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04 Article SENER consolidates its position in Mexico with III 08 Interview Borja Zárraga, Country Manager for SENER Mexico 10 Tribune 12 Luis de Santiago Pérez, Managing Director of Railways 12 Up-to-date Corporate Space Actuation and Control Systems Power and Process Civil and Architrecture Marine 40 Group 42 In Brief 44 Profiles Carlos Sánchez Tarifa 46 Senet Practical notes

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The association with the Mexican engineering company constitutes a solid platform with excellent business prospects Last June the purchase agreement of 40% of the Mexican engineering company III, S.A. de C.V. was finalised with the option for acquiring 100% in 2010. This way SENER started a new phase in Mexico, whilst at the same time marking the end of a process started in 2005, when the companies established a strategic alliance. By virtue of this alliance, SENER entered the Mexican market hand in hand with one of the main national engineering companies, at the same time as strengthening III's contracting capacity. In the last three years, the two companies have carried out important work together consolidating their presence in Latin America and establishing a big platform for penetrating the complex North American scenario.

SENER’s offices in Mexico DF. [ ARTICLE]

SENER's presence in Mexico dates back to the 1970's when its main clients were Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), a company it created a delegation in the country as a part of its foreign that it has continued to collaborate with since that time. In commercial office network. However, it was in 2005 when the 1980, the number of shareholders was reduced, and Elena company decided to consolidate itself in this market, particularly Oropesa and Eduardo Bosque became the only owners of in the Power and Process area, which offered good business the company. In the decade of the 1980's, III, S.A. de C.V. opportunities. After the economic crisis suffered by the country lived the moments of splendour of engineering in Mexico, a in the 1990's, when many companies went bankrupt, the period in which it carried out the integration of the oil port of panorama was promising. Mexico recovered thanks to Salina Cruz. In this project, III was responsible for the design agreements with North America, and the revalorisation of some of the first storage system in Mexico to use tanks with a of its most important resources, such as oil, at the same time capacity for 500,000 barrels. as increasing the stability in the country and the currency Later on, the company was able to economically survive the appreciated. In this situation, with the national companies economic crisis undergone by the country in the 1990's. Whilst weakened by the crisis, Mexico required infrastructures, other large Mexican engineering companies disappeared, III especially in energy. And SENER, who already knew the ground, progressed on the national market. The company increased its decided that it was time to return. clients several times over, and moved into other sectors, and so, in 1998 started to design electric energy generation plants, amongst which a simple cycle plant in Bolivia for General Electric, and combined cycle power plants in Mexico, such as Hermosillo, El Sauz, Emilio Portes Gil and Valladolid. Afterwards, other noteworthy projects arrived such as the PEMEX alkylation unit in Tula and the Swing polyethylene plant, also belonging to PEMEX, in Morelos.

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SENER Mexico current offices.

“When a company reaches a new market, it must adapt to its culture. In the case of Mexico, this culture was very different to ours” recalls the director of SENER's Power and Process International Development director, Jesús Laforgue, “for this reason, we were clear from the beginning that our presence them needed to start by collaborating with a Mexican company”. SENER decided to look for a partner with a strong presence in this area, a task entrusted to Jesús Laforgue. The job of Combined cycle power plant in Valladolid (Mexico), one of the main assessing the Mexican companies started in 2003 and at the projects of III. beginning of 2005, Laforgue went to Mexico to sound out on the ground the companies with the best results. He soon A strategic alliance that is bearing its fruit focused on the engineering company III, with 30 years of The strategic alliance between III and SENER was signed in experience in power, process and industrial plant projects in March 2005. A few months later, in July, the first Spanish both Mexico and other Latin American countries. In addition to engineer, Borja Zárrage, new SENER Country Manager in seeing the solidity of its experience, Jesús Laforgue quickly Mexico, moved permanently to the III offices, soon followed identified III as the most similar engineering company in the by Estíbaliz Fernández, as Finance Director. Ratifying this conception and way of working to SENER, which made him agreement called for a fully operative SENER division in the consider, and rightly so, that the two companies could get country, and in 2006, on the company's 50th anniversary, along well. SENERMEX Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. de C.V. was founded. At this time, III's progression was remarkable. The Mexican III, S.A. de C.V., a story of growth company with a workforce of over 200 employees, worked III, S.A. de C.V. was established in 1976, in Mexico City, for clients such as the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), named Impulsora Industrial de Ingeniería, S.A. de C.V., by PEMEX, Luz y Fuerza, BurnsS&Roe, Mitsubishi, Dragados or four engineers, Elena Oropesa Moreno, Juan José Cabello Abener and undertook projects in the mining-metallurgic area, Fuentes, Fernando Pelsmaker Ibáñez and Eduardo Bosque with big jobs for Ausenco, with whom it currently has a strategic Lastra. The social objective of the company was the design alliance, and Mittal. and carrying out of basic and detailed engineering for industrial The first joint contracts did not take long to arrive, including plants, in which the four engineers were experienced. Amongst the engineering design for the Termozulia II combined cycle [ ARTICLE]

The excellent relationship between the two engineering companies has grown in time up to the signing, in June 2007, of the purchase agreement of 40% of the Mexican company. SENER's President, Jorge Sendagorta, and III, S.A. de C.V.'s President, Eduardo Bosque, signed this agreement in Mexico City, with the option for purchasing 100% at the beginning of 2010. SENER's Power and Process Strategic Business Unit General Manager, Francisco Jiménez, and the General Vice President of III, Elena Oropesa were also present in this act. Termozulia II combined cycle power plant, of 500MW, in Maracaibo (Venezuela). As Country Manager, Borja Zárraga has experienced power plant, in Venezuela, with 500MW of power. It has been each step of this purchase “I think that it has been a long but a Project with more than 150,000 hours of work, in which satisfactory process for everyone involved, including the SENER has carried out the basic engineering and III the detailed Bosque family, the founders of III, and SENER”. Borja Zárraga engineering. Juan Ivorra, from SENER, and Joseph Schatz and points out that the collaboration experience between the two Isidro Becerril, from III, have been the main people in charge companies has been positive, and SENER has, hand in hand of this successful project. with III, a growing presence in Mexico. 06 Together with this big job, III has carried out others such as After the signing, both companies have announced that they the closure of the San Lorenzo combined cycle power plant, expect to extend their projects on the North American market, awarded by CFE to Dragados and the installation of fire particularly in the USA. III's strong presence in the region, as protection systems for Nuevo PEMEX in Tabasco, amongst the Mexican engineering company benchmark, is added to other refinery and petrochemical projects. The basic engineering SENER's excellent relationships of with big construction of the Lázaro Cárdenas Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) regasifier for companies, which favours big business prospects. Repsol, and the work carried out in big offers such as the repowering of the Laguna Verde nuclear power station, the Manzanillo regasification power plant or the Aguaprieta hybrid with solar combined cycle power plant are worthy of mention. SENER has recently been awarded the turnkey project for the Norte combined cycle thermal power plants, a plant, which UNIÓN FENOSA is designing in Durango (Mexico) for CFE. This combined cycle, with more than 400MW of power, will be designed and built by SENER and Cobra as partners, and will represent a total investment of more than 400 million dollars. A large amount of the detailed engi- neering of this generation plant SENER and III signing the purchase agreement. From left to right: III’s President, Eduardo Bosque, will be carried out in Mexico SENER’s President, Jorge Sendagorta, III’s Vice President, Elena Oropesa, and SENER’s Power by III. and Process Strategic Business Unit General Manager, Francisco Jiménez. [ ARTICLE]

company in this sector. Because, as Jesús Laforgue points out, SENER's best consolidation in Mexico must be via adapting to its culture and collaborating with a solid company with contacts with national clients, and with the same values and enterprising spirit. A company that is also, in its way, 'senerist'. Above all, in a country that maintains, in spite of the different economic situations, magnificent professionals in the engineering sector. All the engineers SENER has had the opportunity to meet bear witness to these, either as partners in works of importance, or as new colleagues who have joined their growing workforce in Mexico. A wealth of ideas in a country with excellent prospects.

Project of the Guadalajara airport, in Mexico.

The Civil area in Mexico, a growing market Together with the work in the Power and Process area, SENER is gradually entering the Civil sector, in which Mexico is making a big investment. Since 2005, the engineering company has carried out big jobs in the country, including the extension of the national and international terminals of the Guadalajara airport for the Grupo Aeroportuario Pacífico (GAP) and the design of the intermodal station (CETRAM) of the Mexico City suburban railway, both in collaboration with a local civil engineering 07 company, in addition to the viability study for purchasing an aerodrome for GAP Project of the San José airport, in Mexico. and the executive plan for the San José del Cabo airport. Currently, Interview with José Manuel Belmonte, next SENER Country Manager in Mexico SENER is inviting tenders for lines 2 and José Manuel Belmonte will take over from Borja Zárraga at the head of SENER's Division in Mexico 3 of the Mexico City from 2008. The growth of the Civil area will be his main job in this stage, which he is “really happy suburban railway, an and excited about, but also facing with a great sense of responsibility”. emblematic project in Mexico, as well as the Question: What are your main actions as SENER's Country Manager in Mexico going to be? Answer: In the first place, increase SENER's activity in Mexico in the Civil area, in both the extension of the development of our current agreements and the establishment of new relationships. Secondly, Tijuana airport. SENER strengthen the activity of the Energy and Processes area, with III and SENERMEX. At the moment, is also carrying out for both SENER and III are attempting to come closer together, analysing our respective work GEOPOLIS the integral methods, in such a way that we will finally have a SENER group company where the presence design of the transport of III is clearly identified. system for a private Q: What will be the main project that SENER's workforce in Mexico will be involved in the housing estate for immediate future? 800,000 inhabitants, A: We have many good prospects, but at the moment, the main project is the turnkey project for equivalent to an entire UNIÓN FENOSA in a combined cycle power plant in Durango. city, situated in the north of Mexico. Q: How are you facing up to this new stage in Mexico? A: Coming to Mexico is not only a big professional change for me but also a personal change, but prospects in this area both my family and I are really happy and excited about this new change. But also with a great are so promising, that sense of responsibility. I hope that the absence of Estíbaliz Fernández and Borja Zárraga will not SENER is finalising the be noticed too much and I know that I will have their help from the other side of the Pond. I am establishment of a new grateful to all the people who have supported me in SENER, and I am leaving with especially fond company solely memories of the airport group. dedicated to civil Q: As a new arrival, what has most surprised you about the country? engineering projects, A: There are two aspects that have been pleasant surprises: the climate and the people. I like both in association with a of them. Mexican engineering [ INTERVIEW] Borja Zárraga, Country Manager for SENER Mexico

Question: Since you arrived in México, what stands out in the engineering sector in the country? Answer: Today, the outlook for engineering in Mexico is going through a period of rejuvenation, after having gone through serious problems in the past. The economic instability suffered by the country a decade ago caused a number of big local engineering companies with staffs of more than 1,000 people to close. III has been one of the few survivors from that engineering crisis, thanks to the enormous efforts made by management and the excellent work of its employees. 08 At the moment, several large investments are planned in energy and civil infrastructure, which means engineering companies are recovering the ground they should never have lost in the first place.

Q: What are the main business areas for the Division at present? A: SENER came to Mexico with the intention, clearly identified, of developing the areas of power and process. In this sector, the Mexican market presented an excellent business opportunity for SENER, but it was quite clear to us that we could not carry out the engineering work from Spain: if the Mexican market was of interest to us we had to be integrated in it, to 'work for Mexico from Mexico'. At the moment, we are expanding our horizons. We are not only interested in developing power and process projects but also in pushing for contracts in the area of Born in Leioa (Vizcaya), Borja Zárraga is an industrial engineer civil engineering in which we were already working. We are on the who specialized in mechanics at the Higher College for point of signing an agreement with another local engineering company, Industrial and Telecommunication Engineers in Bilbao. After very similar to III in conception, to establish a new engineering working two years at a company called Mecánica de la Peña, company in Mexico dedicated solely to civil infrastructure. he joined SENER in 1999. Previously he had been resident engineer at SENER Madrid for the joint project between Q: The close relations that SENER has maintained with III finally Mecánica de la Peña and SENER for two hydrogen plants led to the acquisition of a 40% stake in the Mexican company. for PEMEX. In 2001 he was put in charge of mechanics' What does this purchase mean to SENER? teams at SENER and later, in 2003, made Chief of Mechanics A: It represents an important platform for launching our activities. with responsibility for Mechanics Teams, Metal Fabrication, Working on projects 11,000 kms and seven hours away is very Pipe Work, Naval Armament and SSMA (Security, Health and complicated, I would say impossible. One cannot try to do a job Environment). In July 2005 he transferred to SENER Mexico from Spain for Mexico or Central America. We should be here. as Country Manager, a post he has maintained until the end Our desire is to carry out engineering work in Mexico, by Mexicans of 2007. and for Mexicans. That is why we need support at III. Everything [ INTERVIEW]

functions well thanks to the combination of SENER's experience Globalvia; financial entities such as Banesto, BBVA, Santander and the technical capabilities of III and its closeness to the market, and Goldman Sachs, as well as city halls and states that are that is the clients. Also, from a commercial point of view, III opens interested in developing their infrastructure. many doors for us. We can reach clients that they have known for years. At the same time, the good name and work of SENER Q: What project stands out among all those carried out by in Europe and Argentina means that our regular clients come SENER since the start of the Mexican Division and why? looking for us in Mexico. A: Two really stand out, the combined cycle power plant Norte We aim to use this beneficial collaboration to improve our in the energy sector and Guadalajara airport in the civil sector, technical capabilities. Both SENER and III have learnt much because each of them represented the coming of age of from our joint work and we still have much to learn, given SENER in Mexico. that we face a promising challenge; we want to grow from After working on the combined cycle power plant Termozulia the 400,000 hours contracted in 2008 to more than 500,000 II for Venezuela, where we collaborated with III in developing hours for 2009 while maintaining the quality that clients recognise in us. the engineering, the EPC Project Norte confirmed our presence in Mexico. At the end of October we began to work on the Q: Who are SENER's power station in association with Cobra. This project represents Our principal clients in Mexico? an important landmark for SENER and the start of a road that prospects for A: A major part of the we hope will bring us much success. The professional team power and process sector at both III, headed by Roberto Vidrio, and SENERMEX, led by the future are revolves around the three Mauro Herrerías, and obviously SENER, where Juan Ivorra is big sate-backed Mexican the Project Director, are doing a really good job. ambitious, companies: the Comisión As for the expansion of the domestic and international terminals because it is Federal de Electricidad at Guadalajara-Jalisco Airport for Grupo Aeroportuario Pacífico (CFE), Luz y Fuerza del (GAP), this has been the equivalent, in the civil sector, of Norte at the start of Centro and PEMEX. For in the energy sector. It is a project that has made us sweat at example, at the moment we times, especially its Director, Gorka González Iraeta, but the the road when are bidding for a final result was excellent: the client was satisfied with the work regasification plant at done and we have learnt much about Mexico. you have to Manzanillo and the Aguaprieta power station Q: What is the future outlook for SENER Division in 09 set out you for CFE, and an ethylene Mexico? plant for PEMEX. We can major A: I would define it as ambitious and promising. Promising work directly for them or because this country is making giant strides forward, facing up objectives indirectly, that is to say working for operating to important reforms that are translating into infrastructure companies. investment programs; and ambitious in that it is at the start of The last one is the case with the Norte combined cycle power the road when you have to set out your major objectives. station in the Mexican city of Durango. The operator UNIÓN Of the 230 people who currently make up the staff at III and FENOSA has won a contract to supply electricity in Durango SENERMEX, we hope to surpass 300 at the end of 2008 for 25 years, which incluyes the construction of the new and reach 400 at the of 2009. On top of this growth there 450MW Norte power station. In this way, SENER is working is also the development of the Civil Engineering and with Cobra, on the EPC contract for the construction of the Architecture area. complete plant for UNIÓN FENOSA. Similar projects have As it is, we want to have a stronger presence in EPC projects. been carried with other Spanish companies working in Mexico, At the moment, we are offering a 500MW combined cycle plant, such as Repsol. another of 120MW, a regasification and a petrochemical plant. As well as the state-backed companies, there are several large We believe this is the route that we have to go down. private companies in the mining and metallurgy sector, like Ausenco, Peñoles, Mittal; private investment companies in Q: Is SENER Mexico a gateway to the US market? electricity generation such as GENERMEX and Globeleq; A: We are absolutely convinced of this. To give you some data: regional governments looking for incineration plants for residual Mexico shares some 3,000km of frontier with the USA, urban waste and large foreign companies. engineering costs in the United States have risen around 30% In the Civil and Architecture sectors, the spread is much wider. in the last three years and these days we are capable of Many infrastructure contracts are carried out by the Transport preparing engineering in Mexico at half the price of what it and Communications Secretariat (SCT), but there are other costs in the USA. potencial clients, from big airport operators like OMA, ASUR The US is the principal sales market for Mexican products and GAP, for whom we have already carried out a couple of and we believe that there is still plenty of potential to exploit. projects, to the Metro in México; the suburban system in We are in contact with US companies in the areas of Mexico City (owned by CAF); railstock companies such as construction, the generation of energy, refining and Bombardier, CAF, Siemens and Alstom; construction companies petrochemicals. We are sure that these contacts will start to like ICA, OHL, ACCIONA, Isolux Corsan, Grupo ACS and flourish soon. [ TRIBUNE]

A current perspective of Railways in Spain Luis de Santiago Pérez Managing Director of Railways

without the use of the Metro or suburban services that combine a fast and high capacity service with a high level of dependability. And in the inter-city sector, the arrival of high-speed trains has given back a lead role to the railways, transforming them into a competitive means of transport when compared with either road or air traffic. In Spain, the launch of the new Madrid-Seville High Speed Line in 1992 marked a radical change in the public's perception of railways and is the factor that unfolded the process of modernizing a rail network that had barely seen improvement since being built in the 19th Century. In this way, the Madrid-Seville line led to the upgrading to high- speed standards of the Mediterranean Corridor and various stretches of the Madrid-Valence 1992 marked line before, in January 1996, a radical change construction work began on the new line from Madrid via Barcelona in the public's to the French frontier. This was perception of followed by the Guadarrama variant, the Cordoba-Malaga line, railways and is Pajares, and a long list of other projects that in many cases had the factor that previously passed from plan to plan unfolded the without ever being executed. The current framework for railway process of The railways of today have an important role in transport policy, planning is the Strategic Plan for with significant investments being carried out in infrastructure Infrastructure and Transport modernizing a and profound changes being made in the way they are run. (PEIT), approved by the rail network A variety of factors such as congestion on the roads and Government on 15 July 2005. benefits for the environment have contributed to this. But, Although it is an intermodal plan, without doubt, these changes would not have been possible the railways play a very influential part, given that they represent if not for the appearance of new types of highly competitive nearly 50% of the proposed investment. rail transport, such as suburban and high speed train services. Within the plan, what is specially relevant is what is known as In the large urban areas mobility would be difficult these days the high capability network, which connects all the provincial [ TRIBUNE]

capitals and main centers of population in the country with Sector came into effect. Based on European Union directives, very competitive journey times. Apart from the radial lines that this legislation defined a new model of organization that have traditionally characterized the Spanish network, the PEIT separates the administration of the infrastructure from the also incorporates transversal lines such as the Mediterranean provision of services. Corridor, the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor and the Atlantic The introduction of the law required a major overhaul in axis in the Galicia region. regulations that is now virtually finished following the approval 11 At present we have in service approximately 1,500km of of seven Royal Decrees, eight Ministerial Orders and other high-speed lines of which some 1,200km correspond to new lesser measures. In the near future, the organization chart for lines using the international gauge. Soon to be incorporated the new system will be completed when the Agency for Land to the network are the Tarragona-Barcelona and Antequera- Transport Security assumes all the functions relating to safety. Malaga sectors that will complete the Madrid-Barcelona and In the case of freight traffic, the market has already been Cordoba-Malaga lines, as well as the new Madrid-Valladolid opened up to other operators, removing the monopoly that line, a key piece in revitalizing the railways in the whole of the the old RENFE used to have. This north and northwest of peninsular Spain. move is aimed at stimulating the Nearly 2,000km of line are currently under construction sector and increasing the railways' At present we including, among others, Madrid-Levante, Barcelona-French market share in the transportation have in service frontier, the Mediterranean Corridor, the Atlantic axis in Gallicia, of goods. Pajares, Seville-Cadiz, Bobadilla-Granada, Madrid-Galicia and The opening up of the market can be approximately Madrid-Extremadura, construction of which has just started. said to be fully effective since last 15 Another 1,000km plus of other lines are at the project stage. February, when the first private 1,500km of The above figures give a clear idea of the effort being made company began operating. high-speed lines in this country to improve railway infrastructure and the Ministry It is expected that these measures, of Development's budgets are a faithful reflection of this, of along with others that are scheduled of which some how the railways are the means of transport that concentrate in the areas of infrastructure and 1,200km the highest level of investment. Within the Ministry, the organization, will also help revitalize investments are managed by various government agencies: the transport of goods by rail, just as correspond to the Directorate General of Railways, the Administrator of Railway happened with the suburban and high Infrastructure (ADIF) and the State Society for Land Transport speed services. new lines using Infrastructure (SEITT), which invest in infrastructures; RENFE- Most definitely, the railways are the international Operadora, which invests in services; and FEVE (the narrow currently going through a period of gauge railway in northern Spain), which covers both profound transition with a strong gauge infrastructure and services. social demand for new infrastructure Running in parallel with this significant effort in investments, and significant public investment. It is and will be, without the railways are also undergoing a profound transition in their doubt, vital that all companies in the construction and consulting structure. On 1 January 2005 a new Law for the Railway sectors play an active part in this process. [ UP - TO - DATE COPORATE]

III SENER Sporting Weekend The value of teamwork

Between 8 and 10 June Bilbao was host city to SENER's III Askartza Claret Sports Center was the venue for the finals in Sporting Weekend. The leagues for different sports that are basketball, fronton-tennis, paddle tennis, indoor football and played throughout the year between teams from SENER offices racquets as the morning progressed. In the afternoon, the Bilbao in Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valence celebrated their finals offices staged the finals for the chess and ‘mus’ (Spanish card at this annual event that stimulates not only sports but also game) competitions. personal relations. Little by little, the winners were announced for each of the Organized by the Personnel Office, the activities program began competitions, and once the sporting activities were over the following the arrival of members of the teams from Madrid, trophies were presented at a cocktail party held in the Manu Barcelona and Valence, along with their companions, on the Sendagorta hall at the Bilbao offices. There was a magnificent afternoon of Friday 7 June. The next day on the quayside at Las ambience throughout the weekend and from the pages of this Arenas, alongside our offices in Bilbao, the weekend started magazine we would like to congratulate all the participants for with the male and female athletics events. Afterwards, the their team spirit and their will to do better.

On the quay at Las Arenas, where the men's and women's athletics competitions were held.

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Julián Rodrigo, Director of Personnel, giving the starting signal. All the athletes just before the start of the competition.

Juan José de la Torre, from SENER Barcelona, winner of the men's Silvia Martín, from SENER Bilbao, winner of the women's athletics athletics event. event. [ UP - TO - DATE CORPORATE]

The basketball, fronton-tennis, paddle tennis, indoor football and racquets competitions were held at the Askartza Claret Sports Center.

The SENER Barcelona basketball team. The SENER Bilbao basketball team.

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The SENER Madrid basketball team. The Game played between SENER Bilbao and SENER Madrid, competition runners-up and champions respectively.

Álvaro Relaño, left, and Daniel Bugeda, right, The Bilbao team was José Antonio Galletero, The Barcelona fronton-tennis team was Javier members of the Madrid fronton-tennis team, left, and Jon Escolar, right. They won the Molinero, left, and Edgar Calderón, right. runners-up in the men's competition. men's tournament. [ UP - TO - DATE COPORATE]

The runners-up in paddle tennis, José Luis Paddle tennis champions Alberto Melero on The SENER Barcelona team was Sergio Díaz, Anzola, left, and Alejandro Flor, right, from the left, and Arturo Olivé, from SENER left, and Juan David Gómez, right. SENER Bilbao during the game. Madrid, pictured during the game.

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The SENER Bilbao indoor football team, winners of the competition. The SENER Valence indoor football team, runners-up of the competition.

The racquets champions, Jon Zabala, left and The four finalists during the racquets game. The runners-up in racquets, Salvador Llorente, Eduardo Urgoiti, right, from SENER Bilbao. left, and Álvaro Relaño, right, from SENER Madrid. [ UP - TO - DATE CORPORATE]

In the Lertegui I block of the Bilbao offices, the chess and mus finals were played.

Ramón Domínguez left, from SENER Bilbao, the runner-up, and the From left to right, Alejandro Montilla, Carmelo Achalandabaso, champion, Sergio Caballero, from SENER Madrid Bárbara Piaya and Daniel Balart, finalist of the mus competition.

The trophies were presented at a cocktail party in the Blue Room and the hall of the Lertegui I building in Bilbao

Two images of Sergio Caballero, from SENER Madrid, the chess champion, and Ramón Domínguez, from SENER Bilbao, the runner-up. 15

José Luis Herrero, third from the left, from On the left, José Luis Anzola, Financial Director Juan José de la Torre, left, from SENER SENER Madrid, receives the third place trophy of SENER, presents the runner-up trophy in Barcelona, receives the trophy as winner of for athletics. athletics to José Antonio Lucas, right, from the athletics from José Luis Anzola. SENER Barcelona.

Mercedes Ruiz raises the cup for third place Carolina Cazorla, left, from SENER Madrid, was Silvia Martín, from Bilbao, was first in the in the women's athletics. runner-up in the athletics competition. The women's athletics competition. trophy was presented by José Miguel Hoyos, Director of the Industrial División in Madrid. [ UP - TO - DATE COPORATE]

In the center of the picture, Ramón González, captain of the Bilbao Tomás García, captain of the Madrid basketball team, receives the basketball team, collects the runners-up cup . champion's trophy. He is accompanied by José Miguel Hoyos, on the left, and José Luis Anzola, on the right.

Álvaro Relaño, left, and Daniel Bugeda, right, Jon Escolar, on the left, from SENER Bilbao, Carolina Cazorla, left, and Mercedes Ruiz, of the Madrid team receive their cups as collects the prizes for him and his teammate right, the Madrid fronton-tennis team, collect 16 runners-up from José Miguel Hoyos. José Antonio Galletero as the men's fronton- their winners' trophy. In the center is José Luis tennis champions accompanied by Hoyos. Anzola.

In the center Ignacio Sabater collects the indoor football team trophy Gabriel Míguelez, left, from the Bilbao indoor football team, collects on behalf of Valencia who finished runners-up. He is pictured with the winners' trophy. With him is José Miguel Hoyos. José Miguel Hoyos and José Luis Anzola.

Bárbara Piaya, left, and Alejandro Montilla, third from the left, from Carmelo Achalandabaso, in the center, the mus champion, receives SENER Madrid, receive the runners-up trophy in the mus tournament, the trophy and that of his partner Daniel Balart. On his right, José accompanied by José Miguel Hoyos and José Luis Anzola. Miguel Hoyos, and on his left, José Luis Anzola. [ UP - TO - DATE CORPORATE]

The runners-up in paddle tennis, Alejandro Flor, left, and José Luis Arturo Olivé, left, and Alberto Melero, third from the left, from SENER Anzola, right, from SENER Bilbao, receive their prize from José Miguel Madrid, the champions of the paddle tennis competition, are pictured Hoyos. with José Miguel Hoyos and José Luis Anzola.

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Salvador Llorente, left, and Álvaro Relaño, third from the left, from Jon Zabala, center, from SENER Bilbao, picks up his trophy and that SENER Madrid, with their trophies as runners-up in the racquets of his partner Eduardo Urgoiti as racquets champions. They are final. With them are José Miguel Hoyos, José Luis Anzola, Iratxe flanked by José Miguel Hoyos and José Luis Anzola. Angulo and Julián Rodrigo.

During the cocktail celebration at the Bilbao offices. [ UP - TO - DATE COPORATE]

Prizes for Innovation 2007

SENER's Prizes for Innovation 2007 have all gone to one single aircraft - their structural design takes full advantage of the project: 'Solutions for the manufacture in series of structural openings offered by carbon fiber instead of the usual pieces of composite materials'. carbonization of the structures - and in the production process, The five winners are the engineers Moisés Rustullet, Jorge by developing new systems of automatization, that allow the Peña, Víctor Morell, David Justo and Francesc Massabé. manufacture in series of carbon fiber aeronautical parts, with All of them received the award from the Managing Director the consequent reduction in costs and advantages in the of SENER, Jorge Unda, at a presentation ceremony held certification of the processes. in the Lertegui gardens (Bilbao) on 12 July prior to the In incorporating these innovations, SENER has made its party that celebrates the patron saint of SENER, ‘La Virgen carbon fiber shaping system highly competitive from a del Carmen’. technological point of view, for its design, reliability and The prize recognizes the innovations made by the team in efficiency, as has been recognized by the sector. The the shaping system for carbon fiber, specifically in the development of these processes has put SENER in the processes of hot drape forming and pultrusion. Both processes vanguard of global technology in composite materials, for introduce improvements in the design of components for which it merits the Prizes for Innovation 2007.

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From left to right: Santiago Bannatyne, Francesc Massabé, David Justo, Jorge Unda, Moisés Rustullet, Jorge Peña, Ricardo Martín and Víctor Morell at the Prizes for Innovation 2007.

New organization for the Purchasing, Construction and Start Up Division at SENER

A reorganization has been carried out of the Purchasing, NEW STRUCTURE OF THE DIVISION Construction and Start Up Division at SENER, which includes two new executives: José Manuel Marín has been designated Chief of Purchasing Chief of Power and Process Operations, making him Jesús Pena responsible for putting into practice all the proceedings Chief of Energy and Processing Operations necessary for the Strategic Business Unit for Power and José Manuel Marín Process to face up to future challenges. A long serving member of company staff, José Manuel Marín, was previously Section Chief of Construction Cesáreo Quevedo, zone representative of SENER Bilbao Chief for Purchasing and Construction for the Division in Madrid and, before that, Chief of the same section for the Chief of Construction Industrial and Marine Division. José Manuel Mercado, zone representative of SENER Valence The other new appointment is Luis López Sánchez, previously Chief of Construction in charge of building activity at the Strategic Business Unit Gillem Ráfales, zone representative of SENER Barcelona for Architecture and Civil Engineering in Madrid, who now becomes Chief of the Construction Section of this Division Chief of Construction in Madrid. Luis López, zone representative of SENER Madrid [ UP - TO - DATE CORPORATE]

Andrés Sendagorta, Santiago Terol, new Chief of new President of AFARMADE Quality, Environment and Safety at SENER Last September the Vicepresi- dent of SENER, Santiago Te- Andrés Senda- rol has been gorta, was named Chief elected by the of Quality, board of direc- Environment tors of AFAR- and Safety at MADE (the SENER, ta- Spanish Aso- king over ciation of Ma- from Pedro nufacturers of María Muga- Defense and rra. He will Security Arma- combine this ments and Ma- new job with Santiago Terol. teriel) to be his current President of the role as Chief of the Quality Section (BK), which makes him body for a pe- responsible for quality in Madrid. Andrés Sendagorta. riod of two Pedro María Mugarra remains Chief of the Quality Section for years. Mr. Sen- the Bilbao Division (TK) and, thanks to his years of experience, dagorta took over the post from Francisco Fernández Sáinz, will continue to collaborate in managing the quality system as the former President of EADS-CASA. it goes through the process of internationalization.

The SENER Foundation is also present in social projects 19 It will collaborate in the NIDO Foundation

The SENER Foundation has started a collaboration project Foundation's Trust, it has been decided to extend the with the NIDO Foundation. Established in July 1996, the grants programme for engineering students both in the NIDO Foundation is dedicated to helping people with countries that have recently joined the European Union, physical, psychic and sensorial disabilities, amongst which mainly from Eastern Europe, and from other non European are people with profound brain paralysis, with the aim of Union countries with a recognised technical level. In this collaborating in their maximum development. The SENER way, amongst the new countries proposed for being included Foundation's project will try to increase the quality of life in the SENER Foundation's grants programme are Slovakia, of profound cerebral paralytics improving the equipment Ukraine, etc. and material used by them in their daily life, especially for moving around, such as wheelchairs. The SENER Foundation can provide SENER's experience, as an engineering company, in the application of materials, fatigue analysis, development of simple structures and mechanisms, etc. In short, it can offer its technological knowledge to this collective, which has a lack of research and development of the supporting equipments, as it is made up by a small percentage of the population and therefore generates a small market for those necessary equipments. For the development of this project, the SENER Foundation has decided to mobilise both internal agents, regardless of the high volume of work the company has at present, and external agents, as SENER's retired engineers who use their free time to help different social organisations and NGO. Thus, the Foundation hopes that the collaboration with NIDO will start as soon as possible. On the other hand, in the last meeting of the SENER SENER Foundation meeting in Madrid, on May 2007. [ UP - TO - DATE SPACE]

SENER takes part in the SMART-OLEV mission with the Orbital Satellite Services Limited (OSSL) Consortium

SENER's part in the project centers on the development of the complete Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) system, including the functions of the AOCS (Attitude and Orbital Control Subsystem) of the SMART- OLEV, along with mission analysis, the cold gas propulsion system, and the test beds for the entire system. The main characteristics of the GNC are the use of electric propulsion to pass from Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) to Geoestationary Orbit (GEO). Once this is achieved, approach and docking movements take place between the SMART-OLEV craft and the customer satellite, as well as the control of the two crafts until the end 20 of the mission, which also involves its transfer to a SMAT-OLEV vehicle in Space. 'graveyard' orbit. The SMART-OLEV vehicle will Orbital Satellite Services Limited (OSSL), whose principal stakeholders be controlled before and during the docking maneuvers from an are SSC (the Swedish Space Corporation), Germany's Kayser- Operational Control Center (OCC). Afterwards, control of the SMART- Threde GmbH and Spain's SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A, have OLEV can be transferred to the OCC if the client desires. The set out to design and develop the Orbit Life Extension Vehicle SMART-OLEV is designed for operations lasting up to 12 years, (OLEV) system, including the ground segment and operations, with either close to the geostationary orbit or inside it, depending on the the objective of extending the useful life of high value geostationary characteristics of the mission in question. commercial satellites. The program is based on previous design In addition to standard operations, SMART-OLEV can carry out work carried out for the SMART-1 platform and has the support of other services such as up to five coupling and uncoupling maneuvers national and international space agencies such as the European between one customer satellite and another; repositioning a satellite Space Agency (ESA). in a geostationary orbit, a relatively low cost maneuver; cutting out At present the average lifespan of the orbital inclination of a satellite; the turning of orbital nodes when a telecommunications satellite in a satellite is in an inclined orbit, and its eventual 'storage' in orbit SENER's part in a geostationary orbit is estimated while awaiting new applications. to be between 12 and 15 years. Once the on board software begins to function, the GNC enters a the project centers on The satellites stop working usually safe mode that guarantees the complete sequence of the start up because of the loss of fuel after operations. A prototype mission for SMART-OLEV can consist of the development of such a lengthy period of time rather the following five phases: Launch & Early Orbit Phase (LEOP), than their ability to keep operating. which lasts around two to three days; Orbit Transfer, the phase the complete Once left without propulsion, they in which all the systems are tested and when contact with the Earth are no longer able to maintain their tracking station is daily during the aproximately 150 days it takes. Guidance, Navigation original orbital slot. During this period the electric boosters will function, optimizing the To solve this problem, the SMART- trajectory to ensure the SMART-OLEV reaches its geostationary and Control (GNC) OLEV vehicle, an advanced orbit. Rendezvous and Docking (RVD) is the key period and the development of the earlier CX- start of actual service for the client. The rendezvous strategy is system OLEV, will be able from 2010 to designed in such a way that the customer does not have to interrupt link up with a geostationary satellite transmissions during the approach maneuvers. In fourth place is that is running short of fuel, helping to extend its working life by the Nominal Operations phase, the moment when control is taking over the orbiting and positioning controls as well as being assumed over the client satellite in its assigned orbital space, where able to provide other fleet management services that the satellite it will remain for at least ten years, depending on the characteristics operator may require. of the client satellite. Lastly, the End-of-Life (EOL) phase involves [ UP - TO - DATE SPACE]

and gyroscopes. Two long-range cameras will be incorporated for the RVD maneuver, with a range from two kilometers to 100m, and two mid- range cameras to cover distances between 100m and 5m. SMART-OLEV external layout. transferring The payload for the approach and docking phases of the the client satellite to a SMART-OLEV will include the retrieval mechanism as well graveyard orbit where the as those for deployment and retraction, the support decoupling process takes place. At this time, mechanisms for the client satellite, an objective illumination SMART-OLEV will be ready to start a new RVD phase with system, a system of cameras for covering the complete another client satellite if it still has enough fuel to do so. process of approach and docking and the associated The RVD phase can take several days and take place in any electrical sub systems. place within the geostationary orbit, but not at every hour of To sum it up, SMART-OLEV is set to become the first operative the day as it relies on solar illumination. Once SMART-OLEV is space service system in orbit, without any competition in the two kilometers from the client satellite, onboard cameras will market. Among the main characteristics of the system now guide the craft through a series of control points until it reaches under development at SENER, those that stand out are on five meters from the client satellite. The orders, references to one hand the use of electrical propulsion in the transfer phase, follow and the real time telemetry will be managed from the which with appropriate mission planning minimizes the OCC and the earth tracking station with the data images received consumption of fuel at the same time as reducing the risk of from the onboard cameras. From this position, docking begins, collision with other space craft. The approach phase is based in such a way that once the coupling mechanism meets the on relative navigation using cameras. And the docking nozzle of the motor, the laser sensor and the inductive sensors maneuver will be supported from Earth with elements are activated, guiding the way and ensuring a satisfactory specifically developed for this application. This means that in 21 docking. The docking cameras provide fixed onboard shots of the combined phase it will be the SMART-OLEV that assumes the nozzle from the motor of the client satellite into which the control of the client satellite, guaranteeing that the operation coupling mechanism on the SMART-OLEV has to be introduced. is carried out safely. Once the docking mechanism is inside the nozzle and on its The program is scheduled to enter the C/D phase in 2008 and way to the throat, or point where it narrows, the laser sensors for the craft to be ready to carry out the first docking in space start to back up the cameras, avoiding the delay associated in 2011, with a launch date at the end of 2010. with the processing of images from earth of camera shots, thus helping gain in precision and control. When the two craft are inter- connected, the combined phase begins in which the SMART-OLEV takes over the attitude and orbital control systems of the client satellite, including the functions for control and carrying out orbital maintenance maneuvers. The electrical propulsion, thanks to the relatively high impulse provided by the four boosters that are used to control the orbit and are located in pairs, enables significant energy savings to be made throughout the process. As for its structure, the SMART- OLEV consists of subsystems for communications, data management, AOCS, for which SENER is responsible, and power. The Attitude and Orbital Control System being developed by SENER will offer stabilized control through three precise axes, supported by reaction wheels, star trackers, sun sensors SMART-OLEV launching configuration. [ UP - TO - DATE SPACE]

EXOMARS mission to explore the Red Planet

SENER takes part in the EXOMARS scientific mission of the European shape, with a triangular baseplate and three deployable triangular Space Agency (ESA) to Mars, to be launched in 2013, which includes petals. The petals contribute to the structural integrity of the SES a Lander spacecraft that should reach the planet surface with a and its interface with the Backshell. Moreover, they behave as the Rover vehicle to explore it. The Rover has got a drill, which can get egress ramps for the Rover. samples of Martian soil or rock down to a depth of 2m, ability which On the other side, the SES for the vented configuration is shaped as is unique to EXOMARS. a hexagonal baseplate under which the vented airbags are SENER is responsible for the Landing Platform Support Structure accommodated, and it has deployable protection covers. The baseplate and Rover Egress System (SES), as well as for some equipments ensures the structural integrity of the SES and its interface with the of the Rover drill. Backshell. The covers are sized to protect during Mars landing the The SES includes the structure that houses and protects the Rover, installed equipment, and behave as the egress ramps for the Rover. the rest of the avionics and scientific equipment of the Descent In the Rover Drill SENER is responsible for the extension rods, which Module from Earth to Mars Landing, as well as the mechanisms allow the drill bit to reach the required 2m depth, the translation needed to allow the release and deployment of the structure and group used to move the carriage up and down inside the drill box the Rover egress. Two basic SES configurations are under study, to allow the drilling progress, and the positioner translation group, one for non vented airbags and another for vented airbags. The needed to position the drill box on the ground before drilling and SES for the non vented airbag configuration has a tetrahedron to remove it after.

22 SES for the non vented (left) and vented (right) airbags.

Spanish Earth Observation Satellite INGENIO Consolidation Study

SENER is one of the enterprises that are working in the definition dual configuration has two different instruments, one for the of future Spanish Earth Observation Satellite named INGENIO. panchromatic band with 30km swath width (Cassegrain Ritchey- Specifically, SENER participates in the Consolidation Study that will Chretien type), and other for the multispectral band with 60km give rise to the definitive INGENIO consolidated configuration, as swath width (refractive type). On the other side, the single the Earth observation instrument responsible. configuration has a unique instrument for both spectral bands The instrument will provide high resolution images of any location with 60km swath width for both (three mirror anastigmatic off- in two different spectral bands: panchromatic (black and white) with centred type). 2.5m resolution, and multispectral, with four channels (blue, green, Additionally, a third option has been added, which consists of two red and near-infrared) and 10m resolution. twin instruments, each for both bands, providing 30km swath width The coverage needs over national territory of the future users, each. Then a 60km swath width is achieved with them. regarding the time between INGENIO takes two successive images The final instrument selection, based on technical performances, of the same location for making a map, have given way to two cost optimization and risk control, will be taken shortly to complete potential alternative instrument configurations attending to the the Consolidation Study. After the choice is made, SENER will necessary swath width: a dual configuration and a single one. The analyse in more detail the design of the chosen alternative.

Single Instrument Configuration. Dual Instrument Configuration. Twin Instrument Configuration. [ UP - TO - DATE SPACE]

IBDM: International Berthing and Docking Mechanism Demonstration Mission

SENER has to start a study for the definition of a mission for the demonstration been developing of all IBDM functionalities, including all those technologies needed a docking me- for rendez-vous and docking operations in an extraterrestrial chanism appli- environment, e.g. rendez-vous sensors. cable to manned ESA has selected SENER to lead this study, where it is also spacecrafts assuming the respon- since late sibility of the Guidance eighties. Now, Navigation and Control this mechanism, subsystem. In this known as IBDM, study, as SENER's is proposed as a subcontractors, Ver- IBDM Demo Mission–Docking Phase. universal doc- haert (Belgium), Thales king and ber- Alenia Space (Italy), thing device for all future exploration missions, which will be developed Carlo Gavazzi (Italy) in an international environment as common endeavour between and GMV (Spain) are the main space agencies in the world. also involved. The fo- Although several of its functionalities can be tested and validated reseen date for the fi- through ground testing, some of then still requires of an in-orbit nalisation of this study validation. Therefore, the European Space Agency (ESA) has decided is the end 2007. IBDM–Soft Docking System. OPTOS picosatellite Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS)

23 Following the philosophy and design guidelines of the CubeSat and will provide support on the ADCS hardware procurement Standard, National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) to INTA. is developing a system of small satellites of 3kg of mass, in the frame of low cost and short development period programs, to provide an easy access to space. The OPTOS, as it's called, is a first picosatellite used as technological demonstrator and is to be launched at the end of 2008, for a one year mission. Within its platform systems, Courtesy of INTA it's necessary to include an Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) in order to optimize the power obtained by the solar panels, the thermal control and the operation of one of the experiments, a camera based on CMOS technology. SENER is responsible for that ADCS software development OPTOS picosatellite external configuration.

MoonTWINS and the inflatable module prototype (IMOD) Space mechanism and structures

SENER keeps a consolidated presence in the landing legs will have to be designed the field of mechanism and structures for in order to dissipate the landing energy Space, which has been reinforced recently but also to develop a soft rendez-vous with its participation in two very different contact. studies: the MoonTWINS mission and the Besides, SENER designs and manufactures IMOD prototype. the supporting metallic structure of an On the MoonTWINS mission SENER inflatable module prototype (IMOD) to be defines the mechanisms for two similar tested at the end of 2007. The interest of the vehicles that will be installed on the Moon technology is based in the possibility to obtain poles. Both vehicles will be injected Courtesy of Thales Alenia Space a reasonable large habitable volume for long together in the Moon orbit and, before time missions in orbital or planetary transfer their landing, they will be used for a rendez- applications, compatible with the usual vous demonstrations. This will imply that Inflatable module prototype (IMOD) launcher envelopes. [ UP - TO - DATE SPACE]

SENER's participation in space missions

October 1957 saw the launch of the Sputnik, a milestone now organisms in the space field, the European Space Research regarded as the beginning of the Space Age, which makes this Organisation (ESRO) and the European Space Vehicle Launcher year of 2007 the 50th anniversary. Just one year before that Development Organisation (ELDO). At this time SENER was already launch, in 1956, SENER was founded, a company that would working on the development of its first flight equipment for the soon shine as a pioneer in Spain in space projects. International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE) programme run by ESRO. Europe put its first satellite into orbit in May 1968, the Iris Since then, SENER has developed, built, tested and supplied a (ESRO-2). Two years earlier, SENER won the contract for the total of 159 sets of equipment for 31 different programmes, with planning, development and building of the exploratory rocket complete success in their performance in orbit or on mission. launch tower at Kiruna (Sweden), a definite landmark in the When you compare the histories of space travel and SENER, it history of Spanish engineering. For SENER, the tower at Kiruna is clear that the path taken by the company in the space sector marked the beginning of what has become non-stop activity has followed very closely the development of the Space Age. in the space sector. Putting it more precisely, SENER's presence in this field goes right In November 1974 came the launch of the first Spanish satellite, back to the beginning of European space activity and has continued the Intasat, and a year later the creation of the European Space uninterrupted to the present day. The company now stands out Agency (ESA), following the merger of the then two existing European as one of the leading Spanish companies in Space.

59 DEVELOPMENTS / DIFFERENT DESIGNS 95 MISSIONS IN OPERATION 128 LAUNCHINGS INTO SPACE 31 46 SATELLITES / SPACE 159 FLIGHT EQUIPMENT PROGRAMS INFRASTRUCTURES / VEHICLES SUPPLIED 33 IN FINALISED MISSIONES 24 31 WAITING TO BE LAUNCHED (In chronological order of launching into Space) - ISEE-2 - Control systems, satellite orbit and positioning, navigation

- HUBBLE

- ULYSSES - Electronic (mechanism control, pyrotechnics shooting, etc)

- EURECA

- Mini TEXUS 3 - Unfolding (articulations, arms, antenna, collapsible pipes, roll-up tapes, etc)

- HELIOS-1

- SOHO - Fixing devices (for launching, for fixing in orbit, help for astronauts, etc.)

- CLUSTER I

- MINISAT - Aiming mechanisms

- SPOT4

- Mini TEXUS 6 - Mechanisms for instruments (scanning, focusing, calibration, shuttering, etc.)

- XMM-Newton

- HISPASAT - Structural components (masks, screens, protection covers, systems and instrument enclosures, instrument precision benches, etc.) - TEXUS 38

- CLUSTER II - Other systems (thermal blinds, experiments, etc.) - ARTEMIS

- ENVISAT

- METEOSAT 2nd generation - INTEGRAL Situation: October 2007 - International Space Station (ISS)

- ROSETTA

- HELIOS-2

- XTAR-Eur

- SPAINSAT Summary of SENER's participation in Space

- TEXUS 43 It is a global and quantifying historical compilation of space activity, without entering into the characteristics of the equipment in the different programmes. - METOP It only reflects the units supplied for flight. Additional units have been produced - COLUMBUS and have often been delivered for the development of technologies, rating - HERSCHEL tests and other different purposes. Furthermore, SENER has participated and - PLANCK supplied equipments that were not for flight in many other programmes - SMOS-MIRAS (launching infrastructures, land support equipment, technological programmes, conceptual studies, etc.). - PLEIADES [ UP - TO - DATE AERONAUTIC AND VEHICLES]

Networked Multi-Robot Systems for the European Defence Agency

SENER will develop new technologies in the field of Networked vehicle systems with little human involvement can perform many Multi-Robot Systems (NMRS) within a consortium of European tasks more efficiently and robustly than individual robots. industrial partners under the envelope of the European Defence Agency (EDA). The NMRS project will develop autonomous multi-robot algorithms for performing cooperative tasks in military applications in an effort to increase the technological state -of-the-art to order to satisfy military needs. Typical uses for robotic systems include reconnaissance and surveillance missions, distributed localization and mapping and cooperative transport. The NMRS will provide simulation software for developing autonomous mobility techniques for autonomous vehicles in structured and unstructured environments, cooperative control systems and mobile sensor networks. The simulation environment and testbed must represent all levels of hardware and software components and show how their integration maximizes flexibility and expandability. Finally, the overall objective is to demonstrate how teams of cooperating multi- Networked Multi-Robot Systems

DEIMOS Project - Development and innovation in fuel cells of polymer membrane and solid oxide

In line with the R&D efforts initiated in 2002, SENER is currently taking In this project, SENER is currently working in two different areas: 25 part in the DEIMOS Project in the framework of CENIT program portable applications and aerospace applications. subsidised by the Center for Technological and Industrial Development The main activities that comprise the mobile applications project (CDTI) and in collaboration with a group of national companies. are system viability, supercondensers hybridizing, system model The project has three main objectives to reach in three different and bench testing. phases: in the short term, to increase the knowledge already In the aerospace applications project the main activities that acquired in fuel cells; in the middle term, to develop edge are being carried out are modelization of hydrogen reforming, technologies; and, in the long term, to create competitive fuel cells, design of auxiliary circuit models and development of the system which will help to devise products and services for new energy control laws. distribution systems. DEIMOS Project will complete the last phase on December 2010.

OPENAER: New Aircraft and Engine Configurations for the Future Aero-Transport System

The integrated project CENIT “OPENAER” (2007-2010), leaded by the control of the different turbo-machinery working parameters ITP (CDTI - INGENIO 2010), is in line with the environmental objectives with the aim to increase the performance. defined by the aeronautical industry. In this way, the main target is to allow the Spanish industry to be able to design new systems for the future turbo-engines, with a reduction of the 50% in the CO2 emissions and the 80% in the NOx emissions, as well as the noise reduction to the half. In order to get these objectives, 11 industrial companies and 15 technological centres are working in OPENAER, researching in new technologies that can give solutions for the new engine architectures, in order to maximize the efficiency and minimize the weight and noise, but assuring the mechanical integrity. SENER, in collaboration with the Bilbao College of Engineering of the Basque Country University, is leading the work package of development of advanced actuation systems that are able to improve OPENAER project. [ UP - TO - DATE POWER AND PROCESS]

Power stations at Manuel Belgrano and San Martín New power plants in Argentina

SENER has won the contract to carry out the development of Manuel Belgrano the system uses water drawn from refrigeration the basic project and the detailed engineering work for the towers, while at San Martín the water will be pumped directly Balance of Plant (BOP) for two combined cycle power stations from a nearby river. Also, the San Martín plant will have a quay in Argentina. The turnkey projects will be for two consortiums: for unloading liquid fuel from boats, in addition to unloading Siemens and Cotersa for the San Martín thermoelectric power facilities for trucks. station (TSM) and Siemens, Duro Felguera and Seasa for Manuel These differences, along with the separate specifications of two Belgrano (TMB). For the latter, SENER will also carry out different clients, will determine the two designs of the BOP, purchasing and tracking activities for the BOP teams. involving modifications to adjust each of them to the requirements Each combined cycle system is a 800MW power plant, using a of each project. As a result, SENER's work must be versatile 2x2x1 configuration and follows the Siemens standard SCC5- and cover all the variations that can occur in the design of a 4000F 2x1 (two gas turbines plus two recuperation boilers and combined cycle system. a steam turbine). Both cycles can be fed with natural gas from The biggest challenge will be carrying out the works within the the network or from diesel stored at the plant. This design involves scheduled timeframe, as the in operation date for the power the development of specific systems to reduce NOx emissions stations in 'open cycle' is scheduled for less than 15 months after in the waste fumes and the precise definition of the handling the start of the projects. SENER has set itself a very strict program systems for gas and liquid fuels. to comply with this objective. The provisional start up dates for Broadly speaking, the layout of the power stations is similar, as open cycle are March 2008 in the case of Manuel Belgrano and the power blocks (gas and steam turbines and recuperation June 2008 for San Martín. After these dates the cycles will be boilers) are regarded as sister projects, although they differ widely closed down with the entry in service of the recuperation boilers in the arrangement and definition of the BOP. The main difference and the steam turbine, at which point the power stations will begin is in the water-cooling system for cooling the condenser. At to function as combined cycle plants.

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San Martín thermoelectric power station aerial view, with gas turbines foundations. [ UP - TO - DATE POWER AND PROCESS]

Extresol solar heating plant a turnkey project in Extremadura

SENERtrough collector system, patented by SENER.

A consortium formed by Cobra and SENER is carrying out the EPC a key component in the field of solar technology. (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract on the first With the clear objective of reducing the costs of energy produced of a group of 50MWe solar heating plants with cylindrical parabolic by solar heated plants, the building consortium will install some 27 collectors located at Torre de Miguel Sesmero in Badajoz province, additional prototype equipment that will not affect the normal southwest Spain. functioning of Extresol and will be key in optimizing the output of The building consortium subcontracted all the engineering work to the future plants. SENER, which already has experience with the storage system and An inaugural ceremony was held at the Extresol site in July, which the power block at the Andasol 1 and Andasol 2 plants, as well as was attended by the President of the autonomous region and by with the collector system SENERtrough, patented by SENER, and representatives of both Cobra and SENER.

Norte combined cycle power plant in Mexico

Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), adjudged to the company UNIÓN FENOSA International (UFI) the contract of the new combined cycle power plant Norte, in Durango (Mexico), whose power will be around 460MWe. It is an Independent Power Producer (IPP) contract model for 25 years between CFE and UFI. UFI, as well, has contracted the consortium UTE CC Norte, formed by Cobra (75%) and SENER (25%), the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract for the plant construction. The gas and steam turbines and the steam generators have been bought directly by UFI to Siemens Power Generation (SPG). The consortium CC Norte has contracted SENER for all the engineering services, that will be developed jointly with the Mexican engineering company III, S.A. de C.V. The power plant includes two gas turbines, two heat recovery steam generators, one steam turbine, one air cooled condenser and all the required auxiliary systems. Additionally, the scope includes the main water pipe, that will be around 34km long, to feed with raw water the plant. The project has the objective date of January 2010 as the commercial operation day. CC Norte preliminary lay out. [ UP - TO - DATE POWER AND PROCESS]

Castor UGS Project at Vinaroz (Castellón)

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Off-shore facilities of the project.

Escal UGS, a subidiary of the Canadian group Eurogas, has How the plant works awarded the joint company CASGAS OFF-SHORE UTE, formed The normal operation of the plant is as follows: in a first phase the by SENER and Cobra, the contract for evaluating work on a NG is sent from the national network pipeline at a pressure between Natural Gas (NG) strategic storage plant that it is to be built 40 and 80bar for its storage, at a flow rate of 8 million Nm3 a day. at Vinaroz in the eastern Spanish province of Castellón. The The NG is then injected into the well at a designated pressure of plant will carry NG from the national gas supply network to an 240bars, which means that a system of compression is needed underground store located 21km off the coast, a 60m deep that allows it to pass from 40/80bars to 240bars. Gas centrifuge well situated 500m away from the old CASTOR1 well, which compressors are used in such a way that the first stage of has now been abandoned. From this strategic store, the NG compression for sending NG up to 110bars is carried out on-shore can be returned to the national network as required. and the second stage for injecting it into the well is handled from The installation involves two parts, an off-shore platform above the off-shore platform. The second phase involves the NG stored the storage well and an on-shore platform on an eight hectare in the well being sent back to the national grid at a flow rate of 25 site at Vinaroz. Both parts will be connected with a 30” million Nm3 per day. Before this happens the NG extracted from underwater pipeline that will run for 30km along the seabed. the well has to be treated at a Regulation and Measurement Station Along with this underwater pipeline there will be, if required, (RMS), as the gas in the underwater store is in contact with water an umbilical supply line for additional services such as a fibre and residual particles of crude that have to be eliminated. To do optic network to connect the control system for the on-shore this, the outgoing NG has to be separated from any traces of liquid, installations with the platform off-shore. This umbilical line will later has to have the water removed and finally any CO2 and SH2. also enable corrosion inhibition injections to be carried out on Once it has gone through this process, the gas can be pumped the underwater pipeline. back into the national gas grid. The projected storage capacities for the plant, both for the It is expected that the installation will not function continually, additional volume of gas used as a cushion in the petroleum alternating periods of eight months in which the NG is being interface and the volume of working gas, are one billion Nm3 pumped into the underwater storage with periods of four in working reserves, 0.90 billion Nm3 for the gas cushion and months when the NG is being returned to the national network. 1.93 billion Nm3 for the total volume in reserve. Under normal circumstances, the reserve will operate in addition to the The structure of the installations volume of working gas. In a case of emergency, the gas cushion As a whole, the off-shore platform will have a minimum of can also be withdrawn, although in this case it will be at a components both to reduce the risks associated with this lower level. type of installations and to optimise the costs. The platform [ UP - TO - DATE POWER AND PROCESS]

located on the off-shore platform and which at the on-shore site. Once the configuration is defined, the company can carry out the detailed engineering developments necessary for the FEED (Front End Engineering and Design) and OBE (Open Book Estimate) that will permit the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) evaluation of the described works to within ±15%. Also, SENER is carrying out the estimates for the on- shore installations. For its part, CASGAS OFF-SHORE UTE has appointed as a subcontractor Dragados Off-shore, which through Mustang (an engineering company specializing in off- shore work) is working on the detailed engineering Scheme of the Natural Gas (NG) strategic storage plant in Vinaroz (Castellon), in which both the developments needed to off-shore and the on-shore facilities are shown. evaluate the FEED for the off- shore part of the operations. will include only those treatment units for gas coming from In a second phase, once the technical and financial viability the well that are indispensable in guaranteeing that the of the project is confirmed, CASGAS OFF-SHORE UTE will 29 underwater pipeline is not affected by corrosion. This will offer ESCAL UGS, S.L. a turnkey solution that includes the mean the consideration of special designs for the pipeline engineering, supplies, construction and start-up of all the that would increase the costs. At the same time, the units installations described above. used will have to permit a reasonable placement of equipment The companies CASGAS and ESCAL are currently negotiating on the platform. Necessary equipment will include high- this turnkey contract with the aim of starting work by the pressure separators for liquids and the water and compressors end of 2007. for the second stage. Along with this processing equipment, the platform will be fitted with a heliport, an emergency shelter and auxiliary equipment that include compressors and emergency kit, as well as an auxiliary sub station and a back up control room. The rest of the units will be located at the on-shore site, including the RMS as the first stage in compression, those treatment units not assigned to the off-shore platform, the main electrical sub station and the principal control room. The equipment in this installation is expected to have a working life of about 25 years. It has to be designed to allow for 98% availability for when the stored NG is being sent back to the national grid.

SENER's tasks As a member of the CASGAS OFF-SHORE UTE joint company working for ESCAL UGS, S.L., during the first phase of the project SENER will offer technical assistance in defining the basic engineering and the configuration of the installations described above, which will determine what processing units will be On-shore plant preliminary layout developed by SENER. [ UP - TO - DATE POWER AND PROCESS]

Dessulfuration plant in Narcea Grupo III power plant

UNIÓN FENOSA Generación adjudged to COBRA - Hitachi Consortium the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract of a Fuel Gas Dessulfuration Plant to be installed in Narcea Grupo III, in order to comply with the environmental legislation about the sulphur content in the flue gas. Located in Tineo, in Asturias (Spain), Narcea Grupo III is operating since 1984, and it is a 364.1MWe power plant. Cobra has hired SENER to develop all the activities of basic and detail engineering of the project, the purchasing activities as well as the technical coordination with Hitachi and the general documentation management. The dessulfuration technology develops the following process: flue gas from electrostatic precipitator is boosted-up to a gas-gas heater, before the inlet of the absorber. The absorber is low pressure drop open spray tower type where the absorbent slurry (limestone) is

recirculated and SO2 and dust from the flue gas are captured into the slurry. Fine bubbles of oxidation air are injected into the absorber tank to improve the chemical process. From there, the gas enters the stack, to prevent condensations and to get a temperature to avoid the sulphur dew point. With this dessulfuration process the

SO2 is reduced by 95%. Gypsum slurry is extracted from the absorber to the gypsum dewatering system and then is transported to a dump. Almost all filtrate water from dewatering system is returned again to the process but a small amount is purged to the Waste Water Treatment Plan to be treated. Narcea Grupo III desulfuration plant.

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Liquid natural gas terminal in Maasvlakte Rotterdam, Holland

new Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal to be installed in Maasvlakte (Rotterdam, Holland). In this experienced group of companies from Spain, Italy and France, SENER will be responsible for the plant implementation management, in addition to all the basic and detailed engineering project activities. The terminal will initially we be made up of two 180,000m3 LNG tanks with an emission capacity of 8BCMA, to which two tanks of the same size and an emission of 16BCMA will be subsequently added. As regards the dock, the terminal will have a jetty for LNG ships of up to 267,000m3, to which a second jetty will be added at a later date. Royal Vopak and NV Nederlandse New terminal of Maasvlakte in Rotterdam, Holland. Gasunie, Gate Terminal B.V. shareholders, hope to be in the Gate Terminal has chosen the consortium made up by SENER, position to make a final decision on the necessary investment Techint, Entrepose and Vinci as the main contractor to carry out for the construction of the liquid natural gas terminal in the the engineering, purchasing and construction activities of the coming months. [ UP - TO - DATE CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURE]

A1 highway in Poland SENER to carry out the engineering work on a stretch

The consortium formed by SENER and Polish company TRAKT has signed the contract for the preparation of the project to build, carry out environmental studies, and organize documentation and assistance for work on a 79km stretch of the A1 highway in Poland between Toruñ and Stryków. This section runs from the Czerniewice intersection to the frontier between Voivodías in Kujawsko- Pomorskie and Lódzkie. The time allotted for carrying out the work, which is budgeted at almost 9 million euros, is 18 months. SENER will handle the project from its country headquarters in Warsaw which were opened at the beginning of 2007, joining the group's other offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valence, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Mexico City and Okayama (Japan). Lope Seco, Director of SENER in Poland, said: “the signing of this contract represents the consolidation of our presence in the country, following earlier projects on the expansion of the Fryderyck Chopin airport at Warsaw-Okecie and the viability study for the construction of a new Airport for Central Poland.” Aerial view of the A1 section for the project.

Line 9 of the Barcelona Metro: Driverless CBTC

SENER is ca- cameras transmitting live images to the control point. rrying out the Also to be fitted will be telephony, internal phone and design and loudspeaker systems to guarantee communications between work manage- the controllers themselves and with passengers and the 31 ment for a new emergency services. These systems will be interlinked through automatic dri- two independent data networks, in such a way that most of ving system the voice, video and data traffic will converge in a single that is to be Internet Protocol (IP) platform. implemented on Line 9 will be one of the safest in Spain thanks to a system line 9 of the of train platform closures that will involve panels separating Barcelona Me- travelers from the rail line and with opening doors that tro. With a synchronize with those of the train. This closure system, length of 46km already in use in some European subways, offers other benefits and 50 stations, such as improving the acclimatization and soundproofing of the new line in the platforms. the capital of With stations in Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Prat Catalonia will be de Llobregat, Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramanet, the longest in line 9 of the city's Metro will link the airport, harbor, exhibition Europe and run grounds, industrial areas, dormitory towns and the city Controller closet for an area. trains capable center, and will carry an estimated 330,000 passengers of being ope- a day. rated without any staff on board. As well as the integrated management of the automation An automatic train control system (ATC - CBTC Communica- systems - the previously mentioned automated train control tions Based Train Control) will offer users greater levels of system and central control point, the systems for signaling, security, regularity and availability of service, as well as improved telecommunications, the receiver and traction sub stations flexibility when it comes to adapting to demand as trains will for distributing power and controlling the platform closure be automatically added or withdrawn in line with needs. system - SENER has been involved in several other projects The automatic system will have a Central Control Point (CCP) for the line that include the design of the basic working manned by qualified staff that will centralize all operations and project, producing specifications for presenting the project supervise the circulation of the trains. A second, emergency and carrying out the works, and planning reports on the control post, will take over control if there is a fault at the main construction of the line. one, guaranteeing the smooth running of the system. There will SENER is an expert in the development, design and be continuous communication between the PCC and the trains implementation of CBTC systems both in new lines and re- to adjust the intervals and timetables, while at the same time signing, for systems with driver or UTO (Unattended Train other telecommunications systems will keep travelers informed Operation). The company also offers specialised consultancy and control safety throughout the line. In this way, both trains for changing the Explotation Model, which entails the and stations on line 9 will be equipped with some 2,500 video application of this technology in metropolitan enterprises. [ UP - TO - DATE CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURE]

Engineering in High Speed Line Projects

SENER takes part in two main railway High Speed Line Projects in On the regions of Cantabria and the Mediterranean coast, the Spain, one connecting the regions of Madrid, Valence and Murcia, and Railway Directorate of Ministry of Promotion has assigned another one connecting the regions of Cantabria and the Mediterranean SENER the constructive project for the electrification of a High coast. On the regions of Madrid, Valence and Murcia, the Administrator Speed Line for a traction section between Saragossa and Teruel of Railway Infrastructure (ADIF) has assigned SENER the constructive of 120km long and double track. The work covers the analysis project of four High Speed Line 2x25kV traction substations, connected of the alternative possibilities for system electrification, designing to the 400kV network, as well as their Autotransformer Centres of and sizing the electric traction network using simulation methods 50/25kV and their integration in the energy remote control and the and the development of projects for traction substations, main Control Centre. The project covers the section between Montilla including endeavor to allow the HV supply, as well as an overhead de Palancar and Torrejón de Velasco, and includes construction works contact line and a remote control of the facilities from the main to engineer the designed substations and centres. Control Centre.

Integration of High Speed trains in big cities

The continuing growth of High Speed Line networks brings tasks of awareness campaigns and support for negotiations with it the need for adaptation between the requirements with neighborhood representatives). of these new lines and the different cities they pass through. The involvement of different authorities in this type of project Traditionally, railway stations have had a prime location in (City Councils, Regional Governments, Transport Consor- the center of cities, which makes tiums, Railway Administrations) accessibility easy. This aspect, means also having to manage which is of vital importance for rail many administrative aspects, as transport, means usually that new well as coordinating with the di- rail corridors are necessary to fferent Administrations. 32 carry the lines to the heart of a As a way of highlighting this, city, a move that is often compli- among the projects carried out cated by urban expansion. by SENER recently was the new Most of the big Spanish cities that access to the city of Valence will be served by high speed trains which involves the burying of have to adapt to new technolo- more than 2km of track before gical requirements that need to fit arriving at the new station, with in with existing systems, such as two underground levels each the different rail gauges, the type taking six tracks and the building of electrification and railway of a tunnel approximately 5km installations. long under the city. Others have Thanks to the experience accu- been the approach of the high mulated through numerous studies speed railway to Barcelona in and integration projects for high which the new line shares a co- speed trains in big cities, SENER rridor with the traditionally wider is able to guarantee that it can gauge conventional lines used in tackle successfully the many Spain and with lines 1 and 5 of difficulties that have to be faced the city's Metro system; the ac- and resolved when it comes to cess to Logroño station and to planning new high speed links in Abando (Bilbao). urban areas. In a similar way, SENER has un- The choice of tunneling as against Current rail corridor for entering Valence. dertaken many studies and pre- building surface lines creates liminary projects in which it has complications that affect not only the structural design but had to find a particular way of providing high speed access also the definition of the different phases of the project, to cities, among those that stand out being Albacete, that have to take into account with special care, for example, Castellón, Cuenca, Granada, Toledo, Murcia, Cartagena the maintaining of existing rail services. In cases where the and Vitoria. tunneling is carried out along the path of existing rail corri- In addition to those mentioned above, SENER has also been dors (as is the case with lines entering from the south to involved in other projects connected with the implantation Barcelona and Valencia) there is a need to resolve the of urban transport systems such as Metros and trams in effects, both temporary and permanent, on goods and cities and metropolitan areas such as Madrid, Barcelona, services at ground level; on accesses to homes, businesses Valence, Bilbao, Granada, Seville, Tenerife, Las Palmas, and other buildings; and diverse installations and infrastruc- Lisbon, Porto, Algiers, Oran, Santiago de Chile, Buenos ture, as well as associated social problems (that can include Aires, etc., where similar problems can occur. [ UP - TO - DATE CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURE]

FERRMED - Mediterranean Railway New feasibility study

SENER is part of the European consortium in charge of the study about the feasibility of the Great freight railway Axis Scandinavia- Rhine-Rhone-Western Mediterranean. Promoted by FERRMED and supported by the EU, French, German, English, Dutch and Italian companies will have to analyze in detail the main problematic in its development, as well as to define an accurate intervention plan. This project amplifies a first study, which was successfully developed two years ago, and where SENER participated among a group of Spanish and French consultants. The work will be over by mid 2008, and it will comprise three parts: the analysis of the offer and demand, the technical study, and the analysis of the social- economical feasibility. The budget is more than 2 million euros. Located in Brussels, FERRMED is a non- profit association with a multi-sectorial character that was initiated by the private sector in order to improve competitively by promoting the so-called FERREMD standards in the whole European Union and the Great freight railway Axis Scandinavia - Rhine - 33 Rhone - Western Mediterranean.

Alger network of public transport

This area needs the establishment of a network of public transport by train for the improvement of the quality of life of their citizens. This network, composed by underground, tramway and suburban train, is part of a coordinated action to habilitate the metropolitan territory. To improve the suburban train system, the Société Nationale des Transports Ferroviaires (SNTF) has made a public contest to select a society for the management of the line in awarding regime. Finally the consortium composed by SENER and other European companies and collaborators of great prestige, such as Banco de Santander, ITAC or NORTON ROSE, has been awarded with the project. The hired works take up the region extending from the capital centre, with Alger station as a set out station and El Harrach as bifurcation station, towards Thénia at the East (Alger- Thénia 53km) and towards El Affroun to the West (Alger-El Affroun 68km). Besides this project SENER has developed different works for the Argel network of public transport scheme. Alger network of public transport, including the expansion of the Line 1 of the underground, and also for another cities in Algeria, as SENER is part of the new society of railway services operation for Oran, where SENER is in charge of the construction works passengers in the Alger outskirts. management of the first tramway line. [ UP - TO - DATE CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURE]

Spain's A-67 highway between Santander and Torrelavega Increasing the capacity and constructing an extended branch

View of the point were the A-67 joins the A-8 Cantabria highway.

SENER is developing for the Spanish Directorate General of Roads, and Torrelavega, is currently under construction. This work will part of the Ministry of Development, an exploratory study on led to an increase of traffic on the joint section of the two expanding the current capacity and adding an extended section to highways, as it also coincides with a potentially difficult stretch the A-67 highway that links the Cantabria region with the Meseta that includes the tunnels of the Torrelavega by-pass. of central Spain, running from Santander to Torrelavega. The objectives of the study are to define the best alternative for 34 This section, some 20km in length, carries an average traffic increasing the capacity and security of the section, by building density of around 60,000 vehicles a day, suffering from steep a third lane in each direction and service roads, as well as sections and frequent jams. Add in the characteristics of a strict updating to the latest standards various elements such as design, typical of a first generation highway, makes it a high risk intersections and banked curves and recommending the best road for accidents. Also, near Torrelavega, the A-67 joins the solution to create a new extension to the A-67 near Torrelavega A-8 Cantabria highway, the last stretch of which, between Solares that will separate it from the A-8.

A-66 and A-8 highways from Oviedo to Gijón and Avilés Improving the integration and development of public transportation

The Directorate General of Roads at the Spanish Ministry of will probably mean the need to widen the existing stretches of Development has awarded SENER the technical assistance contract highway. At the same time, the study will look at resolving other to draw up an exploratory study on how to improve the integration problems that have been identified related to the surface, of the and development of public transport in the corridor formed by the road, height of overhead structures and drainage, etc. A-66 and A-8 highways between Oviedo, Gijón and Avilés. The three main cities in the Principado de Asturias region are linked by the Autovía de la Plata, the A-66, and the Cantábrico highway, A-8, that fan out in the shape of a Y. This road system has to handle considerable levels of traffic, with an average density of up to 80,000 vehicles a day near Oviedo. This situation has prompted the need to increase the capacity of the A-66 and the A-8 on the affected stretches that together measure 41km in length. The improvements are to be carried out in line with the sustainability criteria laid out in the government's Strategic Plan for Infrastructure and Transport 2005-2020, focusing on models of management that promote the use of public transport. The main goal of the study will be to analyze the different options for the implantation in the corridor of a lane exclusively for high occupation vehicles (buses, minibuses and also private vehicles with a minimum number of occupants). This could be either a permanent corridor or one that could be used at peak times, which A-66 and A-8 bifurcation, at Serín. [ UP - TO - DATE CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURE]

Modernization of fixed installations for electric traction on the mining line in the east of Algeria

SENER has won a new contract from the traction link between the phosphate mines Société Nationale des Transports Ferroviaires at Djebel Onk and the national fertilizer (SNTF), currently known as ANESRIF, in the company ASMIDAL, as well as connecting process of modernizing the fixed installations the iron mines with the steel complex at for electric traction on the mining line that El Hadjar, both of which are situated near runs in the east of Algeria. This follows the port of Annaba. Goods are the main renovations the group is already carrying traffic on these lines, representing 80% of out on the lines from Annaba to El Hadjar the total. and Bouchegouf to Souck Ahras. The work will consist on one hand of includes a pre-project study, a detailed defining the principles for equipping the project study and the compiling of a overhead power installations at 3,000VCC consulting dossier for the construction and the overall scheme for power feed, companies that will carry out the renovation as well as preparing the company that is of the overhead cable work and the contracted to carry out the work. On the 3,000VCC sub stations on the stretch of other hand, SENER will oversee the line as far as Tébessa, including the sections electrics side of the energy feed from Dréam to Bouchegouf, Souk Ahras- installations at 25KVCA and of the Tébessa, and Oued Kebrit-Ouenza (iron ore installation of the overhead power system mines) and Aïn Chenia-Boukhadra (also iron at the execution and installation stages. ore mines), covering a total length of 244km. Last of all, the company will train SNTF Also, the engineering company will carry Section from Annaba to Djebel Onk. personnel in different aspects of the studies out the same studies for the electrification of electrification, installation and at 1x25KVCA of the stretch between Tébessa and Djebel Onk maintenance of the power system. (phosphate mines) measuring around 116km. The contract for carrying out the work will be for 18 months, In all the study represents some 360km of overhead power starting from the signing of the contract by Algeria's Commission installations, the construction of which will permit an electric Nationale des Marchés. 35 First tranche of FARAC highways in Mexico Study for the bidding

As part of the privatization process begun by the Mexican SENER had the responsibility of evaluating the current state of Government, SENER has collaborated in a study for the bidding the roads as well as calculating the investment needed to bring on the first tranche of toll highways run by FARAC (Fideicomiso de them up to the standards demanded. The company also set out Apoyo al Rescate de Autopistas Concesionadas) presented by the guidelines for the maintenance operations during the Goldman Sachs & Co. One of the biggest investment groups in the concession period. world, Goldman Sachs was also joined in the study by ICA, the The work has been developed in conjunction with the Mexican biggest engineering, supplies and construction group in Mexico. engineering company RioBóo, with whom SENER is carrying out The package includes five toll highways in the Bajío Mexicano region other civil sector projects such as the expansion of the domestic and in the west of the country. and international terminals at Guadalajara airport, and the Metrobus Separately, a consortium formed by the same companies has won and Interchange Stations (CETRAM) at Buenavista in the federal the concession to construct, operate, run and maintain for 30 years district of Mexico City. the toll highways from Marivatio - Zapotlanejo, Guadalajara - Zapotlanejo - Lagos de Moreno and Aguas Calientes - Lagos de Moreno and León. With a total length of 558.05km, the roads cross the states of Michoacán, Jalisco, Guanajuato and Aguas Calientes. The consortium will also carry out various widening and improvement projects that the Secretariat of Communications and Transport has drawn up for these and other roads in the area. In total, that means 58km of widening and improving existing roads, 16km of new build roads, and 26km in widening a section of highway from two to three lanes in each direction. The project team was made up of Goldman Sachs & Co; ICA; Banco Santander Central Hispano, S.A.; SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A.; White & Case SC; Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP; MBIA Insurance Corporation; Boston Consulting Group; Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cia., S.C. and Steer Davies Gleave. One of the FARAC highways in Mexico. [ UP - TO - DATE CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURE]

Cambrils Yacht Club Improving the installations

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Port of Cambrils

The Yacht Club at Cambrils in northeast Spain has entrusted SENER on the economic viability of both the overall expansion and the with a series of projects aimed at improving its installations. At the technical area, in which the engineering company has analyzed the moment, with the space available on land and in sheltered waters, the profitability prospects of the installations that are proposed in the port can offer in the short term a limited improvement in the services plans and has put forward alternative ideas for improvements. On and capacity it has to offer. But in order to provide a better service to the other hand, SENER has been looking at the potential of concession its members, the Yacht Club plans in the medium to long term to create projects both in the technical area, where it has proposed what action a new 'sporting' dock that will increase the functional character of the should be taken by the Yacht Club, and of a new charter jetty that fishing basin and an area dedicated to a 'dry marina' for expanding would be used to group together all the boat rental activity in one technical services as well as remodeling the club's installations to specific corner of the port. SENER has also handled the demolition increase the number of moorings. of the harbor master building and quay that were in a poor state of To meet these objectives the Club has asked SENER to present a conservation. The investment needed for the execution of the projected series of studies and projects. On one hand, these include surveys works will reach the amount of 20 million euros. [ UP - TO - DATE MARINE]

Basic engineering and development of the Ferry Viking Line

SENER is responsible for the basic engineering and the development of the ferry RO-PAX of Viking Line that will be built in Seville's Shipyard. The vessel will be a modern trailer/passenger ferry for world wide operation on short international voyages, specially in the Baltic Sea area. The vessel will be designed for 1,500 passengers and also private cars, lorries, semi-trailers, Mafi-trailers and 40'/20' containers (one layer) on Mafi-trailers. It will have nine decks and its mains dimensions are 133m of length overall (hull), 123m of length between perpendiculars, 21.9m of moulded breadth, 8.1m of depth to the Main Deck, 13.7m of depth Ferry Viking Line. to the Deck 5, 5.7m of design draught and 5.9m of maximum draught (Scantling). It will be equipped with bulbous bow, two bow The propulsion machinery shall be located aft of the midships, consisting thrusters, underwater hull aft with a central skeg, twin rudders and of four geared diesel engines driving two shaft-lines, that shall be transom stern. equipped with controllable pitch propellers. The auxiliary machinery will Regarding the vessel's machinery, it will be a twin-screw motor ship. consist on three diesel generator sets and two shaft generators.

New FORAN licenses in ASMAR

Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Armada de Chile (ASMAR) of full occupation as regards new constructions in the shipyard. has formalised an important FORAN licence order for its ASMAR currently has in its portfolio or being built oceanic patrol Talcahuano shipyard. ASMAR's collaboration with SENER chips for the Chilean Navy (PZM project), a multifunction patrol goes back to July 1996, when it signed the first licence ship for the Government of Iceland's Coastguard Service (PMM transfer contract. Project) and seiner factory for the Hvalnes shipowner from The current order includes licences for the Structure, Armament, Faroe Islands (Faroe Project), all of them technogically advanced Electricity and Drawing disciplines and coincides with a period chips with a high added-value. 37 The Japanese corporation Sanoyas chooses the FORAN System

Japan's Hishino Meisho Corporation (Sanoyas) has signed a contract implementation by accumulating system improvements. Seeking a practical with SENER for the use of FORAN as its new shipbuilding 3D CAD system for Sanoyas actual operation, the challenge has only begun.” software. The first group of Sanoyas super-users started their advanced training Although Sanoyas have used 3D CAD developed by a major Japanese last June at SENER offices in Madrid. The implementation plan spans shipbuilder, they have been seeking their next shipbuilding system by a period of four years, between 2007 and 2010, during which period comparing the different systems available in the market, in order to a steadily growing number of seats and services will be supplied. SENER achieve further integration of design and production as well as efficient Okayama office will provide intensive local support when the system design with a core focus on a modern 3D CAD system. enters into real production at Mizushima Works and Shipyard. After an exhaustive study of the different systems through questionnaires, Using this new contract as a springboard, SENER will continue to put presentations, joint training courses and demonstrations, Sanoyas came all their effort into making FORAN the design and production system of to the conclusion that FORAN would be the most appropriate system. reference in the Japanese shipbuilding market. In the last stage of the selection process, experienced Ship Hull and Outfitting design engineers from Sanoyas analyzed the prospective system by conducting 3-week training and workshop at SENER offices in Madrid. The evaluation concluded with a full study of the support strategy for the System, which had to be fully adapted to Japanese shipyards, as well as a thorough technical assessment. The decision of Sanoyas to implement FORAN for Hull Structure and Outfitting disciplines after a comprehensive evaluation of the available tools in the market, marks a significant event for the Japanese shipbuilding sector. Upon signing the contract, Sanoyas Executive Director, Mr. Takafumi Itoh, confirmed: “we valued technical assessment in the system selection project, however, it is true that we were concerned about being the first [Japanese] user, especially in the ship hull system. We therefore confirmed SENER attitude towards Japanese market, especially in regard to the maintenance, we directly requested secured cooperation and got their Sanoyas Managing Director, Takafumi Itoh, and the General Manager promise. In the future, starting from setting up the super-user team and of SENER's Marine Strategic Business Unit, Luis García, signing the applying sequentially the system to new ships, we aim at a speedy purchase agreement in Madrid, on May 2007. [ UP - TO - DATE MARINE]

Aker Yards, the biggest shipbuilding group in Europe signs a global contract to regulate the use of FORAN in all its yards

In 2000, SENER and Aker Yards (AY) Following a long process of negotiation, signed a contract for the use of the which finished in July this year, SENER FORAN system in the group's five and AY reached an agreement on a global Norwegian shipyards: Tangen, contract to regulate the use of FORAN Langsten, Aukra, Soviknes and in all of the Norwegian group's shipyards. Brattwaag. Over the following years This includes licensing of the system as SENER signed other contracts with well as services such as installation, Kvaerner Masa Yards, Aker Tulcea, training of personnel, maintenance and Floro and Brevik, all companies that technical support. The signing had were to be absorbed by the AY group immediate effect at the group's Brazilian Aker Yards vessel. between 2004 and 2006. This rapid yard Aker Promar, which has already period of expansion in recent years has led to Aker Yards applied for licenses under the terms of the new agreement. becoming the leading shipbuilding group in Europe with 18 yards At present AY has the rights to use approximately 350 FORAN located in countries such as Finland, France, Germany, Norway, licences. But thanks to the new agreement there are strong Rumania, Ukraine, Brazil and Vietnam and a workforce of more possibilities that the system will be licensed to other companies in than 20,000 employees. the group based in Poland, Rumania and Ukraine.

Factoría Naval de Marín gets the FORAN System again

until conditions forced the company to cancel the maintenance 38 service in 2003. Now, recently acquired by the Daimon Naval group, FNM has re- emerged with the goal of becoming a market leader in boat building, by combining a vanguardist strategy with the profitability of more traditional business lines. Among its objectives is the construction of luxury boats and yachts. As a result FNM has signed a new contract with SENER for the installation of the v60 version of FORAN, which includes the re- activation of former licences and the installation of other new ones such as the armament sub system. Training for the future users of Factoría Naval de Marín shipyards vessel. the system was carried out in Marín in September and October. Once the training finished, one of the first projects on which FORAN The relationship between SENER and Factoría Naval de Marín was applied was the construction of the Ocean Cloud for German (FNM) goes back to 1993 when the Spanish boat builder signed shipping company Hansa. SENER's ship engineering section also up for the blocks and structures sub systems of FORAN. Over has an important role in the same project, as designer of the basic the next 10 years many projects were developed using FORAN, engineering package.

BAIP 2020: Polyvalent Automaton Vessel for Fishing

In July 2007 the Spanish Centre for Technological Industrial manufacturing, introduction, and exploitation technologies of vessels Development (CDTI) officially approved the BAIP2020 project, for future fishing. Polyvalent Automaton Vessel for Fishing, in the third announcement Of the six specific work packages making up the projects, SENER of the CENIT programme dedicated to the promotion of public- leads the package corresponding to 'Innovating Vessel Design and private cooperation in the strategic industrial research area. Construction Technologies', the technological content of which is The BAIP2020 project has a budget of 37.5 million euros, of which carried out in the FORAN System area. The Polytechnic University the CDTI contributes approximately 50% with a grant, for the period of Catalonia, the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the University of of four years. 21 companies and 28 research centres take part in Cadiz, Astilleros Murueta and Sisteplant are collaborating with this project, carrying out R&D activities in the design, development, SENER in this project. [ UP - TO - DATE MARINE]

New framework agreement with BAE Systems for the license to use FORAN System

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New British aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy.

SENER and BAE Systems PLC have just signed a new in each shipyard, as new engineers will enter in the detail design framework agreement for the licence to use the FORAN System of the new carriers. and associated services, which replaces the interim contract signed between BAE Systems Marine Limited and SENER on September 2006. BAE Systems will use the FORAN System as a strategic application to support and improve all ship and submarine design and fabrication processes in its main shipyards in Great Britain, BAE Submarines Solutions (Barrow-in-Furness - England) and BAE Surface Fleet Solutions (Scotstoun - Scotland). The FORAN implementation process in BAE Systems started in April 2006. At this moment there are about 200 FORAN licences installed in both shipyards. SENER has also sent four engineers of the FORAN Support Group to these shipyards to provide FORAN local maintenance in the areas of Hull Structure, Outfitting and Electrical design. FORAN will be applied initially to the design and fabrication of the two new 65,000 tonne British aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy that will be in service in 2014 and 2016 respectively. BAE intends to gradually increase the number of FORAN licences Scheme of the CVF. [ GROUP]

SENER reaches agreement with Brasquímica on the transfer of regeneration technology for used oil

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Brasquímica facilities for the regeneration of used vegetable oils. SENER Grupo de Ingeniería, S.A. has signed an agreement for the Under the terms of this new agreement, SENER has awarded transfer of technology for the regeneration of used vegetable oils Brasquímica the license for the use of its technology, guaranteeing with Brazilian company Brasquímica Lubrificantes Ltda. to supply the necessary know-how to modify its plant, improving Brasquímica has built a plant at Bahía (Brazil) with the capacity its operations and the quality of the base oils obtained in the to regenerate 16,000 tons a year of used oil by means of its own regeneration process. system of extraction with propane. This process is very similar to The technology for the regeneration of used oil by means of the one developed successfully since 2000 by SENER for the extraction with propane is protected by patents SENER has in 30,000t/a ECOLUBE plant at Fuenlabrada (Madrid). Yet, leading countries around the world, including in Europe, the Brasquímica had been unable to achieve either the output or the Americas and Asia. Recently SENER was awarded a new patent quality of product obtained by ECOLUBE. in the United States.

Waste treatment plants in Polán and Consuegra in Toledo

For several years now the SENER Grupo de Ingeniería, S.A. has with Abantia and has already been working successfully at the been promoting two animal waste treatment projects in Polán and TRACJUSA plant, which started up in 1960 and in that of VAG, Consuegra, both towns situated in the province of Toledo, each of S.L., operative since 2004, both of which are in the Juneda district which has the capacity to treat 100,000 tons of waste per annum of Lérida province. and has a linked 16MW co-generation unit. At the same time, the Inverduero Group will build an 80km long The recently published Spanish Royal Decree 661/07 permits the pipeline to supply gas to both installations. development of these projects, designed and built by SENER The cost of the two plants and pipeline will be about 80 million Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A., under Engineering, Purchasing and euros, representing a significant investment in the infrastructure for Construction (EPC) contracts with VALPUREN BAÑUELO S.L. animal breeding and electricity and natural gas energy supplies for (Polán) and VALPUREN COMATUR S.L. (Consuegra), both the rural areas of Toledo. subsidiaries of the SENER engineering group. The two plants and gas pipeline are scheduled to start working at The technology to be used in these plants was developed by SENER the beginning of 2009. [ GROUP]

Animal waste co-digestion technology at TRACJUSA contributes to controlling climate change

As several studies have shown, the traditional method of getting co-digestion with up to 10% of other waste products, it has been rid of animal waste by using it as fertilizer only serves to emit possible to step up the production of biogas by more than 50%. methane gas into the atmosphere and contribute further to the The experience of TRACJUSA in co-digestion has special greenhouse effect. To avoid these emissions, the waste should relevancy as the Spanish Government has recently approved be subjected to anaerobic co-digestion, a system by which the urgent measures in its strategy to combat climate change that methane is captured as a biogas that can be used as fuel, at include plans to stimulate the construction of plants for the the same time eliminating the typical stench of animal waste. anaerobic bio-digestion of animal waste. TRACJUSA, which has been treating waste by the anaerobic bio-digestion method since 2000 at its plants in Juneda (Lérida), has for several years been carrying out R+D programs with the University of Lérida and more recently with GIRO, the investigation center of the Catalonia regional government on co-digestion of pig waste with other agricultural waste products. Co-digestion enables an increase in the generation of biogas, an aspect that is crucial for the economic viability of the process, based on the sale of electrical energy generated specifically with this gas. By applying the results of these investigations at the industrial 41 installations of TRACJUSA, treating Bio-digestion facilities at TRACJUSA (Juneda) 100,000 tons of waste a year in

TERMESOL-50, S.A. A new project for generating solar electricity

power plant project using cylindrical parabolic collector technology. The TERMESOL plant will include a molten salt thermal store to ensure the manageability of electricy generation. SENER is one of the leaders worldwide in the development of solar power, which enables electricity to be produced by treating steam cycles with solar radiation. As well as developing the technology and providing services to other companies in the construction of plants, such as the ones at Andasol, in Guadix (Granada), SENER also has its own projects in this field. GEMASOLAR, a subsidiary of SENER, continues with its activities in promoting its pioneer project in the field of heliostats and molten salts receptors at Fuentes de Andalusia. The 17MWe project is already Detail of the Cylindrical Parabollic Collector with SENER’s structure. provisionally listed in the Spanish Register SENER Grupo de Ingeniería, S.A. has set up a wholly owned of Producers and is now in the process of being evaluated on company called TERMESOL-50, S.A. to develop a 50MW solar its environmental impact. [ IN BRIEF]

Le Bourget 2007 and DSEi 2007

The latest edition of the Paris Air Show, the biggest of the international aerospace fairs, was held at Le Bourget from June 18 to 24. As on previous occasions, SENER was present with its own stand within the Spanish pavilion of AFARMADE, sharing exhibition space with other Spanish companies. The SENER stand received a large number of visitors, including Spain's Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Joan Clos, and the Secretary of State for Defense, Soledad López. Professional visitors and members of the press showed interest in the projects being exhibited, among them the Planck satellite, the HR-EMA high- resolution electro-mechanical actuator and the Taurus KEPD 350 and IRIS-T missiles. The company also participated in the Defence Systems & Equipment International, DSEi 2007, fair that took place in London from September 11 to 14. The SENER stand exhibited a display panel illustrating its principal projects in the Defense Sector. SENER’s stand at Le Bourget 2007.

Chief of Staff of the Spanis Airforce (JEMA) visits SENER

General García de la Vega, Chief of Staff of the Spanish Air Force (JEMA), visited SENER's offices in Madrid in June. He was received by the Vicepresident of SENER Andrés Sendagorta, who spoke to the General about the current and future prospects for the company in the area of aeronautical engineering, a sector in 42 which SENER has developed a number of important projects such as the EJ200 motor for the Eurofighter, the AWIATOR program in the area of design and validation of various elements of the Airbus General García de la Vega (in the center) with Andrés Sendagorta, A340 and the belly fairing for the A380. The visit finished with a tour Pepe Rodríguez, Rafael Quintana, Ricardo Martín and three members of the Integration and Testing Center, a highly qualified production of the Spanish Air Force. area at SENER.

Speech by Álvaro Azcárraga to the Royal Academy of Engineering

Álvaro Azcárraga, a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and consultant to SENER, gave a talk on June 12 on ‘The exploration and exploitation of Space’, as part of the session of public conferences ‘Los martes de la RAI’ (the RAI Tuesdays), organized by Spain's Royal Academy of Engineering. Azcárraga spoke of the possibilities offered by outer space in helping to maintain the sustainable development of our own planet, by taking the means of production - the generation of energy and basic industrial activity - into Space, leaving the Earth as a place for living and recreation. Taking part in the same conference was Juan Pérez Mercader, Director of the Center of Astrobiology (CAB), who spoke Álvaro Azcárraga, consultant to SENER. about the ‘Possibility and search for extraterrestrial life’.

First International Seminar on GSM-R

SENER took part in the first seminar on GSM-R, which brought Anes Sassi, Project Director in the Communications and Software together in Algiers on September 9 all the leading companies working Section at SENER, spoke about ‘The experience of SENER in the on this system of communications in the country, such as Systra, study and implantation of the GSM-R system in high-speed train Nortel, UIC, RFF, Fréquentis, DB-DE-Consult and Transurb-Technirail. lines’. [ IN BRIEF]

Exhibition ‘Living in Space: the challenge of the 21st Century’

model of the Rosetta mission, the goal of which is to study ‘in situ’ the comet 67PChuryumov-Gerasimenko. SENER has developed in collaboration with INTA the two unfolding masts for the mission craft, 15 heat activated blinds; and the electronic control unit for the GIADA instrumentation for the observation of the mechanical properties of the particles in the tail of the comet, as well as the optical screens used for mitigating the effects of radiation on the two navigation cameras and star seekers, the controls for the filters on the NAC and WAC cameras and the integration of the filter wheels (FWM). A model of the heat-controlled blinds was shown at the exhibition.

ROSETTA satellite heat activated blinds developed by SENER.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik, which marked the beginning of the Space Race, Spain's National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) organized from June 1 to July 8 at the Natural History Museum in Madrid an exhibition on ‘Living in Space: the challenge of the 21st Century’. SENER took part in the presentation as one of the pioneer companies in the Spanish space industry, exhibiting a display showing the achievements of the company in the aerospace sector and a Part of the exhibition area. 43 A memorial to Jorge Amato. By Miguel Méndez

On 31 October our colleague Jorge Amato, Commercial Manager of SENER Argentina passed away. Jorge joined the Argentina office in 2004 to take charge of the local Commercial Management. He quickly won the esteem and respect of the SENER group, the clients and the market, where he was already known for his extensive experience. He combined characteristics very difficult to find in the same person: a firm attitude and a conciliatory willingness, depending on the situation, an ability for objective analysis in the short term without losing sight of future prospects, a liking for details and an eminently practical character, the ability to maintain a global perspective of situations and for finding alternative solutions to problems, a feeling of responsibility for his work, clarity and politeness in setting out his ideas, and above an extraordinary human quality. Not long after joining SENER, it felt like Jorge had spent 20 years with us by the way he promoted, with his good example, the values and modus operandi of the company. Fully integrated in the team, he himself said that it was in SENER where he had felt most comfortable in his working life. He took the challenge to make the Argentina Division grow and contributed all his enthusiasm, experience and training capacity to the very end. In his time in SENER, Jorge has left his stamp. With these words we want to thank him for the time spent with us and remember his example, that of a person who always looked ahead with optimism, although today we are paying our respects with the grief of losing a colleague. Jorge Amato. [ PROFILES]

Career and personal review of Carlos Sánchez Tarifa

At the start of the 1980s, the restless mind of José Manuel de Sendagorta dreamt up the idea of setting up a jet engine factory in Spain, a field in which the country had no previous experience. In his early years in the profession, Manu had worked with Carlos on the development of a basic jet engine that was designed and tested at INTA. It was only natural therefore, that Carlos should be assigned responsibility for all the technological aspects of the engine for the future industry. When SENER won the order from the SENER team before the launching of the Skylark rocket at Kiruna. Carlos is the third from the left. Ministry of Defense to develop the EJ200 With a doctorate in Aeronautical Engineering, and as a motor for the Eurofighter (EFA) aircraft, it was Carlos again 44 specialist in Fluodynamics and in Particular Combustion, who was immediately appointed Chief Engineer for the project. Carlos Sánchez Tarifa for decades combined his teaching He brought with him the technical experience of a man activity as professor in engine propulsion at the School of recognized worldwide for his knowledge in the sector. From Aeronautic Engineers with his work at Spain's National then on, Carlos Sánchez Tarifa brought together the team Institute of Aerospace Techniques (INTA). He arrived at SENER that carried out the complete project, for which he could through his connections with José Manuel de Sendagorta, count, among others, on Manolo Rodríguez Fernández in who had worked in his team at INTA, the start of a long fluid mechanics and with José Luis Montañés, the current collaboration that was to last for more than forty years and Director of the School of Aeronautics, in performance. The covered a variety of hi tech and scientific projects. genius of Carlos Sánchez Tarifa led to the development of Mr. Sanchez's military career, from which he retired with the the variable, converging-diverging nozzle for the EFA, the rank of Colonel, took place in the scientific and experimental first of its type to be designed in Europe. Likewise, it was he ambience of INTA where he held the post of Chief of the who proposed the vectoral nozzle for future versions of the Department of Combustion. aircraft or for more advanced fighters, a mechanism that was During the 1950s and '60s, Carlos Sánchez Tarifa spent long patented by SENER and later ceded to ITP, and the model periods at North American universities, carrying out research of which can be seen exhibited at the entrance to Building work for the United States Air Force. He was one of the 8 at Tres Cantos. This nozzle is one of the most advanced pioneers in the study of the behavior of combustion in micro- solutions in the world for optimizing the efficiency and directing gravity, taking part in analytical tests and experiments that the flow of a jet engine. would be applied to rockets and space capsules. From 1993 to 2003, his work centered on studying The start of his highly important contribution to SENER dates combustion in micro-gravity, being the principal researcher back to the 1960s when he was responsible for the in many parabolic flight trials carried out on both scientific aerodynamic work on the launch tower and launching of rockets and also for the International Space Station. The rockets at Kiruna (Sweden), after SENER had become the European Space Agency and NASA awarded him numerous first Spanish company to win a contest run by the European research projects, in which as the Chief Researcher he Space Research Organization (ESRO), the forerunner of the mobilized the School of Aeronautical Engineers, other current European Space Agency (ESA). This point marked international universities and SENER in the design and testing the beginning of a very intense collaboration between SENER of the combustion chambers. Between 1993 and 2000, four and Carlos Sánchez Tarifa, who became Director of the experimental chambers were constructed to enable studies Research Division and made notable contributions to many to be made of the propagation of fire in plastic rods under complex and delicate projects, from FORAN to the Ariane the conditions of gravity experienced in a rocket or space launchers and the laser guided bomb SBGL that was platform. With the knowledge gained, it became possible to developed for the Spanish Air Force. anticipate and extinguish fires in these scenarios, the [ PROFILES]

tail. He created a physical model to explain the work he had done and experimented with various heights to demonstrate the minimum distance needed by the cat to land on its feet. There are quite a few SENER engineers who have had the good fortune at some time to be either his student or his collaborator. Those who know him emphasize his splendid sense of humor, his immense capacity for continually dreaming up new projects, and that in spite of his strongly scientific frame of mind he conceives projects that can really be used, which is what always gave him a very 'engineering' character. A brilliant yet chaotic man who appears to live in another world but really is of this one, he could be very rational but at the same time a free spirit that just floated around the SENER universe. He was unpunctual because he didn't like getting up early in the morning or simply couldn't resist a copious breakfast, someone who was predictably unpredictable, with a memory that was frankly prodigious if not photographic. When he speaks he tends to accelerate, which makes it difficult to understand him. That is why it is preferable he speaks in English, a language in which at least he talks marginally slower, rather than in Spanish where it was always convenient to accustom oneself to his “non- vocalized” way of speaking. At SENER he was known for his jokes, which he liked to take his time to contrive, for interpreting people's handwriting and reading their palms. Carlos Sánchez Tarifa has a great love for cats - at one time he had more than a dozen of them in his house - and is a highly accomplished bridge player. But above all he 45 is an internationally renowned scientist and engineer, a Combustion in micro-gravity module, a project leaded by Carlos Sánchez Tarifa. unique personality who has generously shared his knowledge among various generations of SENER's conditions for which are very different from those to be professional staff. found in a fire on Earth. Carlos investigated many other surprising things. For example, while working with INTA for the Forest Service of the United States in the 1960s, he studied the propagation of fires in mountain areas, in hot air and therefore low density conditions, where balls of fire are lifted and carried by winds that can push them for long distances. It was one of his ideas to measure the aerodynamic resistance of the fireballs to find out how long it took them to fall and whether if picked up they remained alight or not. In a more light-hearted frame of mind, Carlos carried out “serious” research into the dynamics of how cats always tend to land on their feet when they fall. He proved that a cat when let go head down is capable of spinning itself around by means of a rapid turn of its Vectorial nozzle developed by Carlos Sánchez Tarifa. [ SENET]

SENEt, practical notes

Noticias magazine is launching a new section of practical notes for users of SENEt, aimed at helping them to improve their knowledge of the different tools that make up the system. From this issue onwards we will include a practical dossier that will cover the diverse uses of SENEt.

Practical notes Nº1: Searches Searches make it easier to find things when you cannot If you also want to carry out a search for a specific owner, such as remember the exact name, location, owner etc. Access for a project director, then you establish a new filter: can be made through the 'Search' option on the menu, The advanced search tool, found by clicking 'more', offers more but also in other ways such as the help key that is an icon with three dots. SENEt is configured to carry out searches in databases with large quantities of information. These searches vary according to the type of subject with options for finding Documents, Projects, Parts, Tasks, etc. Although each subject in SENEt shares common basic information (Type, Name, Review), they also have their own attributes, which means different types of formula are necessary to filter the searches. Having formulae for each subject helps in achieving more concrete results, and therefore increases the possibility of a successful search. When we click on the 'Search' button the last search formula that was used appears by default. If we want to search another subject, 46 we have to click on 'Search Types', select the area (Program, Engineering, etc) and then the subject type. possibilities and in a different order. It is possible to filter the same As you will see later in more detail, each search formula offers attributes as in a simple request, but also by dates of tasks, visibility the 'more' / 'less' options, in such a way that the same screen of the project, etc. shows a simple formula for making searches with more common attributes and another more complete one for carrying To look for elements on the basis of the date on which they were out a more precise filtering process. created, you can choose between the options 'Created After' and Once the search is made, the number of items found is 'Created Before'. indicated at the bottom left hand side of the screen. It is limited to the first 100 items found that correspond with the The other attributes work by selecting an operative or a value. These search word, as any more would noticeably slow down the are the operatives for text attributes: process. That is why we recommend that you are as exact as BeginsWith- The system seeks attributes that begin with the text possible when entering the search word. The detailed results that is typed in. You can also enter an asterisk at the end of the of the search can be viewed in two ways, by pages that show text. 10 references each or through a list that shows all 100 on the EndsWith- In this case you can alternatively put an asterisk at the same page. This option is selected by using a key located at beginning of the text that you are searching for. the bottom right. Includes- or put an asterisk at the start and finish of the text you Another characteristic incorporated in the searches is the are seeking. possibility of adding the results to a collection or IsExactly- only seeks data that is identical to the text that is introduced. 'Dashboard'. This way it is much easier to create groups IsNot- The system seeks all values that do not correspond to the of subjects that are used a lot, without having to keep going introduced text. back to look for them. Let's look at the workings of two of the most commonly used For numerical attributes the system runs the following operatives: searches, Projects and General. AtLeast - Seeks elements that have at least the figure indicated. AtMost - Seeks elements that have as the maximum the figure Project search shown. On selecting Search -> Search Types -> Project you get the DoesNotEqual - Seeks elements different from the figure indicated. simple screen for finding Projects. Searches can be carried Equals - Seeks elements similar to the figure indicated. out by name, description, owner, originator, cost center, section IsBetween - Seeks elements between the two figures that are and program to find any project set up with SENEt. indicated. For example, to find all the projects that begin with P227 the LessThan - Seeks elements lower than the figure indicated. formula page should be filled in in the following manner: MoreThan - Seeks elements higher than the figure indicated. [ SENET]

The operatives for date attributes are: Version Date. On - Indicates that the element has to be on a specific date. Version. OnOrAfter - Indicates a date on or after the one given. File Version. OnOrBefore - Indicates a date on or earlier than the one given. Format.

Some attributes have a range of values and can be seen on a strip list that allows you to select directly the figure you are looking for.

Also, in the document search 'Search Type -> Program -> General' it is possible to look for the following fields defined by SENER:

Document Search Author The procedure for finding documents is similar to that for Projects. Discipline Searches can be carried out using the following attributes: Reference Type - You can choose 'Document' in general or introduce a specific Zone subject to reduce the search time. Issued for Client Code 47 Client Revision Additional Information Date of issue Path to the template

With document searches it is also possible to use wild card characters such as the asterisk to help put text in the boxes, just as happened in the search for projects.

Created After. Created Before. Name. Description. Revision. Owner. Current. Title. To conclude, searches in SENEt let you find subjects independently Originator. of their location, from classified files to documents that are kept Designated User. separately as an attachment to a task. In this way searches become Access Type. an essential tool for saving time, especially thanks to applications Check-in Reason for the 'Check-in language'. such as collections and dashboards that allow you to save a record of subjects consulted more frequently. This function is one of the most commonly used in SENEt.