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 ...

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 ...

Deregulation of electric generation has forced plant managers to think more like business people. “Dispatch or die” might be an appropriate slogan for the new paradigm. Maximizing a plant’s revenue ...

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 ...

Emission regulations for combustion systems have been in place for more than half a century and in the 1990’s, the Clean Air Act put a spotlight on emissions specifically from industrial boilers.

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 ...

Pune, Oct. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The increasing demand for clean energy to reduce carbon emissions is driving the global reverse flame steam boiler market says Fortune Business Insights in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...