A century-plus of steam-generated power production has shown the importance of water and steam chemistry. Just one boiler tube failure in a conventional unit or heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) ...

Desuperheaters—often called attemperators—in heat-recovery steam generators (HRSGs) are located between the primary and secondary superheaters and reheaters, and sometimes after the final stage of ...

A single waterwall tube failure in a steam generator often will cost a utility at least six figures in lost production, labor and startup costs. If the failure occurs during the hot summer months, the ...

PetroChina Co. Ltd. improved production safety, realized greater oil production, and saved energy costs after implementing model-free adaptive (MFA) control on its steam generators in Liaohe oil ...

Cycling a combined cycle plant places additional stresses on all equipment, but the impacts extend beyond the gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator. Plant owners and managers are beginning to ...

Atommash has completed hydraulic tests on the first steam generator for the Kursk II nuclear power plant under construction in Western Russia, which will be the first to use the VVER-TOI (typical ...

Areva has delivered two steam generators for unit 1 of Exelon's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Philadelphia. It took eight weeks to transport the components from the manufacturing site in ...