Sentences with phrase «system of a power plant»

Most control efforts have focused upon dealing with zebra mussels in water intakes and water systems of power plants, industrial facilities and water utilities.

IN 2011, workers struggled to unclog the cooling system of a power plant in Hadera, Israel.

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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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The central zone of the state power grid has enough power plants to generate more than 6,500 megawatts, of which FitzPatrick's 850 megawatts represents 13 percent, according to data from the New York Independent System Operator.

Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reacPower Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reacpower plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reactors.

They'll talk about the transition from the Senate, the death of a New York State Trooper, the state's correction system, the Indian Point nuclear power plant and much more.

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

«You can't get to stabilization without having to deal with carbon capture and storage from both the coal fleet [of power plants] and the natural gas fleet,» says Scott Klara, NETL's director of the office of coal and power systems research and development.

It refers to the phenomenon that a typical carbon capture system requires a great deal of electricity and thus saps power from a power plant and can cause electricity costs to spike by 70 percent or more.

«This plant will make 10 tons of gas per day, which will go back into the system to make heat to power the system,» he says.

Arkema said the company had no way to prevent fires because the plant is swamped by about 6 feet (1.83 m) of water due to flooding from Harvey, which came ashore in Texas last week as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, knocking out power to its cooling system.

A new system combines the power of plants and photovoltaics to make solar power cheap and durable.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

As efficient as solar - thermal power plants using parabolic troughs with molten salt storage systems like Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't capture as much of the sun's heat as is possible.

ShiftWork Systems is also resetting the body clocks of NASA astronauts and workers at power plants.

The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, an industry body, estimates that core cooling systems are not functioning at all three Fukushima Daiichi operating reactors and two of the four reactors at the nearby Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant are relying on backup cooling systems.

Many experts believe that truly clean coal - fired power plants, coupled with such carbon capture and storage systems, offer one of the best hopes of keeping global greenhouse warming at bay in coming decades.

Upgrading India's electric - power distribution system, Benedick says, could double the effective energy output of existing coal - fired power plants.

Whether this effluent should be processed is contentious; the Supreme Court is set to hear a consolidation of cases about the Environmental Protection Agency's requirements that power plants retrofit their systems to minimize impact on local water supplies and aquatic life.

It forms giant mats of vegetation on the water's surface, obstructing waterways and impeding the function of power plants, navigation equipment, and irrigation systems.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

Nuclear power opponents like Jim Warren, executive director of NC Warn in North Carolina, have challenged the NRC's approach to regulating fire risks to wiring that connects vital control systems in old plants.

In the past, a few trading systems have auctioned some of their permits, but «big carbon» — including coal mining firms and owners of coal - fired power plants — is organizing to resist such attempts.

In an article in this week's Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, from AIP Publishing, the authors present results indicating that an optimally designed VAWT system can financially compete with fossil - fuel based power plants in urban and suburban areas, and even spearhead the development of a net - zero energy building or city.

And ever since 1984, vast arrays of curved mirrors have been concentrating the sun's rays on pipelines filled with synthetic oil at the Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) power plant in California's Mojave Desert.

But this sort of cogeneration system, if you want to call it that, of using the power plant output and the waste heat from that to drive the desalination plants, he was saying, you know, in 20 years that probably could be a great model and an efficient model for water generation in Southern California.

And in Beijing and Shanghai, China Huaneng Group Corp. equipped its coal - fired power plants with carbon capture systems and sells the captured gas to makers of soft drinks.

While electricity lines west and east of the Rockies are tied together as two synchronized generation systems, their power plants humming in close unison, two - thirds of Texas stands by itself.

It will also demonstrate the technology required for the core of a fusion power plant and the systems needed for extracting power from the device.