Reducing boiler downtime – particularly from tube failures – demands constant vigilance. Boiler tube failures, especially in coal-fired power plants, continue to be the major cause of boiler forced ...

Boiler tube failure analysis is a critical aspect of ensuring the safe and efficient operation of thermal power plants. These failures, which may arise from a range of mechanisms including corrosion, ...

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 ...

For this Q&A we talk with Master Plumber Eric Aune about near-boiler piping problems, and how modern press tools can be the ...

Xcel Energy’s Hayden station is located in the Northwest corner of Colorado near Steamboat Springs, Figure 1. The station has two pulverized coal-fired steam electric generating units with ...

The NanoSteel Company is an advanced materials company which has created a unique and proprietary portfolio of nanotechnology based and environmentally friendly steel alloys that greatly increase the ...

A steam separator sometimes called a moisture separator or a steam drier, is a device used to separate the moisture from the steam in a watertube boiler steam drum. Without the steam separators, ‘wet’ ...

Most boiler problems don’t occur suddenly. They develop slowly over a long period of time — so slowly, in fact, that you grow accustomed to the change without realizing it has taken place. Corrosion ...

A 2021 Prewin Network unplanned shutdown survey revealed that equipment failures in waste-to-energy (WtE) and biomass plants were responsible for a total of 22.9 days of unplanned shutdowns in 2021.

WITH temperatures plummeting, it’s the worst time for your boiler to break – but if it does, here’s five fixes to the most common problems. Households are set to be blasted by nine days of ice, frost, ...