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  • After coal: Grid stability amid plant shutdowns

    What happens when coal plants disappear faster than they can be replaced? This webinar will put the focus squarely on grid stability and how a lack of planning—and even just bad timing—can create headaches for utilities. It will also talk solutions including some new options for preserving reliability in the post-coal era.

  • Holiday Wish List. Receive up to $1500 compliments of Hach

    The holidays are starting early at Hach and that means it’s time to start making your wishlist!

  • Optical Dissolved Oxygen Measurement in Power Plants

    A comparison of amperometric and optical dissolved oxygen sensors in power and industrial water applications at low oxygen levels.

  • Alarm Management for Power Generation

    Alarm Management can be a challenging topic, there are many factors that can influence the operators in negative ways: Long standing alarms can distract the operators unnecessarily, alarms could be describing normal processes that require no action from the operator, and having a serious alarm hiding in a large amount of low level alarms, are

  • The Solar Market Continues to Defy Forecasts

    As the old saying goes, it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. And hindsight shows forecasts about the solar market are tricky. Frost & Sullivan, a large market research firm, recently put out a report on the global solar PV market from 2014 to 2020 that lined up almost eerily with a late-2013 report from Navigant Research, a cleantech market research firm.

  • Hach LDO® Technology for the Power Industry

    Our Hach dissolved oxygen instruments are equipped with a measuring LED that emits a pulse of blue light and a photo diode as a light detector. The instruments are also equipped with a sensitive luminescent coated spot that is exposed to the sample. Click here to learn how luminescent dissolved oxygen works!

  • MATS Compliance

    Having a coal fired generation plant come into MATS compliance can be a daunting and expensive undertaking. Retrofits may be so expensive that decommissioning is preferred. Thanks to natural gas becoming plentiful and inexpensive both recently and for the foreseeable future, another option is now available; conversion.

  • Ultra Low Range Total Iron Method

    Watch as Hach Chemist, Luke, shares some helpful tips for performing our Ultra Low Range Total Iron Method.

  • Minimize Downtime By Monitoring Iron Corrosion and Transport

    The intense pressure and temperature of a steam cycle makes corrosion very likely if water chemistry is not monitored closely, resulting in unexpected downtime.

    Download this application note to learn how real-time monitoring of iron transport may be accomplished with the world’s most sensitive turbidimeter, Hach’s FilterTrak 660™ sc Laser Nephelometer

  • 3 Quick Questions – Hydro Governors

    Hydro-governors have already made an impact in the water industry, but how are they moving forward?
    What is a hydro-governor?
    Hydro-governor is just a big word for a speed controller. Its typical application is to prime movers such as the steam engine, turbine, diesel engine and many other types of prime movers. To understand the basics of