SSE plc’s Great Island Power Station in County Wexford is a 464 MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant which was first commissioned in 2014. Acknowledged as one of Ireland’s cleanest and most efficient natural gas power stations on the...
Independent tank storage provider Vopak is increasing and enhancing fuel capacity at the Vopak Terminal Durban in South Africa, an important site where activities encompass the import, export and distribution of petroleum products.
An extended scope contract performed by Rotork Site Services has successfully delivered full automation of a flood alleviation scheme protecting the historic town of Cardigan in West Wales. The project involved replacing unreliable actuators from another manufacturer, installing a PLC...
Rotork’s innovative CVA electric control valve actuator technology has successfully delivered an improvement in performance with reduced operating costs for the vital gas blending process on a European natural gas distribution network.
The challenge of modernising the instrumentation on an old utility boiler can be overwhelming, especially when the boiler was originally commissioned in 1964. Power utility base load preference has historically been the domain of the larger coal fired boilers. That...
The Metropolitan Copenhagen Heating Transmission Company (CTR) operates the largest district heating system in Denmark. Seven combined heat and power (CHP) and two waste incineration power plants, supported by 14 peak load power plants, supply heat to the CTR transmission...
Rotork CVA electric control valve actuation technology is helping Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) to increase efficiency and reduce energy costs at its Wakefield production plant. CCE has invested over £100 million over the last five years at the Wakefield site, which...
The SS Cape Isabel was launched in 1976, since then some of the equipment on-board had become obsolete. Rotork installed Type K damper drives in order to upgrade the old actuators which were already on board the ship in order...
Rotork is well known for supplying flow control equipment for new and upgraded industrial plants and processes on a global scale. In these contracts, often involving tens or hundreds of valve actuators and associated control equipment, Rotork works with valvemakers,...
A major petrochemical modernisation programme in Turkey includes a retrofit project that will deliver automated actuation and control for over 900 valves at a refinery’s tank farms. Tupras is Turkey’s largest industrial company and leading refiner, operating four refineries of...
The West-East Pipeline (WEPP) network is described as the largest and most significant gas industry project ever planned in China. Intended for the development of the western regions in China, the project involves construction of four gas pipelines connecting the...
Martin Midstream Partners L.P. (MMLP) is a publicly traded limited partnership with primary business lines focused on terminalling, storage, processing and packaging services for petroleum products and byproducts encompassing natural gas liquids storage, marketing and distribution services and natural gas...
In order to avoid a disaster such as the Buncefield fuel depot fire in 2005, HES International wanted to enhance the safety procedures in place at their Botlek Tank Terminal in Rotterdam. Rotork IQ range intelligent electric actuators and other...
Rotork has installed Type K Damper Drives at the Florida Power & Light (FPL) Manatee Station. The benefit of these products is their ability to act quickly, which is essential. A lack of speed can result in serious risks to...
Rotork and Royal Vopak have a strong, well established relationship. A valve actuation framework agreement ensures that Rotork provides all the necessary valve actuators throughout their expansion project. For Phase 8 of the project, a large number of Rotork products...
Spain is now the world's largest generator of electricity from solar power plants and Rotork plays a key role in ensuring that these plants are able to operate. With IQ intelligent electric actuators performing open/close functions on the valves of...
Rotork actuators and control systems are essential to the running of Euroloop’s automated research and testing facilities. Divided into two separate industrial scale closed-loop test circuits (one for liquid meters and one for gas meters), the site is able to...
Wessex Water had decided to invest in redeveloping their Maundown water treatment plant. Rotork provided over 200 Profibus-enabled intelligent electric IQ valve actuators in order achieve their redevelopment goals.
Rotork fluid power actuators are used for many vital functions by Quintero LNG, which provides power to Quintero LNG, one of Chile’s biggest energy security companies.
The Jamnagar Refinery is the largest in the world. Rotork installed thousands of actuators during the original construction of the site. Since then, the refinery has expanded further and Rotork has provided additional products and services. Rotork actuators are essential...