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ABB DRIVES BRING WATER TO CHINA’S DRIEST REGIONS
18 March 2007 - ABB Automation Technologies
| ABB drive packages will power the heart of a key pumping station in the middle route of China’s enormous south-to-north water diversion project. Eight sets of ABB drive packages at the Huinanzhuang pump station near Beijing will pump water up a 60 meter slope at 60 cubic meters per second and bring safe, stable and sanitary supplies to the capital of Beijing and the surrounding region. |
ABB will deliver eight sets of 7.3 megawatt ACS6000 drives packages, including transformers, frequency converters and machines to power the stations’ centrifugal water pumps and machinery. Water shortages
About one-third of China is very dry or a desert. The most arid regions are in the north and northwest, while each year China’s south is plagued by torrential rains and floods. In recent years, massive economic growth has compelled the country to launch new steps to manage, preserve and redistribute its precious water resources. About one-third of China is very dry or a desert, and the most arid regions are in the north and northwest. This includes the multi-billion dollar south-to-north water diversion projects, the largest scheme of its kind in the world. This ambitious undertaking will send billions of cubic meters of water from the south to satisfy spiraling demand for water in the country’s dry, resource-rich north, where booming populations in Beijing and Tianjin, massive construction and an arid climate have conspired to create chronic water shortages. Three diversion routes
The south-to-north projects consists of three, thousand-kilometer-long water diversion routes in the eastern, middle and western parts of China that will use existing or new rivers, channels, reservoirs and canals to transport water from the south to the north. Planning of the south-to-north diversion projects began in the 1950s, and is the entire scheme is expected to take about 50 years to complete. These three routes will eventually link the country's four major rivers - the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Huaihe River and the Haihe River, and create a huge, controllable water net system that can allocate and regulate China’s water resources. The middle way
The 1,267-kilometer-long middle route will bring water from the Yangtze River up to the capital of Beijing by 2010. And because the route is not always flat, water must be pumped over obstacles. Huinanzhuang is the only major pump station to be built in the main channel of the middle diversion route. Planning of the south-to-north diversion projects began in the 1950s, and is the entire scheme is expected to take about 50 years to complete. The Chinese government expects to be able to divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water annually by 2050.
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ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs around 105,000 people.
ABB has streamlined its divisional structure to focus on two core businesses: Power Technologies and Automation Technologies. The Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals division is slated for divestment. ABB Power Technologies serves electric, gas and water utilities as well as industrial and commercial customers, with a broad range of products, systems and services for power transmission, distribution and automation. ABB Automation Technologies blends a robust product and service portfolio with end-user expertise and global presence to deliver solutions for control, motion, protection, and plant integration across the full range of process and utility industries. In addition to ABB's automation activities directed at the oil and gas industries, ABB Lummus Global continues to design and supply production facilities, refineries and petrochemical plants. ABB's former Upstream business, divested in July 2004, is now part of Vetco International (www.vetco.com). |
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