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Connected Plant
Reducing Nuclear Plant Operations and Maintenance Costs Through Online Monitoring
The Electric Power Research Institute’s full spectrum of online monitoring-related research offers nuclear power plant operators guidance for monitoring program implementation. The research results are used
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IIOT Power
Solar Power’s Golden Opportunity: Connected Tech
The solar industry has the opportunity to integrate intelligent technology, including some that was originally developed for conventional energy resources, into its solar systems. Most parts of a solar farm
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Connected Plant
Increase the IQ of Your Intelligent Sootblowing
Power plants have been blowing soot using essentially the same method for decades. However, technological advances now offer boiler operators a much-improved technique. Rather than running sootblowing systems
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O&M
Improve Power Plant Heat Rate with a Pulverizer Performance Program
Associated Electric Cooperative has spent a decade building a pulverizer performance program for its Thomas Hill Energy Center. The effort, combined with a sharp focus on maintaining proper air/fuel ratios
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Legal & Regulatory
Will North American Energy Trade Wax or Wane Under Trump?
Cross-border trade in energy—electricity, natural gas, and oil—has been an unanticipated boon to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, exceeding $140 billion in 2015. The Trump administration’s antipathy toward
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Legal & Regulatory
ASME Operation and Maintenance lnservice Testing Program Ensures Nuclear Component Operational Readiness
Originally embedded in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code , today the Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants standard for inservice testing of pumps
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Commentary
Rescinding Clean Power Plan a Positive Step Toward Free Market for Electricity
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in early October announced it would rescind yet another signature Obama administration policy: the electricity regulation known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP). As with
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O&M
Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia Show Preview
High-Pressure, Rotary Gear Pumps for Severe Applications Northern Pump manufactures high-pressure, heavy-duty, positive-displacement, rotary gear pumps for industry, designed to perform in severe
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Partner Content
Advanced On-Line Sodium Measurement for Power Plants
Water treatment performance and determination of purity have depended on sodium measurement for nearly four decades. Monitoring cation exchange performance and the purity of power makeup water, steam and condensate has benefitted from measurement of this key parameter.
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Renewables
Say Hello to Hybrid Microgrids: Renewables, Storage, Diesel, and Intelligence
When is a D+ grade acceptable? The answer should be never. But that’s the state of the U.S. power grid according to the 2017 infrastructure report card issued by the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE). And the impact of this year’s catastrophic hurricane season only reinforced its vulnerability. Given the billions of dollars of […]