Electrical Drawing Symbols Power plants and process facilities have hundreds of moving parts and associated diagrams showing how they work. Many components are electrical. Therefore, to understand how … Read More
Troubleshooting Intermittent Failures at Power Plants Intermittent failures can be one of the most challenging issues to troubleshoot in a power plant or any other complex system. These types of faults … Read More
Can Coal be Clean? Burning coal for power generation gives rise to a variety of wastes that must be controlled or at least accounted for. So-called 'clean coal' technologies … Read More
Understanding VARs (without using math) In my experience working at Power Plants, operators generally fall into two categories when it comes to understanding reactive power (VARs): Those who sort of … Read More
Liquid Glass: The characteristics of Laminar Flow Have you ever looked at flowing water, and it almost looks like glass because it is flowing so smoothly? That is called Laminar Flow. Read More
Valve Packing: Understanding Packing for Maintenance “Valves and actuators make up a small part of a power station – perhaps only two or three percent by capital cost,” according to Power … Read More
Understanding Valve Symbols in FDs and P&IDs Power Plants and Process Facilities have millions of moving parts and diagrams show how they work. Few parts are more important than valves. Read More
Combustion Turbine: Glossary of Terms 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 … Read More
SWFGD Primer – Coastal Elite? 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). Read More