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  • The LNG Export Debate: Lessons from Peru

    Recent shale gas development, resulting in cheap natural gas in the U.S., has opened the debate about whether or not to export some of that energy—mainly as liquefied natural gas (LNG). As the U.S. considers

  • Statkraft Shelves Osmotic Power Project

    Norwegian power company Statkraft has shelved its much-watched effort to harness energy from pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO). It said in a rare industry admission that the technology could not be sufficiently

  • Developing the World’s First Magma-Enhanced Geothermal System

    In 2009, when the first borehole in a series of wells was drilled as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) in Krafla, northeast Iceland (Figure 5), it unexpectedly penetrated into magma with a

  • When States Try to Manipulate Wholesale Power Markets

    This has not been the best of times for state regulators trying to control the future of their regional power markets. In September, a federal court in Maryland shot down that state’s attempt to force the

  • AES Uses Synchronous Condensers for Grid Balancing

    The future is looking bright for AES Huntington Beach Power Generating Station. Renderings of a proposed new look for the power plant—located steps from the beach on the Pacific Coast Highway—include

  • Is Polygeneration the Future for Clean Coal?

    This is the story of a power plant like no other. The facility runs primarily on coal, but it can utilize petcoke and biomass when available. The front end resembles an integrated gasification combined cycle

  • The Role of Activated Carbon in a Comprehensive MATS Strategy

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) set limits on the emissions of mercury (Hg) and other pollutants for coal-fired power plants. Many plant operators have

  • Converting Sulfur from Flue Gas into Fertilizer

    The history of power plant emissions regulations and control technologies is largely one of preventing elements that are bad for the environment or human health—including sulfur dioxide, particulate matter

  • Be Prepared for Coal Ash Regulations

    A little over five years ago, on the night of Dec. 22, 2008, the residents of Kingston, Tenn., were devastated when a dike holding back an 84-acre ash pond broke loose. The ash pond servicing Tennessee Valley

  • America Needs Continued Coal Use

    Mike Duncan Coal is currently the feedstock for nearly 40% of America’s baseload electricity supply, and in communities and states where coal has the highest utilization, utility bills are the lowest. With

  • Adaptive Brush Seals Restore Air Preheater Performance

    The gas sealing systems used on rotary, regenerative air preheaters (APHs) have evolved little from the metal strip configuration used on the first Ljungström preheaters nearly a century ago. Metallic strip

  • What Is a Fossil Power Plant?

    That question isn’t as flippant as it may sound. If you look at the type of plant that’s familiar to the generation of power industry personnel who have retirement within view and compare it with the sort

  • Modern Polymeric Materials Offer Options for Equipment Repair

    Currently accounting for over 16% of global energy production, and with an expected growth rate of 3% per year for the next quarter century, hydroelectric power generation continues to grow as the front runner

  • The Future of Utility Supply Chain Management

    There may be few things about power plant management less exciting than its supply chains. But few things can gum up a plant’s operations more completely than mismanaging supplier relationships, parts

  • CiP 3/4/14

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  • CiP 2/25/14

    Careers in POWER Featured Article: Idling of Two Coal-Fired Plants Will Cost Jobs Careers in POWER Featured Article: CiP 2/18/14 … READ MORE » FRESH JOBS IN POWER GENERATION Project Manager- ABBNapa, California Controls Engineer – CumminsMineral Point, Wisconsin Process, Process Controls Engineer – ADA Carbon Solutions Coushatta, Louisiana I&C Materials & Fabrication…… READ MORE » […]
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    Coal Power Stay Connected Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job Without San Onofre, Drought-Stricken Calif. Is Crippled by Natural Gas Shortage 02.07.2014 | Sonal Patel A natural gas shortage triggered by extreme cold weather in much of the U.S. and Canada has affected supplies to power plants in drought-stricken California and […]
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