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"We had a common hydraulic pneumatic tank that we utilized to actuate those four ball valves on our high service pumps," said Jeff Childers, the Dyal plant's Assistant Superintendent. "Not only was it a single point of failure for all four of those pumps, but it was a potential environmental hazard as a result of oil leaking on several occasions." The plant had been in the process of replacing the electrical actuators on its butterfly valves with Rexa electrohydraulic (Electraulic) actuators from Koso America. Carrying out a similar replacement on the ball valves resolved the leakage issues as well as improved reliability.
The city of Cocoa on Florida's Atlantic coast provides potable water to all of central Brevard County, including its own 16,000 residents as well as those in nine other cities, the Kennedy Space Center and all the cruise ships sailing out of Port Canaveral. The water comes from a mix of surface and ground sources.
The butterfly valves at the Dyal plant had been designed to use electromechanical actuators, but over time these had turned into a maintenance nightmare.
Full Story: New Actuators Improve Valve Control, Plant Safety - Water World
Over the years, there were repeated efforts to exploit the area. Stone and others fended off two attempts to locate low-level radioactive waste sites in the region, one of Pennsylvania’s poorest. She remembers arranging a concert at the local high school auditorium to raise money to fight the dump: More than 400 people showed up and they raised $2,000.
Today, Stone wishes she were ten years younger, because the biggest battle of her life has just begun. In 2006, Cabot Oil and Gas, a Houston-based energy company, tapped its first natural gas well in Dimock. Since then, the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation that stretches from New York to Tennessee and is believed to contain some of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, has become something of a household name. Last year, Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection issued 1,984 Marcellus Shale drilling permits, 763 of which were tapped. In New York, drilling hasn’t yet begun, but the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to start issuing permits this year. The potential threat to New York City’s drinking water – its reservoirs are located within the Marcellus Shale – has been a flashpoint in the debate over gas drilling.
Last spring, Stone reached out to some of her neighbors after learning that Cabot was considering storing 55-gallon drums of methanol at a site close to her home. Methanol – a flammable toxin that can cause blindness if consumed – is used to prevent pipes from freezing, and Stone was worried that the tanks were too close to residential areas. She thought it would be wise to ask Cabot how they were planning to store the chemicals and what they would do in the event of a spill. “I thought, well, I’ll see if I can get people on the road to go in with me to talk to the Cabot representatives,” she said. She didn’t hear back from anyone and finally called one of her neighbors who said he’d rather go on his own. Another told her she’d go with her only if Stone wasn’t rude and disrespectful. “These are people I’ve known for 34 years, half my life,” Stone told me. “The people who’ve known me and my children growing up and who knew my husband and loved my husband and who are just treating me like I’m the enemy or something.” Previous efforts to organize opposition to the nuclear waste industry were far less complicated in at least one respect: Today, nearly everyone in Dimock has leased their land to Cabot and has a personal investment in the promise of gas drilling. Dozens of gas wells were drilled in 2009, and Cabot has plans to tap at least 70 more in 2010. “Definitely the factor of people getting money for their land I think has to be the difference,” Stone said.
Full Story: To Drill or Not to Drill - CounterPunch
For starters, we must look at the subterfuge surrounding the Town Councils January 21, 2010 vote that allowed the CCF motion to pass in the first place. Every one of the 600-plus citizens who packed the councils chambers that evening knew that the centralized wastewater facility was at the top of Williams Productions wish list. In fact, we now know that many of the families who had leased their mineral rights to Williams years before negotiated the CCF into the terms of their leases! So why didnt Williams simply submit their request for a CCF to the Town Council? Because doing so would have forced Mayor Jody Smith and Mayor Pro Tem Jean Levenick to recuse themselves from deliberations because they, too, have signed leases with Williams and, therefore, had an obvious conflict of interest.
So why all the consternation over a CCF? The facility will be a massive complex of above-ground storage tanks and related equipment that will receive and store millions of gallons of toxic wastewater produced by the hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) process used to extract natural gas from the Barnett Shale. Waste water may even be trucked or pipelined to the site from adjacent towns.
Fracking fluids typically contain roughly 240 toxic chemicals, including carcinogens, mutagens, endocrine disruptors and other lethal compounds. Its nasty, deadly stuff. But, thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (a.k.a. the Halliburton Loophole ), drillers are not required to reveal the fluids contents, and they are exempt from a bevy of environmental safeguards. Perhaps not for long. The U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee recently demanded that drilling companies disclose the chemicals used in their fracking operations, with an eye toward enacting safeguards to protect the public health and environment. The FRAC Act, also pending in Congress, would repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Full Story: The right way to protect Flower Mound - The Cross Timbers Gazette (blog)
Underneath the striking aluminum skin that sports the unusual color combination of matte white and grey beats an extremely powerful heart: The NOVITEC ROSSO RACE 848 twelve-cylinder twin compressor engine produces 848 hp / 624 kW of power and has a peak torque of 842 Nm. Powered by this engine the car sprints from rest to 100 km/h in less than 3.4 seconds, to 300 km/h in just 23.7 seconds, and reaches a top speed in excess of 345 km/h. This exclusive special model also features an aerodynamic-enhancement kit developed in the wind tunnel, three-piece 21-inch wheels with matching sports suspension, a high-performance brake system and exclusive interior options.
The NOVITEC ROSSO RACE 848 is powered by an evolutionary stage of the tried and proven twin-compressor engine conversion for the six-liter V12 four-valve engine of the F599. For an additional power increase of 40 hp / 29.4 kW both mechanical chargers were fitted with modified turbine blades, several details of the engine peripherals were modified and the engine electronics were reprogrammed.
The high-performance chargers have an electronically limited boost pressure of 0.48 bars. The chargers are driven by a cogged belt and have their own dedicated oil circuit. A large water-to-air intercooler with dedicated water circuit also contributes greatly to the optimal power yield. A custom-developed intake manifold, high-performance injectors and sport air filter round out the engine conversion.
Full Story: Novitec Rosso Race 848 - ManualGear.com
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