ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller and Gas Research Institute Form Alliance to Market Natural Gas Cofiring.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United StatesSan Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1999-- ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller, an environmental and engineering services consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , and Gas Research Institute (GRI GRI Graduate, Realtors Institute GRI Global Reporting Initiative GRI Gas Research Institute GRI Gallaudet Research Institute GRI General Rate Increase GRI Geoscience Research Institute (Loma Linda, CA) ) have formed an alliance to commercialize natural gas cofiring and related technologies that significantly enhance steam boiler performance. Cofiring--the combustion of natural gas with solid fuel under carefully designed conditions--reduces emissions, increases operating efficiency, and reduces overall operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales . Formation of the alliance, called "Acurex Energy(TM)," follows a successful five-year technology development and demonstration program. The program was sponsored by GRI and performed by Acurex Environmental, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller, with support from Coen Company, Burlingame, Calif., and the natural gas and boiler industries. The program led to the development of cofiring hardware and applications that have been successful in improving industrial boiler performance and reducing emissions with wood- and coal-fired boilers. "Cofiring has delivered an impressive range of economic and environmental benefits in more than 20 recent boiler retrofits," said Acurex Energy General Manager Howard Mason. "In fact, return on investments have typically been achieved in less than two years through recovery of lost capacity, improved efficiency, fuel flexibility, and the elimination of costs associated with alternate emissions control Emissions control may refer to:
Acurex Energy, based in Mountain View, Calif., will draw upon the specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. expertise of GRI and ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller to provide a full range of boiler services and applications to U.S. and Canadian industrial and small utility boiler operators. Services offered include:
-- Turnkey boiler cofiring installations and retrofits;
-- Ancillary services for boiler upgrades, including fuel
conversions and emissions control engineering;
-- Innovative approaches to project support, and;
-- Assistance with permitting, compliance and obtaining tax credits
or emission-reduction credits for boiler upgrade projects.
Robert Gemmer, principal project manager with GRI, said, "The combined technical resources of GRI and ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller, and the burner A drive that writes write-once optical discs such as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. A "burner" implies a one-time recording, but the term is erroneously used to refer to drives that "write" to re-recordable CD-RW and DVD-RW/+RW media as well. See burn, CD-R and DVD-R. expertise of Coen Company will enable Acurex Energy to deliver comprehensive solutions for the operating and environmental challenges facing solid fuel boiler owners." Acurex Energy representatives will present the results and cost benefits of cofiring installations at several upcoming conferences including: Combustion Canada '99, May 26-28; the International Joint Power Generation Conference and Exposition, July 25-28; and the Fourth Biomass biomass Weight or total quantity of living organisms of one animal or plant species (species biomass) or of all the species in the community (community biomass), commonly referred to as a unit area or volume of the habitat. Conference of the Americas Conference of the Americas can refer to
GRI, established in 1976 and headquartered in Chicago, manages cooperative research and development (R&D) programs for its 329 members and the natural gas industry. GRI conducts R&D that benefits the entire industry and its customers; and targeted benefits R&D in which consortia and individual organizations partner with GRI to develop or apply technologies to improve their competitiveness and benefit customers. ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller is an environmental and engineering services consulting firm, specializing in full-service capabilities within the environment, infrastructure and technology sectors. The firm is the U.S.-based operations arm of ARCADIS NV (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ARCAF) (Arnhem, The Netherlands), a multi-national engineering company specializing in consulting and implementation services for environment, infrastructure, and construction engineering. |
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