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Product News

Service hardening plant in Spain buys SECO / WARWICK furnace
Sarens replaces E451 heat exchanger at Hengyuan Refinery
Sarens has participated in the renovation and upgrading of the plant ’ s facilities by replacing the E451 heat exchanger with a new unit . For this task , Sarens engineers selected the Liebherr LR750 crane because of its high lifting capacity , with up to 750 tons of maximum load , in environments with limited space . Hengyuan Refining ’ s oil plant in Port Dickson , Malaysia , currently has the capacity to produce up to 156,000 barrels per day of petroleum products and is one of the largest in
Malaysia . It is one of the oldest in the region as the company was founded in 1960 and started operations in 1963 . The plant has a broad product portfolio that includes liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ), jet fuel , gasoline , diesel , sulfur , fuel oil components , and chemical feedstocks such as light naphtha and propylene . The crane used by Sarens in the maintenance works was moved from the Sungai Besi-Ulu Kelang Elevated Expressway ( SUKE ) project in Kuala Lumpur to Port Dickson , the location of the plant , in a logistical operation that required 22 low-floor trailers . The machinery was working at the plant for approximately one month , including crane erection . The main challenge of the operation was the limited space where the lifting work was required . The site was very crowded and left little room for the crane to maneuver . It was therefore decided to use the LR750 model with the crane configuration would be a 77 m main boom with SDBW configuration .
One of the largest service hardening plants in Spain has purchased a Vector ® vacuum furnace from SECO / WARWICK . It will be the third SECO / WARWICK solution for this Partner . The Client has been cooperating with SECO / WARWICK for many years , along with Arrola , who provides service support to the Spanish market on behalf of the SECO / WARWICK Group . Local service is one of the reasons why SECO / WARWICK is the partner ’ s first choice . SECO / WARWICK has always thought globally and acted locally . On the Iberian Peninsula , customer service is provided by Arrola , and this local support is praised by this service hardening plant , a long time SECO / WARWICK customer .
The furnace on order will increase the company ’ s efficiency when hardening larger dimensions elements . The solution will join the machine park in which there is already one Vector vacuum furnace and a twochamber furnace with an oil quench manufactured by SECO / WARWICK . The vacuum furnace ordered by the hardening plant enables efficient processes to be carried out under vacuum , in both medium and high ranges . This is possible thanks to a system consisting of a dry mechanical pump , an efficient Roots pump , and a diffusion pump . The process efficiency is also influenced by utilizing the option for cooling at 15 bar .
GEA supplies HEINEKEN UK with a heat pump solution
GEA supplies its long-term customer HEINEKEN UK with a low carbon heat network for its
Manchester brewery . This is in support of HEINEKEN ’ s global ambition to reach net zero across its production sites ( scopes 1 and 2 ) by 2030 . The Manchester brewery produces about 400 million liters of Heineken ® , Birra Moretti , and Foster ’ s beer per year . For HEINEKEN UK , Manchester brewery ’ s decarbonization journey starts with the installation of heat pumps and a heat pump network capturing and reusing heat to brew and package beer . GEA will design , supply , and install the low carbon heat network to the existing plant and will also modify the legacy process equipment . Currently , steam is produced in large steam boilers powered by natural gas . With the new system , HEINEKEN UK will use a low temperature ( 90 ° C ) hot water network – driven by GEA heat pumps - thus replacing the steam boilers with environmentally friendly heat pumps powered by electricity . GEA ’ s heat pump solution operates on an environmentally friendly ammonia refrigerant with zero ozone depletion potential ( ODP ) and zero global warming potential ( GWP ). Distribution and recovery pipe work make up the foundation of the network , which will absorb the heat from multiple processes .
Konvekta CO2 heat pump variants for electric buses
The new Konvekta CO2 heat pump 2.0 is a comprehensive and load-synchronous thermal management system . This system consists of the roof unit and two new Konvekta energy carrier modules . The desired auxiliary consumers can be heated or cooled at the same time with these new components . For example , the front box and convectors in the interior can be heated and the batteries can be cooled at the same time . This way the second generation Konvekta CO2 heat pump can be customised to fit all bus types . Further energy requirements are achieved through : refrigerant CO2 ( R744 ); components developed in-house ( e . g . heat
exchangers ); Energy Collect ( Heat recovery from heat-generating components = 15 -20 % energy savings ); and Konvekta control unit “ CleverControl ”. The energy consumption in comparison shows that of the possible variants of air conditioning an electric bus , the CO2 heat pump is the most energy-efficient . The Konvekta CO2 heat pump systems have been available on the market successfully as a series of product since 2018 . Already in use all over Europe - from Sweden to Great Britain to Italy , CO2 heating and air conditioning systems from Konvekta prove efficiency and economy every day .
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