12.01.2008 | Sonal Patel
Italy’s largest energy company, Enel, is gearing up to build an innovative hydrogen-fueled combined-cycle power plant — the first of its kind in the world — in Fusina, near Venice, in the Veneto region of Italy. The €47 million plant is...
12.01.2008 | Sonal Patel
An underdeveloped and costly CO2 capture technology, as well as regulatory and legal uncertainties over CO2 capture, injection, and storage, are the some of the more critical factors that impede carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment in the U.S., the...
11.01.2008 | By Sonal Patel
To overcome recent power shortfalls—and ensure they never occur again—Eskom is embarking on an immense infrastructure expansion program. The Build Programme, initiated in 2005, has been aligned with the government’s target of 6% GDP growth...
11.01.2008 | Sonal Patel
A detailed analysis of power plants in China by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) debunks the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the utter absence of government regulation is to blame for that country’s...
11.01.2008 | Sonal Patel
On Sept. 9, Sweden’s Vattenfall inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant that connects carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a full-chain working system. The inauguration of the pilot plant at Schwarze Pumpe in Germany, which...
10.15.2008 | Dr. Robert Peltier, PE
Owner/Operator: CPS Energy CPS Energy’s J.K. Spruce Power Plant, Unit 1 was recently recognized by the EUCG Fossil Productivity Committee as the best performer in the large coal plant category over the 2002-2006 evaluation period. The...
10.15.2008 | Stephen M. Kohan, PhD, Terry W. Rettig, and T. Steven Torbov, APTECH CST, LLC and Thomas K. Gale, PhD, Southern Research Institute
A twist on an old technique, flue gas recirculation, helps prevent slagging in the upper furnace and convective pass, according to pilot testing recently completed by APTECH CST and the Southern Research Institute. The technology—along with a companion...
10.15.2008 | Richard F. (Dick) Storm, PE, Storm Technologies Inc.
Most of today’s operating coal plants began service at least a generation ago and were designed to burn eastern bituminous coal. A switch to Powder River Basin coal can stress those plants’ boiler systems, especially the pulverizers, beyond their...
10.15.2008 | Dr. Robert Peltier PE
Owner: Newmont Mining Corp. Operator: DTE Energy Services Top Plant: Not all coal-fired power plants are constructed by investor-owned utilities or independent power producers selling to wholesale markets. When Newmont Mining Corp. recognized...
10.15.2008 | Dr. Robert Peltier, PE
Owner/Operator: Platte River Power Authority Top Plant: The staff of the Rawhide Energy Station have been racking up operating stats and an environmental performance record that is the envy of other plant managers. In the past decade Rawhide has...
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