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Console upgrade is graphical improvement
Contract includes the supply and installation of a wide range of necessary network interfaces, switches and peripherals as well as cabling, desk and alarms.
News from Engineeringtalk, 25 August 2008
Power supply contract protects steel production
The Static Var Compensator (SVC) compensates for fluctuations in the voltage and current of power supplies that can harm production quality in industrial plants.
News from Engineeringtalk, 14 July 2008
Power quality filters boost density
Active filters monitor power system currents in real time and then inject harmonic currents with exactly the opposite phase to the components that are to be filtered.
News from Engineeringtalk, 24 June 2008
From unreliability to ubiquity
Hans-Erik Olovsson and Sven-Anders Lejdeby of ABB Power Systems look at a century of evolving substation technology.
News from Engineeringtalk, 21 April 2008
Contract boosts power station efficiency
ABB's upgrade of EPRL's power station involves upgrading the existing Harmony system to ABB's System 800xA Process Portal.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 January 2008
Transformer is remanufactured better than new
Largest UK transformer to date is factory remanufactured by ABB's power systems service team.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 December 2007
Compensator improves network power quality
The Dynacomp acts as an ultra-rapid and transient-free capacitor bank with the reactive power step switching carried out by thyristor modules.
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 November 2007
Static compensators fitted at wind farms
ABB Statcoms will provide Nordex with real-time, reactive power compensation within a compact installation footprint
News from Engineeringtalk, 29 October 2007
Surge arresters protect power lines
The Pexlim surge arrester is a sacrificial device, designed to fail safely to limit overvoltages to an acceptable level.
News from Engineeringtalk, 5 September 2007
Transformer repair keeps power station online
ABB enabled Edenderry Power to avoid the major disruption and costly loss in production that would have resulted from sending the unit away for factory repair.
News from Engineeringtalk, 5 September 2007
US $30 million transformer contract signed
A new wide-body carriage design and extra seating put severe restrictions on the size and weight of the transformers used.
News from Engineeringtalk, 30 August 2007
US $62 million power plant contract signed
ABB's will supply a System 800xA control installation, with boiler protection, and all instrumentation, to E.ON's 1100MW hard-coal-fired power plant.
News from Engineeringtalk, 2 July 2007
Transformers to assure Olympic Games supplies
ABB has won a contract for power transformers to strengthen electricity grids in the city of Beijing and ensure reliable power for the 2008 Olympic Games.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 April 2007
Upgrade ordered for 20-year-old HVDC system
ABB has been selected by the Public Service Company of New Mexico to upgrade the control and the valve cooling systems of an existing ABB HVDC system delivered over 20 years ago.
News from Engineeringtalk, 25 January 2007
Indian steelmaker signs for power and automation
ABB has won orders worth about US $56 million for power and automation equipment to help Indian steelmaker JSW Group increase its output.
News from Engineeringtalk, 11 January 2007
US $450 million power transmission contract signed
ABB's contract covers three substations and a telecommunication package for Qatar's Phase VII grid expansion project, a countrywide effort to increase power in areas of high growth.
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 December 2006
Surge arrester retrofit protects electrical assets
Specialist surge arrester retrofit service enables substations to be upgraded to a high level of protection against the damaging overvoltages created by lightning strikes.
News from Engineeringtalk, 4 December 2006
Switchgear and control system ordered for Qatar
ABB has signed frame agreements with Shell and Qatar Petroleum to supply equipment for Pearl GTL, the world's largest gas to liquids (GTL) complex at Ras Laffan, Qatar.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 November 2006
Steelmakers sign up for power systems
ABB has received six orders totalling $15 million to install flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) at steel plants in China, Oman, Spain and Turkey.
News from Engineeringtalk, 12 October 2006
Communication gateway links electrical assets
Embedded communication gateway for both industrial and electrical utility applications acts as a hub for connecting protection relays and terminals to an upper-level control system.
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 October 2006
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