One of the big surprises facing plants that switch from a more or less standard bituminous coal to a western coal is the increase in slagging and fouling. Many plants have reported significantly more ...

Nearly 50 years ago, Norm Harty, president of N.B. Harty General Contractors Inc., was a driller and dynamite blaster for road and railway construction when Kenneth Bridegroom, a supervisor at a power ...

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the cyclone boiler was a popular choice for new coal-fired power plants. Cyclone combustion produces a high heat output while maximizing combustion efficiency. The ...

Cleaning power station boiler tube walls is a dirty and troublesome job that is not only hazardous, but can generally only be done during station down times to minimize the risk to human cleaners. To ...

My desk dictionary is a compact paperback model that lost the front cover many years ago. I use it a lot because I am a terrible speller. In grade school I was great at math, but lousy at spelling. It ...

Even on small boilers, the prevention of scale formation can produce substantial energy savings. Scale deposits occur when calcium, magnesium, and silica, commonly found in most water supplies, react ...

Most engineers and operators know (or should know) that boiler tubes containing deposits create long-term reliability problems for the boiler. Long-term overheating of the metal will result from ...

Across Europe, high-voltage electrode boilers are quietly becoming a key part of the continent’s clean energy transition. In countries like Finland, these systems are being deployed to support ...

There has been a significant increase in demand for industrial and chemical cleaning solutions provider Gra-Tech’s chemical cleaning of package boilers, as industries in which package boilers are used ...

AKRON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) (NYSE: BW) announced today that its B&W Thermal business segment has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $13 million to retrofit boiler ...

The new biomass system cost about $546,000, including $150,000 for the boiler itself. The project was funded with a $110,000 grant from the Student Sustainability Committee at the UI, $228,000 from ...