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Canada’s first low-CO2 power plant

Siemens’ (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-CO2 IGCC power plant. EPCOR Power Generation is planning to build an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant (IGCC) featuring carbon capture and storage in Genesee near…

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Plant Watch Metso to supply mining equipment to Anglo American-MMX in Brazil July 1, 2008 — Metso Minerals will supply crushing, screening and feeding equipment to Anglo American-MMX for its Minas Rio Project located in the Minas Gerais state in…

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Engineering Practice: A Lessons-Learned Knowledge Management System for Engineers

An organizational lessons-learned system facilitates the transfer of knowledge from one project team to another Lessons learned is a method of collecting the unique and important knowledge gleaned from experience. While most engineers have heard of this often cited, even…

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Cover Story: Making Energy Efficiency Pay

As fuel prices continue to rise, energy management is everyone’s business Market trends suggest that the demand for energy resources will rise dramatically over the next 25 years with the global demand for all energy sources forecast to grow by…

People: Who’s Who

Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Louis M. Maresca is appointed president and COO of Argosy International (New York, N.Y.). Basin Water (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) names Thomas C.…

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  North America 37th Turbomachinery Symposium. The Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M University (College Station, Tx.). Phone: 979-845-7417; Fax: 979-845-1835; Web: turbolab.tamu.edu Houston, Tx. Sept. 8 – 11 LogiChem 2008. Worldwide Business Research (New York, N.Y.). Phone: 888-482-6012; Fax: 646-200-7535; Web:…

August Letters  

Receivers in Compressed Air Systems June, Cover Story Part 2, Compressed Air: Your Most Expensive Utility, pp. 39 – 43: This is a very good article. I want to add a thought about the current practice of specifying receivers. When…

Lanxess will move headquarters from Leverkusen to Cologne

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG plans to move its headquarters from Leverkusen to Cologne (both Germany). Relocation is to be completed by 2011. Lanxess will now begin discussions with the city of Cologne to identify possible sites. “Lanxess is today…

IChemE expands presence in China  

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (London; IChemE) has announced plans to establish a greater presence in China, following the appointment of Dr. Yan Tsaur as the country’s first IChemE Operations Director.   Professor Richard Darton, IChemE President, outlined the Institution’s…

Small-Deal Activity Driving M&A Volume in the Chemicals Industry

Small-deal activity continues to drive healthy deal volume in the global chemicals industry with 374 announced deals in the first half of 2008, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ LLP report, Chemical Compounds: Global Chemicals Mergers & Acquisitions Analysis – Second Quarter…