Business for engineering, procurement and construction firms serving the power sector promises to be very active in the next five years, but many EPC firms also face meaningful challenges as they struggle to satisfy their clients and risk losing new opportunities for lucrative contracts, based on interviews with more than 250 power generators.
ICI-BMACT. This little eight-character acronym – short for EPA's National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Area and Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers – has been causing agitation in both the commercial andindustrial boiler user and manufacturer communities for a decade … for different reasons.
Fly ash is a general name used for the residual products of combustion that rise with flue gases.
Establishing efficient and effective operations and maintenance at a gas-fired power facility is more important now than ever, especially in light of expanding gas-fired generation in the U.S.
Turbine operators at gas and coal-fired power plants have lots of choices they can make when it comes to choosing a lubricant to keep their machines working.
Distributed control systems and programmable logic controllers have long been used to regulate power plant operations, but advanced techniques that have been proven in refining and other industries are widely underexploited in power generation.
The Center for Advanced Engineering and Research is helping lead research and development activities for the power generation industry.
In steam boiler applications, pressure relief valves (PRVs) are the silent sentinels – the last line of defense against potentially disastrous overpressure situations.
By most accounts, natural gas prices will remain low for the foreseeable future.
American Electric Power and its operating unit Southwestern Electric Power Co. settled all legal actions brought against it by the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society and Audubon Arkansas related to the John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant near Texarkana, Ark.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality thought it was doing the good citizens and industries of Texas a favor by refusing to implement EPA's Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule. Did this plan backfire?
Perhaps the most significant advances that will impact energy are not how it's generated, but rather how energy is managed.
As interest in hydroelectric power increases, all signs are pointing to growth in the construction of plants, especially small projects to add generating capacity to existing dams.
In October 2011, Fluor Corp. announced that the engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company had invested $30 million in NuScale Power, an Oregon-based small modular reactor technology company.
A CNC machining center makes a Deming, Wash., company one of the country's leading supplier of large hydropower generating systems west of the Mississippi – right in the heart of the hydropower market.
The new WNM Wireless Network Module from Moore Industries is an accurate and reliable solution for sending process signals between remote field sites.
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