The thermal utilization of sustainable fuels and the recovery of waste heat play a central role in today’s energy generation ...

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 ...

On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a commonsense plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants. EPA is proposing the state goal approach under Section 111(d) of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For processes that require high-temperature heat transfer oil rather than steam, ZOZEN offers the YLW series biomass horizontal thermal oil boilers. These are square-coil, horizontal chain-grate ...

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 ...