In Part I of this three-part series, "Improving the Performance of Boiler Auxiliaries," we explored the air preheater (APH) and important performance calculations. Part II examines performance degradation resulting from…
Power
Monthly Issue | February 1, 2011
San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. owns a single-unit power plant located about an hour south of San Antonio, near Christine, Texas. Its Unit 1 is a 440-MW lignite-fired boiler with…
If you tuned into the State of the Union (SOTU) address expecting some new ideas and goals for the nation's future electricity supply, then you were probably as disappointed as…
Duke Energy and Progress Energy announced January 10 that they are combining to create the nation's biggest electric utility. The $13.7 billion deal is likely to draw tough scrutiny from…
In a decision blasted by the coal industry as making the state "dangerously reliant" on natural gas, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission has approved an emissions-reduction plan for Xcel Energy…
In what may be the death knell for the $3.5 billion Taylorville integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) project, the Illinois Senate voted 33-18 in early January against authorizing construction of…
Coal mining, and related industries that consume coal, have attracted quite a bit of attention from the federal government as of late. Most of that attention has focused on how…
On December 23, 2010, one day before the Yuletide season, when members of Congress, the media, and Tea Party activists are least likely to watchdog the federal bureaucracy, the U.S.…
An unintended consequence of employing selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) levels at coal-fired power plants has…