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October 2009
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Expecting More from the Nuclear Fleet
Maintaining balance-of-plant components is crucial.
Turbine Maintenance Market Heats Up
The market for repair services for F-class machines is growing.
Climate Change Legislation: What the Senate Might Do
An Editor’s Briefing on climate change legislation took place on the exhibit floor at Coal-Gen in Charlotte, N.C., on August 19.
You May Be Compliant, but Are You Secure?
“Regulatory compliance.” These are two words that open ibuprofen bottles and drain coffee pots in IT departments around the country.
Carneys Point Case Study: Converting a DCS in 60 Hours
The Carneys Point Generating Plant, owned by Chamber’s Cogeneration LLC, is a coal-fired cogeneration plant that supplies both steam and electricity to the DuPont Chambers Works, which is the company’s largest chemical plant on the U.S. East Coast.
POWER-GEN International Returns to Las Vegas
Technical tours, conference sessions, workshops, networking events and an exhibit floor worthy of the Las Vegas venue are on tap December 6-10.
Believing Doesn’t Make It True
People believe all kinds of things. But just because some beliefs are ill-founded— based neither on sound economic nor engineering principles—does not prevent a significant number of people from believing they are true.
CCS: Another Inconvenient Truth
As questions over the reality of climate change recede and are replaced with the search for solutions, it is high time to take a sober look at the options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide.
NSR Reform: An Obituary
New Source Review (NSR) is too complicated. It inhibits technical and economic development and innovation.
Utility-scale Solar
Not so long ago the most prevalent form of solar power was the big, clunky looking rooftop panels that heated enough water during the course of a sunny day to wash a sinkful of dinner dishes.
Stranded Casks
In late August, the Kewaunee nuclear power plant began storing spent nuclear fuel in dry casks on its 900-acre site about 35 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wisc.
Wind Turbine Gearbox Vibration
Jari Toikkanen, manager of the research and test group at Moventas, a tier-one wind turbine gearbox supplier, has seen the number of noise and vibration tests ordered by wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEM) quadruple in the last five years, with many projects requiring same-day turnaround.
Repairing Concrete Deterioration
Decades of salt water exposure caused concrete and steel corrosion at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant.
Operating the Old While Building the New
The Comanche Station in Pueblo, Colo., has overcome the unique challenge of managing a two-unit baseload coal plant while adding a 750 MW unit and constructing major environmental retrofits.
Otter Tail Pulls Out of Coal-fired Project
Otter Tail Power Co. is withdrawing from Big Stone II, a 630 MW, $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant proposed for South Dakota.
Products
Orion Fans has developed the VA Series fans, featuring a dual ball bearing system with a brushless DC, auto restart, polarity-protected motor.
Expanding Geothermal Energy’s Reach
University of Utah researchers will pump cool water and pressurized water into a “dry” geothermal well during a five-year, $10.2 million study aimed at boosting geothermal power plant productivity and making them feasible nationwide.
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