Yokogawa wins water project

A SUBSIDIARY of Yokogawa Electric Corporation has won an order to supply the monitoring system for a large water distribution pipeline being built in Saudi Arabia.

Yokogawa Electric International, which oversees Yokogawa’s industrial automation (IA) and control business outside Japan, received the order from Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation (SIPSC) for the project Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) is building between the cities of Yanbu and Madinah.

Yokogawa Electric International will be responsible for engineering, supervising the installation of, and commissioning these products. These products will be delivered by July next year and the new pipeline will become operational the following month. The new pipeline will stretch 610 km from a desalination plant in Yanbu to Madinah and its surrounding districts, and will be capable of supplying 709,000 cu m of potable water per day. This is one of the largest international water distribution projects to be undertaken by SIPSC.

Bahrain insulin factory on way

CONSTRUCTION of a new insulin factory in Bahrain is expected to get under way soon.

Being built by Gulf Biotech Company at an investment of $93 million, the plant will come up on a 16,000-sq-m site in Salman Industrial City, the company’s chief executive Dr Riyadh Al Ashban said.

“The plant is expected to start operations by mid-2015 with an initial production capacity of 42 million units.”

The project will be backed by an alliance of multinationals – Merck, Helm and Linde. The products will match American and European specifications.

Aldes pushes for CFD analysis

Implementing computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analyses across the Middle East’s current and ongoing construction and development projects can play a major role in the proper selection and arrangement of air diffusers, according to Aldes Middle East, a leading global solutions provider for fire protection, ventilation and air distribution and the local arm of Aldes Group.

CFD analysis, which is used to effectively simulate the fluid flow and heat flow in a defined zone, makes use of finite element method using computer-assisted calculations performed with the help of given data to describe the fluid flow.

Although widely used in both the aeronautical and automotive industry, CFD analysis is now also being used in the construction segment to verify and choose air diffusion systems.

Inadequate sizing and selection of air diffusion systems can result in uneven temperatures within the building, discomfort in the occupied areas and overloading of the air handling unit itself, according to Aldes ME senior executives, who add that these issues can be avoided with a CFD analysis.