New Products Slurry Valve

Plant operators can choose a longer lasting, lower maintenance valve for controlling heavy slurries, as ITT introduced a valve design that incorporates the unique patent-pending Guillotine Gate(TM). Unlike traditional knife gate valves, the Fabri-Valve SVl push-through slurry valve features a gate design that slices through high density slurry at an angle. The gate slices cleanly through tough slurries and prevents the seat from cutting and tearing, while also reducing the amount of discharge from the valve.

Contact: John Beca, email: John. beca@itt.com.

Turbomachinery Testing

OROS now offers a dedicated software solution for users, manufacturers and third party service contractors dealing with turbomachinery testing. This new solution for vibration acceptance tests, signatures, diagnostics and other troubleshooting operation has been developed entirely by users for users.

ORBIGate is for technicians and engineers dealing with turbines, compressors, pumps, gear boxes or other turbomachines who have issues with their rotor and bearing vibrations. It is also of interest to people working in a power plant, a chemical site or a turbomachinery service center.

Contact: Melissa Hill, telephone: (888) 200-6767, email: Mhill@orosinc. com.

Services

Asset Management

Ventyx(TM) Asset Suite is an EAM solution which enables the deployment of standardized best practices over an entire series of nuclear power plants, thereby achieving performance levels well above those achieved for a single nuclear plant. Furthermore, through its "serviceoriented Foundation Architecture", Asset Suite enables nuclear industry operators to accelerate their business profitability and reduce the complexity of their business processes by means of an intuitive, customizable, graphic user interface. Asset Suite can be easily integrated with engineering tools, financial applications, ERP and other third-party applications.

Contact: Gary Frazier, telephone: (770) 989-4188, email: gary.frazier@ ventyx.com.

Software

Ventyx(TM), announced eSOMS Suite Version 3.6, a commercially available software designed to help utilities comply with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's new Nuclear Fatigue Rule.

Release 3.6 of Ventyx Shift Operations Management System (eSOMS) software includes enhancements to the software's Personnel Qualifications and Scheduling solution that will help utilities comply with the NRCs recently enacted rule (10 CFR 26, Subpart I), or "Nuclear Fatigue Rule (NFR)." The NFR was enacted to manage schedules to avoid fatigue of personnel at commercial nuclear power reactors. All nuclear operators must be in compliance with NFR by October 1, 2009.

Contact: Gary Frazier, telephone: (770) 989-4188, email: gary.frazier@ ventyx.com.

Contracts

Generator Agreement

Alstom signed a framework agreement with EDF, the French utility, for the renovation of 900 MW and 1,300 MW generators in its nuclear power plants. The orders coming from this contract will run for a duration of 10 years and will reach a total amount of more than 140 million euros.

Alstom Power Service units in La Courneuve and Belfort (France) will provide comprehensive project management, including conceptual design, parts supply and site work. The first generators rewinds are planned for 2010 at Belleville and Chooz nuclear power plants.

Contact: Philippe Kasse, telephone: 33 1 41 49 29 82/33 08, email: philippe. kasse@chq.alstom.com.