When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

A major independent power producer’s (IPP’s) merchant fleet includes dozens of gas-fired combined-cycle plants of 3 x 1, 2 x 1, and 1 x 1 configurations. Nearly all have triple-drum heat-recovery ...

Earlier in this series, I wrote about modern techniques to minimize impurity ingress, scaling, and corrosion in heat recovery steam generators (HRSG). But without accurate sampling and good data ...

Inputs for the performance of the steam cycle are entered on the Steam Cycle Performance parameter screen . This screen is available for both the NGCC and IGCC plant types. The following parameters ...

Three direct cycle designs [steam indirect cycle, helium direct, supercritical CO2]were selected for further investigation: the basic design with turbine inlet temperature of 550P o PC, an advanced ...

Much has changed in the modern electric power plant since Thomas Edison's era, but the parts that actually turn heat into electrons haven't changed since his eureka moments. Whether burning coal, ...