For power plants burning anything other than natural gas, boiler cleaning is an important part of keeping the plant working efficiently. Over time, boilers will build up ash that will form slag ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this Weekly Boiler Tip, we explain why a surface skimmer / surface blowdown system is often the best way to control boiler ...

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 ...

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