Industry News
COMPONENTS FOR LARGEST NUCLEAR PROJECT
Global pultrusion company Exel Composites is collaborating with French industrial contractor CNIM on the manufacture of fiberglass components for the magnet support structure of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest experimental fusion facility. To satisfy the stringent quality demands for the pre-compression rings, Exel Composites successfully solved the challenge of producing defect- free pultruded profiles of around 3km in length. The €18 billion ITER under
construction in Saint-Paul-lez- Durance, France, is designed to demonstrate that fusion power can be produced on a commercial scale, providing a safe, environmentally sustainable energy source. The ITER will use hydrogen fusion, controlled by superconducting magnets, to produce massive heat energy. In the commercial machines that will follow, this heat will drive turbines to produce electricity.
Alliance to improve coal chemistry industry
A framework agreement between ABB and one of China’s leading coal producers, the Yitai Group, will bring deeper cooperation in applying digital technologies, solutions, services and expertise to improve performance across Yitai’s plants. Additionally, the two companies have agreed to form a consortium to explore, develop and exploit opportunities presented by
Carbon capture plant opens its doors
Econic Technologies has opened a plant in the UK to demonstrate to customers how its innovative catalyst technologies can convert CO2
into polyols, which can then
be used to make more sustainable polyurethanes for use in products such as cars, bedding and footwear. The new plant is located in
Runcorn. It comprises all elements of the production process, integrated from reaction through to final product treatment, in a bespoke industrial unit. Thanks to a new tunable catalyst, the plant will be able to produce samples of CO2
-based polyols at lower,
industrially relevant temperatures and pressures.
Clearing power line surges
Ametek Power Instruments has launched the Smart-Gap, a product for clearing surges on power line carrier systems. It improves the performance and reliability of power line carrier communications by minimising the impact of any surge-induced loss of carrier signal, also known as carrier
holes. The Smart- Gap operates faster than traditional spark-gap solutions, extinguishing surges in less than 0.5 msec. to minimise any signal loss.
LNG TEST CENTRE OPENS
DNV GL has opened an LNG test centre, located in Groningen, the Netherlands, that will enable safer and more efficient use of LNG by supporting stakeholders across the value chain with operational experience and intelligence in addressing the large variations in the properties, density and calorific values among LNG sources globally. The facility, at the organisation’s existing renewable energy technology and gas laboratory site, is the first type of facility with a capacity compatible for the downstream sector. Its capacity is up to 250kg of liquefied gas and boasts a heat exchanger that allows the temperature of the LNG – and therefore its boil-off –to be precisely regulated.
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intelligent, digitally empowered plants, more generally, within the coal chemical industry at home and abroad.
The arrangement gives the Yitai Group access to the ABB Ability technology platform: an integrated industrial internet offering and cloud infrastructure
based on ABB’s expertise across a wide range of technologies and industries.
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