Sentences with phrase «power plant systems»

Sargent & Lundy (Chicago, IL) Summer and Winter 2006 Associate Intern • Prepared multi-phase modification packages for nuclear power plant systems, assisting in data collection and complex engineering calculations as well as analyzing piping systems for deadweight, thermal, and seismic conditions • Consolidated data post-processing for piping analysis into automated recording process utilizing Microsoft Excel macros • Advised co-workers on various data post-processing methods to improve efficiency and reduce errors / omissions

Summary: * Understands nuclear power plant systems and subsystems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS: As Helicopter Mechanic, performed inspection and maintenance duties on various aircraft systems, including the fuel, flight control, rotor, utility, and power plant systems; checked cockpit controls, switches, and safety devices.

Scheduled inspections such as 50 hour, 100 hour and annual inspections of complete airframe and power plant systems, As well as unscheduled maintenance involving troubleshooting using applicable maintenance manuals.

A solar power engineer is an engineer who works on solar power plant systems.

(3) The most promising approach to more economical CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture is to develop power plant systems that facilitate efficient CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture.

It gets two or three times as much electric energy out of their natural gas, or whatever fuel, as we typically manage with our central power plant system.

eSolar will design, build, and test a CSP power plant system with fundamentally new components.

Not exact matches

Whether it's in the public sector or the private sector, utility managers are in charge of the facilities, plants, and distribution systems that bring the power to the people.

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

(Among other things, it's used for real - time control systems in nuclear power plants.)

SunPower said in June it would it would offer solar systems with battery storage to 300 New York homeowners in what would serve as a «virtual power plant» to utility Con Edison.

More likely, there are still nuclear plants running, and there may even be some natural gas plants lingering in the system — not running at full capacity, but they have the ability to power up quickly when there's not a lot of sun or wind.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in HaPower to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hapower system in Hawaii.

Anticipating this demand, the manufacturers of power plant equipment — Siemens, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, GE — are focusing their energies on coming out with new gas - fuelled systems.

High - reliability - organization (HRO) practices help prevent catastrophic failures in complex systems like nuclear power plants through early detection.

Security flaws would have let potential hackers shut down power plants, water systems and solar power facilities remotely, researchers say.

Siemens monitors its own systems and provides plant security services, cybersecurity services for utilities and power grid operators, and virus protection for tomographs and other imaging products.

In this session, Author Kim Zetter will talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products of our daily lives, including cars and medical equipment.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who famously leaked documents, showed NSA implanted malware on tens of thousands of foreign computers which gave the government access to data to control the power plant and pipeline systems.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

In 2011, following the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan shut down and reviewed its nuclear energy system.

For now, the US Army Corps of Engineers is concentrating its power restoration work across four fronts: providing emergency power, getting existing power plants up to speed, rebuilding power transmission lines, and repairing distribution systems.

«There is no doubt that the impacts of Hurricane Maria have made it very clear that making plants send power to San Juan is not a good system.»

And shifting away from big, centralized power plants and large power grids toward smaller distributed systems does confer some advantages when it comes to standing up to storms and rebuilding after.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

Tuesday's blackout reportedly came after «government - run petroleum company CPC Corporation ran into difficulties while replacing the power supply for a control system responsible for sending natural gas to a power plant.»

Following my lead, Pike's diagrams naturally lead one to think of God as a power plant, upon which many autonomous systems draw their current.

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Solar energy is the primary source of power at the plant, drawn from 670 solar panels that have been fitted on the roof and linked to a 110kW solar photovoltaic electrical system.

Supporting infrastructural facilities for the food park project include roads, drainage, water supply, captive power plant, rain water harvesting, effluent treatment, telecommunication lines, parking bay including traffic management system, and weighbridges.

The 14E is responsible for operating and maintaining the five major parts of the Patriot Fire Control system: Radar Set, Engagement Control Station, Electronic Power Plant, Antenna Mast Group, and Battle Command Post.

The Trump administration accused Russia of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will.

The last thing such power systems will need will be huge centralised power plants at the end of the grid, not able to switch on and off, and having to be paid back over many years for the huge upfront cost of construction.

In August 2008, however, the DEC affirmed that the Indian Point nuclear power plant's cooling water intake system causes adverse environmental impacts on Hudson River fish.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Obagmey stated that though the plant will not transform Ghana's power generation systems, it will stabilize power production and help reduce cost significantly.

These include: • One of the most technically advanced and cleanest smelters in the world which captures 99.9 per cent of sulphur emissions and generates two thirds of the plant's electrical power • A US$ 10m combined heat and power system that will reduce emissions by 90 per cent compared with separate heat and power systems • A vehicle idling reduction programme that now covers 360 vehicles and has resulted in the avoidance of more than two million gallons of fuel and emissions • New, more efficient trucks with fewer emissions

But Sustainable, which is working on a system that turns animal or plant waste into fuel to power equipment, is doing all its construction and testing at space its leasing from a power tool company in Saugerties.

However, it is important to remember it was the tsunami, not the earthquake, that caused the loss of power to the cooling systems at the Japan plants.

And upstate Republican lawmakers are cheering the adoption as well, given the standards include a system that would subsidize nuclear energy as Entergy Corp. seeks to sale central New York's FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant.

The tunnel boring machine from Germany is being used to construct a 1.2 km pipeline for sea water intake to be used as a cooling system for the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plant.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plPower Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plpower plants.

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), New York State's grid operator, confirmed that, in 2021, when Indian Point closes, other power sources coupled with energy efficiency improvements are already set to take up virtually all the slack resulting from the plant's shutdown.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

The New York Independent System Operator, which runs the state's power market, included the plant in its latest reliability needs assessment, meaning it is counting on the plant to contribute to the downstate base load by 2018.

Several workers at General Electric's power systems plant in Schenectady and research lab in Niskayuna will be laid off.

The Governor outlined his vision for the Energy Highway in his 2012 State of the State Address, calling for «a private - sector funded $ 2 billion «Energy Highway» system that will tap into the generation capacity and renewable energy potential in Upstate and Western NY to bring low - cost power to meet the tremendous energy needs in Downstate New York» and for the repowering of old and dirty plants to stop pollution in urban neighborhoods.

The recent switch also came as the Thruway transferred responsibility for the costly state Canal System to the New York Power Authority, which operates power plants across the sPower Authority, which operates power plants across the spower plants across the state.

NexGen Power Systems, a startup company from California, plans to manufacture semiconductors for the electronics industry in the 82,000 - square - foot plant in DeWitt, said Howard Zemsky, CEO of Empire State Development.