pumping station, use of its pump monitoring system and HydraNet software proved that the rescheduling of pumps to meet optimum performance, provides an immediate saving of 21%.

www.riventa.com