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New Products, Services & Contracts
New Products
Slurry Valve
Plant operators can choose a
longer lasting, lower maintenance
valve for controlling heavy slurries,
as ITT introduced a valve design that
incorporates the unique patent-pending
Guillotine Gate. Unlike traditional
knife gate valves, the Fabri-Valve SV1
push-through slurry valve features a gate
design that slices through high density
slurry at an angle. The gate slices cleanly
through tough slurries and prevents the
seat from cutting and tearing, while also
reducing the amount of discharge from
the valve.
Contact: John Beca, email: john.
beca@itt.com.
Turbomachinery Testing
OROS now offers a dedicated
software solution for users, manufacturers
and third party service contractors
dealing with turbomachinery testing. This
new solution for vibration acceptance
tests, signatures, diagnostics and other
troubleshooting operation has been
developed entirely by users for users.
ORBIGate is for technicians
and engineers dealing with turbines,
compressors, pumps, gear boxes or other
turbomachines who have issues with their
rotor and bearing vibrations. It is also of
interest to people working in a power
plant, a chemical site or a turbomachinery
service center.
Contact: Melissa Hill, telephone:
(888) 200-6767, email: Mhill@orosinc.
com.
Services
Asset Management
Ventyx Asset Suite is an EAM
solution which enables the deployment of
standardized best practices over an entire
series of nuclear power plants, thereby
achieving performance levels well above
those achieved for a single nuclear
plant. Furthermore, through its “serviceoriented
Foundation Architecture”, Asset
Suite enables nuclear industry operators to
accelerate their business profitability and
reduce the complexity of their business
processes by means of an intuitive,
customizable, graphic user interface.
Asset Suite can be easily integrated with
engineering tools, financial applications,
ERP and other third-party applications.
Contact: Gary Frazier, telephone:
(770) 989-4188, email: gary.frazier@
ventyx.com.
Software
Ventyx, announced eSOMS Suite
Version 3.6, a commercially available
software designed to help utilities comply
with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s
new Nuclear Fatigue Rule.
Release 3.6 of Ventyx Shift Operations
Management System (eSOMS) software
includes enhancements to the software’s
Personnel Qualifications and Scheduling
solution that will help utilities comply
with the NRC’s recently enacted rule (10
CFR 26, Subpart I), or “Nuclear Fatigue
Rule (NFR).” The NFR was enacted to
manage schedules to avoid fatigue of
personnel at commercial nuclear power
reactors. All nuclear operators must be
in compliance with NFR by October 1,
2009.
Contact: Gary Frazier, telephone:
(770) 989-4188, email: gary.frazier@
ventyx.com.
Contracts
Generator Agreement
Alstom signed a framework
agreement with EDF, the French utility,
for the renovation of 900 MW and 1,300
MW generators in its nuclear power
plants. The orders coming from this
contract will run for a duration of 10
years and will reach a total amount of
more than 140 million euros.
Alstom Power Service units in
La Courneuve and Belfort (France)
will provide comprehensive project
management, including conceptual
design, parts supply and site work. The
first generators rewinds are planned for
2010 at Belleville and Chooz nuclear
power plants.
Contact: Philippe Kasse, telephone:
33 1 41 49 29 82/33 08, email: philippe.
kasse@chq.alstom.com.
Waste Plant
Reburbishment
The AMEC-led ACCORD Alliance
has won a multi-million pound contract
for the refurbishment of an intermediatelevel
waste storage plant at Sellafield, as
well as the design of an adjoining new
building. The Accord Alliance comprises
AMEC, Scott Wilson and BNS Nuclear
Services.
Sellafield’s Box Encapsulation
Plant Product Store (BEPPS) will be
refurbished, while a new Comprehensive
Import Export Facility (CIEF) will be
built next to it. The plant is scheduled
to be completed in 2012 in line with
the site Intermediate Level Waste (ILW)
decommissioning strategy. The store
is designed to hold ILW generated on
the Sellafield site in specially produced
containers, each with a design life of
more than 100 years.
Contact: Sarah Cockburn-Price,
telephone: 01282 868008, email: sarah@
cockburn-price.com.
Construction in Bulgaria
The Consortium AREVA NP-
Siemens for Belene (CARSIB) signed
a contract agreement with the Russian
Company Atomstroyexport (ASE) who
will deliver two 1,000 MWe VVERtype
Pressurized Water Reactors to the
Bulgarian utility Nationalna Elektricheska
Kompania (NEK).
CARSIB will provide the over all
project and interface management for
its scope. The consortium will deliver
the safety-related part of the heating,
ventilation and air conditioning systems, the
safety and the operational instrumentation
and control (I&C) systems, electrical
systems and components. It will further
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