Hennigan Engineering Co., Inc.’s corporate offices in Massachusetts welcomes back Nick Attardo, Engineer, after spending a productive year working exclusively at one of our clients, nuclear power plant facility as a corrosion engineer. Nick contributed a lot during his time in Louisiana, but is happy to be back in Massachusetts where his family lives.
Hennigan Engineering is pleased to welcome Ken Marko to the Hennigan family as Vice President of Business Development. Ken is pictured below with Randy Benefield, President.
Hennigan Engineering will be attending and exhibiting at the 2018 Heat Exchanger Performance User Group Meeting Feb 5, 2018 – Feb 8, 2018 at:
Sheraton Lake Buena Vista
12205 S. Apopka Vineland Road
Orlando, Florida 32836
The Annual Heat Exchanger Performance User Group (HXPUG) Meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida, February 5-8, 2018. The meeting is for nuclear industry personnel involved with performance and maintenance of heat exchangers. Trainings, open door sessions and a Vendor Fair -is held in conjunction with the annual meeting.
Feedwater System Reliability Users Group (FSRUG) Conference
Hennigan Engineering will be exhibiting at the 2018 Feedwater System Reliability Users Group (FSRUG) meeting held in Austin, Texas at the Hilton Austin, January 22-25, 2018.
Feedwater System Reliability User’s Group Mission:
Reduce the number of Feedwater System related plant trips and unplanned power reductions in the nuclear industry.
Identify and implement solutions to common industry equipment reliability problems in feedwater and support systems.
Provide the industry a forum for improving Feedwater System
reliability and to share operating experience through online collaboration and annual meetings.
To share information related to Feedwater System component maintenance and improvements to improve system performance and reduce maintenance costs.
Hennigan Engineering was recently awarded a contract to perform services for NextEra Energy at their “Solar Energy Generating Systems” (SEGS) Solar Energy SEGS located in the Mojave Desert of California. The SEGS facility is the second largest solar thermal energy generating system in the world.
The facility is comprised of nine solar power plants that have 354 MW net (394 MW gross) capacity. This is enough power to service 232,500 homes during the day at peak power.
Solar Energy SEGS
This displaces approximately 3,800 tons of pollution per year that would have been produced if the electricity had b??n provided by fossil fuels.
The facilities have a total of 936,384 mirrors and cover more than 1,600 acres (647.5 ha). Lined up, the parabolic mirrors would extend over 229 miles (369 km). The installation uses parabolic trough, solar thermal technology along with natural gas to generate electricity.
About 90% of the electricity is produced by the sunlight. Natural gas is only used when the solar power is insufficient to meet the demand from Southern California Edison, the distributor of power in southern California.
Heat exchange/transfer efficiency is critical. The sunlight reflects off the mirrors and is directed to a central tube filled with synthetic oil, which heats to over 400 °C (750 °F). The reflected light focused at the central tube is as much as 80 times more intense than the ordinary sunlight. The synthetic oil transfers its heat to water, which boils and drives the Rankine cycle steam turbine, thereby generating electricity. Synthetic oil is used to carry the heat (instead of water) to keep the pressure within manageable parameters.
Hennigan Engineering will mobilize to the site in January 2018 to perform critical heat exchanger tube cleaning services in order to maximize system efficiency and power output.
