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May 2009
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Special Report: Executive Roundtable on Natural Gas Plant Development
Five executives discuss current issues affecting natural gas power plant development and future prospects in the gas sector with Power Engineering magazine.
Putting Combustion Optimization to Work
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.
Cooling Water Treatment Chemistry Control and Monitoring
Cooling systems offer an ideal environment for microbiological fouling. Take steps now to look for and treat scaling and fouling.
Santee Cooper Cross Units 3 & 4: An EPCM Success
An EPCM approach proves adaptive to change, including capturing opportunities as they arise.
Bruce Power Uses Digital Technology to Fix Heater Drain System
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.
To the Editor:
Your Opinion piece “Decision Time for Ultra-Supercritical” (March 2009) makes reference to Philo 6 and Eddysport 1.
Wanted: Bold, Not Goofy
Draft climate change legislation. Increased federal backing for renewable energy projects.
School Buses, Solar Panels & Consent Agreements (Oh My!)
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.
New Generation Flywheels
The phrase “everything old is new again” certainly applies to today’s flywheel technology.
Help Wanted…or No Help Needed?
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.
Repairing Wind Blades in the Field
In late 2006, the first Liberty wind turbines rolled off the assembly line at Clipper Windpower’s Cedar Rapids manufacturing plant.
U.S. Wind Energy Market Profiled in AWEA Report
Turbines from GE Energy made up 43 percent of all new wind power capacity installed in the U.S. during 2008.
Products
The FlexSwitch Series FLT93 Level Switch from Fluid Components International (FCI) enables accurate level alarming and switching to a wide range of safety and balance of plant air, water and oil monitoring applications found in nuclear power plants.
Town says ‘yes’ to waste
Longtime Carlsbad Mayor Bob Forrest remembers when no one wanted the federal government’s radioactive waste, except his southern New Mexico town.
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