Combustion engineering
| Combustion Engineering, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1912 |
| Seat | Stamford , later Windsor , Connecticut , USA |
| Number of employees | approx. 30,000 (peak) |
| Branch | Energy plant construction |
Combustion Engineering (abbreviated CE ) is a former US-American manufacturer of conventional and nuclear steam generators .
Combustion Engineering was created in 1912 from a merger of the Grieve Grate Company and American Stoker Company , both specializing in grate firing , especially for coal. The Locomotive Superheater Company was later integrated.
The company quickly grew into one of the leading manufacturers of steam boilers and furnaces in North America. CE manufactured boilers for steam locomotives, steamships (e.g. all Knox-class frigates ) and power plants of all sizes.
In addition, CE also entered the field of nuclear steam generators: initially reactors for nuclear submarines of the US Navy were developed. For this purpose, CE built the research laboratory Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory on behalf of the US Navy and the US Department of Energy . The S1C or S2C reactor was used on the USS Tullibee (SSN-597) .
Later the company also supplied civil reactors for numerous American nuclear power plants, e.g. B. first Palisades , later Waterford , Arkansas One and many others.
At peak times, CE employed around 30,000 people and had numerous locations and subsidiaries.
In 1990 CE was sold to ABB and integrated there. As a heavy mortgage, CE brought huge claims for damages from asbestos victims, for which ABB was the legal successor and which in 2002 almost drove ABB into bankruptcy. At this point in time, ABB had already separated from CE, because when ABB transferred its Power Generation division to Alstom in 2000 , the CE division for conventional boilers went with Alstom and was later merged with Alstom Power USA, Inc. This part has been independent as the Arvos Group since 2014 . The nuclear CE division went to Westinghouse Electric Company .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph G Singer: Combustion Fossil Power . Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, Connecticut, ISBN 0-9605974-0-9 , pp. I-1-I-6.