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Historically, there has been a perception in the industry that it is not safe to include a steam generator in the high-pressure loop of a hydrocracker. However, this article intends [...]

In the face of severe power shortages, in 2007 South Africa's state-owned utility, Eskom awarded contracts for two identical coal fired plants. Known as Medupi and Kusile (formerly referred to [...]

Case histories demonstrate different problems encountered in 30 years of experience If the personnel involved, including myself, 'had known then what they know now,' many incidents involving steam generators could [...]

Stricter enviornmental standards and regulations are forcing the food manufacturers to install additional natural gas boilers to complement existing equipment and improve efficiency and operation. These manufacturers, which include Yoplait Yogurt and Knouse Foods Cooperative Inc., rely heavily on such equipment in many of their production processes, such cooking and blanching. They claim that natural gas boilers are very cost-effective, enabling them to increase their productivity within air quality limits., Natural gas boilers play a major role in this steam-intensive industry The food and kindred products industry is the single largest manufacturing sector in the United States. It consists of [...]

While an undersized steam boiler can heat a building, it is more costly to operate than a properly sized boiler. Methods for calculating correct boiler sizes are presented.

Byline: Keith Jones George Di Alternating between weak and strong cation exchange, the treatment system reduced hardness to less than 1 mg/L without the use of hazardous acid and caustic [...]

AECB, the sustainable building association, warns that some of the proposals on carbon policy from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (currently out for consultation) might have the opposite [...]

Dismantling of each steam generator (SG) used in the Bohunice V1 nuclear power plant in Slovakia is expected to take over 1800 man-hours with large effective doses. But with pre-dismantling [...]

Florida Power and Light Co. found that re-powering by replacing boilers with combustion turbines and heat-recovery steam generators provided an economical solution to upgrading their distributions. A discussion of the project, including planning and evaluation, is given.

Singapore-based floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel operator Notrans has taken delivery of two advanced steam boilers from Aalborg Industries of Jarfalla, Sweden. The Mission D-type boilers will be [...]

Indian Point 2, the nuclear plant in New York, is to receive new steam generators as part of plans to bring the idling plant back on line. The 931 MWe [...]

Steam systems have the reputation of being the 'bad boy' of the industry and I believe it may be unfounded. Many will suggest replacing the steam system with a new [...]

Vogt Power International, a unit of Babcock Power, was chosen to supply two heat recovery steam generators to South Mississippi Electric Power Association for the Moselle Repower Project in Mississippi. [...]

Ringhals nuclear plant, on Sweden's west coast south of Goteborg, provided a test case for volume reduction of a full-size steam generator, driven by requirements such as waste minimisation and [...]

The facts regarding the manufacturing of steam in the boiler, and reasons for the necessity to match steam boiler's capacity with system's needs are presented. Boiler should produce enough steam to overcome the system's ability to condense it.

Does this sound familiar? Your facility has a central boiler plant that supplies steam for many applications, including space heating, domestic hot water, laundry, kitchen or key manufacturing processes. Your [...]

The tasks of ensuring reliable steam supply and developing a fail-safe system design seem to loom even larger when the application involves a correctional institution. These concerns were foremost for [...]

Details about One-pipe steam systems, which is easy and simple to install is given. Some do's and donEts regarding this are listed down.

Today's boiler designs offer many advantages over the older boilers they replace. Today's boilers tend to be smaller, more efficient, and frequently offer lower NOx emissions to comply with some [...]

Sandvik Materials Technology has signed a SEK2 billion (EUR182 million) multi-year delivery contract for steam generator tubes for Areva NP. Deliveries will begin in the end of 2013. In June, [...]

The benefits of the vertical HRSG for repowering projects--where sites are typically congested and space is short--are well illustrated at the GDF-Suez-Electrabel Dunamenti complex in Hungary. This 1790 MWe plant, [...]

Following India's bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements with the USA, France and Russia in late 2008, deals have continued to be signed (see also NEI February p11, NEI March p4). In [...]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Comex Nucleaire have won an order from EDF to supply six replacement steam generators (SGs) for French pressurised water reactors. Comex Nucleaire (part of ONET Technologies) [...]

In November 2005, work began at Bruce B in Ontario, Canada on the first steam generators to be cleaned using AECL's Canduclean technology. The process exceeded expectations in percentage of [...]

SPIRAX SARCO LTD are running Boiler Operative Accreditation Schemes throughout the autumn at their Cheltenham training centre, covering the significant aspects of boiler operation, including draught and combustion, heat and [...]

Creating A 'False Water Line': The next time you are faced with replacing an old steam boiler that was attached to a two-pipe air vent system, try the old-timer's trick. [...]

For the past couple of years Steam Science & Technologies LLC, a division of Donahue & Associates, Milford, Ohio, has been offering education and training opportunities for its customers. Among [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Founded more than 100 years ago, Detroit Stoker Company is a leading supplier of stokers and related combustion equipment for the production of steam used in heating, industrial [...]

Rich Sauces, manufacturers of mayonnaise and other sauces, have installed a new Spirax Sarco boiler house and hot water system during a major expansion at its factory in Northern Ireland. [...]

The Hurley Medical Center was able to reduce operating costs by installing a Honeywell BCS 7700 better control system. Through nine months of operation, the boiler system has reduced costs by $180,000. The centralized control system also allows the medical center to control steam pressure and boiler fire rate. Savings from the system amounts to $1,000 per month when compared to the previous boiler system., FLINT, Mich. - Cut $200,000 from your annual budget.' That's what management told Bob Gillis, certified plant engineer and power plant-plumbing supervisor at Hurley Medical Center here. What to do? [...]

A new electrode boiler for steam raising is reported as providing a dean and efficient heat source for Flavex, one of Britain's major producers of products for the pharmaceutical industries. [...]

New steam boilers from Johnston Boiler Co are saving a Michigan school system $50,000 per building in fuel and maintenance costs every year. The schools purchased 48 Johnston 509 Series boilers and undertook repairs to steam traps, fans and piping. New energy management systems were also installed. Total annual fuel savings are estimated at $700,000. Preventative maintenance programs and water quality monitoring have contributed to the continuous operation of the equipment since installation., FERRYSBURG, Mich. -- A Michigan public school system reported annual savings of $1.8 million after it revamped its steam heating system. The program, begun in the early 1970s following the [...]