Boilers Begin Stretch Run at Competitive Augusta Invitational

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Purdue men's golf team begins its stretch run this weekend at the 15-team 3M Augusta Invitational, being held Saturday and Sunday at the par-72, 7,028-yard Forest Hills Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.
Action begins Saturday morning with 36 holes and will wrap up Sunday with the final 18 holes. This is the second-to-last scheduled event of the season for the Boilermakers before the Big Ten Championships on May 2-4. The Boilermakers will host the Boilermaker Invitational on April 19-20.
The 42nd-ranked Boilermakers are part of an elite field that features 12 teams ranked in in the nation's top 46 as well as the No. 3-ranked Division II squad, USC-Aiken. The field consists of UCF (#7), Houston (#8), Illinois (#9), Virginia (#10), defending champion Texas (#19), New Mexico (#22), South Carolina (#23), Baylor (#27), Clemson (#28), Purdue (#42), Tennessee (#43), TCU (#46), Augusta State (#66) and Coastal Carolina (#95).
Purdue is 2-3-1 against teams in the field, falling to Baylor and New Mexico at the Lone Star Invitational and to Clemson at the USF Invitational, while defeating TCU and Coastal Carolina and tying Illinois.
Individually, 12 of the nation's top-52 ranked players, and 19 of the top 100, will be competing in the field.
Leading the Boilermakers is senior Adam Schenk, who is ranked 25th nationally and has moved into 17th in the most-recent Palmer Cup standings. Schenk has recorded 10 straight rounds at or under par and has finished tied for third, tied for second and tied for eighth in his last three events while totaling 29-under par combined in the three events. Schenk has five top-10 finishes this year and owns an average of 71.09 strokes per 18 holes.
Freshman Austin Eoff also continues to play well, following Schenk with a 72.35 stroke average. Eoff owns three top-10 finishes this year and after an early slump this spring, placed 26th at the Lone Star Invitational, his best placing of the spring season.

Sophomore Stuart Macdonald gets his first shot in the lineup this year after competing in a pair of tournaments as an individual. In six rounds this year, Macdonald is averaging 73.50 strokes per round and has finished tied for 27th and tied for 30th this year as an individual at the Windon Memorial in September and the Lone Star Invite two weeks ago.
Freshman Philippe Schweizer (73.70 average in 23 rounds) and junior Enzo Perez (73.74 average in 23 rounds) will round out the Boilermaker lineup. Schweizer placed 29th at the Lone Star Invite and has a top-10 finish under his belt at the Bridgestone Collegiate in late October, while Perez has been on fire as of late, finishing tied for 16th in the USF Invitational and tied for 24th at the Lone Star Invite.

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Siemens, Zolo Technologies team up on steam generation boilers

Siemens Energy and the US-based company Zolo Technologies have signed a worldwide license agreement for fossil-fueled steam generation boiler applications.

As part of the agreement, the two companies, which have been collaborating in Europe, will more closely integrate their combustion optimization products and actively extend their market activities into the USA, China and other fossil markets in Asia.

Siemens has integrated Zolo Technologies-built ZoloBOSSTM laser-based combustion monitoring system into its SPPA-P3000 process optimization solution for fossil-fueled steam generating power plants.

Siemens Energy Product Management Instrumentation & Electrical vice president Dieter Fluck said, ''By combining both Siemens and Zolo Technologies our customers will benefit from improved efficiency, reduced emissions and higher availability as well as from a huge savings potential for their power plants."

Zolo Technologies CEO Reed Sarver said, "We are excited to expand our collaboration with Siemens into new geographic markets and expect this new agreement will accelerate the penetration of the SPPA-P3000 and ZoloBOSS solution into the marketplace."

The combined Zolo and Siemens solution is designed to utilize real-time, in-furnace combustion information to automatically balance and optimize combustion, thereby significantly improving combustion efficiency, reducing NOx and CO2 emissions and enhancing availability and thermal performance.

Only offered through Siemens, the solution has already proven its capabilities to improve the power generation process in various coal-fired power plants in Europe, US and China.

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National workshop on boilers held in Pune

PUNE: The National Productivity Council, Mumbai in collaboration with the state Directorate of Steam Boilers has organized a two-day national workshop on technological developments in efficient operation and maintenance of boilers on February 6 and 7 in the city.

A statement issued by the National Productivity Council said that, the workshop has been organised in association with the Central Boilers Board, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, union Ministry of Commerce and Industry and supported by leading boiler manufacturers such as Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Industrial Boil-ers, Thermax and Forbes Marshall.

The workshop will provide a platform for sharing of knowledge and experiences in technological advancements in the field of boilers and the current trends in their application, operation and up keep, the statement added. About 200 delegates from Maharashtra and other parts of the country will be attending this workshop, which will be held at the Auto Cluster Development and Research Institute in Chinchwad.

The inaugural function scheduled on February 6 between 9.45 am and 11 am . The inaugural function will be attended by Harbhajan Singh, IAS, Director General, National Productivity Council as well as Arvind Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary, state Department of Labour and Administration. T.S.G. Narayannen, secretary, Central Boilers Board, New Delhi would be leading the technical deliberations, the statement said.