Faced with deregulation, increasing retail competition and pressures to keep boilers online, many coal-fired power generating stations have adopted business strategies centered on increasing unit ...

The coal-fired boiler environment produces corrosive conditions in both the furnace region and in the boiler convection pass. Corrosion-resistant weld overlay materials are widely used to manage these ...

Distributed generation integrated with intermittent renewable generation responds to the growing need for highly flexible small-scale (less than 100 MW) power generation resources. The limiting factor ...

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 ...

Selecting the most economical tube for a new condenser, or the retrofit of an existing one, is much more complex than mere price shopping. Each material has unique performance characteristics that ...

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Confined spaces are one of the most common challenges boilermakers face during tube installation and maintenance. From squeezing into drums to working in tight utility rooms, space constraints are ...

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 ...

This article is part two in a two-part series about inspecting watertube power boilers. Part one is available at https://shorturl.at/vDGQ8. To ensure boilers remain reliable and well-maintained, ...