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Morrison Water Services has been appointed by Scottish Water as a strategic contractor partner to support the delivery of one of Scotland’s biggest
capital investment infrastructure programmes.
The initial contract term for the Scottish Water ‘Delivery Vehicle 2’ (DV2) framework is six years and includes the option to extend by a further six years. The DV2 framework was tendered across…
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Contact Energy has selected Voith Hydro to upgrade its Roxburgh hydropower plant on the Clutha River in New Zealand.
Contact is looking to increase its generation output using the same water flow by replacing four turbines with a more efficient and modern design.
Under the contract, signed back in May, Voith Hydro will be responsible for engineering, scale model testing, manufacturing,…
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Flowserve Corporation has announced the launch of a IoT service suite to help production facilities monitor their assets remotely.
This will help predict equipment failures before they happen and take preventive measures to avoid business disruptions.
RedRaven, the new platform supports any flow control equipment regardless of manufacturer, opening the door for companies to quickly realise the…
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Aberdeen-based technology specialist Interventek has been awarded a repeat order to supply additional open-water Revolution shear-and-seal valves.
The seven-figure contract comes on the back of Interventek supplying an initial set of the advanced subsea shear-and-seal safety valves in 2020, comprising single and dual cavity variants for Trendsetter Engineering in Houston.
The Revolution valves…
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The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of small refineries seeking relief from the Renewable Fuel Standard, delivering a major blow to biofuel groups in a long-running legal battle over the governance of the nation’s ethanol and biodiesel policy.
In a 6-3 ruling, the court ruled Small Refinery Exemptions from the nation’s biofuel blending requirements need not be extended in an uninterrupted…
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Industrial Testing & Inspection Services (ITIS) is a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) located in Goes in the Netherlands and has expert knowledge in providing leak and valve testing in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025.
This ISO is a requirement for testing and calibration laboratories.
ITIS is a recognised provider of customised services to various industries, including power generation,…
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Severn Trent has begun essential work to upgrade the water network in Wolverhampton in the UK.
The water company is investing over £2 million (€2.3 million) to install 9 km of brand-new pipes across the Bantock Park area to help reduce the number of leaks and bursts.
Work began earlier this month and the major network upgrade is expected to take approximately seven months to complete. …
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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has completed 96.4% of its project to extend its water transmission network by 36.6 kilometres across Dubai.
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, affirmed that DEWA used the latest technologies in the generation, transmission, distribution and control of electricity and water networks.
DEWA has made significant achievements in developing the…
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Bishton’s wastewater system is set for a boost thanks to the start of a £500,000 (€581,000) upgrade project by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water.
The company will undertake work which will involve cleaning and relining sections of the sewer pipe that runs through Bishton.
This will help improve the way the network performs during heavy rain and reduce the risk of flooding.
The work will be carried…
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The technology group Wärtsilä will supply six flexible power plants operating on natural gas, with a total combined output of 380 MW to different locations in Italy.
The framework agreement contract was placed by Metaenergiaproduzione, a member of the Italian Metaenergia Group, with the order for two plants being booked prior to 2020, and the remaining four in Q4 2020. Execution of the…
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Flowmeters
A municipal association in Scandinavia that supplies fresh drinking water and processes rainwater wanted to understand if wastewater was equally distributed across two pipes at one of its wastewater facilities.
As was common practice when these plants were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s the pipes were made from cast iron, which is traditionally very hard to measure.
Due to the age of the…
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The global technology leading specialist for progressive cavity pumps, pump systems and digital solutions has joined Ingersoll Rand in order to accelerate its growth.
Ingersoll Rand is a global provider of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions.
With the acquisition of Seepex, Ingersoll Rand is pursuing a growth strategy within its precision and sciences segment (PST) to grow…
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A specialist engineering company has invested more than £700,000 (€815,000) to develop tools which provide greener, faster and safer solutions for decommissioning in the energy sector.
Decom Engineering’s latest R&D investment has updated their Pipe Coating Removal (PCR) equipment, which cleans decommissioned or surplus pipelines of multiple coatings, so they can be repurposed for use on…
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Construction company Denys is to design and lay the Porthos onshore pipeline.
Denys was awarded the contract following an intensive European tendering process lasting more than a year.
Porthos will transport CO2 from the Rotterdam port area and store it in empty gas fields under the North Sea. Denys will take care of the detailed design and construction of what will be approximately 30 km of…
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Engineers responsible for municipal ground or surface drinking water supplies will find the Cloud-ready LQ800 Multi-Channel Control System offers them a complete measurement and control solution that provides over 50 analytical measurements, as well as liquid flow, level and temperature data.
The highly intelligent and scalable eight-channel LQ800 Multi-Channel Controller is designed to operate…
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PSG, an operating company of Dover Corporation, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Quantex Arc - a leader in single-use precision pumping technology.
Following the close of the transaction, Quantex will become part of the PSG business unit within Dover’s Pumps & Process Solutions segment.
Quantex is headquartered in London, England, and has developed a fundamentally new…
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Graco Inc, a fluid handling equipment manufacturer, has announced its new Husky 3300e electric double diaphragm pump.
The Husky 3300e pump transfers a wide variety of industrial fluids and offers plant managers high-volume fluid transfer (up 220 gpm) while drastically reducing power consumption.
Dan Purkat, worldwide product manager for process pumps at Graco, said: “The Husky 3300e pump was…
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Thames Water has published the final stage of its roadmap to achieving net zero carbon emissions across all operations by 2030.
The UK’s largest water supplier is committed to leading the future of energy transition by transforming the way it creates and uses power to become carbon neutral by 2030, having cut emissions by almost 70% since 1990.
The company, which has been producing renewable…
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