- Eight desalination plants with process automation, drive technology, process instrumentation and communication technology
- Total capacity of 240,000 cubic meters per day
- Order volume is a double-digit million Euro figure
Siemens has received a follow-up order from the A3C consortium (Rawafid Industrial, Advanced Water Technology, SETE and Al Fatah) to equip eight seawater desalination plants in Saudi Arabia with electrical equipment. The new plants for seawater desalination using the principle of reverse osmosis are spread along the West coast of Saudi Arabia. The total capacity of the plants will be 240,000 cubic meters per day, with a power consumption of just three kilowatts per cubic meter of produced water, which is below the usual value and will provide significant energy savings. The scope of supply from Siemens includes hardware and software engineering, power distribution, PCS7 automation, medium and low voltage converters, Industrial Ethernet communication technology and process instrumentation for eight reverse osmosis plants, plus plant commissioning. The project will follow a tight schedule, with commissioning planned from autumn 2019.
- Shared Autonomous Mobility solutions being piloted at CETRAN
- Mobility Operating Systems for Urban Centers
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) for traffic scenarios
Siemens Mobility is showcasing the latest in intelligent traffic systems technology at this year’s ITS World Congress taking place in Singapore. This includes mobility operating systems that are helping reduce gridlock on urban streets, which centralize and control traffic throughout urban areas. By connecting road users to road and infrastructure data captured via smart structures, drivers can optimize their routes and reduce their environmental impact. Through data analysis and prediction, traffic can be regulated in an efficient manner.
With growing populations, cities are becoming increasingly congested, with more traffic and longer commutes. Efficiency and safety of road traffic remain top priority for many cities. By offering autonomous shuttle systems, public transport operators and cities seek to draw passengers and make public transport more attractive. At the ITS World Congress in Singapore, Siemens Mobility is examining how Singapore is transforming its transportation ecosystem, delivering an outlook on intelligent traffic systems (ITS) projects within the Asia-Pacific region as well as showcasing advances in autonomous mobility coming to life at the CETRAN test facility.
- 25 multisystem Vectron MS locomotives for maximum flexibility
- Cross-border operations on the North-South Corridor
- Deliveries begin at the end of 2020
The Swiss rail freight company BLS Cargo has ordered 25 Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility for planned operation on the North-South Corridor. They will be used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium. Delivery of the locomotives will be carried out in several phases from the end of 2020 to 2025. With this order, the Vectron fleet operated by BLS Cargo will grow to a total of 40 locomotives. The company previously ordered 15 locomotives from Siemens Mobility in 2015.
- Portfolio serving entire power range from 50 to 600 kW
- Flexible combination with connection options as cable and pantographs
- For fast and secure charging at the depot and en route
- Cloud-based control and monitoring of charging processes
At Busworld 2019, Siemens is presenting its Sicharge UC family for charging electric buses, trucks and duty vehicles at the depot and en route. The Sicharge UC charging system covers the entire power range from 50 to 600 kilowatts (kW) and can be combined with several connection options such as charging plugs and offboard or onboard pantographs. To meet growing demands from the vehicle industry for higher voltages, the station can operate at up to 1,000 volts (V). Electric vehicles with various technologies and batteries can therefore be charged flexibly, either en route or at the depot. The charging processes can be monitored and controlled via a MindSphere application. MindSphere is the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens.
- Business to be officially renamed as
of April 2020
- Employees’ favorite selected
At an internal management conference, Siemens today announced the name of the new energy company that it is creating. The business, which combines the worlds of conventional and renewable energy and is to become an independent company in the future, is to be called Siemens Energy. The new name will officially take effect once the energy business becomes a separate legal entity, which is expected to happen in April 2020. Siemens Energy is to be spun off as a publicly listed company by September 2020. Its offerings will address a significant portion of the value chain across the oil and gas, power generation, and power transmission segments, including the related service activities. On a pro-forma basis, Siemens Energy generates about €27 billion in revenue and has some 88,000 employees worldwide as well as an order backlog of €70 billion. Today, 20 percent of the world’s energy supply is already based on Siemens technology.
- Conveyor system will move 127,500 tons of primary crushed ore per day
- New Siemens’ gearless drive technology to increase reliability and efficiency additionally by up to 4 percent
- Maintenance requirements of the drive system significantly reduced
Powered by Siemens’ new gearless drive technology, thyssenkrupp’s high-capacity overland conveyor will access one of the world’s largest copper reserves in Quellaveco. The Quellaveco mine in Peru contains approximately 7.5 million tons of copper in ore reserves – enough to wire 80 million homes or equip 90 million electric vehicles.
- Power plants Termoeléctrica del Sur, de Warnes, and Entre Ríos inaugurated in August and September
- Upgrade to combined cycle power plants increase the generation capacity by one gigawatt
- Expansion provides reliable energy supply and will allow export of value-added products
With the official inauguration of the Termoeléctrica de Warnes power plant in mid-September, all three power plants in Bolivia were inaugurated within a few weeks in August and September. Since the contract signing in 2016, Siemens has expanded Bolivia’s three largest thermal power plants to efficient combined cycle mode. The power plants are owned and operated by Ende Andina SAM. Together, all three add more than one gigawatt of electrical power to its current maximum capacity and to the Bolivian national grid.