—Dr. Robert Peltier, PE Editor-in-Chief During every summer hot enough to break peak demand records, the rhetoric heats up as well, with calls to rid the U.S. bulk-power system of…
Power
Monthly Issue | September 15, 2006
"I'll find that leak in your buried pipe. All I'll need is a ship's sextant, a plumb line, a galvanometer, and a copy of Kurtz's Theory of Solar-Hydrated Ground Waves,"…
Demand records fall nationwide It's been warm around POWER's editorial office in Arizona these past few weeks. When the thermometer doesn't see the south side of 100F, even at night,…
The overriding environmental challenge of our time is climate change. The problem originates from the emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, mainly from the transport and energy sectors. If…
INSTRUMENTATION Level measurement in harsh environment A demanding level measurement application in an extreme environment best describes the conditions that Advance Engineer Rick Mezan faced at FirstEnergy Corp.'s 2,360-MW Bruce…
The length of term allowed for power sales contracts is a critical determinant of the ability of states to meet their increasingly ambitious renewable power targets. Many utilities advocate limiting…
Although few Americans would characterize the affair this way, the U.S. has a love-hate relationship with coal-fired power plants. Fifty percent of the electricity generation in this country begins with…
Nova Scotia, on Canada's southeast coast, is a thin peninsula. No matter where you go, you're never more than 34 miles from the sea. Residents of the province get…
Organic compounds pioneered boiler water chemical treatment when lignosulfonates derived from oak bark were used to minimize calcium carbonate scaling. Today's organic boiler treatment methods include the addition of neutralizing…
Completing a power plant's start-up and commissioning usually means pushing the prime contractor to wrap up the remaining punch list items and getting the new operators trained. Staffers are tired…