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Perma-Pipe Now in UAE
MFRI Inc., a manufacturer of custom-designed industrial filtration products, specialty piping systems and industrial process
equipment, announced that its Perma-Pipe
subsidiary has established a new company,
Perma-Pipe Middle East FZE (PPME) in the
Emirate of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
(UAE). The company will manufacture specialty pre-insulated piping systems for district
cooling; chemical, oil and gas transportation;
and liquefied natural gas terminals in the
UAE and other regional markets. To learn
more, visit www.mfri.com.
Software Expedites Green
Building Certification
Johnson Controls has launched software to simplify building certification. The
new program, Leedspeed™, is a Web-based
application that navigates the user through
the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®)
Green Building Rating Systems.
Leedspeed™ is divided into two sections: assessment/ROI planner, which scores
a project against the most current LEED
standards, and project manage-ment/certification, which provides comprehensive project development and management functions including creation of documentation needed to submit a LEED certification application. Pricing for the software
is structured so building owners can buy
the full package or a specific portion, for
single or multiple buildings. For more
information, see www.leedspeed.com.
Infrared Camera Facilitates
Tube Monitoring
Mikron Infrared offers a portable infrared
camera that does double duty for plant
operators: standard predictive maintenance
plus monitoring boiler tube condition through
flames. The MikroScan 7400 camera has
patented infrared filtering capabilities
allowing dual spectral band operation: 8-
to 14- m long-wave mode for varied thermal inspections or mid-wave 3.9- m band
for imaging the slag buildup on boiler tubes.
Battery-operated and self-contained in
a splash-proof case, the camera is designed
for comfortable one-handed point-and-shoot
operation. It stores images and data to
PCMCIA cards, is equipped with on-board
digital voice recording and can simultaneously record high-definition 14-bit thermal
The MikroScan 7400 camera
images with digital visual images. Images
can be viewed in real time via the video
output or through an optional built-in IEEE
1394 (Firewire®) interface. The MikroScan
7400 comes standard with extensive on-board image processing software. It also
can be remotely controlled from a PC using
optional software developed by Mikron,
which provides additional analysis and report-ingcapabilities.Vi sit www.mikroninfrared.
com for further details.
CHP Projects Earn
EPA Recognition
Ten U.S. companies and institutions
were honored Oct. 26, 2005, for their
exemplary combined heat and power
(CHP) projects by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE). At the 6th
Annual National CHP Roadmap Workshop
in New York City, sponsored by DOE and
the CHP industry, a total of 13 projects
were recognized for meeting EPA criteria
for efficiency, fuel savings and making outstanding contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Organizations receiving the EPA’s
2005 ENERGY STAR CHP Awards include
Weyerhaeuser Co. for the Hawesville CHP
project, Hawesville, Ky.; Middlebury College
for its campus CHP project, Middlebury,
Vt.; Cinergy Solutions and BP Global Power
for BP’s refinery, Texas City, Texas; American
DG New York and Rego Park Nursing Home
for the Rego Park CHP project, Flushing,
N. Y.; Arrow Linen for its CHP project, Brooklyn,
N.Y.; Bay Park Associates for its Sea Rise I
and II apartment buildings, Brooklyn, N.Y.;
American DG New York and Hermany
Farms Dairy for the Hermany Farms CHP
project, Bronx, N. Y.; American DG New
York and Greenpark Care Center for the
Greenpark CHP project, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Winners of EPA CHP Certificates of
Recognition for their leadership in implementing CHP include Waldbaums (A&P)
Supermarket, for its CHP project, Hauppage,
N. Y.; 4C Foods for its CHP project, Brooklyn,
N. Y.; 10 West 66th Street Corp., a property
management company, for its CHP project,
New York City, N. Y.; American DG New York;
Holliswood Care Center for the Holliswood
CHP project, Hollis, N. Y.
For more go to www.epa.gov/chp.
ALDAR Signs With Tabreed
Tabreed, the National Central Cooling
Co. PJSC, has signed a contract with ALDAR
Properties PJSC to provide ALDAR’s Al
Maamoura Tower in Abu Dhabi with district cooling service. The tower, in the Al
Muroor district, will be a state-of-the-art
office building, which will also house the
impressive ERWDA library along with display areas, a high-tech business and conference center, a 150-seat auditorium,
restaurant, day-care center and gymnasium.
UNH to Become More
Energy-Efficient
The University of New Hampshire has
constructed a cogeneration plant on its
Durham campus that is expected to meet
about 75 percent of campus electrical and
thermal load, with the possibility of handling 100 percent in the future. The $32
million plant, for which ground was broken in May 2004, was scheduled to com-
