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INDUSTRY TRENDS American Nuclear Insurers (Farmington, CT) says that it maintains confidence in nuclear power’s future, and will continue to work to provide a “viable, expanding insurance market” to the nuclear industry. Israel Desalination Engineering Ltd. (Tel Aviv) will supply $15 million worth of desalination equipment to the Virgin Islands. TRC (Wethersfield, C T ) now offers a mobile odor laboratory to perform various odor studies on-site-including direct ambient sampling. American Air Filter Co., Inc. (Louisville, KY) has a $1 million order from Westinghouse for Nuclear Environmental Systems, to be installed at a 620-MW power plant, and cool 520 000 cfm of air, in the Philippines. Ionics, Inc. (Watertown, MA) has sold the world’s first membrane chloralkali plant to Elkem-Spigerverket (Sbelgen, Norway). The plant’s process does not need any mercury or asbestos. Wyle Laboratories has inaugurated its nuclear component test facility a t Huntsville, AL. Ecodyne Cooling Products Division of Ecodyne Corp. has an order for a concrete mechanical draft cooling tower, in excess of $1.5 million, from Wisconsin Public Service Corp. Leeds & Northrup (North Wales, PA) has a more than $3.5 million contract to provide a digital computer system for the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners ( N J ) , for a 720-mgd (maximum) treatment plant.
Envirex, a Rexnord Company (Milwaukee, W I ) is to upgrade the sewage lagoons of Camden, S C . The lagoons will use six Envirex microscreens with one-p polyester screening media-first in the U.S. State BOD and suspended solids standards will be met. Peabody International Corp. has acquired the Myers-Sherman Co. (Streator, IL), which specializes in manufacturing equipment for sewer cleaning and industrial waste cleanup. Hepa-Test Corp. has been established at Eatontown, N.J., to test/certify High Efficiency Particulate Air ( H E P A ) filters for all types of highpurity clean air systems, including those for clean rooms, and other applications. Fuller Co. (Bethlehem, PA) will supply Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., with a Fuller@Draccom modular fabric filter dust collector. The contract is valued a t more than $3 million, and is one of Fuller’s largest. Dravo Corp. (Pittsburgh, PA) has acquired the Wellman-Galusha@ coal gasifier technology for constructing coal gasifier systems for industry. The technology was acquired from a subsidiary of Helix Technology Corp. The Electric Power Research Institute ( E P R I , Palo Alto, CA) is sponsoring a study concerning visibility reduction by fossil-fueled power plants. EPRI has also established a Nuclear Safety Analysis Center to do a detailed study of the Three-Mile Island accident.
Atlantic Richfield Co. (Los Angeles, C A ) said that oil price decontrol is a good move toward lessening “dangerous” dependency on foreign oil.
Super Products (Milwaukee, W I ) has formed Suprocorp Ltd. in the U.K. The company is a maker of heavy-duty vacuum loading equipment, and also works in the solid waste and sewer fields.
UOP’s Kavag Division (Hasselroth, W. Germany) has established a department to market its product line of gas dehydration and desulfurization equipment.
Union Carbide said that its proprietary Unox system for wastewater treatment is now online at Goeppingen, W. Germany. It generates 18 tpd of oxygen for a 13.2-mgd treatment plant.
Inco Metals Co., and Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd., have announced a “potentially significant uranium discovery in Northern Saskatchewan, based on drill core assay evaluations.
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Matthey Bishop, Inc. (Malvern, PA) plans to open a new catalytic converter research/manufacturing facility, “in anticipation of automotive catalyst demands of the 1980’s.” The American Petroleum Institute said that U S . refiners now save about 300 000 bbl/d in their operations, as compared with 1972-“enough to meet New England’s annual home heating needs.” This is a 19.6% saving.
Ametek, Inc. (Paoli, PA) has acquired Thermox Instruments (Pittsburgh). Thermox is a producer of combustion gas analysis instruments for coal, oil, or gas-fired boilers. Davy Powergas (Lakeland, FL) is designing and building a 2500 metric ton/d methanol plant in the USSR. It is one of the world’s largest. Feedstock will be natural gas from northern Siberia. American Air Filter Co., Inc. (Louisville, KY) has received a $10 million turn-key flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system contract from the Southern Carolina Public Service Authority. The system will serve 280 M W at Georgetown, S C . Fibergate Corp. (Dallas, T X ) has acquired Fiberglass Specialty Co., Inc. (St. Paul, M N ) . The acquired firm manufactures products for sewage treatment, including equipment to convert waste sewer gases into useful energy. OBSCO, Inc. has been formed at Skokie, IL, to market an advanced odor barrier system developed by Turoff Industries, Ltd. (Skokie). The system sharply reduces, rather than masks odors. Union Carbide’s Nuclear Division (Oak Ridge, T N ) has begun studies and tests for TVA, involving fluidized-bed combustion (FBC) of coal as a clean power source. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA, Washington, DC) has signed a contract with the U S . Dept. of Labor, to help qualify Job Corps trainees as solar energy equipment/ systems installers.
Culligan USA (Northbrook, I L) has provided an “extensive series” of water softeners to eliminate hardness in desalted Caspian seawater for use i n secondary recovery of oil in the USSR.
