The new congressional leadership has promised a "new" agenda for fighting climate change based on reducing the quantities and rate of growth of greenhouse gases (GHG) discharged to the atmosphere.…
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Monthly Issue | March 15, 2007
WorleyParsons has recently been involved in various cogeneration plant studies and projects for district heating, refinery upgrades, and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. In all of them, balancing thermal and…
Winter storms ravage Nebraska grid No state in the U.S. was slammed harder by this winter's weather than Nebraska. Storm after storm swept across the Cornhusker State, devastating the transmission…
ELECTRIC POWER, the world's most comprehensive conference covering power generation, has been programmed to meet the information needs of power generating companies. Programming is developed under the direction of an…
SYSTEM RELIABILITY The critical subset Some of the most interesting reliability standards are also the ones getting the most attention as we approach the transition to mandatory compliance and enforcement this…
March 1886 POWER reported on the latest development of a new and improved engine: "The chief feature of the Corliss engine [from Kendall & Roberts, Cambridgeport, Mass.] is the valve…
Almost half of U.S. states now insist that their investor-owned electric utilities serve a specified percentage of their load with electricity from renewable resources by a date certain. Utilities struggling…
As David Wojick explains in his article, "Mapping technology chaos," on page 36, power engineers are under the gun to innovate. The president and Congress are calling for dramatic new…
Two hundred years after Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, "Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink" in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," power plants in many regions of the…
Power engineers are under pressure to develop and deploy new technologies at an ever-quickening pace. The world of power engineering today might best be described as one of technology chaos.…