Combustion Engineering

Combustion Engineering ( CE for short ) is a former American professional manufacturer of conventional and nuclear steam generators.

Combustion Engineering was established in 1912 from a merger of companies Grieve Grate Company and American Stoker Company, both to grate, especially for coal, specialized. Later the company The Locomotive Superheater Company was incorporated.

The company quickly grew into one of the leading manufacturers of steam boilers and furnaces in North America. CE presented boilers for steam locomotives, steam ships ( for example, all of Knox class frigates ) and power plants of all sizes ago.

In addition, CE has been renowned in the field of nuclear steam generators: First reactors for nuclear submarines of the U.S. Navy have been developed. CE built specially commissioned by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Department of Energy research laboratory Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory on. The reactor S1C and S2C came on the USS Tullibee (SSN -597 ) are used.

Later, the company also provided civilian reactors for many American nuclear power plants, for example, the first Palisades, later Waterford, Arkansas One and many others.

At its peak, CE employed some 30,000 employees, maintained numerous locations and subsidiaries.

In 1990 CE was sold to ABB and integrated there. As a heavy burden CE brought huge damages claims from asbestos victims with, had to vouch for the ABB as successor and the ABB in 2002 drove the brink of bankruptcy. At this time, ABB had already separated again by CE, because as ABB 2000 its Power Generation ( Power Plant Engineering ) gave to Alstom, the CE range for conventional boiler went with them to Alstom, the CE Nuclear Engineering at Westinghouse. Today CE with Alstom Power USA, Inc. is merged, so no longer exists as an independent company.

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