During the 1990’s, some power plants experimented with fog-based power augmentation by overspraying fog into the compressor – known as wet compression. The results were impressive. They reported a ...

Back in the early 2000s, some controversy emerged about the practice of spraying large amounts of fog directly into the compressor. Some claimed that this led to blade erosion, pitting, and scaling.

Compression wear sits in an odd position: it has real physiological effects, a reasonable evidence base for some uses, and a marketing layer that stretches both well past where the science stops. The ...