Nearly 50 years ago, Norm Harty, president of N.B. Harty General Contractors Inc., was a driller and dynamite blaster for road and railway construction when Kenneth Bridegroom, a supervisor at a power ...

Deregulation of electric generation has forced plant managers to think more like business people. “Dispatch or die” might be an appropriate slogan for the new paradigm. Maximizing a plant’s revenue ...

My desk dictionary is a compact paperback model that lost the front cover many years ago. I use it a lot because I am a terrible speller. In grade school I was great at math, but lousy at spelling. It ...

Cleaning power station boiler tube walls is a dirty and troublesome job that is not only hazardous, but can generally only be done during station down times to minimize the risk to human cleaners. To ...

Even on small boilers, the prevention of scale formation can produce substantial energy savings. Scale deposits occur when calcium, magnesium, and silica, commonly found in most water supplies, react ...

There has been a significant increase in demand for industrial and chemical cleaning solutions provider Gra-Tech’s chemical cleaning of package boilers, as industries in which package boilers are used ...

The new biomass system cost about $546,000, including $150,000 for the boiler itself. The project was funded with a $110,000 grant from the Student Sustainability Committee at the UI, $228,000 from ...

AKRON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) (NYSE: BW) announced today that its B&W Thermal business segment has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $13 million to retrofit boiler ...