BNET Industries
Dresser-Rand is in the Manufacturing Industry
Latest News and Analysis
Frequency Evaluation of Steam Turbine Bladed Risks
In this paper, Dresser-Rand has initiated the use of the SAFE (Singh's Advanced Frequency Evaluation) diagram to help bladed disk designer. Identification of when the frequency of variable force match component's natural frequencies is the traditional method to design around potential blade failures. The identification of matching frequencies-the force with...
Simulation Testing of Alloys and Coatings for Gas Expander Applications
This paper focuses on simulation corrosion testing of unstressed Waspaloy and IN -738 Expander blade materials, and two of the coating evaluated to increase sulfidation resistance. Comparative fretting wear tests data, and rotating beam high-cycle fatigue data is also presented. The goal of this work is to decrease the potential...
Probabilistic Estimation of the Effect of Dimensional Tolerance for Turbine/Compressor Blade Attachment
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a concept of decision making and discuss the implication of results. Stress evaluation though important is secondary for this paper. Finite element technique has been employed to estimate stresses. Root attachments of rotating blades of a turbine or a compressor often have...
Additional Resources
Vehicle Sales Suffer Record Slump
Vehicle sales in July suffered the biggest monthly decline in almost three years as crude oil prices hit a record high and the luxury car tax increase drove buyers away from the showroom, economists say.Four-wheel drive sales also fell by the biggest monthly margin since 2005, with the dive...
Mint Suspends Red-hot Eagle Gold Coins
By Frank Tang NEW YORK (Reuters) - A shortage of American Eagle bullion coins due to soaring demand following a recent sharp retreat in gold prices has forced the U.S. Mint to temporarily suspend sales of the popular coins. "Due to the unprecedented...
Amazon Pushes Cloud Computing Further
Blaise Zerega submits: Amazon's AMZN new Elastic Block Computing initiative raises the bar for what will be possible with cloud computing. And when you think about how much more efficient this technology is compared to that in use by traditional data centers, it's obvious that companies like Amazon...
Cheap Hardware Will Force Cloud Computing
For all of the availability of such online productivity suites as Google Apps and HyperOffice, applications that live on a computer's hard drive have remained king of the hill. But that's about to change, I think. Intel's acknowledgement of the netbook and nettop markets -- low cost computers designed primarily...
Obama's Economic Policy and Reagonomics
Mark Thoma submits: This article by David Leonhardt describes Barack Obama's view of economic policy, and it is very similar to my own. Most of the time, it is best to leave markets alone, to let them work without intervention, and that should be our starting...
Dell and Facebook announce cloud computing project - Rumour
Computer software firm Dell is teaming up with Facebook to launch a new cloud computing project in the near future, according to CNET. The two companies have not yet released any details but have invited various IT firms to the...
Bank of England Split on Rates
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Bank of England policymakers were split three ways in August for a second month running, with one voting to hike interest rates, another to cut but the remaining seven deciding to keep borrowing costs steady at 5 percent. Minutes from the August...
IBM Invests $300 Mln in Disaster Recovery Centers
BOSTON (Reuters) - IBM IBM plans to spend $300 million this year to build 13 "cloud computing" data centers where businesses can store information for quick retrieval in case their computer systems are destroyed in a disaster. Cloud computing refers to services accessed...
Is O'Rourke O'Wrong?
Last week in Where's the Line we posted, tongue planted lightly in cheek, an old quote from conservative humorist, P.J. O'Rourke. "There is only one basic human right," said P.J., "the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty...
Scottish & Southern Up on Talk of Bid Interest
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Shares in power supplier Scottish & Southern Energy SSE rose as much as 3.6 percent on Tuesday as traders cited market talk of bid interest. Scottish & Southern Energy declined to comment. One trader said there was renewed speculation of a bid from...
Smartphones Should Replace PCs
I've recently been running into sales professionals who are using iPhones or Treos for their CRM applications. While there are some limitations (e.g. the screens and keyboards are too small for large documents), I think that replacing PCs with smartphones is basically good idea, not...
Babcock Power Flags $425m in Writedowns
Babcock & Brown Power BBP has booked $452 million in writedowns and admitted it's on "rocky financial ground" as it considers approaches from third parties that could see it swallowed whole.Stapled securities in the power generator fund, managed by troubled investment firm Babcock & Brown (B&B), plunged 40 per...
Cloud Outages: Are Vendors Selling Before They're Ready?
It's official: the media declares that cloud computing is changing the world. For anyone who's made more than one circuit around the high tech block, this sounds like many other bits of jargon -- SaaS, MSP, ASP, web services, thin client, client server, even mainframe timesharing -- and for good...
Six Electric Utility Stocks with High Oil / Gas Exposure
Stockerblog submits: One way to analyze electric utility stocks is to look at what types of fuel they use to run their generators, and how much exposure to oil and natural gas that they have. If you believe the price of oil and gas has peaked and will continue...
China's Changfeng Had Talks on GM's Hummer: Source
By Fang Yan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - General Motors Corp GM has had preliminary talks with Hunan Changfeng Motor Co on a possible sale of its Hummer brand but the Chinese sport utility vehicle SUV maker has backed off, a source with ...
Amazon vs. EBay: Looking Beyond E-Commerce
Trader Mark submits: There's a very interesting article via MSN Money about how Amazon AMZN is beating up EBay EBAY. I abandoned eBay EBAY as an investment many years ago as it's now a "value play" instead of growth, but have always said I'd love to get a piece...
Battling BHP and Rio to Post Record Profits
By James Regan SYDNEY (Reuters UK) - Mining giants BHP Billiton BLT BHP and Rio Tinto RIO RIO should post record half-year profits as they reap the benefits of an industrial commodities boom, and are likely to use the results to bolster their arguments in...
- Next »
- page 1 of 1
- « Previous
Sort byClose
View Related Content by Tag Close
Dresser-Rand Company Info
NAICS Code
Turbine and Turbine Generator Set Units Manufacturing: 333611
