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 …

A well-developed and managed qualification standard (qualification program) is essential to ensuring safe and efficient operations of any power plant.

Power Plants and Process Facilities have millions of moving parts and diagrams show how they work. Few parts are more important than valves.

Often, we find ourselves questioning what a term means in a manual, procedure, or even in conversation. And when we look up these terms via …

Electric Vehicles are becoming more and more popular mainly because people feel they are saving the environment.

Acid gas is a mixture of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, with small amounts of hydrocarbon gases and usually water vapor (according to Science Direct).

Location, location, location. This familiar mantra of the real estate business also has a particular application for sulfur dioxide-emitting industries: seawater flue gas desulfurization (SWFGD).

Many large AC generators operate in the bulk electric system (BES), each feeding power to the system.  Each generator must satisfy three conditions in order …