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) ...

Combined cycle plants give greater output for the same amount of energy and emissions. But this comes at a cost—increased complexity of design and operations. Optimizing a combined cycle plant ...

To address speed control, load control, and overspeed protection. Specifically excluded from consideration are extraction turbines, automated start up/shutdown systems, turbine supervisory ...

The ISA-77 series of standards and technical reports provides essential guidance for the automation, control and safe operation of fossil fuel power plants. These documents define functional ...

Across the power generation industry, operators are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Aging assets are being pushed to operate longer; maintenance windows are shrinking, and expectations ...