PWE October 2021

Uniper Maasvlakte Power Plant is located at Rotterdam- Maasvlakte, Netherlands, and was commissioned in 2015 by UNIPER and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power GmbH. Uniper assets play an important role in ensuring that the region has a reliable supply of energy. Uniper supplies a range of innovative energy products to its partners and customers throughout the Zuid-Holland region. The boiler has five rows of six burners on two sides. These burners are fed with coal, bio-propane, wood, and MBM (Meat and Bone Meal) - animal residue foam injected into the boiler. MBM is very erosive, so the flow is deviated by a deflector plate in the burner, however, the spray still impacts on the opposite wall generating localized erosion and corrosion due to a small deposits on the wall facing the MBM burners. Please visit www.pwemag.co.uk for the full release. w | https://integratedglobal.com/ As a systems provider, ABM GREIFFENBERGER develops and manufactures drive systems for stationary and mobile intralogistics applications. The company says upon request, customers can be supplied with individual solutions allowing them to reduce their costs – and with conveyor systems quickly accelerate even heavy loads from a standstill. This is made possible by the ABM’s close cooperation and partnership with customers. ‘What requirements do manufacturers of intralogistics solutions have for drives?’ Ralf Fickentscher takes a moment to think. ‘They want highly efficient solutions that are always available and run without any problems.’ Fickentscher is head of development at ABM Greiffenberger. The company is a one-stop shop for drive solutions that helps customers slash costs and thus profit from a fast return on investment. Visit www.pwemag.co.uk to read the full release w | www.abm-antriebe.de ABB says it is responding to the growing consumer demand for choice and fast delivery with the launch of its FlexBuffer application cell. ABB says the FlexBuffer brings new levels of flexibility for logistics, food and beverage, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, restaurants and retailers, offering a highly adaptable multi-functional solution for handling a variety of tasks such as sequencing, buffering, storage and order consolidation. “The constantly changing nature of today’s consumer landscape and the explosion of ecommerce is challenging the conventional systems used for processing and delivering orders,” says Marc Segura, group senior vice president managing director consumer segments & service robotics at ABB. “The FlexBuffer helps our customers meet these challenges by bringing automated storage and retrieval and goods sequencing to all facilities.” w | www.abb.com MENZEL ELEKTROMOTOREN says it has realised an unusual motor configuration to help out a customer: the operator of a large chemical plant needed a replacement for a failed pump motor. It seemed difficult, at first, to find a machine able to accommodate an existing oversized pump flange dimension. Only the family-run company Menzel offered a size 400 motor that matched the performance profile and was light enough. The Berlin-based manufacturer converted a stock, IM B3 type motor (foot mounting) to type IM V1 (vertical flange mounting). For this purpose, the drive-end bearing seat was converted for the installation of a thrust bearing. Menzel also manufactured the special flange in-house and adapted it to the shaft, which could only protrude 120 mm from the flange. t | +49 . 30 . 349 922-0 e | info@menzel-motors.com w | www.menzel-motors.com Pump motor with special flange When projects are being designed, whether they are airports, warehouses, or distribution centres, the planning and, more importantly, the acceptability of the electrical systems can be a major challenge for project planners and designers. If the components utilised have the necessary approvals, the effort involved can be considerably reduced. This is exactly what Wieland Electric’s podis 5G6 energy bus system gives, having recently gained UL system approval, adding to its’s existing TUV compliance. This means that exporting companies in particular, benefit from less testing and save time when it comes to getting their electrical systems approved. Wieland Electric says it now has a fully and coherently documented installation system, thanks to the UL 2875 certification of the podis 5G6 power bus systems, make it considerably easier to approve electrical installations on site, both in Europe and North America. t | 01483 531213 w | www.wieland.co.uk Planning of electrical systems Supercritical steam boiler Powerful drive technology BABCOCK WANSON, a leading player in the design and maintenance of industrial boiler rooms, has announced it has completed its first acquisition and strengthened its position in the UK with the purchase of Steam Plant Engineering (SPE), a leader in the field of industrial boiler services. The acquisition has been made thanks to the support of Kartesia, which recently became its new majority shareholder. The company says this acquisition fully reflects the ambition and objectives of the Babcock Wanson Group to become the pan-European leader in the industrial boiler services industry by consolidating the key players in the market. Founded in 2001 by Dan Garbett, the current Managing Director, SPE is a company based near Birmingham (UK) with a strong service orientation in the field of steam boilers. w | www.babcock-wanson.com 30 | Plant & Works Engineering www.pwemag.co.uk October 2021 Process, Controls & Plant Flexible, efficient order handling Industrial boiler services