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 ...

Nearly 50 years ago, Norm Harty, president of N.B. Harty General Contractors Inc., was a driller and dynamite blaster for road and railway construction when Kenneth Bridegroom, a supervisor at a power ...

This article is part two in a two-part series about inspecting watertube power boilers. Part one is available at https://shorturl.at/vDGQ8. To ensure boilers remain reliable and well-maintained, ...

Seven years have passed since the world’s first low mass flux vertical tube once-through furnace was put into operation by Doosan Babcock at the Yaomeng Thermal Power Plant Unit 1 in China. That ...

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Cleaning power station boiler tube walls is a dirty and troublesome job that is not only hazardous, but can generally only be done during station down times to minimize the risk to human cleaners. To ...

The Jinzhushan Unit 3 boiler completed its 168-hour reliability run on July 4, 2009. The boiler performance test was completed on September 12, 2009. The performance test results show all design ...

Greenwich, Conn.– Back in 1997, when Greenwich Hospital broke ground on a new building, the plan was to build it in two phases, a concept that meant rethinking the installation of two large steam ...