PE Volume 113 Issue 5

Cooling systems offer an ideal environment for microbiological fouling. Take steps now to look for and treat scaling and fouling.

Variable conditions like coal quality, boiler cleanliness and equipment deterioration can affect a coal-fired power plant’s performance—and that’s where combustion optimization systems come in, to minimize their impact.

Bruce Power has a history of feedwater heater operating problems. Steam hammer has been a common problem on the HX5 drain lines in all eight units at Bruce Power in Ontario, Canada, since early in its operating history.

Five executives discuss current issues affecting natural gas power plant development and future prospects in the gas sector with Power Engineering magazine.

An EPCM approach proves adaptive to change, including capturing opportunities as they arise.

Turbines from GE Energy made up 43 percent of all new wind power capacity installed in the U.S. during 2008.

More and more coal-fired power plants are being swept into consent decree agreements for New Source Review violations after conducting “routine maintenance” that is no longer considered “routine” according to the Clean Air Act.

Longtime Carlsbad Mayor Bob Forrest remembers when no one wanted the federal government’s radioactive waste, except his southern New Mexico town.

Nuclear power plant staffing is complicated by tension between maintaining sufficient manpower to meet regulatory and operational requirements and responding to downward pressure on operations and maintenance costs.

The phrase “everything old is new again” certainly applies to today’s flywheel technology.