Entech Design, a Texas company with several successful products for bottom ash handling and mapping, has a put together a proposal to develop a new robotic pipe-crawler system to inspect and repair waterwall tubing in fossil power plants.
The President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection is requesting information regarding technologies and capabilities for protecting critical infrastructures vital to our nation’s economic and national security. Of particular concern are physical and cyber threats.
In the context of open transmission access, network loadings will often get close to unstable states undetectable by conventional power-flow, optimal power-flow and contingency analysis programs. Such states will have to be predicted before they occur.
The report provides an overview of the legal and regulatory framework governing U.S. utilities, both Federal and State, and discusses how Distributed Resources may be affected, in the context of open access and restructuring.
AromaSys, Inc, a small company in Minneapolis, uses a unique patented electrostatic device to accurately disperse liquid vapors and micro aerosols into conditioned spaces. The goal is complete environment conditioning that goes well beyond the usual control of temperature and humidity by HVAC systems.
With recent changes in the legal and regulatory treatment, properties that may be contaminated with industrial waste can hold significant bottom-line opportunities for forward thinking corporations. If well managed, these liabilities can be the source of significant gains.
Industrial Ecology is a new and emerging field which views industrial activities and the environment as an interacting whole, rather than as competing forces. The focus will be long range and strategic, rather than on near term details or specifics.
Thermodyne, a small company in Salt Lake City, has what it believes to be a new type of Thermal to Electric Converter which is based on a combined piezoelectric pyroelectric effect. The device promises to have high energy density, operate at lower temperatures and with smaller temperature differences.
