Assumptions and complacency are two of safety's worst enemies. If the following story hits uncomfortably close to home for you, it will have served its purpose. In January 1993, two…
Instrumentation & Controls
Power plant security issues. Latest developments and case studies of new and retrofit power plant digital and wireless instrumentation and control systems
A new boiler master concept combines the benefits of throttle pressure firing (return to the throttle pressure setpoint) and drum pressure firing (dynamic stability). It consists of a throttle pressure…
Last year—whether you attended the ISA/EPRI Power Industry Symposium in June, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Utility Working Conference in August, the EPRI/Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Digital I&C and Control…
The row of last-stage blades (LSBs) in a steam turbine's low-pressure (LP) section is a key element of the turbine's design because it defines the machine's overall performance, dimensions, and…
Renewables require rethinking just about everything Renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are here to stay, with nearly half of U.S. states having adopted some measure to push regulated utilities to use…
INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROLS Upgrading to digital--twice The E.W. Brown Generating Station of Kentucky Utilities (KU) is located in the town of Burgin, about 30 miles southwest of Lexington. The plant's three generating…
One of the big drivers of the utility industry's recovery has to be the estimated $15 billion engineered equipment market for flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems. The Clean Air Interstate…
The 16th Annual Joint ISA POWID/EPRI Controls and Instrumentation Conference—also known as the 49th Annual POWID Symposium—was held this June in San Jose, Calif. Many of the trends driving this…
The challenge Spanish regulators face is balancing their country's energy needs (now growing at 5% a year) and keeping Spain's carbon emissions promises under the Kyoto Protocol. Their solution for…
Hydroelectric power plant managers face unique scheduling challenges. They have a finite amount of water in their reservoirs available for energy production, and they need to schedule generation according to…