Company Watch - Pratt & Whitney.Nov 20, 2006 Martinair will be P&W's European launch customer at the engine provider's new EcoPower service center station at Schiphol. "The engine washing process is a closed-loop, environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] system that uses atomized water to wash aircraft engines," P&W said in a statement. "Not only does the system avoid potentially harmful runoff from the washing process, but it also is more effective and much faster than traditional engine-washing processes." EcoPower was established in 2005 at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. International. Nov 14, 2006 Pratt & Whitney signed a three-year agreement to provide its EcoPower engine wash services on Martinair's fleet of PW4000, CF6 and V2500 engines. The engine washing will take place at Amsterdam Schiphol and is projected to save the airline up to $2.3 million in annual fuel costs. "Earlier this year we completed an EcoPower engine wash pilot program that resulted in engine performance improvements, operating cost reductions and emission reductions," Martinair VP-Maintenance and Engineering Paul Horstink said. "Results showed substantial takeoff exhaust gas Exhaust gas is flue gas which occurs as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline/petrol, diesel, fuel oil or coal. It is discharged into the atmosphere through an exhaust pipe or flue gas stack. temperature improvements as well as cruise fuel flow improvements. We now plan to wash our entire fleet of 55 engines regularly and expect to achieve an annual carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions reduction of 23.7 million lb." Nov 14, 2006 Pratt & Whitney lands engine order worth $100M. Pratt & Whitney has won a $100 million order to help supply Tiger Airlines with V2500 engines. Pratt is a member of a consortium that also includes the U.K.'s Rolls-Royce Group PLC, Japanese Aero Engines Corp. and Germany-based MTU Aero Engines MTU Aero Engines is Germany's leading aircraft engine manufacturer, develops, manufactures and provides service support for aircraft engines, military and civil alike. MTU Aero Engines was formerly known as MTU München. . Nov 14, 2006 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Nov 13, 2006 |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion