Reducing boiler downtime – particularly from tube failures – demands constant vigilance. Boiler tube failures, especially in coal-fired power plants, continue to be the major cause of boiler forced ...

A boiler plant is a vital component of most hospital infrastructures, as well as a significant first and long-term cost. Typically, the boiler plant is included with the chiller plant. Sometime it is ...

HYDRONIC HEYDAY: Although hydronic science dates back to ancient Rome, the equipment and techniques used by technicians have reached a level of sophistication unrivaled by its previous iterations.

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- The depot's boilers not only provide warmth to various buildings throughout the installation, they also supply the steam used to clean components and machinery. Though ...

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 ...

Nineteenth-century Prussian General Helmuth Graf von Moltke concisely laid out one of the basic principles of warfare when he stated that “no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” That ...

POWER’s 2015 Reinvention Award (formerly known as the Marmaduke Award) goes to an industrial cogeneration plant that reinvented its largest unit for greater fuel and operating flexibility. This ...

Steam plant operators are looking for control solutions that will help them to optimize boiler efficiency by reducing fuel consumption while reducing emissions. GE Intelligent Platforms can meet these ...