For power plants burning anything other than natural gas, boiler cleaning is an important part of keeping the plant working efficiently. Over time, boilers will build up ash that will form slag ...

One of the big surprises facing plants that switch from a more or less standard bituminous coal to a western coal is the increase in slagging and fouling. Many plants have reported significantly more ...

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 ...

Most engineers and operators know (or should know) that boiler tubes containing deposits create long-term reliability problems for the boiler. Long-term overheating of the metal will result from ...

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 ...

Even on small boilers, the prevention of scale formation can produce substantial energy savings. Scale deposits occur when calcium, magnesium, and silica, commonly found in most water supplies, react ...

AKRON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) (NYSE: BW) announced today that its B&W Thermal business segment has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $13 million to retrofit boiler ...

Layher scaffolding, erected without braces, enables workers to remove 15 m panels of the boiler walls at the UK's Drax power plant. Industrial services contractor Deborah Services Ltd is using Layher ...

New Delhi, Dec 4 () State-owned engineering firm BHEL on Friday said it has executed a boiler cleaning process using an auxiliary boiler at NTPC's North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project in ...