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Controllers Control 160 Million Cubic Meters of Gas in Gas Storage Facility
A gas storage facility in Cheshire, UK, designed to hold over 160 million cubic metres of gas, will be controlled controllers from ABB Systems (UK). The facility, designed as a potentially future unmanned site, is being built for E.ON at Holford in Cheshire and will store gas in eight salt caverns deep underground.
The processing plant consists of several gas compressors which both maximise the pressure of the gas stored and the gas withdrawn from the caverns into the National Grid Transmission System. Additionally an on site drying plant removes water from the gas as it leaves the caverns. Some gas is always left in the cavern to maintain the minimum pressure required to sustain the cavern structure. The maximum pressure is carefully controlled whenever gas is injected into or withdrawn from the cavern.
The 800xA system is being supplied to Costain who are responsible for
Engineering, Procurement and Construction of the plant. ABB are a ‘preferred’ supplier to Costain as part of their supply chain top level supplier initiative designed to preselect quality suppliers that add benefit to Costain business.
The ABB system will control the import of gas into the caverns for storage
and export of Gas into the National grid, this includes the complex control required to handle these transfers in both free flow and compression modes. Both import and export flow is metered to fiscal standards with on-line gas analysis. Computation of the energy flow is used as the primary control set point for injection and withdrawal.
Plant safety is critical and the TUV certified AC 800M HI controllers are used as the Safety Instrumented System to control the processing plant, associated pipelines and the well heads, which are situated up to 2 km from the processing plant.
Availability and efficiency of the plant are crucial, the AC 800M are a key part to ensure these key factors. The 800xA system also interfaces to fire and gas
monitors around the plant, third party packages such as the compressor unit controls, access security and CCTV monitoring of the plant. Thereby providing integrated visibility for the operators of the process along with plant security and safety aspects.
Steve Bresnen, engineering manager at ABB in St. Neots, says: “E.ON wanted a UK supplier who could engineer, manage and build the system here. They also wanted a company with a proven record of this sort of project and we could offer our experience with other gas storage projects.”
The Board of Directors of Industrial Scientific Corporation (USA) has elected Justin McElhattan, 37, as President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2010. In this position, Mr. McElhattan will have full and direct responsibility for day to day operations, and for profitably growing all worldwide business units and subsidiaries.
McElhattan has served as President and Chief
Operating Officer since February, 2008, and as a member of the Board since 2006.
“Industrial Scientific is fortunate to have so
many talented, passionate people around the world committed to highest quality and best customer service. Their relentless dedication to eliminating injury and death in the workplace is a constant source of inspiration for me. I am delighted for the opportunity to serve our employees, customers, and stakeholders through the next phase of what has already been an impressive story,” McElhattan said.
After completing a BS degree in Environmen-
tal Science at Penn State University, McElhattan was based in Philadelphia, PA as a sales represen- tative for Sheridan Safety, followed by two years as a district sales manager for Safeco. He joined Industrial Scientific in 1998 as Manager of Commercial Systems. In 2000 he was promoted to Field Sales Manager, North America and in 2003 to General Manager, Service Operations. In 2005 he was elected Vice President, Operations and in 2007 elected President and Chief Operating Officer.
McElhattan earned an MBA with a
concentration in operations from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business in 2005.
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The ABB System 800xA control system supports IEC61850 allowing the controllers to link to Intelligent Electrical Devices on switchboards, motors and other electrical equipment. E.ON also wants to use the AC 800M HI controllers to gather asset data to allow predictive maintenance and discover which instrumentation needs recalibrating etc, reducing OPEX costs and cutting total cost of ownership.
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Collaboration to Develop an Advanced Range of Raman Microscopes
Materials characterisation company Malvern Instruments (UK) and Kaiser Optical Systems (USA), a leading supplier of Raman analysers and components for spectroscopy, have announced a development collaboration that will enhance the product portfolios of both companies. As part of the process of bringing the resulting new products to market, both companies will be seeking the involvement of potential customers at the final stages of product development and for beta evaluations.
into its Morphologi® on a range of particulate and solid materials. Used in conjunction with ISys®
Malvern Instruments, a world-class supplier of systems for characterising particulate materials, will integrate Kaiser’s RamanRxn System™ analysers and probes platform. The Morphologi’s high-performance automated image analysis will then intelligently target and guide the collection of Raman data , Malvern’s powerful chemical imaging software, this approach has many and varied
applications. These patent pending combinations will, for the first time, enable this intelligent, targeted and statistically robust approach to performing Raman microscopy on a variety of spatially and chemically complex samples. Paul Walker, Managing Director of Malvern Instruments said: “We are very excited by the prospects for this collaboration which builds on the strengths of both organisations. It will significantly enhance Malvern’s capabilities to solve the material characterisation problems of its customers in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.”
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Product Expansion for Leading BeNeLux Analytical Specialists
Optimus Instruments (Belgium) will market, distribute and service the Antek product line in the BeNeLux. Antek is a known in the petrochemical industry for its reliable elemental analysers like the Model 9000 for nitrogen and sulphur from low ppb to percentage level. Optimus Instruments is a market leader in the BeNeLux with reputated brands like Walter Herzog, ISL, Alcor, Lawler… Its strength is the powerful after sales
service and unique IS17025 accreditation for performance testing of petroleum analysers. The Antek-Optimus combination offers the best guarantee for quality.
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