Sentences with phrase «by plant operators»

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

Not exact matches

Leading UK anaerobic digestion operator Biogen's portfolio of AD plants has been acquired by Ancala Bioenergy, after joint venture partners Bedfordia Group and Kier Group confirmed its sale.

A complete, fully connected end - of - line solution Featuring several different technologies and components, the solution installed at the Moulin de la Chaume plant by Gebo Cermex is characterised by high operational intelligence and smooth integration into the production flow, contributing to the efficiency of the four lines, as well as improving operator safety and batch traceability.

«The compact new high efficiency system also allowed the removal of a tall existing structure and hoppers, making solids handling more accessible for the plant operator, improving operational efficiency and enhancing OH&S benefits by reducing solids handling.

Daily or weekly inspections, cleaning and lubrication are as necessary on a packaging line as they are in an assembly plant, and can usually be done by the operators.

How flexible and space - saving plant design helped operators at Faccenda Foods boost product handling capacity by nearly 20 %

Sayre said the owners of the FitzPatrick plant were threatening to close it last June, jeopardizing hundreds of jobs, while the operators of the Ginna plant needed to recommit to refuel their plant by September.

The Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant which is now managed by United Water, a private operator on Friday, January 2, 2015 in Seaford.

Water samples were taken by the treatment plant operators, to see if discharge limits were exceeded.

The LPG operators had pulled out of the Cylinder Re-circulation Model policy (CRM) Implementation Committee as a result of what it described as «stiff resistance by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to its opposition to the classification of LPG filling plants in the country into high and low risk facilities.»

That pump, which runs on a separate power supply from the rest of the plant, was inspected and standing by on Tuesday, but plant operators restored main power to the pool before the emergency pump was needed, he said.

In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is giving plant operators in central and eastern parts of the country 18 months to revise their hazard assessments, following a new report reconsidering the risks posed by the region's geological faults.

Exelon Corp., the plant's operator, punted last October on a decision to close the plant, but previously said if it didn't get to raise electric rates for customers by May 31, it would shut down the money - losing facility by 2017.

The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), responded by cooling the reactors with water, which continues today.

When coal is burned in a power plant, operators make sure the fire gets plenty of oxygen so that it burns hot enough to produce the most possible energy and the fewest by - products.

A typhoon killed 17 people in Japan on Wednesday, most on an offshore island, but largely spared the capital and caused no new disaster as it brushed by the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station, the plant's operator said.

Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.

Hindering that process were a lack of regulations as well as «a collusion between the government, the [nuclear] regulators and [plant operator] Tepco and the lack of governance by said parties ``, Kurokawa's panel said in an English - language summary.

This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.

However, it was shut down only four months later after about 700 kilograms of liquid sodium leaked from the secondary cooling loop and, although there were no injuries and no radioactivity escaped plant buildings, this was compounded by operator attempts to cover up the scale of the damage.

The first commercial 12 - module power plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Arterton was joined by former sewing machine operators Eileen Pullen and Gwen Davis, two of the 187 women who staged a three - week walk - out from Ford's Dagenham plant in June 1968 after learning they were to be paid 15 per cent less than their male counterparts.

Against a darker ground, with hints of bright red, green and blue showing through, strokes of marigold glow like molten metal, perhaps inspired by the many years the artist spent working as a crane operator at a steelmaking plant.

Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas by Howard R. Hollem / Digital inkjet print from 4 x 5 color transparency, 1942 (printed 2017) / Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Years back, during the congressional hearings over the FPO (full power operation) permit for the Seabrook power plant on the east coast, I found out about a MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) between the US NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operations), which is a private corporation that can be hired by nuclear power operators for tasks such as investigating nuclear power plant safety deficiencies.

Schmitt and Happer say our current CO2 levels are «low by the standards of geological and plant evolutionary history,» they pine for the days when «Levels were 3,000 ppm, or more,» and note that commercial greenhouse operators boost CO2 levels to» 1,000 ppm or more to improve the growth and quality of their plants.»

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

In the immediate aftermath of eliminating nearly 5 GW of secured generation capacity in the southern German region alone following Fukushima, the Federal Network Agency, in conjunction with German transmission system operators, warned that failure of key network equipment or a major power plant — caused by potential overloading of transmission routes and by voltage control in the southern region — could critically jeopardize security and reliability of the German power supply.

Already by the early 1970s, U.S. nuclear plant operators were seeking to standardize nuclear plant design to reduce the time and cost of licensing and construction.

The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

Even when backed by a warranty, failure rates drive lost revenue for investors, developers and plant operators.

Now that Ohio - based utility First Energy has declared bankruptcy, there is the possibility that its three nuclear plants could be purchased by Exelon, which has proven capable of operating its plants at a cost that is roughly one - quarter less than other nuclear operators.

But electric grid operators basically pull this off, balancing supply and demand every few seconds by turning power plants on and off.

Pump operators maintain the equipment and regulate the flow of materials according to a schedule set up by the plant engineers or production supervisors.

In this scenario, electricity produced by natural gas power plants could «crowd out» renewable generation by forcing the grid operator to curtail renewables to avoid a situation in which electricity supply exceeds demand.

This is already widely recognized by operators of commercial greenhouses, who artificially increase the carbon dioxide levels to 1,000 ppm or more to improve the growth and quality of their plants.

By virtue of becoming more efficient, the technology could help power - plant operators reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Discriminated against by federal and state policies, the plant's operator, Entergy, announced it would have to close the plant by January 2017.

That's because the North Anna nuclear plants are only two out of more than 1,300 generating units (power plants) feeding a 13 - state portion of the transmission grid managed by independent operator PJM Interconnection.

Actually, greenhouse operators regularly use CO2 as a plant growth stimulant by pumping it into their buildings.

The park's protection also ensures surrounding communities» access to water and food, as well as important economic opportunities for the 3,500 people employed by the park, ecotourism operators, and a small hydroelectric plant.

Many countries have now liberalized the electricity market where these risks, and the risk of cheaper competitors emerging before capital costs are recovered, are borne by plant suppliers and operators rather than consumers, which leads to a significantly different evaluation of the economics of new nuclear power plants.

Because electrical systems must be built to deal with that highest range of demand, operators will have to address these increases by either building more power plants, developing better battery storage capacity or convincing consumers to shift some of their use to off - peak hours.

It's a reduction in demand for the power supplied by the grid operator's power plants — a somewhat predictable reduction, but not a controllable one.

The grid is a network of power plants and transmission lines that work together to deliver electricity to consumers across the U.S. Because electricity is always in demand, the grid is constantly operating, and grid operators carefully manage its energy output to meet demand by turning power plants on and off.

The costs of the equipment needed to control acid and toxic metal emissions, such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and dry sorbent injection (DSI), play a significant role in retrofitting and retirement decisions faced by coal plant operators.

The nature of the wind subsidy is such that it has required the main operator of Illinois» nuclear power plants to pay for the power surges created by wind turbines.

Projected retirements of coal - fired generating capacity in the AEO2014 include retirements above and beyond those reported to EIA as planned by power plant owners and operators.

Instead of following a natural instinct to clean house to prevent a scary crocodile infestation, the plant operators obeyed laws to protect endangered species that might be harmed by the industrial presence.