Xcel Energy’s Hayden station is located in the Northwest corner of Colorado near Steamboat Springs, Figure 1. The station has two pulverized coal-fired steam electric generating units with ...

Power boiler startup and shutdown cycling and proper water chemistry are paramount in extending the life and reliability of the unit. Loss of control of either of these processes can cause cracking of ...

Eskom operates 23 power stations in South Africa with a total capacity of more than 42 GW. It supplies about 95% of all the electricity used in the country. One of its coal-fired power stations was ...

A critical care hospital discovers leaks in the underground gas piping system that serves it, a paper mill has reoccurring boiler tube failures, and a steel plant's reheat furnace has a serious ...

FAIRBANKS — A boiler tube failed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks power plant Thursday morning, filling the plant with steam, sending burning coal out of the boiler and causing a temporary ...

All power plant equipment has a limited lifetime, but not all components age at the same rate. Some equipment may outlast the useful life of a plant, while other machinery may be replaced more than ...

Scale, like many things in life, is easy to ignore until it becomes a problem. For boilers that produce hot water and steam for industrial activities, the situation can become serious before the scale ...

State regulators informed AdventHealth Porter on Oct. 12 that one of the Denver hospital’s two 50-year-old boilers was in such disrepair that it was no longer safe to operate and gave the health ...

MUCH FOR THAT. NEW DETAILS ON SOME TROUBLES FACING LOYOLA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AS SOME PEOPLE ON CAMPUS HAVEN’T HAD HOT WATER SINCE LATE FEBRUARY. THE UNIVERSITY SAYS A PRIMARY BOILER RUPTURED AND WAS ...

Pitkin County Library’s boilers failed this September, leaving the county looking for a quick stopgap solution while they conduct studies about what the two buildings could get as retrofitted, ...

The AA Superheater Co. has invented, tested, and patented an annular superheater designed specifically for package firetube boilers. The superheater is designed to increase the steam temperature ...