The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Great River Energy are testing a new coal-drying technology that could dramatically reduce the emissions of lignite-burning power plants. The project was selected…
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Legal and technical aspects of power plant environmental monitoring and control; regulatory issues
Are you using your flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system to its highest potential? You might not be if you’re not making it do double duty. It seems that million-dollar wet…
Siemens, E.ON to test world's largest GTG Siemens Power Generation (SPG) last month loaded the world's largest, most powerful gas turbine-generator (GTG) onto a barge on the European inland waterway system…
If little else is clear about the future of the U.S. power industry, this much is: Electricity rates are going up across the country, and will continue to. None of…
In a carbon-constrained world, CO2 capture and storage (CCS), although considered the most radical of the carbon abatement technologies (CATs), seems to be favored over combustion and steam cycle improvements…
World's largest PV plant now in Portugal The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) electric generating plant—at 11 MW—has come on-line in sunny Portugal. The project, in the city of Serpa,…
State policy makers are characteristically reluctant to recognize that they have advanced a policy as far as they can, and that they must cede some control to fully realize…
Sylvester Stallone, as Rocky Balboa, staged another magical comeback earlier this year — in the ring and at the box office. Just when you think Rocky is down and out…
Reducing NOx emissions from large utility coal-fired boilers has been a primary focus of the U.S. power generation industry since passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent legislation.…
EMISSIONS CONTROL Control pollution and slagging on a shoestring A patented twist on an old technique, flue gas recirculation (FGR), helps prevent slagging in the upper furnace and convective pass.…