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The idea of a small, self-sustaining power system is hardly new. Microgrids have been around for decades, and in a sense the power industry itself began with a collection of microgrids serving urban areas more than a century ago. In recent years, however, a confluence of factors has made them a hot topic of debate

Microgrids offer advantages for reliability and bringing more renewables onto the grid.
 

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Membrana, in conjunction with Power Magazine, invites you to our upcoming webinar on improving efficiency and realizing cost savings in steam deaearation. Speaker, and long-time power industry specialist, Bob Markle, discusses the use of innovative membrane degassing technology in boiler feedwater streams to reduce the dissolved O2 load on the

Water is an invaluable part of our lives. How do we treat it better?
Water and waste-water treatment plants are needed 24 hours/day, 365 days/year. How can their operation be optimized?
There are about 54,000 water and/or wastewater service providers in the United States, so there is a broad range of plant controls that can be used

Enabling operator effectiveness by improving alarm management strategy

 Question 1: How big of an issue is alarm management really?The problem is bigger than you think. The Abnormal Situation Management Consortium (ASM) recorded over 1000 incidents last year alone. Alarms not considered a priority during design phase, and thus too many alarms configured. Many plants are running

Are Hollywood portrayals of cyber attacks exaggerating the risks we face?
Since the early 1980s, when Hollywood showed “War Games,” where a teenage gamer brought the world to the edge of nuclear destruction, the entertainment industry has been frightening us about the Internet and the vital systems it supports. In the 2007 “Die Hard” movie, Bruce

Adopt a Science-based Approach: 
Use science, not hearsay, to understand your mercury capture and other effects.  Successful mercury control requires Contact, Conversion and Capture to occur to remove mercury from the system.  Each of these mechanisms must have a high degree of efficiency.  All three mechanisms must occur in as little as half a second up

A smooth upgrade to S+ Operations with no downtimes and disturbances
Lakewood Cogen Plant is a combined cycle facility with a generating capacity of 246 MW, configured with two combustion turbines and one steam turbine. Cogen’s primary fuel source is natural gas Backed up by ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel which operates during natural gas supply disruptions.

Our nation’s history has been marked by the discovery of large troves of energy, harnessing that energy from nature, and then utilizing it without apprehension.  Shale gas is the rising energy star of this era.  With the emergence of this latest low-cost energy source, we have a chance to write a new chapter in our

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Central district heating systems have gained attention in recent years because they can be more efficient than localized boiler units. The efficiency of district heating is usually realized due to power generation plants being able to produce heat and electricity simultaneously. They also use more advanced flue gas cleaning than single boiler systems resulting in