Several factors affect the cost of generating one Mega-Watt hour (MWh) of electricity in a power plant; each is discussed in the following paragraphs.

An undesirable byproduct of the burning of coal is mercury emissions. On average, elemental mercury constitutes approximately 0.17 ppm of US coal.

Energy production by source over the past 70 years has seen a shift away from coal to natural gas and renewables.

“Valves and actuators make up a small part of a power station – perhaps only two or three percent by capital cost,” according to Power …

Today about half of the energy produced in the U.S. is generated from burning coal. As a result, several byproducts have received increased attention from …

In my previous blog, I described District Energy and explored some of its uses. Now I’m going to look at the microgrid and modern power …

In producing steel from iron ore and/or scrap, impurities such as nitrogen, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, and excess carbon are removed from the raw iron ore.

At the end of May, Fossil Consulting Services (FCS) President Jason Enge and Senior Specialist Alex Filar attended the Big Ten and Friends Utility Conference.

Combustion turbine performance changes with ambient air conditions. Ambient conditions are the dominant cause of changes from the design reference conditions. Combustion turbine performance is …