Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:39:52 +0000
Power plant construction and retrofit projects come in all shapes and sizes, but they all generally have at least one thing in common: complexity. There are usually a lot of […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 21:40:45 +0000
Environmental pressure is ramping up. Countries have issued targets to reduce or even eliminate the use of traditional fossil fuels in order to reduce emission of greenhouse gases such as CO2. Gas turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are responding by investing in hydrogen (H2) combustion. They are spending heavily on the development of combustors and […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:11:51 +0000
Today’s heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) are suffering reliability problems, mainly because they’re being operated in the cycling mode instead of the baseload mode for which they were designed. The good news is HRSG suppliers are adapting to the market demands and are designing the next generation of HRSGs to have cycling-friendly—also called fast-start—features. One […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Ever since deregulation came to the power industry, combined cycle plant managers have been trying to benchmark their production metrics and cycling costs against those of their competitors. There has always
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:39:54 +0000
When U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), he unintentionally ignited the worldwide deregulation of electricity markets, which in turn began a worldwide technology race between two distinct types of power plants: the newly created, industrial-scale plant that PURPA dubbed “cogeneration” and the traditional, utility-scale power […]
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