We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control plants.
Our customers depend on standard parts and designs, so we must maintain consistency and process control among plants and operations that are often a half a world away.
We believe it is equipping itself for the long run by having control over the raw material supply and control over manufacturing plants.
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The sorts of computer systems it enters are those that control critical infrastructures like power plants, refineries and other industrial targets.
While attacks on critical infrastructure are relatively rare, recent months have seen viruses and other malicious programs hit control systems at oil treatment plants and other facilities.
Thus, the failures spanned the electrical system, cooling system and control and instrumentation systems at the plants.
Malicious software infecting the computers of electric utilities could cause turbines at power plants to spin out of control, potentially destroying them.
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In the mid 1990s, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says that mercury emissions from coal plants totaled 1, 850 pounds per year.
Located in the uppermost part of the eco-friendly home, the on-board plants would aid temperature regulation, control air quality, and provide everyday sustenance.
For example, our New Jersey coal plants with their various pollution-control systems have been able to reduce, by over 90 percent, emissions of mercury, acid gases and soot.
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Among the targeted infrastructure was everything from systems that control traffic lights in large cities to nuclear plants, water treatment plants , large manufacturers, defense contractors and high tech companies.
But should he proceed with regulations to control pollution from existing coal-fired power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution, those regulations probably will contribute to shuttering facilities already struggling to compete with cheap natural gas.
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Many of the newer coal plants have already been equipped with the latest gadgets to control such releases.
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In 2006 the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted mercury pollution standards of its own, which required all coal plants to install technologies to reduce mercury pollution by 90% or more by 2009 and 2013.
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On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.
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That change, called the Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or MACT, rule requires that coal- and oil-fired power plants reduce pollutant emission rates significantly.
Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is the industry term for the computers behind the machinery in power plants, water treatment centres, traffic controls and other utilities.
As Mr Yan points out, farming Artemisia not only gives firms more control over their supply, but also helps reduce the loss of biodiversity that comes from picking wild plants.
These are the first national standards to require use of modern control technologies to reduce mercury, arsenic, lead, hydrochloric acid and other hazardous air pollutants from coal plants.
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