Power

Monthly Issue | February 1, 2013

Too Dumb to Meter, Part 8

As the book title Too Dumb to Meter: Follies, Fiascoes, Dead Ends, and Duds on the U.S. Road to Atomic Energy implies, nuclear power has traveled a rough road. In…


Sediment Pond Effluent pH Control
Sediment Pond Effluent pH Control

Many power plants have sediment retention ponds that require control of pH for the effluent. The following guidelines for fossil plant sediment pond pH control will help you design a…


Where’s the Warming?
Where’s the Warming?

In case you neglected to mark it on your calendar, the Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) expired at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The…


Getting Distributed Energy Resources Right

Rick Tempchin, executive director, Retail Energy Services for the Edison Electric Institute, talks about the impact of distributed energy resources on utilities and their customers. The electric power industry is…


THE BIG PICTURE: Nuclear I&C
THE BIG PICTURE: Nuclear I&C

Progress in electronics and information technology has created incentives to replace traditional analog instrumentation and control (I&C) systems in nuclear power plants with digital I&C systems, or systems based on…


Multiprocess Power Source
Multiprocess Power Source

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products introduced Warrior, a new multiprocess power source and feeder designed for processes including energy generation construction, pipe welding, general fabrication, and repair and maintenance. Designed…


Recovery System for Granular Activated Carbon
Recovery System for Granular Activated Carbon

The VAC-U-MAX self-contained granular activated carbon (GAC) delivery system is mounted on a self-contained skid. This system is a complete prepackaged dilute phase pneumatic conveyor system to deliver or remove…