Point Level Capacitance Switch for Fly Ash Hopper Measurement If you’re the person tasked with controlling the level of fly ash in collection hoppers, you know how difficult the application can be. What at first looks like a simple measurement quickly proves to be much more demanding in actual… Read More
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Advanced Coal-Fired Combined Heat and Power Plant Begins Operation in U.S. Great River Energy’s (GRE’s) Spiritwood Station began commercial operation on Nov. 1. The plant—located about 10 miles east of Jamestown, N.D.—is a combined-heat-and-power plant that can generate up to 99 MW of electricity, depending on the amount of steam being… Read More
Coal-Fired Power Plant Heat Rate Improvement Options, Part 1 Even without regulatory considerations, there are good reasons for virtually every coal-fired power plant to improve its heat rate. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has looked at dozens of methods for improving heat rates and evaluated their applicability and… Read More
Plant Washington Coal Project Gets Permit Extension [Updated] Plant Washington, a planned $2.1 billion, single-unit, 850-MW supercritical coal plant that a consortium of generators has been trying to build near Sandersville in east-central Georgia, was given an 18-month air permit extension by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD)… Read More
EPA Releases Additional Information on Clean Power Plan The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a notice of data availability (NODA)—making additional information and ideas available for public comment—and it has also proposed carbon goals for areas in Indian Country and U.S. territories. Janet McCabe, acting assistant… Read More
