Emerson’s Thomas Snowdon, a member of the Power & Water Solutions team, shares his thoughts on the changing global energy mix. A recent Power Magazine article, Global Gas Glut, made much of the prediction that shale gas production and its use is likely to grow from 14% of all gas in 2009 to 48% in [...]
Cyber security remains in the forefront of worries for most process manufacturers and electrical power producers. When I saw this news, NitroSecurity and Emerson Deliver Advanced Control System Security and Compliance Automation in my Twitter stream, I checked in with our Power & Water Solutions team to get some more background on what this means. [...]
Utilities Middle East magazine had a recent interview with Emerson’s Jeff Householder. Jeff is based in Dubai and leads the Systems and Solutions efforts for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. This Q&A article explores Jeff views on the outlook for the power and water utilities industry in the MEA region. Unlike other process [...]
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If you’re in the coal-fired power generation business, you may know that Coal-Gen 2009 is going on this week. During the conference, a Midwest power producer and the Emerson Power & Water Solutions team gave a joint presentation on combustion optimization. Emerson’s Jeff Williams, one of the presenters, was kind enough to send me a [...]
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A recent Automation World article, Cyber Security–A Must For the Grid, describes how cyber security has become a big issue for electric plants. This is because of the requirements to be in: …compliance with standards developed by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), of Princeton, N.J. The NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards will [...]
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I saw news of a combustion optimization and simulation project award for a 385 megawatt power station in the U.S. It reminded me of Emerson’s Jeff Williams presentation on the topic of emissions reduction equipment optimization at the last Emerson Exchange. He also presented at the ISA Power Industry Division Symposium on the topic of [...]
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My spy utility, WatchThatPage, alerted me to another good article, this time on the Fisher control valves and regulators area of the Emerson website. The article, Getting ready for the nuclear renaissance, from the April issue of Valve World magazine, features Bill Fitzgerald, director of the Fisher Valves nuclear business unit. As more and more [...]
Inside the Emerson firewall, we have a growing community of bloggers who share their expertise with other Emerson folks and local business partners. Hopefully more of these voices will emerge over time, sharing their expertise externally with the world. I saw a post this week from the Rosemount team about installation best practices in the [...]
Imagine that your power plant is about to have a scheduled outage. As the unit is ramped down and feed water control is taken over by the by-pass valves, you discover that the control valves refuse to close upon receiving orders from the level control system to do so. This is now the last straw [...]
Congratulations to Gordon McFarland, senior power plant performance analyst with Emerson’s Power & Water Solutions division for receiving the ISA’s Standards & Practices Award. The award recognizes Gordon for his leadership in the initial development of fossil power plant standards, and for 25 years of continuous support and direction of those standards. I caught up [...]