INDUSTRY
BY MIKE MERCER
under the federal Clean Air Act and
state policing laws.
U.S. District Judge John F. Walter,
based in Los Angeles, acknowledged the
region’s dismal air quality, but nevertheless ruled in favor of the railroads, according to the LA Times, saying, “The rules at
issue in this case are exactly the type of
local regulation that Congress intended to
preempt … in order to prevent a ‘patch-
work’ of … local regulation interfering
with interstate commerce,” Walter wrote
in an opinion released on May 1.
Two railroads and a trade group had
filed suit, saying that under special exemptions passed by Congress more
than a century ago, they do not have to
abide by local laws that could interfere
with interstate commerce. Officials at
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
and Union Pacific said they are spending billions to replace older, dirtier
equipment, and have voluntarily cut
idling times. A
Johnson Matthey
Licenses DOE Patent
Johnson Matthey announced that it
has been granted an exclusive license by
the U.S. Department of Energy’s
National Energy Technology Laboratory
(NETL) for its high-temperature sorbent
technology and patent to remove mercury, arsenic and potentially selenium
and cadmium from syngas produced by
coal gasification. This license was a natural extension of a two-year Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) between Johnson Matthey
and NETL to evaluate and optimize palladium (Pd) sorbent material properties
and performance. A
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Short Notes
Siemens announced that its first
H Gas Turbine was recently loaded
onto an inland waterway barge in
Berlin, Germany, to begin its journey
to Irsching in Bavaria. The power
pack with the designation “SGT5-
8000H” was built by Siemens Power
Generation (PG) at its manufacturing
plant in Huttenstrasse in Berlin. To
test the prototype turbine Siemens —
in cooperation with E.ON — is
building an experimental power
plant in Irsching in the vicinity of
Ingolstadt. The new gas turbine will
set benchmarks in terms of output,
efficiency, life-cycle costs, emissions
and operational flexibility, the company said. Its capacity is 340 MW.
FW Murphy announced that John
H. Carter Co. has become the newest United States-based dealer in
its international oil and gas distribution network. John H. Carter will
provide sales and service of the complete line of Murphy oil and gas products, along with technical support
in Alabama, Mississippi, southern
Louisiana and the Florida panhandle
with its 50 staff service technicians,
supporting a full range of mechanical
and process control needs. A
