The 100,000 m3/day Nemmeli desalination plant in Chennai, commissioned in March, has adopted electric actuators from AUMA and is said to be the first desalination scheme in India to make the move. AUMA said it has delivered its Fieldbus technology which fits in with the desalination plant’s distributed control system. Located 35 km south of Chennai, in southeast India, the Nemmeli plant has been delivered f ...

About 7 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from a desalination facility Wednesday at the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant but did not reach the sea, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Workers accidentally disconnected a pipe to the facility and caused the leak that continued for more than an hour in the morning, it said, adding that six of the 11 workers were covered wi ...

Water management company Metito has been awarded its first project with the Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) in Abu Dhabi worth US $ 5.7mn. The project will see Metito provide emergency containerised water packages to the Zirku Island to produce needed potable water through seawater desalination. The project will utilise the Reverse Osmosis (RO) and ultra-filtration (UF) advanced technology. Furthermore, t ...

Electric utilities in India are at the threshold of a major transformation enabled by automation and IT applications, according to IBM. The smart grid is much more far-reaching than its frequent portrayal. It seeks to simplify the entire energy delivery system. It covers the way electricity is generated, transmitted and in the end used by a consumer. It is a collection of technologies which increase the eff ...

The Electricity Group of Vietnam (EVN) has hiked electricity prices seven times since 2009 because “selling prices were lower than production costs”, but the power monopoly has recently been found to incur numerous unreasonable expenses, all of which were counted as factors to increase prices. The latest power price increase of EVN was on August 1, with prices hiked by 5 percent to VND1, 508.85 per kWh (exc ...

According to Nguyen Khac Tho, Deputy General Director of the Energy General Directorate, Samsung is considering developing a thermopower plant project in Vietnam, either in Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Hau Giang or Kien Giang. In early August 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to consider developing a project in the cooperation with Samsung. In 2012, Sa ...

Sumitomo Corp., a Japanese trading company, won a contract to build a 35-megawatt unit for a geothermal power station in Indonesia. The unit will be built with PT Rekayasa Industri, an Indonesian engineering company, for PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement. Fuji Electric Co. will supply a steam turbine and generator for the fifth unit of the Kamojang geothermal statio ...

FCO Power Inc. today announced the development of a next-generation solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The Printed Fuel CellTM achieves high volumetric power density – 3 kW/L – at low cost. The Printed Fuel CellTM is a SOFC stack in which all single cell layers, including separators (anode, electrolyte, cathode, and ceramic separator) are laminated repeatedly before sintering and subsequently simultaneously sint ...

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has recently presented Thailand Energy Awards 2013 to Mr. Veerasak Kositpaisal, Chief Executive Officer and President, Thai Oil Public Company Limited, at Santi Maitri building, the Government House. The company won the Outstanding Renewable Power Award under the category of Non-Grid Connected renewable Electricity Generation Project (Off-Grid), which is the 6th Thailand E ...

The Ulu Jelai hydroelectric project is nearly 40 per cent completed and it is anticipated to start operation in December 2015 for the first unit, and March 2016 for the second unit. The project  is expected to boost Pahang's economic growth and strengthen the stability of the National Grid System to attract foreign investors to Malaysia. Tengku Mahkota Pahang, Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah recently offi ...