Dale Davis, Rahul Chillar, Eric Gebhardt of GE have been awarded a patent for a waterwash system that incorporates a corrosive measurement system to decided when waterwashing needs to be done. Below are excerpts from their patent application.

Gazprom Neft, a leading Russian oil and gas producer, has selected Elliott Group to build the compressor string for a new hydrogen recovery unit at its Omsk refinery. Elliott will provide a feed gas string consisting of a 15MB8 motor-driven barrel compressor. Control and buffer gas systems are included in the package.

To meet growing electricity demands in the western portion of its service area and to enhance overall power system reliability, El Paso Electric Company will expand its Rio Grande power plant in Sunland Park, N.M., with a simple cycle GE LM100PA. This aeroderivative gas turbine is rated 88 MW at site conditions and promising 43% efficiency.

KGRA Energy LP, a U.S.-based waste heat recovery developer, has announced that civil engineering has begun and equipment delivery continues on an innovative clean energy system being installed at a Greenville, NC area mill owned by Weyerhaeuser Company, a forest product company. The project, developed by KGRA Energy, in partnership with Turbine Air Systems Inc., will capture waste heat from the mill and covert the captured thermal energy into clean electricity.